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Danish pancakes

For any and all Danish learners, this is my (technically, it's originally from Frk. Jensens kogebog) recipe for Danish pancakes, proudly presented in Danish and English | italics indicated a comment. Note that in Denmark pancakes are a dessert. The are large but thin, like crêpes.

Ingredienser, fire portioner - Ingredients, four servings

4 dl mel - flour 4-5 dl mælk/hvidtøl - milk/light ale | plant-based milks work just as well as cow's milk. you should try it with light ale though, it's really good! 3-4 æg - eggs 1-2 spsk. sukker - tbsp. sugar | spsk. is short for spiseske 'tablespoon' 2 tsk. vaniljesukker - tsp. vanilla sugar | tsk. is short for teske 'teaspoon' 1 spsk. olie - 1 tbsp. vegetable oil en knivspids salt - a nip of salt | knivspids literally translates to 'knife tip'

Fremgangsmåde - method

1) Bland alle ingredienserne i en skål. Pisk evt. sukker og æg sammen først - Mix all the ingredients in a bowl. Optional: whisk the eggs and sugar separately and then mix.

1a) Dejen skal have konsistens, så den kan hældes relativt let uden at være for tynd - The texture of the batter should be so that it's relatively easy to pour without being too thin.

1b) Teknisk set skal dejen hvile i køleskabet i en halv time, men man kan sagtens bruge den med det samme - Technically, the batter is supposed to rest in the fridge for half an hour, but you can use it immediately without problem.

2) Varm en smule olie på en stegepande - Heat a bit of oil in a frying pan.

3) Bag pandekagerne ved mellemhøj varme (ca. 7 på komfur med 1-9) - Fry the pancakes on medium-high heat (approx. 7 on a stove with settings 1-9) | generally Danish pancakes are the size of the pan you're frying them on, so make sure you cover the entire pan with a thin layer of batter.

4) Server pandekagerne varme med is, syltetøj, sirup, flormelis eller sukker - Serve the pancakes while hot with ice cream, jam, syrup or (powdered) sugar | in Danish, the separate word flormelis is used for powdered/icing sugar, not to be confused with puddersukker 'brown sugar'.

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What is a ‘wug’?

If you’ve been to linguist tumblr (lingblr), you might have stumbled upon this picture of a funny little bird or read the word ‘wug’ somewhere. But what exactly is a ‘wug’ and where does this come from?

The ‘wug’ is an imaginary creature designed for the so-called ‘wug test’ by Jean Berko Gleason. Here’s an illustration from her test:

“Gleason devised the Wug Test as part of her earliest research (1958), which used nonsense words to gauge children’s acquisition of morphological rules‍—‌for example, the “default” rule that most English plurals are formed by adding an /s/, /z/ or /ɨz/ sound depending on the final consonant, e.g., hat–hats, eye–eyes, witch–witches. A child is shown simple pictures of a fanciful creature or activity, with a nonsense name, and prompted to complete a statement about it:

This is a WUG. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________.

Each “target” word was a made-up (but plausible-sounding) pseudoword, so that the child cannot have heard it before. A child who knows that the plural of witch is witches may have heard and memorized that pair, but a child responding that the plural of wug (which the child presumably has never heard) is wugs (/wʌgz/, using the /z/ allomorph since “wug” ends in a voiced consonant) has apparently inferred (perhaps unconsciously) the basic rule for forming plurals.

The Wug Test also includes questions involving verb conjugations, possessives, and other common derivational morphemes such as the agentive -er (e.g. “A man who ‘zibs’ is a ________?”), and requested explanations of common compound words e.g. “Why is a birthday called a birthday?" Other items included:

This is a dog with QUIRKS on him. He is all covered in QUIRKS. What kind of a dog is he? He is a ________ dog.

This is a man who knows how to SPOW. He is SPOWING. He did the same thing yesterday. What did he do yesterday? Yesterday he ________.

(The expected answers were QUIRKY and SPOWED.)

Gleason’s major finding was that even very young children are able to connect suitable endings‍—‌to produce plurals, past tenses, possessives, and other forms‍—‌to nonsense words they have never heard before, implying that they have internalized systematic aspects of the linguistic system which no one has necessarily tried to teach them. However, she also identified an earlier stage at which children can produce such forms for real words, but not yet for nonsense words‍—‌implying that children start by memorizing singular–plural pairs they hear spoken by others, then eventually extract rules and patterns from these examples which they apply to novel words.

