Indian Givers Series vol. 2

What is the connection between Johnny Rotten and Chief Tamanend?


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Dr. Alan M. Stevens ( Read more... )

Arabic akh 'brother'

Mongolian akh 'brother'

Bikol aki 'child'

Korean aki 'child'

Blackfoot aki 'woman'

Even akhi 'woman'

Lenape ana 'Mom'

Turkish ana 'mother'

Arabic ana 'I'

Gondi ana 'I'

Arabic anta 'thou'

Japanese anta 'thou'

Arabic ard 'earth'

Dutch aard 'earth'

Hebrew ari 'lion'

Tamil ari 'lion'

Hebrew awir 'air'

Welsh awyr ' ( Read more... )

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Ahsennamenshi explained: "Before, we always had either a war sachem or a peace sachem. But now? It isn't war, but it doesn't feel like peace either. It feels more like wartime. So we have a new kind of sachem. He's a we-have-to-travel-and-find-new-homes sachem. So we're kind of making up some of the rules as we go along."

"What do you call this ( Read more... )

Persian has infinitesimal nuances and subtleties of meaning within its superficially simple phrasing and syntax. This makes it one of the easiest languages to begin learning and one of the hardest to really learn.

Integral to the texture of the Akan language is its complex and subtle system of phonology and vowel harmonies, organized in ways that ( Read more... )

1. I was listening to Celtic Woman and began wondering why, amidst all the Irish music, they'd included the Italian song "Nella Fantasia" written by Chiara Ferraù and Ennio Morricone. What's so Celtic about that? There's more connection between the two than meets the eye.

2. Italo-Celtic is a subfamily of the Indo-European languages. At some point ( Read more... )

I did this from memory without looking anything up.

I have studied English, French, and Italian... but I have never taken any classes in German or Spanish. I'm just a brain, that's all. And I'm not ashamed of it.

Your result for The Languages Test...
100% French! 100% German! 100% Italian! 100% Spanish! 100% English!

Look at the percentages above. ( Read more... )

The only reason this is notable enough to post... is that... I have never actually studied Spanish. Honest verdad, yo juro. I did it all from memory without looking anything up. In high school the other kids were bamboozled how I could do their Spanish lessons better than they could even though I never took a day of Spanish class (I wanted to, but ( Read more... )

A simple declaration I translated into many languages in honor of International Women's Day.

Ainu: menoko ku ne.
Akan: me yε baa.
Albanian: unë jam një grua.
Amharic: ené sét näñ.
Arabic: ana imra’ah.
Aramaic: ena nesha.
Armenian: yes mi kin em.
Assamese: mai tirotā haom.
Aymara: naya xa warmi twa.
Azerbaijani: mən gadınam. ( Read more... )