#happy kurdish language day
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Hello!!👋😊 I just have to say that I love your game so much. I feel like it’s helping me connect a bit with my Kurdish culture. I’m about 75% Kurdish and then 25% Arab. I’m more connected to my Arab side since sadly no one in my family teaches us anything about the Kurdish culture due to my grandparents not wanting their kids to get teased in the Arab school they went to. So they didn’t teach them anything about Kurdish (but I do have many family members that are very connected to the Kurdish culture but I’m not close to them and they live in a different country far away) and it got passed down into my generation. I have been wanting to learn about Kurdish culture a lot lately because I want to to be able to connect to that side of myself and family. Playing your game in a way has made me feel a bit connected and I hope that one day I’ll be able to speak the Kurdish language as well. Your writing is exquisite and your game is so fun, I love it very much. Your game has helped me a lot, thank you so much for the time you put into making the game!!😊❤️
I relate to so much of this, anon, it's the whole reason I started writing AToC in the first place. I'm so happy you found the game, and that it helped you find that connection in turn. It means more to me than I can express in words 💖💖💖
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This whole experience was completely new territory for him. It felt like he'd stepped out of Dublin and into a whole different world.
It's not that he hadn't partied before; just a couple of days earlier, he had attended one of the biggest St. Patrick's Day parades in Cork. Perhaps it was because he could relate to their culture; he wasn't as aware as he should be about the political situation of the Kurds, but Jiyan had shed some light on it. As an Irishman, he could empathise with their struggle and share in their pain. He could see it in Jiyan's eyes as she spoke about their culture—how proud she was and how her eyes would light up, but also how they would darken when she talked about the remnants of her family, how her mother had to leave Turkey when she became too politically active because she couldn't teach or speak their language. Also, how she never obtained Turkish citizenship because the name Jiyan was forbidden in Turkey, being a Kurdish name, that’s why she only had an Italian citizenship. Kurdistan as a country did not exist anymore.
He sensed that beneath their happiness and celebration lay a layer of desperation—a determination not to forget their traditions and identity. They were reclaiming their language, relishing the cuisine passed down through generations, and imparting the beauty of their music and dances to their children.
Here a little blurb from chapter 5, comments and reblogs make me happy :)
Here you can find the story Masterlist.
tagging who could be interested: @cillmequick, @raincoffeeandfandoms, @emotionalcadaver, @ayomurphys, @beaniegender, @natalie--rushman, @duckybird101, @audiblysmiling, @call-sign-shark
#new chapter coming soon#shadows of the sea#jiyan fabris x cillian murphy#cillian murphy x oc#cillian murphy fanfiction#cillian murphy
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Remember when my friend learned Kurdish to thank our history teacher for her help during our exams and then we started to speak our native languages and stuff , I was speaking Southern Persian (from Bandarabbas) and had fun watching people not understanding a single word from...well Persian? (it's closer to ancient Persian than to new Persian lol) one of us started to speak balouchi , one of us spoke Azeri Turkish (her mom was from Tabriz) and we were basically just having fun , our teacher was happy we were happy... basically we were enjoying our differences .
Then guess what happened? Yep
Our fucking Pro-islamicRepublic student said why the fuck no one speaks ARABIC!? apparently she was sad that no one was speaking the prophet-Muhammad's native language.
That's why we say "jina" Amini / or khodanoor martyr of "balouchestan" .
They don't care about your identity .
(back in the day when islamic Republic response to the Persian gulf being called the Arab gulf was 'lets not fight we are all brothers! Let's call it ISLAMIC GULF' ... )
Continuing to sell our seas to Russia and China ?....
and they wonder why people avoid them?
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Dogs in Yellow Day
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Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
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Won’t You Wear a Sweater Day
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World Frog Day
World Head Injury Awareness Day
World NIDCAP Day
World Oral Health Day
World Rewinding Day
World Rights to Water Day
World Sparrow Day
Zipper Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Bock Beer Day (New York) [also 2nd Monday]
Crawfish Cravers Awareness Day
Macaron Day
National Ravioli Day
World Flour Day
3rd Wednesday in March
Engineer’s Day (Belgium; Netherlands) [3rd Wednesday]
Kick Butts Day [3rd Wednesday]
National Carry Out Day (a.k.a. Carry Out Wednesday) [3rd Wednesday]
National Dietician’s Day (Canada) [3rd Wednesday]
National SBDC Day [3rd Wednesday]
Small Business Development Day [3rd Wednesday]
Independence & Related Days
Blackland (a.k.a. Kingdom of Blackland; Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Conzorica (a.k.a. Federal Republics of Conzorica; Declared; 2014)
Kirkuk Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Otango Province Anniversary (New Zealand)
Qootärlænt (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Rezaxia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Tunisia (from France, 1956)
New Year’s Days
Baha’i New Year
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Bahá'í Naw-Rúz (Bahá'í)
Naruz (Afghan New Year)
Navruz (Tajikistan, Ukbekistan)
Norooz (Iran)
Novruz Bairam (a.k.a. Persian New Year; Azerbaijan)
Nowrūz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians; California)
Rosicrucian New Year
Festivals Beginning March 20, 2024
Jazz & Rhythms Festival (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico) [thru 3.24]
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (Melbourne, Australia) [thru 3.24]
National Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington, DC) [thru 4.14]
Trans-Siberian Art Festival (Novosibirsk, Russia) [thru 4.7]
Feast Days
Alexandra (Christian; Saint)
Apple Magic Day (For Norse Goddess Idunn; Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Big Bird (Muppetism)
Blessed John of Parma (Christian; Saint)
Clement of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint) [maltsters]
Day Sacred to the Goddess Fortuna, the Morrigan, the Norns, the Three Fates, and the Three Mothers (Lakshmi, Parvati, and Sarasvati)
Edward Poynter (Artology)
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of the Supreme Ritual (Thelema)
Festival For Driving Out All Evils (Inca)
Festival of Isis (Ancient Egypt)
George Caleb Bingham (Artology)
Henrik Ibsen (Writerism)
Herbert of Derwentwater (Christian; Saint)
John Lavery (Artology)
John of Nepomuk (Christian; Saint)
Józef Bilczewski (Christian; Saint)
