In this article I have compiled the main differences of the Latgalian written language from Latvian, and provided examples of writing in Latvian and Latgalian. The main message is not for Latgalians to change their oral language habits, but to adhere to a unified grammar in writing, so that it is understandable and learnable for themselves and others.
Lately, the public information space has increasingly seen cases where, for one reason or another, a payment by bank card - or merely the fact that a user holds a bank card - has managed to produce more than one surprise. Although, guided by common sense and bank advertising, the impression has formed that paying by bank card is safe, in reality, as recent events show, there is a very real possibility of ending up without money.
Having spent several days in Estonia and grown accustomed to its roads and driving culture, on the return journey - re-entering Latvia - there arose an almost irresistible urge to note down a few driving-related peculiarities that, when living here, either slip by unnoticed or simply never occur to one, that things could also be done differently.
SIA Man-Tess gained wider resonance in 2012 in the so-called Sarkandaugava stench scandal. In 2011 the company was sold to a company registered in the Netherlands. In 2013 the company changed owners and name again.
Multiplication is one of the basic mathematical operations, which today is mostly performed with a calculator. In times long past, when there were no counting devices and no paper either, people devised all manner of tricks for obtaining a result from two multiplicands. So, on a few of those tricks.
Rēzeknes Bryuvers, previously better known in the Latgale region, is now available for purchase in Riga. Introducing this beer and its brewery was not so easy, as information had to be gathered bit by bit, and I also encountered a certain "conspiracy" from the Rēzekne beer side.
On the subject of 3D Secure and recent events where two different people reported sums being arbitrarily deducted from their bank accounts - with the bank recognising the transactions as legal - it made me think about how secure 3D Secure actually is.
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It has come about that I have been a witness and companion to three different vision correction operations. The most recent case - a cataract - did not go without its curiosities, which also served as the reason for writing this article.
This Saturday we headed off to Pärnu with a rather prosaic aim - to buy different and cheaper products, as well as pick up some clothing. Below are a few observations and recommendations for those who are also planning a similar shopping trip.
Mārtiņi in Latvian annual folk customs marks the end of autumn and the beginning of winter. It is also a joyful celebration, as this is when the quiet time of the dead ends and the mummering season begins. In modern urban life we are unlikely to slaughter a cockerel, but we can certainly prepare a roast chicken or goose.