#polish and estonian

[367arte]

Inspired by these asks @pomefioredove

[karjalantroll]

Here's a little art with my fish original characters in national costumes that I think they would wear if they had our cultures and nationalities in their world. (I'll keep going until I've drawn them all)

And thus raise your interest in costume. And cultures. They're all different and beautiful like flowers. Not overshadowing each other, but growing intertwined.

Let grow flower meadows, instead of bloody rivers and hate.

[mydogatemymotivation]

hi. I never post lol I don't think I've posted here for literal years but I do lurk and I just need to get something off my chest.

Kallus isn't Space-Russian. Controversial I know, but he's not.

He's Estonian.

Kallas is already a Slavic name you don't have to strip his character of the cultural identity he already has to insert a different culture. It's weird to me how this whole fandom, usually one that's very respectful, just kind of dismissed his name as something stupid or cartoonishly evil without even a cursory search before hand waving it away.

Estonia is a Slavic-Nordic country bordering Russia, Latvia, and Finnish waters. He has a cultural identity and people just... ignore it?? He wouldn't speak Russian, he'd speak Estonian (which doesn't use the Cyrillic alphabet).

Slavic =/= Russian. Russians are Slavs, but not all Slavs are Russian. Estonians don't use Russian patronymics ( i.e. Dmitryevich), his family wouldn't have Russian names (Nickolai, Anastasia, Yvgenia, etc.), they'd have Estonian names (Aarne, Jakob, Indrek, Tatijana, Kaja, etc).

I just. I don't feel comfy when people change his name from Kallus to something like Kalinov because Kallus is already Slavic you don't have to do that.

Stop changing a cultural name from a post-Soviet country to something more Russian. Maybe I'm just a killjoy and a bitch but it actually pisses me off.

"omg!1! he's space-Russian11!!" I'm scrolling already. Estonians are real. Kallas is a real name. Please stop.

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[hringum]

ancient Germanic words starting with HL-

Last time I talked about words that originally started with HR but now they only start with R. Time for another ancient and archaic consonants cluster - HL. As you can guess nowadays it’s just L in germanic languages but icelandic kept it.  

ancient word; hlaibaz

🇮🇸 hleifur, 🇫🇴 leivur

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 loaf ← hlāf from Old English

🇩🇪 Laib

🇩🇰 🇸🇪 lev, 🇳🇴 leiv 

🇫🇮 leipä, 🇪🇪 leib 

🇷🇺  хлеб (xleb), 🇵🇱 chleb

ancient word; hlaupaną 

🇮🇸 hlaupa, 🇫🇴 leypa

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 loop, leap ← hlēapan from Old English

🇩🇪 laufen, 🇳🇱 lopen

🇸🇪 löpa, 🇳🇴 løpe, 🇩🇰 løbe

🇫🇷 galop

ancient word; hlahjaną

🇮🇸 hlæja, 🇫🇴 læa

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 laugh ← hliehhan from Old English

🇳🇱 🇩🇪 lachen

🇸🇪 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 le

ancient word; hlūdaz

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 loud ← hlūd from Old English

🇩🇪 laut, 🇳🇱 luid

ancient word; hlusēną, hlusnijaną

🇮🇸 hlusta

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 listen ← hlysnan from Old English

🇸🇪 lyssna

ancient word; hlammiz (trapdoor, flap, cover, lid)

🇮🇸 hlemmur

🇸🇪 läm

🇳🇴 🇩🇰 lem

ancient word; hlutą

🇮🇸 hlutur, hluti

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 lot ← hlot from Old English

🇳🇱 lot (🇫🇷 lot, loterie (🇳🇱 lotto, 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 lottery))

🇸🇪 🇳🇴 lott

🇩🇰 lod 

🇫🇴 lutur, luti

[dulac1882]

!! langblr introduction !!

salut !! i made this langblr to share my language learning progress and to be in contact with other people into languages<3 i'm especially interested in following people who post about their learning progress !!!

about me: - caroline (she/her), 21, finnish, uni student - other than languages i'm interested in almost everything art & culture related :) languages: - languages i'm concentrating on: french (high b1), german (b1), russian (high a2) - languages i'm learning on the side / have learned in the past: swedish (rusty b1), latin, italian (a1) (+ english). not planning on starting any new ones anytime soon..