María Josefa Sancho de Guerra (Christian; Saint)
Martin of Braga (Christian; Saint)
The Martyrs of Mar Saba (Christian; Martyrs)
Michele Carcano (Christian; Saint)
Philo of Alexandria (Positivist; Saint)
Photina and Her Companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Quinquatria, Day 2: Wrestling Day (Pagan)
Spring Harvest Festival (Ancient Egypt; Everyday Wicca)
Wulfram (Christian; Saint)
Xena Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Zagmuk (Festival celebrating the Resurrection of Marduk)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 79 [22 of 72]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [17 of 60]
Premieres
After Hours, by The Weekend (Album; 2020)
Armchair Apocrypha, by Andrew Bird (Album; 2007)
Avalanche is Better None or Snows You Old Man (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 33; 1960)
Back Off Boogaloo, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1972)
Basic Instinct (Film; 1992)
Below Zero Heroes or I Only Have Ice for You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 34; 1960)
The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot), by Aleister Crowley (Tarot Book; 1944)
Bosko’s Easter Eggs (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1937)
Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell (Album; 2000)
Cannibal Capers (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)
The Cats Bah (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
Dumb-Hounded (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1943)
Duplicity (Film; 2009)
Fractured Friendship (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1965)
Hollywood Shuffle (Film; 1987)
Hothouse, by Brian W. Aldiss (Novel; 1962)
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, by Sinead O’Connor (Album; 1990)
I Love You, Man (Film; 2009)
The Impossible Possum, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1954)
Insurgent (Film; 2015)
Knowing (Film; 2009)
Lady Chatterly’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1928)
Man of La Mancha (Broadway Musical; 1965)
Meet the Temptations, by The Temptations (Album; 1964)
Neptune Nonsense (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)
Newman Laugh-O-Grams (Disney Cartoon; 1921)
Noises Off (Film; 1992)
Off to China (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)
The Pink Panther (Film; 1964)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Film; 1981)
The Romance of Betty Boop (Animated TV Film; 1985)
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel; 1850)
Sham Battle Shenanigans (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
Straight, No Chaser, by Thelonious Monk (Album; 1967)
Symphony Hour (Disney Cartoon; 1942)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Film; 1988)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Novel; 1857)
Wacky Quacky (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)
What Price Fleadom (MGM Cartoon; 1948)
Wild Things (Film; 1998)
Ye Olde Songs, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)
Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel (Philosophy Book; 1948)
Zombeavers (Film; 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Claudia, Wolfram (Austria)
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Světlana (Czech Republic)
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Malve, Malvi, Malviine (Estonia)
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Story time!
So I had this teacher. Not gonna say her name, we'll call her Madame M.
So Madame M has had me as a student for three years. First as a French teacher, then history, and then anthropology. At the time I looked up to her a lot and talked to her a bunch outside of class (did not really have friends in class). I have also brought up the fact that I am Kurdish multiple times.
So one day she pulls me back before class starts and is like hey I wanna show the class a documentary, but I don't want to like offend you or your culture, and I'm like oh what is it about, and she's like bridal kidnappings. And I'm like. Are you sure? Because I. Think I'd know about this. If it were a thing. Like there is plenty worth discussing and criticizing in my culture and I am more than happy to discuss these things. But I don't think that's one of them. And she's like well it is, I would know, I've got a PhD :/. And I'm like okay Madame M I'm not trying to doubt your knowledge or intelligence but can I like. See the worksheet or something. And she goes sure. So I look at it.
And I'm like. Madame. Madame M that paper does NOT say Kurdish. And she stares at me blankly.
Madame. This paper says Kyrgyz. It says Kyrgyzstan. Not Kurdistan. Like I appreciate your concern but this is not where I'm from.
Her response? "I thought you were mispronouncing it."
She thought I was mispronouncing my own ethnicity, my own people, my own homeland, for three fucking years. Do I need to tell you that my prof is a westerner, and a white one at that?
Anyways, after telling her that respectfully, why would I be mispronouncing my own ethnicity, I laughed it off, and she proceeded to show the documentary.
Fast forward about 7 years later. My little brother is also taking Anthropology. He is in class, and his teacher is asking how many languages they speak. Brother raises his hand, he says three; Kurdish, English, and French. And she goes oh wow, that's a funny coincidence! We're actually going to watch a documentary about your people next week. And alarm bells start going off in him, because he KNOWS my story. So he asks.
"Is this about bridal kidnappings?"
His teacher asks how he knew, and he explains that something similar happened to his older sibling. He explains that he is Kurdish, not Kyrgyz, and the documentary in question is about Kyrgyzstan, not Kurdistan. Teacher gives a quick 'I got the two mixed up' and moves on.
When he comes home, he asks me, what school were you in when you were taking Anthropology? And I answer, same one you're in now. He asks what the prof's name was, and I tell her it's Madam M.
"No way. That's my prof too."
And so he tells me the story.
Like none of this is malicious or anything but it's nice to see after living down the embarrassment of a 16 year old calling you out like that, almost nothing has changed after 7 years. At least this time she didn't do the insulting "I thought you were mispronouncing it all this time" shit.
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I never had a friend like you, Syna. You're one in a million. You're indeed a precious little human being. Please, never change. Love the way you are. I'm sending you a lot of hugs and kisses. Remember that you have a friend in me 💚💙
Oh, and I haven't asked you this: "What does Syna means? Does it have a special meaning or something?"
Hope you will have an excellent day, butterfly! 🦋
Thanks for your kind words, sweetheart! You're a treasure 💕💕
Ok, about my name... Well, it's another name for Simorgh, which is a bird in Persian mythology and literature, that brings blessing and happiness 😊
But recently I found out that my name has different meanings in different languages. For example, it means princess in Greek and sky blue in Kurdish.
I was almost going to be Sophia (my grandpa really liked it) but my parents wanted my name to be a little more Persian, you know?