The Wug Test was the first experimental proof that young children have extracted generalizable rules from the language around them, rather than simply memorizing words that they have heard, and it was almost immediately adapted for children speaking languages other than English, to bilingual children, and to children (and adults) with various impairments or from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Its conclusions are viewed as essential to the understanding of when and how children reach major language milestones, and its variations and progeny remain in use worldwide for studies on language acquisition. It is "almost universal” for textbooks in psycholinguistics and language acquisition to include assignments calling for the student to carry out a practical variation of the Wug Test paradigm. The ubiquity of discussion of the wug test has led to the wug being used as a mascot of sorts for linguists and linguistics students.”

Here are some more illustrations from the original wug test:

Sources: 

Wikipedia, All Things Linguistic

#wug test #linguistics #lingblr #langblr

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If you’d also like to read the sagas in Danish (or Norwegian, or Swedish, or Icelandic, or Faroese), you can!

This link will take you to the main page for the Danish texts, but if you look at the top of the sidebar on the left of the page, you’ll see the option to view the texts in another language! Woohoo!

I’ve just recently finished the first volume of the Oldtidssagaerne, and can personally recommend specifically the Vølsungernes saga! Also featured in the book I read is Ragnar Lodbrog’s saga, which was also a delightful read! To find these quickly, just search for them in the search bar at the top of the page!

Happy reading, friends! ✌️💕📖

#dansk #langblr #danish #i’m about to start learning danish

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#terry pratchett #quotes #history #literature

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hi yes I'd like to order a fucking break for the next million years please. thankyou.

#chaotic academia #i fucking feel that #there’s no fatigue comparable to the wariness of life

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So I made a Hozier reading list...

This is what I have so far.

For some books I'm still missing sources, and I know it's not complete or ✨️Aesthetic✨️. But if there is anything that you think should be on there, let me know.

#for future reference #book recommendations #hozier

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this is the level of madness and brilliance i want to be with my three majors

Unrealistic polymath genius: has six PhDs.

Realistic polymath genius: just has the one set of degrees, but their bachelor’s, their master’s, and their doctorate are each in a different field, and they’d be happy to explain – at great length – how the three relate to one another.

#education #academia #chaotic academia #just the madness of academia in general #three majors that some how tired into one another #no clue how chaotic my post grad will be

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Oh, by the way, I absolutely take requests for finding resources for learning Danish! If there’s something you’d like to know more about, and it either isn’t already on the Big List of Resources for Learning Danish, or you wish there was something more on a certain topic, please let me know and I’ll try my best to find something useful for you! ☺️🇩🇰

(I also take submissions for resources to be added to the list, but I can’t guarantee all submissions will be added. What goes on the list is up to my discretion.)

#for future reference

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30 days of productivity

day 13-15

may 13th

worked another double shift 🥲

5.5 hours one location, 5.5 hours at another location :’)

ain’t no way i was gonna do anything else other than sleep

i did manage to read a few chapters of lockwood and co tho (WHY DID YOU CANCEL IT NETFLIX?? WHY DID YOU CANCEL IT??)

may 14th

happy mother’s day :D (bakery was busy af)

8 hour shift at a bakery on mother’s day was BRUTAL (5:30am start no less :’))

went home, slept for like, 4 hours

attended a social event

tried to work on my chem dry lab, ended up watching House MD

may 15th

8 hour shift at the bakery (again)

went home, slept

tried to commit identity fraud for my mother (long story)

worked on my biochem report (the one i did a lab for last week) and finished around 65% of it

watched a few episodes of Criminal Minds :)

#studyblr #study motivation #studyspo #chaotic academia #bakery life

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30 days of productivity

day 10-12

may 10th

watched a biological anthropology lecture

attended peer mentoring

worked on a chemical biology chapter summary

watched a play!! the lieutenant of Inishimore, tis a very good play :)

may 11th

attended a 2 hour lecture and 1 hour tute for my ancient history course

attended a 3 hour lab for biochemistry

attempted to donate plasma, but turns out something was wrong with the machine

finished another biological anthropology lecture

did a quiz for the biological anthropology content

may 12th

went to a new cafe as a part of my cafe rating journey and finally got to read for fun 😭😭 but ngl, john green’s Anthropocene reviewed is… a little melancholic

attended a 2 hour dry lab for chemical biology (and yes it is separate to the biochemistry class)

spent about 3 hours trying to compile and organise notes for biochem and chembio in preparation for exams

sorry i forgot to post, i’ve been pretty overwhelmed this entire week :’(

#studyblr #study motivation #studyspo #chaotic academia #ancient history #fucking long ass week

