Monthly Archives: May 2022

Continued from part 1. So, those are my thoughts on the classification of Venetian within the Romance languages. The link between “innovative Romance” and “classically inclined” is of course too tenuous to pursue, so I would otherwise group them as above. Venetian is really a dialect of a wider Veneto language native to the regionContinue reading “El móndo vèneto – pt. 2”

Vèneto / łéngua vèneta / łengoa vèneta / Venetian / Venetan is a Romance language spoken in the Veneto region of northeast Italy, still understood by around five million people. It’s often referred to as a dialect / 🦁 diałeto / 🇮🇹 dialetto of Italian, misleading people to assume therefore derivatory, but is rather aContinue reading “El móndo vèneto, e el scuarso scherçóxo – pt. 1”

Sardinia is special. La Sardegna è speciale. Sa Sardìgna est ispetziale. Sardinia / 🇮🇹 Sardegna / 🧙‍♀️ Sardigna / Sardínnia is the second largest island in the Mediterranean Sea after Sicily. The island constitutes one of the 20 regions / regioni of Italy / Italia. Sardinian history is rich and multicultural. Sardinians are accordingly theContinue reading “Sardinia is special”

🇫🇷 Nommer la beauté 🇮🇹 Definire la bellezza 🇪🇸 Apellidar la belleza Many deem French to be the world’s most beautiful language! Others might say Italian, or Spanish – both of these related to French as fellow Romance languages. Accordingly, the peoples who speak these languages are ferociously proud of their mother tongues. A greatContinue reading “Terming the beauty”

Atrox melior dulcissima veritas mendaciis. The bitter truth is better than the sweetest lies. Memento mori. Remember that you must die. Non progredi est regredi. To not go forward is to go backward. Semper paratus. Always prepared. Per aspera ad astra. Through the thorns to the stars. Carpe diem. Seize the day. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus,Continue reading “Latin’s mighty lectitecture”

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Iceland / Ísland was founded over 1,000 years ago by exploring Vikings / Víkingar. Its population is descended mainly from those Norwegian seafarers, who had ventured even further to Greenland / Grænland and the coast of North America, which the Norse / Norðurlandabúar called Vinland / Vínland. The island of Iceland is located some 500Continue reading “The treasured case system of Icelandic”

The Alpine nation of Switzerland is famous for its neutrality. The Swiss abide by a foreign policy which deters them from getting involved with armed or political conflicts with other states. It is a self-imposed policy which has been highly successful at ensuring external security and promoting peace. Switzerland has not participated in a foreignContinue reading “The origins of Swiss neutrality”

Crossing Beringia: to Infinity and Beyond 30,000 or so years ago, a group of Orientalesque innovators broke away from their East Asian brothers and undertook exploration of Beringia. They had happened upon an intriguing landscape, a dip that had once been filled with water of the seas. It had opened up because of the iceContinue reading “Everyone thought they would burn in hell…”