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🫶🏻💕 If you get this, answer with 3 random facts about yourself and send it to the last 7 blogs in your notifications, anonymously or not! Let's get to know the person behind the blog 🫶🏻💕
my lovely babe!!!!! i am so happy u want to know a bit more about me but LIKE I AM THE MOST BORING PERSON EVER lmaoooo but let’s seeeeee hmmm let me think
1. I speak multiple languages - English, Kurdish, Norwegian (which is why I will never understand the girlies being obsessed with Haaland😭😭😭 he speaks a Bryne dialect of Norwegian it IS LITERALLY SUCH A UGLY DIALECT yet here you guys are thirsting for this man like there’s no tomorrow CLEARLY you girlies have no idea how lucky u are not understanding his native tongue lmaooooo😂😂 half the time i need subtitles for that shit)
2. I love buying books!!! I absolutely love literature!!! I am in love with poetry!! You will never catch me reading a book unless it’s exam season tho🤡
3. Hmmmm, what else??? I am good at cooking, especially middle-eastern dishes, like my dolma is about catch fire any day now but i also really fucking hate iiiiiit!!! COOKING FOOD IS SINGLE-HANDEDLY THE MOST ANNOYING TASK POSSIBLE ON THE PLANET!! It annoys me to no end despite the fact that i get praised for my food lol i hate doing dishes afterwards when i move out of my mommas house i am buying paper plates u ain’t never gonna find silverware and china in my house NO SIR we dine like it’s the local kebab shop
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Holidays 3.20
Holidays
Alien Abduction Day
American Diabetes Association Alert Day
Atheist Pride Day [also 6.20]
Bibliomania Day
Big Bird Day
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Day
Culture Day and Creative Intelligentsia Day (Tajikistan)
Dibber Day (French Republic)
Dogs in Yellow Day
Durham Day (UK)
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
Festival of Extraterrestrial Abductions
French Language Day (a.k.a. International Francophonie Day; UN)
Ghode Jatra (Horse Festival; Nepal)
Global Message Makes Me Happy & Healthy Day
Great British Spring Clean Day (UK)
Hufflepuff Pride Day
International Astrology Day
International Day of Happiness (UN)
International Francophonie Day
Kiss Your Fiancé Day
Lajos Kossuth Day (Hungary)
Legba Zaou (Haiti)
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Awareness Day
Macaron Day NYC
Mesopotamian/Sumerian Grain Festival (Honoring Ashnan)
Minion Day (Japan)
Mister Rogers Day
National Arts Advocacy Day
National Backyard Bird Photography Day
National Cherry Blossom Festival begins (Washington DC)
National Day of Italian Universities Day (Italy)
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Jump Out! Day
National Marketing Day
National Plagiocephaly & Torticollis Awareness Day
National Vanessa Day
National Westie Day
Oil Nationalization Day (Iran)
Pigeons Return to City-County Building (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)
P320 Day
Smile Rejuvenation Day
Very Hungary Caterpillar Day
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Day
Won’t You Wear a Sweater Day
World Behavior Analysis Day
World Day of Theater for Children and Young People
World Frog Day
World Head Injury Awareness Day
World NIDCAP Day
World Oral Health Day
World Rewinding Day
World Rights to Water Day
World Sparrow Day
Zipper Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Bock Beer Day (New York) [also 2nd Monday]
Crawfish Cravers Awareness Day
Macaron Day
National Ravioli Day
World Flour Day
3rd Wednesday in March
Engineer’s Day (Belgium; Netherlands) [3rd Wednesday]
Kick Butts Day [3rd Wednesday]
National Carry Out Day (a.k.a. Carry Out Wednesday) [3rd Wednesday]
National Dietician’s Day (Canada) [3rd Wednesday]
National SBDC Day [3rd Wednesday]
Small Business Development Day [3rd Wednesday]
Independence & Related Days
Blackland (a.k.a. Kingdom of Blackland; Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Conzorica (a.k.a. Federal Republics of Conzorica; Declared; 2014)
Kirkuk Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Otango Province Anniversary (New Zealand)
Qootärlænt (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Rezaxia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Tunisia (from France, 1956)
New Year’s Days
Baha’i New Year
Nowruz (New Year) [Day 1, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...
Bahá'í Naw-Rúz (Bahá'í)
Naruz (Afghan New Year)
Navruz (Tajikistan, Ukbekistan)
Norooz (Iran)
Novruz Bairam (a.k.a. Persian New Year; Azerbaijan)
Nowrūz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians; California)
Rosicrucian New Year
Festivals Beginning March 20, 2024
Jazz & Rhythms Festival (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico) [thru 3.24]
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (Melbourne, Australia) [thru 3.24]
National Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington, DC) [thru 4.14]
Trans-Siberian Art Festival (Novosibirsk, Russia) [thru 4.7]
Feast Days
Alexandra (Christian; Saint)
Apple Magic Day (For Norse Goddess Idunn; Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Big Bird (Muppetism)
Blessed John of Parma (Christian; Saint)
Clement of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint) [maltsters]
Day Sacred to the Goddess Fortuna, the Morrigan, the Norns, the Three Fates, and the Three Mothers (Lakshmi, Parvati, and Sarasvati)
Edward Poynter (Artology)
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of the Supreme Ritual (Thelema)
Festival For Driving Out All Evils (Inca)
Festival of Isis (Ancient Egypt)
George Caleb Bingham (Artology)
Henrik Ibsen (Writerism)
Herbert of Derwentwater (Christian; Saint)
John Lavery (Artology)
John of Nepomuk (Christian; Saint)
Józef Bilczewski (Christian; Saint)
María Josefa Sancho de Guerra (Christian; Saint)
Martin of Braga (Christian; Saint)
The Martyrs of Mar Saba (Christian; Martyrs)
Michele Carcano (Christian; Saint)
Philo of Alexandria (Positivist; Saint)
Photina and Her Companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Quinquatria, Day 2: Wrestling Day (Pagan)
Spring Harvest Festival (Ancient Egypt; Everyday Wicca)
Wulfram (Christian; Saint)
Xena Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Zagmuk (Festival celebrating the Resurrection of Marduk)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 79 [22 of 72]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [17 of 60]
Premieres
After Hours, by The Weekend (Album; 2020)
Armchair Apocrypha, by Andrew Bird (Album; 2007)
Avalanche is Better None or Snows You Old Man (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 33; 1960)
Back Off Boogaloo, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1972)
Basic Instinct (Film; 1992)
Below Zero Heroes or I Only Have Ice for You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 34; 1960)
The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot), by Aleister Crowley (Tarot Book; 1944)
Bosko’s Easter Eggs (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1937)
Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell (Album; 2000)
Cannibal Capers (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)
The Cats Bah (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
Dumb-Hounded (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1943)
Duplicity (Film; 2009)
Fractured Friendship (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1965)
Hollywood Shuffle (Film; 1987)
Hothouse, by Brian W. Aldiss (Novel; 1962)
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, by Sinead O’Connor (Album; 1990)
I Love You, Man (Film; 2009)
The Impossible Possum, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1954)
Insurgent (Film; 2015)
Knowing (Film; 2009)
Lady Chatterly’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1928)
Man of La Mancha (Broadway Musical; 1965)
Meet the Temptations, by The Temptations (Album; 1964)
