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[Zeref]

I did some more research on this today and found out the giggles are so high pitched we are unable to hear them with our ears. To make it better it turns out they even like it and do "joy jumps" when they are enjoying it.

 

[Animedragon]

4 hours ago, Zeref said:

I did some more research on this today and found out the giggles are so high pitched we are unable to hear them with our ears. To make it better it turns out they even like it and do "joy jumps" when they are enjoying it.

Very interesting. So that explains why Sakura's sister couldn't hear her rats giggling.

 

[Sakura]

Yuhhh that explains it, I'll have to call her and tell her you can't actually hear it but that they seem to enjoy it lol ~ It sucks you can't actually hear it though because I would love to hear a rat laugh. 

[Zeref]

Did you know: Finland is the happiest country on Earth. According to the World Happiness Report, it has been for seven years in a row. It’s not really surprising, given that Finland is the home of Santa Claus, reindeer and one sauna for every 1.59 people. The report's rankings are based on a three-year average of life evaluations surveyed from 2021–2023.

[Sakura]

12 hours ago, Zeref said:

Did you know: Finland is the happiest country on Earth. According to the World Happiness Report, it has been for seven years in a row. It’s not really surprising, given that Finland is the home of Santa Claus, reindeer and one sauna for every 1.59 people. The report's rankings are based on a three-year average of life evaluations surveyed from 2021–2023.

Somehow this doesn't really surprise me. Sweden/Denmark/Finland those Nordic countries always seem to have a pretty good quality of life.

[Zeref]

Life in Finland was always good. The access to healthcare and wellness is very good as is family help for food or housing. 

[Sakura]

On 6/23/2024 at 4:02 PM, Zeref said:

Life in Finland was always good. The access to healthcare and wellness is very good as is family help for food or housing. 

It would be great if everywhere basic needs like healthcare were met. And by that I also mean dental and vision because those seem to get left out for some reason like your eyes and teeth don't matter lol ~ 

[Animedragon]

7 hours ago, Sakura said:

It would be great if everywhere basic needs like healthcare were met. And by that I also mean dental and vision because those seem to get left out for some reason like your eyes and teeth don't matter lol ~ 

In the UK we have the National Health Service which provides free doctors appointments and hospital care. For dental work you have to pay a nominal free for treatment, but finding an NHS dentist is difficult as many only do private dental work, which is expensive! If you're retired or have certain medical conditions you can get free eye tests, but you have to pay for the glasses if you need them, which I guess is fair.

 

[Zeref]

Did you know that Los Angeles is not the full name of the city? The full name is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula, translated as The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Perciuncula.

[Animedragon]

9 hours ago, Zeref said:

Did you know that Los Angeles is not the full name of the city? The full name is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula, translated as The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Perciuncula.

That's interesting, I never knew that. It reminds me of that famous place in Wales:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Which translates as:
The church of Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the fierce whirlpool and the church of Tysilio by the red cave.

The locals apparently just call it Llanfir PG.

 

[Sakura]

9 hours ago, Zeref said:

Did you know that Los Angeles is not the full name of the city? The full name is: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río Porciúncula, translated as The City of Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the River Perciuncula.

I didn't know that at all I just thought it was Los Angeles lol What in the world is the River Perciuncula though 

 

9 minutes ago, Animedragon said:

That's interesting, I never knew that. It reminds me of that famous place in Wales:

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Which translates as:
The church of Mary in the hollow of the white hazel near the fierce whirlpool and the church of Tysilio by the red cave.

The locals apparently just call it Llanfir PG.

 

Oh my God, I have heard the Welsh have some weird words and names for things, but this is by far the weirdest one I have heard  I wonder what the longest Welsh word is... 

[Animedragon]

5 hours ago, Sakura said:

Oh my God, I have heard the Welsh have some weird words and names for things, but this is by far the weirdest one I have heard  I wonder what the longest Welsh word is... 

According to some sources Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest word in Welsh. But Welsh does indeed have some weird looking words. I spent several holidays in Wales and have noticed the rise of Welsh in signage, on almost all signage Welsh is at the top with the English translation underneath, the supermarket I used when on my last visit had the English text in half the point size of the Welsh.

Here's a random Welsh sign that you see in lots of places: llwybr cyhoeddus it means Public footpath.  I once tried to learn Welsh, but didn't get very far with it.

Finally, the friend who I went on holiday with and myself decided that the Welsh phrase "Dim Aros" would make a wonderful insult, as in "You dim aros!", actually it means "No waiting".

[Zeref]

18 hours ago, Sakura said:

I didn't know that at all I just thought it was Los Angeles lol What in the world is the River Perciuncula though 

 

Oh my God, I have heard the Welsh have some weird words and names for things, but this is by far the weirdest one I have heard  I wonder what the longest Welsh word is... 

