tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post7554651202171724464..comments2023-10-04T17:13:47.394+03:00Comments on future of my past: Can't do it myselfAnna MRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-39682950990846859162008-06-06T13:37:00.000+03:002008-06-06T13:37:00.000+03:00So much pain and anger there, and grief of course,...So much pain and anger there, and grief of course, but beauty too. She was clearly quite a lady. <BR/><BR/>Thoughts with you. xAnna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-57950392100118859902008-06-04T00:49:00.000+03:002008-06-04T00:49:00.000+03:00Hi MrAnna, thanks for the kind thoughts about my r...Hi MrAnna, thanks for the kind thoughts about my recent bereavements. My virtual friends have been very supportive, showing that there is something good which happens in this strange world.<BR/>I have still been writing my own blog but the content was a reflection of my own feeling of despondency. I am ok, now.<BR/>Still, you may like the following from that period.<BR/>.<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2bhors<BR/>.<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/39gwdm<BR/>.<BR/>For certain, you will like the old photo in the second link. Hehehehehhe.<BR/>I tarted it up as best I could.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-14965339557732847252008-06-02T21:05:00.000+03:002008-06-02T21:05:00.000+03:00I feel you need to know that oy vey in Finnish is ...I feel you need to know that <EM>oy vey</EM> in Finnish is <EM>voi ei</EM>, <B>Signschen</B>. Uncannily close, wouldn't you say? And we also say (in informal, spoken Finnish) <EM>kaveri</EM> for <EM>chavver</EM>. An obvious connection there, to be sure. <BR/><BR/>And <EM>a choleryeh ahf blogger</EM>. Verily.<BR/><BR/>xAnna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-17331452714049404642008-06-02T20:51:00.000+03:002008-06-02T20:51:00.000+03:00A broch tzu Columbus, sweet hostess, but I cannot ...<I>A broch tzu Columbus</I>, <B>sweet hostess</B>, but I cannot find <I>schlemozzle</I> anywhere on that list. But never mind, for 'tis wonderful and when I have memorised it all I will be able to put myself up in good faith as <B>NMJ's</B> yiddishe translator.<BR/><BR/>I do not know what is happening with Blogger at the mo - as you know, it swallowed up a veritable <I>dissertation</I> in my comments the other day and - gawd, even the WVLs are coming out in sympathy with us, for they are saying <B>ejhuix</B> loud and clear as I sit here.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-16153744824647344462008-06-02T20:08:00.000+03:002008-06-02T20:08:00.000+03:00Oy vey tsu meina baina, Signs, and bollocks to boo...<EM>Oy vey tsu meina baina</EM>, <B>Signs</B>, and bollocks to boot. I had written a reply to you <EM>entirely</EM> in Yiddish (well, near enough, okay?) and blogger came and ate it up in a server error. <BR/><BR/>I cannot bear doing it all over again. But you can look under my name for a few other words (and thank you for <EM>sheyne maydel</EM>. If you dig a bit in a thread only slightly older than this, you'll find I already called myself something very like that).<BR/><BR/>And no need to thank for the licence, it is yours by obvious deservingness. <BR/><BR/>Mwah in exasperation - working hard towards the Yiddish Shakeys.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-41951982856114079772008-06-01T23:49:00.000+03:002008-06-01T23:49:00.000+03:00Oh lord, dear hostess, did I do something? Thank ...Oh lord, <B>dear hostess</B>, did I do something? Thank you ever so for the licence and please do not ever tell anyone that <I>schlemozzle</I> is actually one of the few yiddish words that I know and therefore if I were appointed to translate say, War and Peace, it would have to do for whole chapters because, you know, needs must. I know <I>sheyne maydel</I> too, though (licence for spelling also appreciated), and that is what you are.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-143329150487937072008-06-01T18:28:00.000+03:002008-06-01T18:28:00.000+03:00Oh good grief, people. Hello. Okay. Merkin, thank ...Oh good grief, <B>people</B>. Hello. Okay. <B>Merkin</B>, thank you for praising my translation, but do please keep your blogging (and other) kinds of trousers on - apart from a bit of swearing and the odd bit of innuendo here and there, this site is meant to be family-friendly. Oh yes. And although I cannot claim any merit whatsoever with regard to Yiddish, I must say I don't agree with your criticism of the one-word paragraph-translation (if I'm catching your drift right) - not only because the magnificent <B>Signs</B> cannot put a word wrong in my books, but also because according to the translation supplied by you, and my reading of the paragraph, and the artistic licence which said Signs has printed and framed on her wall (I know she does), if <B>NMJ's</B> (hello, honey) paragraph can be translated into a single word, any word, in any language, then surely that word is <EM>schlemozzle</EM>. I have spoken. (And hei, I am aware of you having had circumstances, and although the condolences I'm offering here are belated, they are nevertheless heartfelt. Sorry, pal, it's sad and horrible.)<BR/><BR/>(<B>Nicola</B> - yes regarding the newborns, it's just an inescapable emotional meltdown factor. They are so strange and perfect and it's all still ahead of them and they could still be anybody and I don't bloody know. Four is quite a lot, though, Nicola, surely enough to exhaust anyone. I don't know what age yours are now but if they're not in their teens yet - you've got about a decade of puberty to get through. I wish you strength.) And as for the other stuff, the confusing matters, don't worry about those.