Today we watched the science fiction film "Avatar," in which the inhabitants of the planet Pandora spoke a distinctive language. Moreover, this language was so vivid that the subtitles below almost left no doubt that such a civilisation and such a language truly exist. It turns out that linguists and film artists worked for several years to achieve this effect of reality. And it is now a language that can genuinely be learned.
Using online machine translators doesn't always yield a precise translation of a given word, phrase, or text fragment - but sometimes the results are quite amusing. For example, "Kalvītis" in Google Translate comes out as Хеллоуин (Halloween), the word "saimniece" (hostess) as "любовница" (mistress), and "lopu vagons" (cattle wagon) as "серийный автомобиль" (serial car).
Although the event took place at the end of last year, I decided to write about this lovely Madeira wine tasting evening, as the pleasant aftertaste has lingered right through to today. It will be something of a report on what was heard and seen, since unfortunately the magical aromas and flavours of Madeira cannot be conveyed - one simply has to experience them oneself. But briefly: about the production technique, grape varieties, and wine styles, and the discoveries made during the tasting.
Since I needed to find a flamenco dance costume and shoes, I browsed quite a few websites in various languages I know somewhat. Looking at various online shops - mostly Spanish ones - I realised it's more cost-effective to buy fabric and find a seamstress right here in Latvia. Finding decent sketches or patterns turned out to be not so easy either. In the end I came across a few websites I'd like to recommend if flamenco or Spanish dance costuming is also one of your interests.
It must be said that human ingenuity knows no bounds, and the keyboard layouts reviewed in this article are by no means the only ones - merely the most popular and historically the oldest. Key layouts change for different alphabets, and there are many of them. Starting from German - where z and y swap places - all the way to Asian countries, where there is not a single character a European would recognise.
This time we welcomed the New Year not at or under the tree at home, but at the event RELIVING LEGENDS NYE PARTY, held at the "Floating Workshop" on Andrejsala. In fact I only spotted the poster online on the afternoon of 30 December and at the last moment decided to buy tickets. I was inspired by the idea that we'd be able to watch the midnight fireworks from the ship's deck - sort of - and dance to live music.
Yesterday - that is, last year - we wandered around central Riga literally a few hours before the New Year, to enjoy the decorative lighting worth 480 thousand lats, so praised in the media. Beautiful!
She is devastatingly influenced by strong emotions that reach into the sphere of sexual life, and she is unable to separate sex from love. She falls in love with her partners, and these close ties create various limitations and obstacles on her path to happiness. At the same time she is also sexual and sensual, and therefore often encounters difficulties and tends to be unsatisfied. There are few men who appeal to her.
Gifts made by your own hands are not only something original and unavailable in shops, but are also filled with warmth and the heartbeat of their maker. Moreover, they require no great material investment, as they can be made from the most ordinary things found right at home. Of course, creative inspiration, patience and time are required - and time in today's rush has become something of a rarity. Perhaps Christmas is exactly the quiet time to devote your attention and time to your loved ones by handmaking a small, heartfelt little gift.
It is solely due to the uniqueness of my personality that some fine day people will be forced to take an interest in my works as well. This is far more effective than groping through an artist's body of work in search of his personality. /Salvador Dalí/
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