language goals under the cut :)

some goals for this summer: - french: (1) finish b1 level textbooks and maybe go through grammaire progressive au français intermédiaire and/or avancé (2) get better at understanding natural speech (i can understand radio programmes etc just fine but movies, tv shows and youtube videos are a lot more difficult for me) - german: improve vocabulary, maybe go through a textbook (if i have the time) - russian: catch up on anki (i have over 5k reviews piled up….) and MAYBE finish my (final!) russian textbook - other: maybe try reading a book in swedish and listen to some easy italian podcast episodes, these aren't really that important long-time goals: - french: becoming as good as i am in english (or better..) - german: high b2 or c1 (currently my biggest problems are (1) vocabulary (2) can't speak…..) - russian: being able to read russian lit (+ having basic conservations without too much difficulty) - swedish: reaching a level that's ok/nice for a finnish person…??? as in being able to have a conversation if needed + being able to read contemporary texts (which i mostly am already) - italian: no big goals, i can already understand a lot based on french :) one day i'd like to be able to read italian books with ease and to speak semi-fluently but i'm in no hurry - latin: not forgetting anything i've already learned + finishing OLC 3 at some point (i only have 2–5 chapters to go)

[yekokataa]

favorite books i read in 2023

Transcendent Kingdom - Yaa Gyasi / Entangled Life - Merlin Sheldrake / The Angel’s Game - Carlos Ruiz Zafón / White Cat Black Dog - Kelly Link / Polish Boys - Mudlum / Steering the Craft - Ursula K. Leguin

[kravatkan]

Countries featured: Poland, Estonia, Slovakia and Ukraine.

really enjoyed dressing them up last time, have some more. ramblings below.

none of this is historically accurate, and my research is limited by only the free materials that can be found online TT i'm very sorry for the inaccuracies TT

as always, men's clothes are soooo boring compared to women's. i tried picking the most embroidered ones for fun, but half of men's clothes in eastern/central europe are like "coat-type garment in brown/black/white with minimal decoration". also tried to draw kim the coolest jackets/coats i could find, sksdfdfkd.

probably, both of them are too old to be wearing something as flashy. if we look at them through the 19th century lense, societal norms expected them to be married and settled already, with that come more muted garments with less decorations.

though, it's probably somewhat in character for harry to be wearing something extravagant from when he was young, unable to let go of those days. and kim isn't exactly subtle with his historical cosplay jacket either. both of them are freaks.

estonian clothes are so well-organized and documented. i really liked the knitted mittens, socks and sashes, very beautiful!

slovak clothes are so cool! i'm too much of a coward for the detva crop tops, but harry would wear something like that 100%. also they have aprons for men. delightful.  

and ukrainian clothes, the ones i know the most about.

women were expected to make clothes for their husbands. in general, embroidery was a very personalized thing, people would sometimes sew their initials and names somewhere on the garment.

so, imagine harry having clothes dora hand-made. with unique patterns that could be referencing, let's say, apricot flowers. that would be so fucked up!!

the actual plants commonly featured in embroidery patterns are roses, oak leaves, hops, grapes, viburnum, poppies and marigolds.

language barrier is, unfortunately, very real. my polish is mid enough for reading and i can understand slovak using the ✨slavic languages magic✨, but estonian? google translate did not want to cooperate. it kept translating something as "pussy belt" TT

in any case, feel free to send anything about folk clothing, i'll be very happy and thank you for reading!

[council-of-beetroot]

