Summer is upon us!
As befits the summer solstice, the Bergian has found back to its usual shape and greeted the day with heavy rains.
(At least it's warm and the sun (what sun?) won't set before 10 pm?)
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Da ich ja eh nicht mehr groß übers Rohan-LARP berichten werde, nutze ich jetzt einfach diese netten kleinen Komiksy dafür, ein paar Anekdoten unters Volk zu bringen.
[English text for the curious: Link: As I'm not going to give a lengthy report of the Rohan LARP, I'll instead use this comic for sharing some anecdotes.
1st panel: "Don't you think that's quite enough?"
2nd panel: "Why? If you're getting too hot, we'll get a servant to fan you." - "The very idea!"
3rd panel: "Oh, you'd rather have a maid to fan you?"
4th panel: "I don't want a maid either! If I need fanning I'll go outside! This is Rohan!"]
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As I'm listening to "Tenth Man Down" just now, let's use this chance to ask a question I keep forgetting:
Is 'pull the plug' - that is, whatever the Finnish translation of that may be - a poetic expression in Finnish? There are at least two Nightwish songs that have 'pull the plug' in them amidst otherwise fairly high poetry, which creates a rather bathetic* effect that I don't think is intended. So, is 'pull the plug' poetic in any way in Finnish? Because, dear Nightwish, in English it certainly isn't.
Finally, why the hell did nobody tell me about the Temeraire series? I mean. SO GREAT. It's got EVERYTHING. History! Napoleon! Ships! Navyboys! Dragons! And nobody ever shoved these books at me? BAD FORM, FLIST. BAD FORM.
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*Bathos: Using simple, blunt or vulgar style to reveal something supposedly high and noble as really rather ridiculous. If one scene of a play ends with Polonius talking about totally irrelevant stuff in really high poetic style, and the scene immediately after it starts with Hamlet saying "The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold", which is a rather simple statement, that's a way of showing how overblown Polonius is.
(At least it's warm and the sun (what sun?) won't set before 10 pm?)
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Da ich ja eh nicht mehr groß übers Rohan-LARP berichten werde, nutze ich jetzt einfach diese netten kleinen Komiksy dafür, ein paar Anekdoten unters Volk zu bringen.
[English text for the curious: Link: As I'm not going to give a lengthy report of the Rohan LARP, I'll instead use this comic for sharing some anecdotes.
1st panel: "Don't you think that's quite enough?"
2nd panel: "Why? If you're getting too hot, we'll get a servant to fan you." - "The very idea!"
3rd panel: "Oh, you'd rather have a maid to fan you?"
4th panel: "I don't want a maid either! If I need fanning I'll go outside! This is Rohan!"]
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As I'm listening to "Tenth Man Down" just now, let's use this chance to ask a question I keep forgetting:
Is 'pull the plug' - that is, whatever the Finnish translation of that may be - a poetic expression in Finnish? There are at least two Nightwish songs that have 'pull the plug' in them amidst otherwise fairly high poetry, which creates a rather bathetic* effect that I don't think is intended. So, is 'pull the plug' poetic in any way in Finnish? Because, dear Nightwish, in English it certainly isn't.
Finally, why the hell did nobody tell me about the Temeraire series? I mean. SO GREAT. It's got EVERYTHING. History! Napoleon! Ships! Navyboys! Dragons! And nobody ever shoved these books at me? BAD FORM, FLIST. BAD FORM.
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*Bathos: Using simple, blunt or vulgar style to reveal something supposedly high and noble as really rather ridiculous. If one scene of a play ends with Polonius talking about totally irrelevant stuff in really high poetic style, and the scene immediately after it starts with Hamlet saying "The air bites shrewdly; it is very cold", which is a rather simple statement, that's a way of showing how overblown Polonius is.