Neptune Nonsense (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)
Newman Laugh-O-Grams (Disney Cartoon; 1921)
Noises Off (Film; 1992)
Off to China (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)
The Pink Panther (Film; 1964)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Film; 1981)
The Romance of Betty Boop (Animated TV Film; 1985)
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel; 1850)
Sham Battle Shenanigans (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
Straight, No Chaser, by Thelonious Monk (Album; 1967)
Symphony Hour (Disney Cartoon; 1942)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Film; 1988)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Novel; 1857)
Wacky Quacky (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)
What Price Fleadom (MGM Cartoon; 1948)
Wild Things (Film; 1998)
Ye Olde Songs, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)
Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel (Philosophy Book; 1948)
Zombeavers (Film; 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Claudia, Wolfram (Austria)
Ivan, Nicet, Pavao (Croatia)
Světlana (Czech Republic)
Gordius (Denmark)
Malve, Malvi, Malviine (Estonia)
Aki, Jaakkima, Joakim, Jooa, Kim, Kimi (Finland)
Herbert, Printemps (France)
Claudia, Wolfram (Germany)
Claudia, Rodi, Rodianos (Greece)
Klaudia (Hungary)
Alessandra,, Claudia (Italy)
Irbe, Made, Magda, Magdalēna (Latvia)
Filomenas, Imgarda, Irma, Tautvilė, Žygimantas (Lithuania)
Joakim, Kim (Norway)
Aleksander, Aleksandra, Ambroży, Anatol, Bogusław, Cyriaka, Eufemia, Klaudia, Patrycjusz, Ruprecht, Wasyl, Wincenty (Poland)
Víťazoslav (Slovakia)
Alejandra, Daniel, Martín (Spain)
Joakim, Kim (Sweden)
Dillan, Dillion, Dillon, Drew, Dru, Dylan, Dylon (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 80 of 2024; 286 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 12 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 4 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 11 (Guy-Wei)
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Season: Spring (Day 2 of 92)
Week: 3rd Week of March
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I put some of the greatest love songs into Google Translate and the results were... interesting.
To get one thing out of the way, not everyone likes Valentine's Day. Some people are broke, some people are alone and some people see it as a moneymaking marketing scheme to play on your emotions. Damn you, capitalism! Curse you for making me feel bad if I don't spend my hard-earned money on expensive flowers that will die five days after I purchase them!
There's one thing I like about Valentine's Day though. We get to dig out those cheesy, lovey-dovey hits. The rock ballads, the pining sonnets, oh the songs of affection and romance and... love. Ick.
I could've dived into what makes Dolly Parton's I Will Always Love You a good song, but does anyone actually care? We need cheering up. You shouldn't take love so seriously. So I didn't.
I put a handful of everyone's favourite love songs and threw them into the messy blender that is Google Translate. And while they were in there, they were massacred. Slaughtered. Murdered. I'm guilty of murder here, folks. The things I do for love? I digress.
‘God Only Knows’ by the Beach Boys
I put Brian Wilson's masterpiece through a translation of English to French, then to Spanish, to Japanese, to German, to Russian, to Malay, to Italian, to Japanese again and then back to English.
Shushing and psychopathic laughter ensues!
'She Loves You' by the Beatles
I dragged 'She Loves You' through to traditional Chinese, to Korean, to Vietnamese, then to simplified Chinese, then grounded it in Welsh. This was the final English result.
Still a sweet love song. Sounds a little antagonistic now though... YOU KNOW YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY, RIGHT?!
''Woman in Love' by Barbra Streisand
Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees famously penned this beautiful song for Barbra Streisand, and it became one of the most successful hits of her career. Let's see if it's still beautiful after suffering through Russian, to Polish, to Hungarian, to Ukrainian, to Mongolian, to Norwegian and finally, Dutch and English.
We think... holistically. Okay, Barbra.
'My Girl' by The Temptations
'My Girl' has been covered and re-recorded by lots of different artists over the years, from Otis Redding to The Rolling Stones; it is a timeless take on devotion and admiration. Ah who cares, let's translate it to Azerbaijani, to Lithuanian, to Romanian, to Estonian, to Punjabi, to Urdu, to Bengali and see what happens.
This was the best one. Some classic lines here. He ate the sun. Bye bye uncle! I'm not sure how the translation got so confused between family dynamics but I am very grateful.
'My Heart Will Go On' by Celine Dion
Titanic made millions at the box office, and this song is most associated with the perilous, doomed love story of Jack and Rose. And just like the ship, this song goes down very fast... translated from Bengali, to Urdu, to Arabic, to Sepedi, to Yoruba, to Samoan, to Kurdish, and finally to its native English...
I'm not sure why, but it sounds very argumentative. I opened the door again... IT'S IN MY HEART!! NO!!
'Make You Feel My Love' by Adele (Bob Dylan)
Adele's hit rendition of 'Make You Feel My Love' became a stepping stone to her almost endless curriculum vitae of modern love songs. She can thank the breezy, loving lyricism of Bob Dylan - the dying honesty of his words is what makes the song so emotional to listen to. I was curious but also worried to see how lost this one could get in translation, since the language is very transcendent and grounded. Anyway, here it is translated roughly seven times through Basque, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Portuguese, Romanian, Urdu and Hindi. Also bit of Yiddish for good measure.
I personally like the anticlimax at the end - I will, actually, do nothing.
'Your Song' by Elton John
Elton John's simple love song is in actuality one of his most popular, successful and recognisable pieces of music in his discography. So there must be some sort of redemption for these lyrics in Google Translate, right? RIGHT? Let's find out. I translated the song through around ten times, from Icelandic to Macedonian, Punjabi to Arabic, to both simplified and traditional Chinese, to Japanese, then to Arabic again, then to both forms of Chinese again.
I do like how it becomes less about the girl and more about living in the countryside. Maybe he was put off by the idea that she was stealing things from the street.
There we are! God, what a cesspool. What have I created?
Anyway, I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day and got spoilt rotten. This was just for a bit of fun, though I spent an embarrassingly long amount of time trying to get Google to operate with non-sensical mish-mashes of the English language...
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Chapter 4: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The next day, Tuesday, we were supposed to go meet the Prime Minister of the KRG. Jack and I played hooky from this and instead wanted to explore the bazaar in the “real Erbil”. We wanted to experience breakfast outside the hotel, and really dive into this old part of town. So, Jessica, Dilan, and Natasha (friends of Azad’s) took us first to a local breakfast spot where they ordered up naan, cheese, yogurt, etc. and we set at a little table in an offshoot area of the market. Now this was diving in! Not only did Jessica, Dilan and Natasha order breakfast, but they paid for it, over our protestations. You’re our guest, they said. These 3 ladies were such incredible guides and hostesses, I am forever grateful to them how they revealed the essence of this city. By the end of the week they too would be my Kurdish sisters.