<BR/><BR/>Wishing you all a most pleasant Sunday.Anna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-8950059857150904382008-05-31T04:22:00.000+03:002008-05-31T04:22:00.000+03:00NMJ, ffs, look at the time of my last posting to s...NMJ, ffs, look at the time of my last posting to see why my flash of illumination may not have given birth to that Athene being fully clothed.<BR/>I will email you tomorrow to explain fully.<BR/>In the meantime, I know you are the Minelli of the blogs, but I always think of you as Naz.<BR/>Why?<BR/>Because 'nas' in Polish = 'nous' in French.<BR/><BR/>'It's Liza with a Z<BR/>Not Lisa with an S<BR/>'Cause Lisa with an S<BR/>Goes "sss" not "zzz"<BR/>It's Z instead of S<BR/>Li instead of Lee<BR/>It's simple as can be<BR/>See, Liza!'<BR/><BR/>Mr Anna's translation looked and sounded wonderfully perfect and i was very interested in her description of the comparatives in each language.<BR/><BR/>I can't wait for her to do the translation of my next book!!<BR/><BR/>Be cool, speak soon.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-47494170076445830982008-05-31T03:01:00.000+03:002008-05-31T03:01:00.000+03:00ps in brackets 'cause of the shhh factor and not w...ps in brackets 'cause of the shhh factor and not wanting to take away from the preceding comments which, though fascinating, I haven't the foggiest about (thanks nmj for going first there though I think you know more than I).Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00112821049194722614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-62044457280157578762008-05-31T02:58:00.000+03:002008-05-31T02:58:00.000+03:00(Me too, me too, Anna sister - newborns, I mean, a...(Me too, me too, Anna sister - newborns, I mean, all that translucency and vulnerability. I blame my lovely grandmother for taking me with her to a premature baby unit in the days when germs didn't matter. Ten years after that some fool new mother placed her baby in my arms and something inside me went all chaotic and melty. Hence, I had four and would have had more if exhaustion hadn't overtaken me.)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00112821049194722614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-28360288507295479892008-05-31T00:14:00.000+03:002008-05-31T00:14:00.000+03:00Lordy, Merkin, I am dizzy, what you doing here, la...Lordy, Merkin, I am dizzy, what you doing here, laddie, chez Anna MR?! I am lost, what the hell is goin on?! Please no dropping of trousers! No one translated anything wrongly, did they? Please enlighten me! All was exquisite as far as I am concerned.<BR/><BR/>(And please, please, Merk, spell me NASIM, not Z, never z.)nmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477643084619789093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-72425434049114416192008-05-30T04:41:00.000+03:002008-05-30T04:41:00.000+03:00Hi pal, not been about due to circumstances.Still ...Hi pal, not been about due to circumstances.<BR/>Still pop in from time to time but have no enrgy to comment ie I will have to follow comments if I say something.<BR/>Having seen that one on NMJ I felt I must comment in the interests of linguistic purity.<BR/>No need for me to drop my linguistic trousers in your blog to show that I have some expertise in that language.<BR/>That is why I sent you a better definition.<BR/>I truly love the minutiae of idiom and its uses thereof.<BR/>And, I appreciate his attempt to paraphrase NMJ's paragraph. It was wrong, though. Simple.<BR/><BR/> I enjoyed your translation and felt it in English and Finnish.<BR/>Lovely.<BR/>Needless to say, my students will always 'go for the throat' with merkinlike patois.<BR/>Only survivors, so far.<BR/>A few sore faces, too, must be said.<BR/><BR/>Context is always important in translating.<BR/>Still, 'Tomorrow Will Be Better' is a common Polish (and Yiddish) phrase that suits one of Nazim's phrases that you translated.<BR/><BR/>The beauty of language.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-91370249051871998492008-05-30T01:51:00.000+03:002008-05-30T01:51:00.000+03:00Hei Merkin, nice to see you, welcome back. No need...Hei <B>Merkin</B>, nice to see you, welcome back. No need to apologise, as you ought to know - the comment threads on this site may turn any which way and it's always alright. And you're right - that was interesting, thank you for bringing it here for my edification. I may just need to go and learn Yiddish on Youtube - it would be super cool and hip and cutting edge in a strange retro-vintage-European way. <BR/><BR/>I may, consequently, be gone some time...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-38174862449107505322008-05-30T00:49:00.000+03:002008-05-30T00:49:00.000+03:00Sorry to change subject, but........http://www.you...Sorry to change subject, but........