The Los Angeles River historically known as Paayme Paxaayt 'West River' by the Tongva and the Río Porciúncula 'Porciúncula River' by the Spanish. Which American translated to Perciuncula. 

 

12 hours ago, Animedragon said:

According to some sources Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest word in Welsh. But Welsh does indeed have some weird looking words. I spent several holidays in Wales and have noticed the rise of Welsh in signage, on almost all signage Welsh is at the top with the English translation underneath, the supermarket I used when on my last visit had the English text in half the point size of the Welsh.

Here's a random Welsh sign that you see in lots of places: llwybr cyhoeddus it means Public footpath.  I once tried to learn Welsh, but didn't get very far with it.

Finally, the friend who I went on holiday with and myself decided that the Welsh phrase "Dim Aros" would make a wonderful insult, as in "You dim aros!", actually it means "No waiting".

From what I just searched "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" is the longest Welsh word and town name. I also read it was named this in order to attract tourist which seem to have worked. 

Learning Welsh seems as if that would be the most complicated language in the world to learn from the words I have seen I would not stand a chance 

[Sakura]

17 hours ago, Animedragon said:

According to some sources Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the longest word in Welsh. But Welsh does indeed have some weird looking words. I spent several holidays in Wales and have noticed the rise of Welsh in signage, on almost all signage Welsh is at the top with the English translation underneath, the supermarket I used when on my last visit had the English text in half the point size of the Welsh.

Here's a random Welsh sign that you see in lots of places: llwybr cyhoeddus it means Public footpath.  I once tried to learn Welsh, but didn't get very far with it.

Finally, the friend who I went on holiday with and myself decided that the Welsh phrase "Dim Aros" would make a wonderful insult, as in "You dim aros!", actually it means "No waiting".

Wales is the only place in the UK I haven't visited, it looks super pretty there too though. Ngl, "Dim Aros" does sound like calling someone a name  I noticed traveling a lot overseas most signs are also in English too, in the heavy tourist areas like Seoul for instance, most things are printed in English under it. 

4 hours ago, Zeref said:

The Los Angeles River historically known as Paayme Paxaayt 'West River' by the Tongva and the Río Porciúncula 'Porciúncula River' by the Spanish. Which American translated to Perciuncula. 

 

From what I just searched "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" is the longest Welsh word and town name. I also read it was named this in order to attract tourist which seem to have worked. 

Learning Welsh seems as if that would be the most complicated language in the world to learn from the words I have seen I would not stand a chance 

You should post that video you showed me last night of that one guy saying that town name. I can't seem to find it lol. 

[Animedragon]

10 hours ago, Zeref said:

From what I just searched "Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch" is the longest Welsh word and town name. I also read it was named this in order to attract tourist which seem to have worked. 

Many years ago I was in that part of Wales and visited the railway station to buy a platform ticket, they sold more platform tickets than train tickets. The station is unstaffed now so you can't buy any sort of ticket there.

10 hours ago, Zeref said:

Learning Welsh seems as if that would be the most complicated language in the world to learn from the words I have seen I would not stand a chance

The last time I was in Wales I was talking to a shopkeeper and they said they'd lived in Wales over 10 years and still not managed to learn to speak Welsh.

[Zeref]

19 hours ago, Sakura said:

Wales is the only place in the UK I haven't visited, it looks super pretty there too though. Ngl, "Dim Aros" does sound like calling someone a name  I noticed traveling a lot overseas most signs are also in English too, in the heavy tourist areas like Seoul for instance, most things are printed in English under it. 

You should post that video you showed me last night of that one guy saying that town name. I can't seem to find it lol. 

Here it is

13 hours ago, Animedragon said:

Many years ago I was in that part of Wales and visited the railway station to buy a platform ticket, they sold more platform tickets than train tickets. The station is unstaffed now so you can't buy any sort of ticket there.

The last time I was in Wales I was talking to a shopkeeper and they said they'd lived in Wales over 10 years and still not managed to learn to speak Welsh.

This seems like a language if you didn't grow up speaking it to learn it would be next to impossible unless you really dedicate a very long time to it. I have heard English is the hardest to learn because of slangs but for me English was not even this hard (I still mess up some English words often however). For me looking at Welsh I think I would never know how to pronounce any of it even with a tutor. 

[efaardvark]

2 hours ago, Zeref said:

This seems like a language if you didn't grow up speaking it to learn it would be next to impossible unless you really dedicate a very long time to it. I have heard English is the hardest to learn because of slangs but for me English was not even this hard (I still mess up some English words often however). For me looking at Welsh I think I would never know how to pronounce any of it even with a tutor. 