It was so fun to be where the locals were. We walked around the bazaar, bought some manna from heaven, a pistachio, white candy, and had fun with the vendors. I loved it when we would pass a stall, and one of the gals would say “you must taste this” or, “these chickens on the rotisserie are the best”, or “here they have the best pickled vegetables you’ve ever had". (Evidently they pickle all their vegetables and it’s very popular). We loved hearing about their lives here too. There is one 24/7 restaurant called Pacha. The Pacha market serves a serious protein concoction of organ meats, liver, etc., and it’s Azad‘s favorite place. They actually took him for his birthday there at 4 AM, their busiest time! It sounds gross to me but supposedly it’s really good. In our anticipation and excitement, we said, yeah, let’s go there tomorrow! 5 AM! Yeah! At the time we thought we could do everything…
The bazaar, to locals, is an area, not just the covered stalls. Jessica showed it all to us, and we walked around for hours. There’s the beautiful fruit and nut section you see in the photos of Erbil, and I loved all that, but the most fascinating part to me was the parts section. In Erbil, you fix everything, you don’t throw it away. For example, her Vitamix broke, and she brought it to this section of the market and they fixed the motor for four dollars. We walked past stalls with just computer boards, thousands of computer boards. Another stall had old TVs. All those flatscreen TVs that we throw away? – they fix ‘em. Stalls with motors, all kinds of motors, fans, equipment parts and pieces and I didn’t know what they were, but if you had any handyman in you, this was your heaven on earth. I also love that they try and fix everything before throwing it away.
Another street – I’ll call it the housewares street, had the biggest aluminum soup pots you have ever seen. You could literally fit a person in one of these pots! Jessica said she might have to come back and get one of these bigger pots for her refugee camp, an NGO she and her husband run. NOTE: she would want the pot for food, not to put a person in.
There were two great things about walking around the bazaar, which is a huge area. One is we crossed over from apprehension to totally comfortable. We felt safe and secure after this day of mingling with the people of Erbil. While the armed guard at the hotel may have caused us concern, it was the actual people themselves that erased that concern and put us totally at ease. Jack said he felt that if any bad actor, say, tried to kidnap you here, 500 men would stop them.
The other fun aspect was my attempt to communicate in Sorani with the locals. I had been speaking the little Sorani I had learned in the days prior, while in the official meetings. When I would say to them in Sorani “Hello, my name is Ann, it’s so nice to meet you, we are so happy to be here, thank you for your hospitality,” their eyes would light up. They absolutely loved it, and I could tell by their reaction how much they appreciated my efforts. Visitors to Erbil typically don’t try to learn their language, evidently. We just expect them to learn ours. They so appreciated that I had taken the time to learn just a little, and they were so graceful because I know I messed up many, many times, and probably said some crazy things! For example, the phrase “This was so nice“ sounds almost exactly like “We were so nice“, haha. I am so very sure I said “We are so nice” to whomever had just hosted me instead of “This is so nice”! But, I would always follow up that phrase with “Thank you for your hospitality“ in case I screwed up. The bottom line is a little bit of effort on my part went a long way. In fact, there were several times when we were trying to communicate, and the Americans actually asked me to help communicate with someone who spoke zero English. And it worked!
We stopped and had tea with Jessica, and it was wonderful and fascinating to hear about her life in Erbil and the daily intricacies. The power goes out several times a day for maybe a minute or so. Her 5 kids yell, “power’s out!” each and every time. When it happened to us later, we looked at her and said, “power’s out!”. You have to drink bottled water. I think she said that dysentery was quite common. Many of the women get nose jobs. Most of the women have their babies by scheduled C-section for various reasons. (Jessica had all five of hers naturally, in a pool of water). Many of the taxi drivers are retired Peshmerga or retired Asaiid security forces. There are cameras everywhere, so people know bad actors. Peshmerga checkposts are dotted throughout the countryside, trying to keep ISIS from threatening them again, as they did in 2014. In her refugee work, she said, most of the adults devolve into an entitlement mentality, with zero gratitude for their efforts, but she keeps plugging away because she’s doing it for the refugee children, who have no other options. She makes her own essential oils, and is what I would call a true granola girl. She said she does have trouble finding pure Shea butter, which confused me because I thought we were experiencing purity in all of the products… OK maybe my Pollyanna view is skewed a bit.
And at this point, I have to discuss the bathrooms. Skip this paragraph if you don’t want to hear about this. Basically the bathrooms are a squatty potty with a hose to spray yourself off, so the floors are totally wet. Even the nicest restaurants may not have a western toilet. You would flush the squatty potty, but you had to remember to take toilet paper with you in many instances. We were always “relieved“ when we saw one of the stalls was indeed a western toilet. For the life of me, I don’t understand, healthwise, why you wouldn’t choose toilets over a spray. Might cut down on the dysentery problem.
That afternoon we caught up with the rest of the Sister Cities folks at the bazaar. Three of us girls all had custom dresses made with fabric from the one of the stalls. Our “local team“ was there with us at all times to help, because the tailor spoke zero English. I mentioned Jack ordered his shirts, and they came out really nice… But my dress is kind of a mess and not at all what I requested. The women wear their clothes so huge, that the tailor wasn’t even going to put a zipper in! And even though I described how fitted I wanted it, well in the end he added about 6 inches on each side! Guess he’s not used to making form fitting women’s dresses. Oh, well… I’ll have to have it re-made here in Nashville.
Another must-see in Erbil is the Jalil Khayat Mosque. Here you had to wear a head covering. Beautiful structure and there is no way a camera can capture it’s beauty, but we tried. We had to run in and out real quickly because they had just issued the “call to prayer” so their service would start soon.
Dinner that night was at a local’s home in “new” Erbil. It was set up by Kanaan, an elected representative who’d come to Nashville last summer, whom we all remember as the handsome guy who sang a Kurdish song at Becky Sharpe’s reception at her home. He is a rising star politically with the KRG (Kurdish Regional Government). We were in a really nice residential area of gorgeous, huge homes, and the street scene is what I imagine Dubai nightlife to be: upscale cafés, bustling activity, festoon -lit restaurants, a typical cosmopolitan international city. We didn’t go into any of these cafés or bars, but it was indicative of the two Erbils: old and new. We’ve been at the old one all day, now we were at the new.
