@Balle4U_ @temuchainz By the way, ffion is this plant. Apparently in Swedish it's called fingerborgsblomma.
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@Balle4U_ @temuchainz Ffion - /ˈfɪ.ɔn/
Fion - doesn't exist in Welsh, but if it did, it would be pronounced /ˈvɪ.ɔn/
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@GillianPolack @pharyngealschwa Thank you very much! Yet another reason why Melbourne is better than Sydney, but I have to live in this sad dreck of a city.
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@hongi @pharyngealschwa A friend of mine taught that Yiddish! The funding disappeared.
Here is the list of where to learn Yiddish in Melbourne (monash.edu/arts/acjc/yidd… ), but the chief Jewish language in Australia is English, which is taught everywhere.
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I miss feeling this way about Melbourne and Sydney.
The charm kind of slips when you feel uncomfortable as a Jew in your hometown.
Nicholas Shakespeare@dolphinsands
Sydney is one of the great cities. People seem at ease, free, healthy, attractive, confident, open. There’s a freshness & energy which has gone missing in Europe & the US. It’s what America thinks it is but isn’t any longer.
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Hemen irakurri transkripzioa: anpersana-prod.univ-pau.fr/files/original…
Eta jatorrizkoa: anpersana-prod.univ-pau.fr/files/original…
Izan ere, webgune osoa irakurri, altxorra da eta! anpersana-prod.univ-pau.fr/collections/sh…
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Gutun haietako batean, ama batek Kanada frantsesan bizi den alabari, noka. 1757.
"Ene haur maitea, ez dinat faltatu nahi hiri ene berrijak markatu gabe, zeinak (hori da, berriak) erraten baitun ez dunala aspaldijon gure berririk izatu. Hainbat gaiztoago guretzat"...
Gaur8@Gaur_8
[«Baionatik badoha kortsurat»] “Le Dauphin” ontziko euskarazko gutunak, XVIII. mendeko lekukotasuna naiz.eus/eu/hemeroteca/…
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Christoph Weiditz (1498-1559) margolari alemaniarrak, beno, ez zen orduan Alemaniarik...Iberiatik bidaia egin zuen 1520 eta 1530ren artean, eta "Trachtenbuch" liburuan ("janzkeren liburuan"), euskal emakumeen arropa mota desberdinak margotu zituen.
hongi@hongi
Burko mota hau modara itzultzea nahi dut. 😭
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Hau dastatu behar duzu, oso goxoa da!
Eztitxu Sabarots aldudetarrak ekoiztu eta prestatzen du.
Mairuturria@mairuturria
Beste izen batzuk; sorgin-belarra, ahuntz-kornoa, aitañi-lilia, mandobiloa edo mando-belarra.
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@Esalcide @godlycirce @Babar_le_Rhino Je parle du breton du début du XXe siècle. À titre indicatif, la toute première émission télévisée en France (en français, bien sûr) a eu lieu en 1935. Il n'y a absolument aucune raison pour que le breton n'ait pas pu être diffusé à cette époque aussi.
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@hongi @godlycirce @Babar_le_Rhino Sauf que le breton parlé à la TV n'était pas compris par les bretonnants eux mêmes.
Pour info : il y a 5 langues en BZH.
4 bretons traditionnels
1 breton unifié
1 gallo
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C'est très juste, le nationalisme qui souhaite le monoculturalisme écrase la diversité des cultures régionales
La culture d'un Breton est proche de celle d'un Irlandais, celle d'un nordiste de celle d'un Belge, celle d'un Alsacien de celle d'un Allemand, celle d'un Basque de celle d'un Catalan
L'extrême-droite et sa vision réductrice de la France menace les cultures régionales, qui sont toutes très différentes
D'ailleurs depuis longtemps le pouvoir Français centralisé à Paris a voulu cette uniformisation, contre la volonté des régions, par exemple en interdisant la pratique des langues régionales vers 1900
ᴋᴀʟ-ᴇʟ ᶻ 𝘇 𐰁@kalehl__
La france n’a même pas une seul culture commune en réalité chaque région en a une mais bon cet effacement culturel personne n’en parle 🗿
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Frantsesez bada hitz bat, sauterie, gaur egun "besta xume" bat adierazteko. Saut "jauzi, salto" hitzetik dator.
Lehen erabilera aztertu dut eta...espero baino ilunagoa da.
"Erlijiozko gerletan, etsaiak (higanotak) labar eta harresitetatik botatzeari erreferentzia egiten dio".
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@Esalcide @godlycirce @Babar_le_Rhino Si tu regardes les émissions de l'INA d'un certain temps où figurent de très très temps en temps les langues dites "régionales", tu remarqueras qu'elles font régulièrement et systématiquement l'objet d'un doublage. On ne leur a même pas accordé le droit de cité.
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@pharyngealschwa BTW, unrelated question, is there anywhere to (academically) learn Jewish languages in Australia? Waaaaaay back when, I wanted to learn Yiddish at USYD, but it was discontinued in the very year when I signed up.
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@hongi Yes. 10 years ago I was of the belief that Australia was the safest place in the west for Jews. Australia doesn’t have the antisemitic history of Europe/America and people were happy with us. I was wrong.
Regional towns don’t really have enough Jews to make that judgement.
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@shabashewitz Thank you for an incredible series of responses that I dared not hope for. I've come away better informed for it.
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@hongi But if the question is if you can go to the synagogue, buy kosher and feel safe in religious attire, the answer is still more yes than no, perhaps even more so than in many Western countries.
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Didn’t expect Israelis to consider the recent Russian influx socially meaningful. I lived in Armenia between 2021 and 2024. Since 2022, politicized Russian hipsters were all over the place in Yerevan. When I came back to Israel, I met few in comparison which felt relieving. 1/3
Michael Hasin@novussubsole
Russian anti-Putin hipster expats are very conspicuous now in city life, especially in South Tel Aviv. It's not apolitical anymore as in the 2010s but the energy of the big anti-reform and pro-hostages protests has also dissipated, so there's a lot of despair in the air. 2/2
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@shabashewitz Is this any different from previous Soviet Jewish refugees and immigrants who came to Israel fleeing from anti-Semitism and who therefore might have had more reason to reject this heritage? Instead of more prosaic economic reasons that might motivate today's immigrants?
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@shabashewitz Here's then my question: do more recent Russian immigrants to Israel, of course despite putting their Jewish identity first and foremost, still consider themselves "Russian" if not in the ethnic sense, or not even in the civic sense, at least in the cultural sense?
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@shabashewitz And finally, I've met Jews in the Netherlands, the UK etc and here in Australia who are religiously observant. They can do so without being (too) impeded. Is that also possible in Moscow, St. Petersburg? I'm just wondering what it's like to be a religious Jew in today's Russia.
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@shabashewitz You say that many of them are not per se halachically Jewish, e.g. many with Jewish ancestry through the father. How then does that work, does Israel make them convert in the Orthodox manner once they get to Israel?
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