<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLsukIsrcMI<BR/><BR/>MisterAnna, maybe you will like this one about schmozzle and schlemiel.Merkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02499327449561248731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-79208910898924143512008-05-29T21:06:00.000+03:002008-05-29T21:06:00.000+03:00I've heard that fat person waving frantically thin...I've heard that fat person waving frantically thing, too, <B>Lottie</B> (hei, lovely to see you). The truth is, though (or at least my truth), that when <EM>my</EM> fat person a few years back broke free, she was a miserable creature and I am happy to say I stuffed her back inside. <BR/><BR/>I'm pleased you noticed the chime thing because I noted it too, although only after I'd written and posted it. And yes, babies - newborn babies - often carry the look of ancient sages. I mean <EM>centuries</EM> old. As they become more embedded into this plane(t), the look disappears and they enyoungen into babies-toddlers-children. But initially, they are something else. (Newborns make me cry. It's dreadful and embarrassing and inevitable. Shhh. <EM>Never</EM> tell anyone, Lottie, please. I have a hard rep to keep up.)Anna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-34397149471841433992008-05-29T19:30:00.000+03:002008-05-29T19:30:00.000+03:00Yes, this was a nice image - it reminded me of wha...Yes, this was a nice image - it reminded me of what someone said about inside every thin person there being a fat person signalling wildly to be let out.<BR/><BR/>I think this thought also chimes with your blog's title.<BR/><BR/>Interesting question about babies not having their future written on their bodies. Sometimes, some particularly wise babies look at you in a certain way... But unlike the old, the very young don't have a past to wear across their faces, do they?LottiePhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464376197679468718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-86315224062539270502008-05-27T19:41:00.000+03:002008-05-27T19:41:00.000+03:00Signs of Profundity, that's pretty lovely, you kno...<B>Signs of Profundity</B>, that's pretty lovely, you know. I'll happily wear the cap of beholding beauty and am pleased to hear you think it fits me. And really, artistes of our calibre need not worry about originality - you know what they say about mediocrity versus greatness, borrowing and stealing, all that. Mwahs once again.Anna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-68144818830054950852008-05-27T19:37:00.000+03:002008-05-27T19:37:00.000+03:00Hurrah. My weird thoughts making you happy for a d...Hurrah. My weird thoughts making you happy for a day is making me happy for the rest of the day, now, too. <B>Pantaloons</B>, it's gorgeous to see you.<BR/><BR/>xxxAnna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-34280371105286529322008-05-27T17:05:00.000+03:002008-05-27T17:05:00.000+03:00Yes, and I suddenly had this profound thought that...Yes, and I suddenly had this profound thought that the beauty is also in the eye of the beholder. It is not an original thought but - if the cap fits, wear it. Yes, it fits you.Reading the Signshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06338983880105866139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-80736581371921147382008-05-27T03:05:00.000+03:002008-05-27T03:05:00.000+03:00Hi AnnaWhat a lovely thought. I am happy all day n...Hi Anna<BR/><BR/>What a lovely thought. I am happy all day now.<BR/><BR/>xxx<BR/><BR/>PantsPantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00712642194215828800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-62927691925568265182008-05-26T22:26:00.000+03:002008-05-26T22:26:00.000+03:00Hei Zhoen, it is fascinating, is it not? I also lo...Hei <B>Zhoen</B>, it is fascinating, is it not? I also love old photographs, even if they are of people I don't know. One shameful time I was reduced to welling-up, if not actual tears, in a pub in Riga where they were showing a medley of the oldest bits of film in the history of cinema, and on came one with two babies (now long dead or, at the very least, ancient) sitting in high chairs, eating and squabbling over a toy or something. <BR/><BR/>I never seem to be able to do it the other way, though, looking at the children of now and imagining them old. <BR/><BR/>Glad you cared for the description. Lovely to see you here.Anna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-37811472687978353052008-05-26T22:20:00.000+03:002008-05-26T22:20:00.000+03:00Ha, But Mutta, judging by your activities at the m...Ha, <B>But Mutta</B>, judging by your activities at the moment, you'll be one of them in, oh, <EM>many</EM> decades' time, you sportsy young thing, you (don't think I didn't read in breathless horror the tale of your friend's 10K run) (you were heroic, as was she). I, on the other hand, am probably less fit than the average wrinkly brigader cyclist. Ah well. <BR/><BR/>But the odd thing is the people who are OAPs now spent their childhood in near-malnutrition, because of the war (the sale of foodstuffs was quite heavily controlled and regulated until the 1950s over here, the last thing to become freely available being <EM>coffee</EM>, that most essential substance for the building-up and maintenance of good health. Anyway). Obviously they are just bred tough, unlike my generation.Anna MRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13801478271766064478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-52438113844334958502008-05-26T04:43:00.000+03:002008-05-26T04:43:00.000+03:00I love imagining older folks as young kids, that's...I love imagining older folks as young kids, that's a wonderful description.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25897493.post-84147684069160237842008-05-26T00:31:00.000+03:002008-05-26T00:31:00.000+03:00Check.They are the hard core of the pensionable-ag...Check.<BR/><BR/>They are the hard core of the pensionable-age army.<BR/><BR/>Not for them concerns about brittle bones, no. These are the pensioners who as children ate their fish and drank their milk without arguing. I imagine the cycling is merely an extreme form of belated rebellion...But Why?https://www.blogger.com/profile/18410865104797473854noreply@blogger.com