Our hosts were a young family, Naz and her husband, a doctor. Naz was a small woman, juggling a toddler and a five-year-old. She also worked as a banker, and I gathered quickly that she was from a well to do family. We ended up sitting together at dinner, and she came across as a tiny dynamo. I told her the biggest obstacle, in my humble opinion, to the Sister Cities exchanges and a developing relationship was the media portrayal of Iraq over the past 25 years. Of course, Kurdistan is not Iraq, culturally, but most people don’t know that. So, I told her, to me, the media is our problem. She said “well, maybe it’s time for a PR campaign“. I knew right then and there that this lady is a problem solver and she has or can access the resources to get things done.
I think I made a big faux pas, though. The live music started, they had a famous Kurdish singer, and the music they were playing just beckoned for dancing. The Kurdish dancing is really just a big circle. You join hands and do a simple step advancing the circle. Kurdish line dancing, if you will. I tapped Naz on the shoulder and said, let’s get this dance going, we started a dance for about 15 seconds before she was told to sit down.. Not sure why, but I sat down too. Later, Omid, my personal pesh, started the dance, and we all joined in. (Naz did not, interestingly.) It went on for 30 to 45 minutes, the longest song I’ve ever heard! The governor and Kanaan and the Kurdish gals and a few of us Americans participated. It was really fun.
Naz gave us books by her father. I have no clue what it says, but anticipate it to be a pretty serious work. I thanked her profusely in Sorani. I had brought hostess gifts from Nashville, hemstitched cocktail napkins (or tea napkins if you’re in Iraq), embroidered with Tennessee flowers. But tonight I’d given my hostess gift to the wrong host – Kanaan‘s wife! Another faux pas on my part, and another hostess gift I’ll need to send out when I get home.
Jack estimates the homes in this area to be $25 million. But, the bathroom situation? You got it, a squatty potty from what he saw. (of course he didn’t see the whole house.)
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about mohsen pymani
Also, he has recently unveiled his new business, which we will introduce to you in the following, it is interesting for you to know that Mohsen Peymani was the previous owner of the same website, Biographies, but for some reason, he transferred its ownership to one of his closest friends. He is Kurdish and is no longer responsible for this website. In the future, Mohsen writes about his life from childhood and his interest in this field with his own pen, may it be a light for those who want to work in this field.
Childhood and the creation of computer mentalization
I was born in one of the cities of Isfahan, I was born in 1378. I remember at that time people who were well off had a color TV, my father's grandmother also had a color TV, and I remember at that time one of Mehdi Fakhimzadeh's series was aired called Khab and Wake up, I don't know if you have seen this movie or not, but there are some places where work on the computer and these things is killing me, and for me it was the first mental image that I told myself that I should become a professional in this field, I grew up and grew up until Hosh Siah series has come, there is a 99% probability that you have seen this series, every child like me will fall in love with entering the field of computers if you see it. You can find and follow Mohsen Peymani's main Instagram page by Googling the word Mohsen Peymani.
Start with a laptop and dial-up internet
This interest increased day by day in me, it became so much that my dear father, may his soul be happy, took a lot of effort to buy me a Dell laptop, at that time Dell laptop was a god unto itself and it supported all the games, but I want to It wasn't a game. I wanted to work in this field to grow up and learn. Fortunately, you people in the 80s and 70s have very easy access to the Internet these days. I'm not saying that the speed is good, but I'll tell you that it sucks. In the 70s and 60s, we had to buy an internet card to be able to access it. To access the Internet at the lowest speed, Google was very slow at that time and the sites were not as widespread as these days, but the Learn site was active at that time and I learned web markup languages from there, they helped me a lot.
Creating the first blog and activity
When I was in the fourth grade, I had a teacher who was writing an essay and said, "You write essays very well and you will become a great writer in the future. At that time, I started a blog in Lux Blog, which had a lot of cool features for a blog, and an IR domain that was 2 thousand at that time. It was Toman, I connected to him, in this blog I wrote only out of love for God, I still love God, let's move on, that time was not like now, buy reports, buy backlinks, we used to exchange links and many messages were sent to me. In order to exchange links, and I accepted and we exchanged about 150 links, remember that I had also put a song on the blog and changed it every week, these days I miss those days strangely, do you know why? Because backlinks and reports could not be bought, it was friendship…
To Soroush State University of Isfahan
May God have mercy on Mr. Kamali, the teacher of the first grade of middle school, he always told Mohsen, whatever you are interested in, go for it, you will definitely succeed. After high school and getting a diploma, I studied for the computer entrance exam, and thank God, because I was interested, I joined the government of Isfahan, I went for 2 years until Corona came and I didn't continue because, to be honest, they didn't teach me anything that would be useful, I didn't feel like arguing with the professor, I became careless and I passed the fellowship, I don't know if it will work or not, but maybe I will continue my studies until I get a doctorate. I gave …
Opening of Peymani Academy and purchase of biographies
When I was a student, I was very interested in WordPress, I sat down and bought a course, and I had something to say. In the summer, when the university semester ended, I went to work in Taleghani Bazaar in Isfahan. I was working on a website selling laptops, well, to be honest, the salary was low, I remember in 1994 they used to pay me 20,000 a day, but this 20,000 was not enough for gas. I bought the website, i.e. biographies, from a woman and I worked on it, I worked with love, and thank God, the income was good through backlinks and reporting, and it covers my single expenses. And thank God, I got a few projects and did them. Also, during my student days, I wrote the book Be a Wolf, which you can read if you like ♥
A friendly word with you
My dear friend, thank you for taking the time to read my work biography. I am too young to give you advice and I don't, but I want to tell you something that whatever you are interested in in life, go for it, let them talk behind your back, but Well, it's beautiful, the money you earn from your own business is much better than being an employee and being beaten, but you have to work hard for your business, it's not really easy, but I know you, even though I haven't seen you, I know you can do it. And you will be able to do it, as many people were able to do, why can't you? You will have a hard time, but it is beautiful for you, if you have any questions related to this article that you read about Mohsen Peymani's work life, write in the comments section of this page.
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It’s Kurdish Language Day today. A language that has been banned & criminalised, is denied any public infrastructure like mother tongue education in schools, is invisible in all curricula, and can only be studied from below in self-organised classes.
