Hi all,

Is there a word for a love of clouds (in the way that bibliophilia means a love of books)? Google turns up something, but perhaps you all know something that it doesn't.

Thanks :)

Hi!

Question for the German speakers:

I want to give my dog a German name. I was looking for the word for bear but I've found 3 different versions. The woe of internet translators of course.

Thanks!

One of my friends is an artist, and she's preparing something for an exhibition of science-related art. Her pieces are about the idea of using things like glass-blowing, chemical reactions etc to permanently record breath, something that's normally entirely fleeting. She's been trying to think of a title, but is stumped. All the english phrases she ( Read more... )

I'm working on a zine about vegan cuisine from the Mid East/Maghreb & want to include a short section of phrases useful for folks traveling in the regions. If anyone would be able to help out with translations into the following languages (both in the relevant script & an approximate representation in Latin script would be fantastic), I'd be so, so ( Read more... )

How do you say (a) route as a noun (route 66) (b) route as a verb (cars are routed to a service road) and (c) router as a computer device? And, as usual, where are you from, linguistically ( Read more... )

Today, I got a postcard from a Postcrossing user in Hong Kong and she wrote my name in Chinese for me: 菲利普.

That was nice of her, but it’s not how I’ve been writing my name in Chinese for the past 20-odd years, which is 菲利蒲.

(After all these years, I don’t remember where I got this particular spelling from, but I imagine that one of the Chinese ( Read more... )

Do you have a name for this sort of object in your dialect? If so, what is it?


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So, I work two jobs where about half the customers do not speak English. I've been relying on hand gestures, but I feel like a mime. I was wondering if I'd be able to get some help with phrases that I have to say a lot?
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I'm looking for idioms in various languages to do with thieves. I'm doing an MA Illustration course, and each graduating exhibition group does an illustrated book with a set theme and a page by each student. Our theme this year is "thieves" and I was thinking of doing an illustration of an international get-together for cliche bank robbers with ( Read more... )