Keeping a list of Mikus I've seen

Afghani Miku

Aboriginal Miku

Floridian Miku with Fish

Floridian Miku

Black American Miku

Ukrainian Miku

Ukrainian Miku

Ukrainian Miku

Ukrainian Donetsk Miku

Ukrainian Shchedryk miku

Ukraine Cossack Miku

Polish Miku

Polish Miku

Polish Miku

Poland PRL Miku

Polish Doomer Miku

Two Genders of Polish Miku

Kaszubska Miku

Kaszubska Miku

Masurian Miku

Śląska Miku

Dolnośląskie Miku

Biedronka employee miku

Dresiarz Miku

Łowicz miku

Żabka Miku

Lubelska Miku

Podlasie Miku my region

Zakopane Miku

Poland And Czechia are Gay For each other

Polish Szlachta Miku

Poland Babcia Miku

Latvian Miku

Latvian Miku

Estonian Miku

Estonian Miku

Estonian Miku

Estonian Miku

Estonian Miku

Estonian Miku

Lithuanian Miku

Lithuanian Miku

Lithuanian Miku

Punjabi Miku

Tunisian Miku

Jamaican Miku

Costa Rican Miku

Chuvash Miku

Brazilian Miku

Israeli Miku

Jewish Miku

Jewish Miku

Assyrian Miku

Kurdish Miku

Persian Miku

Persian Miku

Hmong Miku

Ghanaian Miku

Malaysian Miku

Moldovan Miku

Basque Miku

Hondureña Miku

Hondureña Miku

Argentinian Miku

Métis Miku

Tang Dynasty Miku

South African Miku

Yugoslav Miku

Belarusian Miku

Belarusian (Gomel) Miku

Belarusian Miku

Bhutanese Miku

Croatian Miku

Finnish Iron Age Miku

Hungarian Miku

Hungarian Miku

Indian Miku

Guatemalan Miku

Newfoundland Miku

Serbian Miku

Paraguayan Miku

Hong Kong Miku

Russia (Ryazan) Miku

Slovak Miku

Slovak Miku

Michigan Miku

Romanian Miku

Swiss Miku

Chilean Miku

Panamanian Miku

Vatican Miku

Chamoru Miku

Syrian Miku

Yakutian Miku

Norwegian Miku

Djibouti Miku

Nova Scotian Miku

Portuguese Miku

Russian Miku

Montenegrin Miku

Connecticut Miku

Udmurt Miku

Moroccan Miku

Maltese Miku

Karelian Miku

New Vegas Miku

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[ozempicofficial]

Zero days without Russians appropriating their neighbor's culture and calling them a fake country.

P.S.: If you see a “traditional russian cuisine” restaurant it means that they serve 90% Ukrainian, Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Finnish and adapted French and German cuisine for more sophisticated items + 10% modified soviet era cuisine invented during the times of constant hunger and food shortages.

Traditional russian cuisine primarily consists of boiled cabbage and turnips, mushrooms, wild berries and river fish. Russia belongs to a gathering culture and lacked developed agricultural knowledge and culinary traditions. Expanding and capturing foreign lands, they appropriated the traditions of neighboring peoples and widely labeling them as “traditional russian culture” less than a century ago

[bookshelfdreams]

not a fucking day goes by without an american on this hellsite pondering whether they can justify voting for Biden, despite omg! he's supporting Israel!!!!11!

as if Trump didn't literally say just last week that he would not defend America's Nato partners and would in fact encourage Putin/Russia to "do whatever the hell they wanna do"

as if he hadn't been open about his disdain for Nato and his unwillingness to actually adhere to the treaty in case of aggression

as if Russia weren't currently waging a war of territorial expansion fueled by imperialistic delusions of grandeur the likes of which haven't been seen since fucking WWII

Putin has put out an arrest warrant against the Estonian head of state, as if she were a russian citizen. He recently said of course he wouldn't attack Poland unless they attack Russia first - hmm, I wonder if that could be an allusion to a historic precedent? Has anyone ever faked a polish attack on their territory to kick off a massive war???

Putin has all but explicitly stated that he does not want to stop after Ukraine. Now add to this a US president who would encourage - not just stand by, actively encourage - further russian aggression. The campaign for presidential election hasn't even fully kicked off yet, I shudder to imagine what Trump would do or say if he actually held office again.

Of course the situation in Gaza is horrible. Of course we need deescalation (and hey, if you weren't getting your news exclusively from ragebait you'd know that even its closest allies are criticizing Israel, that they will become isolated if they continue on like this. Support for Israel isn't nearly as unwavering and unanimous as you may think).

Please. I'm begging you. Another Trump term could be catastrophic in ways that can't be fully anticipated. Already his party has backed him on (or tried to downplay) his latest attempt to undermine Nato.

We are dealing with an very delicate and dangerous geopolitical situation right now. China observes Russia very carefully with one eye, and looks at Taiwan with the other. And they're far from the only global player with imperialist ambitions.