Keeping Kurdish alive, in music, literature, private classes, media, academia (and all of this self-organised, from below and in the realms of agency of a non-state nation under constant attack), in itself is an act of anti-colonial resistance.
This day, also a big thank you to all Kurdish teachers out there volunteering and dedicating their time and efforts to disseminate a criminalised and de facto banned language, to fight back the states sponsored loss of identity.
Rosa Burç via Twitter
#cejna zimanê kurdî pîroz be#happy kurdish language day#kurdish#a min#may 15th#cejna zimanê kurdî#zimanê kurdî#kurdî#kurmancî#kurmanci#kurmanji#soranî#sorani#zazakî#kirmanckî#zazaki#kirmancki#hewramî#hewrami
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Happy Kurdish Language Day!
Spas! 💖
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Holidays 3.20
Holidays
Alien Abduction Day
American Diabetes Association Alert Day
Atheist Pride Day [also 6.20]
Bibliomania Day
Big Bird Day
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Day
Dietitians Day (Canada)
Dogs in Yellow Day
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
Festival of Extraterrestrial Abductions
First Day of Spring [Vernal Equinox, Northern Hemisphere] (a.k.a. …
Akitu Festival begins (Ancient Sumeria)
Alban Eiler (a.k.a. Ostara; Celtic, Pagan) [2 of 8 Festivals of the Natural Year]
Bed in For Peace Day
Chunfen (China)
Dísablót (Honoring the ancient Norse Goddess Dís)
Earth Equinox Day
Festival of Dumuzi (Return of god of life & death to be with goddess of life which brings the Spring; Sumerian)
Festival of Iduna (Goddess of Spring, Keeper of the Apples of Youth; Norse)
Fragrance and Flower Day
Free Cone Day (Dairy Queen)
Great American Meatout Day
Haru-no-Higan (Japanese Buddhist)
Harvest Festival and Coming Forth of the Great Ones from the House of Ra (Ancient Egypt)
Higan (Japan)
International Astrology Day
International Earth Day
Jare (Old Slavic)
Kōreisai (Japan)
Kuulcan Snake God in Chicken Itza (Yucatan)
Mabon (Old Anglo-Teutonic)
Maslenitsa (Asatru/Slavic Pagan)
Méan Earraigh (Pagan)
New Year's Day (a.k.a. Equinox of the Gods; Thelema)
Ostara (Wiccan Fire Fertility Festival)
Pacha Pucuy (Earth Ripening; Ancient Inca)
Passaround (The Season of Fertility; Church of the SubGenius)
Plant a Seed Day
Proposal Day
Shunbun no Hi (Japan)
Snowman Burning Day
Summer-Finding (Asatru)
Sun-Earth Day
Taoist Festival of Shen (Water, East & Spring)
Vernal Equinox
World Storytelling Day
French Language Day (a.k.a. International Francophonie Day; UN)
Ghode Jatra (Horse Festival; Nepal)
Great British Spring Clean Day (UK)
Hufflepuff Pride Day
International Day of Happiness (UN)
International Francophonie Day
Kiss Your Fiancé Day
Lajos Kossuth Day (Hungary)
Legba Zaou (Haiti)
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Awareness Day
Macaron Day NYC
Mesopotamian/Sumerian Grain Festival (Honoring Ashnan)
Mister Rogers Day
National Arts Advocacy Day
National Backyard Bird Photography Day
National Cherry Blossom Festival begins (Washington DC)
National NativeHIV/AIDS Awareness Day
National Jump Out! Day
National Marketing Day
National Vanessa Day
National Westie Day
Nowruz (New Year) [Day 1, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...
Bahá'í Naw-Rúz (Bahá'í)
Naruz (Afghan New Year)
Navruz (Tajikistan, Ukbekistan)
Novruz Bairam (a.k.a. Persian New Year; Azerbaijan)
Nowrūz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians; California)
Oil Nationalization Day (Iran)
Pigeons Return to City-County Building (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)
Smile Rejuvenation Day
Very Hungary Caterpillar Day
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Day
World Behavior Analysis Day
World Day of Theater for Children and Young People
World Frog Day
World Head Injury Awareness Day
World NIDCAP Day
World Oral Health Day
World Rewinding Day
World Rights to Water Day
World Sparrow Day
Zipper Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
Bock Beer Day (New York) [also 2nd Monday]
Crawfish Cravers Awareness Day
Macaron Day
National Ravioli Day
Oberon Day (Bell’s Brewing)
World Flour Day
3rd Monday in March
Act Happy Day [3rd Monday]
Benito Juarez Fiestas Patrias (Mexico) [3rd Monday]
Dangerous Dan's Annual Coffee Cup Washing Day [3rd Monday]
Dribble to Work Day [3rd Monday]
Wellderly Day [3rd Monday]
World Folk Tale and Fable Day [3rd Monday]
Independence Days
Blackland (a.k.a. Kingdom of Blackland; Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Conzorica (a.k.a. Federal Republics of Conzorica; Declared; 2014)
Otango Province Anniversary (New Zealand)
Qootärlænt (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Rezaxia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Tunisia (from France, 1956)
Feast Days
Alexandra (Christian; Saint)
Big Bird (Muppetism)
Blessed John of Parma (Christian; Saint)
Clement of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint) [maltsters]
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of the Supreme Ritual (Thelema)
Festival For Driving Out All Evils (Inca)
Festival of Isis (Ancient Egypt)
Herbert of Derwentwater (Christian; Saint)
John of Nepomuk (Christian; Saint)
Józef Bilczewski (Christian; Saint)
María Josefa Sancho de Guerra (Christian; Saint)
Martin of Braga (Christian; Saint)
Michele Carcano (Christian; Saint)
Philo of Alexandria (Positivist; Saint)
Quinquatria, Day 2: Wrestling Day (Pagan)
Vernal Equinox Festivals [see “First Day of Spring” above]
Wulfram (Christian; Saint)
Xena Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Zagmuk (Festival celebrating the Resurrection of Marduk)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 79 [22 of 72]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [17 of 60]
Premieres
After Hours, by The Weekend (Album; 2020)
Back Off Boogaloo, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1972)
Basic Instinct (Film; 1992)
Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell (Album; 2000)
Duplicity (Film; 2009)
Hollywood Shuffle (Film; 1987)
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, by Sinead O’Connor (Album; 1990)
I Love You, Man (Film; 2009)
Insurgent (Film; 2015)
Knowing (Film; 2009)
Lady Chatterly’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1928)
Man of La Mancha (Broadway Musical; 1965)
Meet the Temptations, by The Temptations (Album; 1964)
Newman Laugh-O-Grams (Disney Cartoon; 1921)
Noises Off (Film; 1992)
The Pink Panther (Film; 1964)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Film; 1981)
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel; 1850)
Straight, No Chaser, by Thelonious Monk (Album; 1967)
Symphony Hour (Disney Cartoon; 1942)
Wild Things (Film; 1998)
Zombeavers (Film; 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Claudia, Wolfram (Austria)
Ivan, Nicet, Pavao (Croatia)
Světlana (Czech Republic)
Gordius (Denmark)
Malve, Malvi, Malviine (Estonia)
Aki, Jaakkima, Joakim, Jooa, Kim, Kimi (Finland)