I can see how it might take quite a while to learn to speak any of the Celtic languages fluently if you didn't start at a very young age.  I'm a native English speaker.  (Well, American... you'll find our boots on our feet not in our cars and our pants are outerwear.)  My multiple-great grandparents on my father's side immigrated from Scotland however and my Highlander ancestors (Creag an Tuirc!) spoke Gaelic, another Celtic-family language.  Once or twice I've tried to learn Gaelic but unfortunately failed utterly.

Part of the problem for me learning Gaelic was that it is not widely spoken, so finding good teaching materials or even just someone to talk to for practice was a bit of a challenge.  Languages like Spanish, German, Chinese, or Japanese are a lot more common for economic or cultural reasons so you'll often find those languages being taught in grade schools and materials for learning them readily available in public libraries.  For Gaelic you're usually out of luck unless you want to go for university-level classes aimed at literature or linguistic anthropology majors.  It also seemed quite difficult for me to parse.  It didn't really map well to anything I already knew.  Additionally, the few remaining native speakers don't all speak it the same way so there were numerous dialect differences.  Not a trivial undertaking.

Edited June 29, 2024 by efaardvark
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[Sakura]

5 hours ago, efaardvark said:

I can see how it might take quite a while to learn to speak any of the Celtic languages fluently if you didn't start at a very young age.  I'm a native English speaker.  (Well, American... you'll find our boots on our feet not in our cars and our pants are outerwear.)  My multiple-great grandparents on my father's side immigrated from Scotland however and my Highlander ancestors (Creag an Tuirc!) spoke Gaelic, another Celtic-family language.  Once or twice I've tried to learn Gaelic but unfortunately failed utterly.

Part of the problem for me learning Gaelic was that it is not widely spoken, so finding good teaching materials or even just someone to talk to for practice was a bit of a challenge.  Languages like Spanish, German, Chinese, or Japanese are a lot more common for economic or cultural reasons so you'll often find those languages being taught in grade schools and materials for learning them readily available in public libraries.  For Gaelic you're usually out of luck unless you want to go for university-level classes aimed at literature or linguistic anthropology majors.  It also seemed quite difficult for me to parse.  It didn't really map well to anything I already knew.  Additionally, the few remaining native speakers don't all speak it the same way so there were numerous dialect differences.  Not a trivial undertaking.

My grandmother spoke Gaelic! I don't think entirely fluently but I know she knew a ton ~ She was Scottish and I think she had learned it from her mother or grandmother. I remember she tried to teach me some words in it but I don't remember any of it now. It sounded a lot like gibberish to me and I was young so didn't have much interest in learning it  I know my dad knows some phrases in it that he learned from her that he still uses sometimes, usually when he's mad  

I agree though I think learning anything like that would be super hard and not anything I could wrap my brain around. I learned a lot of Korean when I lived in S.Korea and honestly Korean seems easier than some of that  

[Zeref]

21 hours ago, Sakura said:

My grandmother spoke Gaelic! I don't think entirely fluently but I know she knew a ton ~ She was Scottish and I think she had learned it from her mother or grandmother. I remember she tried to teach me some words in it but I don't remember any of it now. It sounded a lot like gibberish to me and I was young so didn't have much interest in learning it  I know my dad knows some phrases in it that he learned from her that he still uses sometimes, usually when he's mad  

I agree though I think learning anything like that would be super hard and not anything I could wrap my brain around. I learned a lot of Korean when I lived in S.Korea and honestly Korean seems easier than some of that  

To try to learn Korean or languages like Japanese or Chinese either would also be very hard for me because the lettering looks like pictures instead of the letters I am used to. It would be the same as if I was trying to learn Egyptian hieroglyphics  

[Sakura]

I found learning how to read the Korean Hangul was much easier than actually speaking some of the words because my pronunciation wasn't the best on a lot of it. I usually find in other countries though if you at least TRY to speak the language and are making an effort they will be very appreciative and if they know English will try to communicate with you in English to help. 

[Zeref]

Did you know that dolphins sleep with one eye open and half a brain at a time, with the opposite eye open and the other side of their brain awake to watch for danger and breathe?

[Animedragon]

That's interesting, dolphins are amazing creatures.

[Sakura]

I would sleep with one eye open if I was around a dolphin based on some other stuff I know about them  But uhmmm anyways Hiyooo Animedragon, hope you are having a splendid day. 

[Animedragon]

Hi Sakura, what's this other stuff you know about dolphins that makes you want to keep a constant watch on them?  

Anyway, today is shopping day. A boring activity but essential if I want to eat for the next week. I hope you have a good day and it's not too hot where you are.

[Sakura]

Not something that would be safe to share here but a quick Google search if you are really curious would probably inform though I don't recommend it. Some things are better left to be not known and this is definitely one of those things lol 

I hope you made it through grocery shopping and didn't want to beat someone with a stick by the end of it because that's usually how I feel when I leave a shopping mall for either clothes or groceries