The US government unfortunately has a huge effect on the whole world, and making your vote hinge on a single issue (when that issue won't even be solved in a way you'd like by literally any imaginable US government! No US president will completely cease supporting Israel, like come on)

making your vote hinge on a single issue like that is incredibly irresponsible

[estonian-is-horrible]

french: baguette

english: baguette

ukrainian: багет

polish: bagietka

czech: bageta

finnish: patonki

estonian: LONG WHITE BREAD

[chiara-klara-claire]

funny ways to say “in the middle of nowhere”

Collected funny ones under this post + contributions to this one (my selection). Most involve ass(holes), have god/the devil, (nonsense) names of villages…

🇩🇪German: in the ass of the world/ the pasture- am Arsch der Welt/der Weide; where Fox and Hare bid each other good night - Wo sich Fuchs und Hase Gute Nacht sagen (old-fashioned), where the dead dog lays - Da liegt der tote Hund, in Buxtehude/ (Kuh)kaff, in der Pampa, in Timbuktu

🇮🇹Italian: in assland - in culonia/culandia, in the wolves’ ass - in culo ai lupi, in the ass of the word - in culo al mondo; 🇫🇷 French in the asshole of the world - dans le trou du cul du monde

🇨🇿Czech: Where foxes bid good night to one another - Kde si lišky dávají dobrou noc

🇩🇰Danish: where the crows turn around - Hvor kragerne vender on Lars diarrheas field/on the field of Lars Shitpants - På lars tyndskids mark

🇳🇴Norwegian: far damn from violence - langt pokker i vold, “huttaheiti” (gibberish)

🇸🇪Swedish: out (there) in the spinach - ute i spenaten,“tjotaheiti” (see above, maybe originally from Tahiti)

🇪🇸in Spain: in the fifth hell/pine tree - En el quinto infierno/pino, where Christ lost the sandal/hat/lighter - Donde Cristo perdió la alpargata/gorra/mechero;

🇲🇽 Mexico: Where the devil farts - Donde el diablo se echa un pedo, and sometimes someone answers: “Y nadie lo escucha” And no one hears

🇹🇼in Taiwan: where birds don't lay eggs and dogs don't shit - 鳥不生蛋狗不拉屎的地方 

🇵🇱Polish - where crows turn around -  Gdzie wrony zawracają, where dogs bark from their ass - gdzie psy dupami szczekają 🐶; Where the devil says goodnight - Gdzie diabeł mówi dobranoc, where (black) pepper grows - gdzie pieprz rośnie, (mostly in the context of running as far away as possible or chasing someone away)

🇦🇺Australia: woop woop or "in the middle of woop woop' 🇳🇿 NZ: wop wops

🇻🇳Vietnamese: holy forests, poisonous waters - rừng thiêng nước độc / where mountain passes are windy/cloudy and winds swirl in vortexes - đèo heo hút gió or đèo mây hút gió (rarely used)

🇨🇦🇫🇷 Québéc: Saint clin clin des meuhs meuhs (actual village name…)

🇸🇦 Arabic (Saudi dialect): in the castle of wadren في مقلاع وادرين (an old castle in the middle of desert)

🇮🇱 in Israel: Israel: at the end of the world, take a turn left - סוף העולם ש��אלה

🇫🇮Finnish: behind God’s back - jumalan selän takana, in the devil’s ass - helvetin perseessä;

🇬🇷 Greek: at the devil’s horn - Στου διαόλου το κέρατο;

🇧🇬 Bulgarian: on the ass of geography - На гъза на географията

🇮🇸 Icelandic Out in an asshole - úti í rassgati;

🇧🇷 in Brazil: in cock’s house - na casa do caralho;

🇦🇷 in Argentina: in the pussy of the parrot- en la concha de la lora 🦜;

🇪🇪 Estonian: in the bear's ass - karuperses 🐻

🇺🇸 USA: bumfuck Egypt

🇧🇪 in Belgium (Dutch): in a farmer’s asscrack - in een boerengat

🇺🇦 Ukrainian: in the devil's swamps в чорта на кулічках,  where the crow won't carry bones куди ворон кісток не заносить