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30 Days of Productivity

day 7-9

may 7th

worked, for too long for someone like me (aka 9 hours)

slept (for like, 3 hours)

made a cake :)

alas, i did not do anything academic 😔

may 8th

went to work (5.5 hours)

slept

watched two lectures

replanned my degree and realised that i may be a little bit more fucked than i thought i was :D

may 9th

caught up on a decent amount of my sleep debt (im drowning in those atm) i reckon i slept for around 14 hours 😅

went to work (yes, again)

watched one BIAN lecture

cleaned my room (room inspections :( ugh)

a few notes i feel like i need to clarify:

it takes me 45-55 mins to get to work, i either sleep, or read on those commutes. currently i’m reading The Screaming Staircase and Shadow and Bones

i’m triple majoring (bad idea, do not do it)

i’m increasingly burnt out but the semester isn’t over for another 4-5 weeks

but, @jumwa-the-cryptid i do finish thé ✨quasso✨ 👀 i take all the left over baked goods back to my hall and share it with my dormmates

#studyblr #study motivation #studyspo #chaotic academia

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30 Days of Productivity

Day 4-6

may 4th

attended classes for my Roman Empire course; a two hour lecture and an one hour tutorial

watched one ancient greek lecture

went to my uni/college’s version of battle of the bands!!

worked on the dry lab for biochem for 25 mins

may 5th

started my ‘rating cafes in [place] thing

headed to a library to continue my dry lab materials for around 3.5 hours

attended a queer autonomous event

attended a birthday party

may 6th

went to job no.1 (bakery) for 5 hours

spent way too long getting back to my dorm (but i read a chapter of Anthropocene Reviewed so 🤷)

changed, then went to job no.2 (bartending/barista) for 5 hours

went home and watched two episodes of House MD 😅

however, not productive academically :((

again :((

#studyblr #study motivation #studyspo #chaotic academia

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here are my current languages

fluent:

mandarin

english

intermediate

japanese

beginner

korean

french

literally just started

ancient greek

modern greek

latinita

italian

calling all active langblr blogs

i need to follow more people! like or reblog if you're active and let's be friends :D

i speak english and portuguese (questionably mandarin) and i'm focusing on improving my mandarin and german rn. i can also speak some spanish, understand some italian and written japanese and have dabbled in thai, korean and cantonese

#langblr #studyblr #language learning #don't ask me why i'm doing so many #i just like languages okay?? #english #mandarin #japanese #korean #french #italian #ancient greek #latin #that last two are highly questionable

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30 Days of Productivity -May

Due to my very hectic and (academically) unproductive March and April, I’ve decided to restart another 30 days of productivity in hopes to catch up on all of my uni work.

Day 1-3

[image: row of portraits of all emperors of the Julio-Claudia’s dynasty including their name and reigning years. Augustus on the far left, ending with Nero on the far right]

May 1st

worked for 5 hours 

returned home and wrote 1600 words for my research essay

May 2nd

worked for 8 hours (for a night owl, a 7am start for a job with a 1 hour commute)

returned home and finished the 2000 word research essay, complete with references and bibliography (unfortunately yes, I did procrastinate for an hour in between)

finally slept!! (I was running on 3 hours of sleep per day for the past 3 days :(

[image: freshly baked croissants from work]

May 3rd (rest day)

watched one of my biological anthropology lecture x1

attended my Biological anthropology lab

attended a peer mentoring session (where I try and tutor first year chemists and help with their lab reports)

meal prepped for the next three meals

finished House MD S4

#studyblr #30 days of productivity #study motivation #studyspo #chaotic academia #roman history #julio-claudians #biological anthropology

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Vocab List Templates #1

Here’s a vocab list (based on this post) you can fill in with your own target language(s). There’s also an empty vocab list at the end in case you find additional words i missed in my lists. I’ll upload more lists with the rest of the vocab words from the post above soon too!

-> here’s a link to a Google Drive folder with the pdf file if you prefer that format

Feel free to post & share your filled-in lists for other language learners! 

#langblr #language #learning languages #for later

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Studies: May

I know, I know, we’re nearly half way into June. But this idiot had a load of stuff due and just never had the chance to post things.

I personally really like how the Heartstopper colour scheme worked out (even if a lot of the things were left blank.

I’m going to start another 100 days of productivity throughout June-August so there’s that.

Happy pride month :))

#studyblr #study motivation #studyspo #chaotic academia #australian studyblr #bujospo #bullet journal

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hi guys!! long time no see

so… turns out uni may just be too hectic for me to actually post every week (or daily)

but, I’ll definitely make monthly posts

and, who knows? maybe I’ll do another 100 days of productivity some time soon

(side note: I’m so ready to fill up the Heartstopper themed pages this month :)))

#studyblr #uni studyblr #uni struggles #study motivation #studyspo #chaotic academia #bullet journal #bujospo #langblr