Herbert, Printemps (France)
Claudia, Wolfram (Germany)
Claudia, Rodi, Rodianos (Greece)
Klaudia (Hungary)
Alessandra,, Claudia (Italy)
Irbe, Made, Magda, Magdalēna (Latvia)
Filomenas, Imgarda, Irma, Tautvilė, Žygimantas (Lithuania)
Joakim, Kim (Norway)
Aleksander, Aleksandra, Ambroży, Anatol, Bogusław, Cyriaka, Eufemia, Klaudia, Patrycjusz, Ruprecht, Wasyl, Wincenty (Poland)
Víťazoslav (Slovakia)
Alejandra, Daniel, Martín (Spain)
Joakim, Kim (Sweden)
Dillan, Dillion, Dillon, Drew, Dru, Dylan, Dylon (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 79 of 2023; 286 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 12 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 2 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Yi-Mao), Day 29 (Ding-Chou)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 27 Adar 5783
Islamic: 27 Sha’ban 1444
J Cal: 18 Ver; Foursday [18 of 30]
Julian: 7 March 2023
Moon: 1.5%: Waning Crescent
Positivist: 23 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Philo of Alexandria]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 10 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 1 of 90)
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 29 of 29)
Calendar Changes
Spring [Season 2 of 4]
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The Myth of French Stereotypes
The insufferable Champs-Élysées
Whether we have had the good fortune to visit France or not, most of us will have some preconceived notion about French people in our heads. You might think of the French as any combination of romantic, lazy, fashionable, rude, or arrogant. You might know that Paris is a city of unparalleled beauty, and that the French take food and their cuisine very seriously.
Based on what you’ve heard from your travelling friends or from comedians around the world, would you have ever thought of the French as incredibly generous, hospitable, and nice?
If we’re being honest with ourselves, probably not. However, in my personal experiences, the French have been unconditionally friendly, charming, and immensely kind. I have had the good fortune to visit France twice, once in 2014 and a year later in 2015. I’ve only seen Annecy once and Paris twice, but I knew that I loved France.
On this one street was a French bakery, Indian restaurant, shawarma shack, foreign grocery, and Kurdish sandwich shop among other establishments.
Everyone I spoke to with the exception of one stressed out waiter spoke to me in French and were incredibly kind and friendly. All the stories I had heard and the fears of my French not being good enough were washed away after just two days in France. Everywhere I went, staff and local citizens treated me like one of their own. I couldn’t understand it. Was I simply an outlier in the Paris experience?
I would argue no. Instead, I would argue that far too many tourists are the problem and the myth of French stereotypes stem from this. Though I love France, I have a love-hate relationship with Paris. I quickly came to see the Parisian view of tourists and their city thanks my Parisian friend Xavier and any locals who were happy to regale me with stories over pints of French beer or glasses of fine wine. This is what I learned from them and my own interactions with fellow tourists...
Tourists don’t come to see Paris. They come to be in Paris.
Stop and think about it. For many, Paris is a once in a lifetime trip, so you’re going to see all the places tourists visit. You want to cram in everything and post it on social media to prove you were there and having a good time. Most tourists are not in Paris for a local Parisian experience. They want to visit the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Champs-Élysées, the Moulin Rouge and Montmartre. They are physically in the city of Paris, but they aren’t truly experiencing it.
Now put yourself in the mind of a Parisian. You are a local in one of the world’s most travelled cities, renowned for its fashion, food, and language. There is a certain pride of place. And then millions and millions of tourists claim vast areas of your city and remain ignorant of it as a whole. They are shocked by all the French, and have done zero research into local culture and customs. They demand the familiar junk food of home while mocking dishes such as escargot. If you had to face this day after day and year after year, wouldn’t you become cold and rude to a certain extent?
To hear the French talk about it, Montmartre was once a quaint corner of the city for artists and artisans. It was tranquil during the day, and came alive in the warm glow of the street lanterns at night. A place of bohemians, sinful indulgences, and meagre lives all rolled into one eclectic neighbourhood upon a hill in one of the most glorious cities on Earth.
To see Montmartre in person is to be swallowed by a slow-moving sea of tourists and tour groups. If it’s not a sex shop, it’s a souvenir shop and everyone is trying to make a quick buck off the millions of ignorant and awe-struck tourists that come to this part of town. There are more signs in English than there are in French. Everything is overpriced because the tourists don’t know better; they just know they want to be in Montmartre because they’ve heard of it before and saw a movie or two that mentioned it.
That’s why Parisians are rude and don’t like ‘you’ or care about ‘you’. ‘You’, the visible reminder of millions of tourists, have taken a piece of their city from them. You may be a good person, and probably loved the trip and wanted to get an idea of Paris, but you are yet another reminder of what has happened.
I’m lucky. I apparently speak decent enough French that I’m not spoken to in English. And though many try, a handful of French language lessons will only get you so far. Many French people are bilingual, having taken several years of English classes at school. They’re speaking English to you to speed things along, to help you feel more comfortable, and to make sure there’s no miscommunication. There’s nothing rude in that.
The first time I went to Paris, I saw and did all the touristy stuff because I wasn’t sure if I would ever return. I kind of hated that part of the trip. The second time, I did my own thing and got to know Paris. The REAL Paris. I loved it. Parisians helped me out with that because I expressed a desire to know the real Paris. I didn’t want brunch on the Seine, I wanted to go where French millennials go for concerts, art galleries, and hangover cures. I wanted to see the modern and multicultural face of Paris, not the staid Champs and Tuileries.
Simply by learning their language and expressing an interest to see and experience the city the way they see it and live it, Parisians opened up like I never would have expected them to.
Perhaps these untrue stereotypes of Parisians will begin to disappear when we begin to ask for their input and guidance when it comes to their city.
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