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people would roll their eyes at me back in undergrad political science for doing papers on BRICS because on the one hand it wasn't as sexy a topic as the AU or Nato or the EU or even ASEAN, and on the other hand, it wasn't as interesting and non-mainstream as, like, MINT or the Tiger Cubs.
and yet. here we are. BRICS is very relevant now.
this association is causing us some real problems and I'm honestly a little frightened, but also glad that I decided not to go into international relations because I'd hate to have had to defend South Africa's neutrality rn, but also frustrated that I didn't because maybe (and this is arrogance talking) I could've been doing something useful and meaningful now to change the official position
the official currency of Namibia has been the Namibian dollar since the 1993/'94, although the South African rand is still legal tender there too
for the people asking in the notes, no, "clusterfuck" is not a translation of their currency. it just means the situation is complicated. the official currency was the Zimbabwean dollar until the 2000s when the country went through economic crisis and hyper-inflation. the Zim dollar was abandoned and multiple international currencies became legal tender concurrently (US dollar, British pound, Euro, South African rand, Botswana pula) although in practice, they used mainly the US dollar
in 2019 (before the pandemic), Zimbabwe introduced the New Zimbabwean dollar as the official currency, however this did not work out for them and in mid-2020 they went back to accepting multiple foreign currencies (but again, in practice, they use the US dollar)
Source: reddit.com
#tangential rant#American tourists™ will regularly and annoyingly try to pay in usd here#and we obviously can't accept it#but due to the economic crisis in Zim#many Zimbabweans work here and occasionally they'll accept usd from tourist-customers#and then settle the bill/invoice in rand on their behalf#because it's useful for them to have usd in cash for when they go back home to zim over the holidays#this ends up sending mixed signals to confused American tourists. but no. legally we cannot accept cash payment in anything but rand here#it's just more convenient for Zimbabweans to get extra cash because there are limits to how much you can buy from banks per year#and you pay tax on foreign currency purchases#also. I have friends who work in hotels which are technically licenced to act as bureaux de change for their guests#but don't because they don't want to risk accepting usd#the usd is the most commonly forged currency and it have fewer security features#meaning it's one of the easier currencies to fake too#but it would be discrimination to accept eur or cad or chf or aed etc. but not usd. so they just don't do any currency exchanges#(note I've not verified whether usd really is easier to forge. that's just just what they say. but it genuinely is the most commonly forged#because it's such a powerful currency)
I’m curious, because I’ve never seen anyone say that they like the changes. All of this seems to be an attempt to reel in new users more familiar with tiktok or twitter, but I’m not convinced that new users are actually joining in large numbers and consistently continuing to use the site.
I've disabled the fyp, and live isn't a thing in my region. so the only changes I've really noticed are the tumblr shop in the top right (easy enough to ignore), and that the "add community lables" button is now where the "add tags" button used to be, so I occasionally press that due to muscle memory.
so — in theory I dislike the changes, if they're a sign of where things are heading. but in practice it's not affected me much yet (for reference, I've been here for almost a decade)
I know they're doing an under the sea themed nursery, hence these plushies being my first thoughts. the orca plush is like 70cm long. idk how to describe the size of the octopus
PLEASE tag ur reasoning im trying to prove my gf wrong
Every vowel is in an odd position of the alphabet, so the “vowels are even” crowd is free to get destroyed by facts and logic
>not indexing from 0
there are 5 vowels in english. right? a, e, i, o, u. which is odd. why are we converging on even?
Odd (odd number of vowels) versus EvEn (even number of vowels)? the word "even" has twice as many vowels in it, so its assonance rating is higher
vowels - the nuclei of syllables - vibe like primes which, excepting 2 of course, are odd
instantia crucis: syllabic consonants are odd too
odd phones - like odd numbers and odd days of the week (Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Friday; note that oddness here also corresponds to significance (again exchanging Saturday & Sunday)) - are bouba and even ones are kiki
They're even because vowel sounds are the most sonorant and the most resonant actually. It's an acoustic thing
Also there's ten vowels in my english - æ ɛ eɪ ɪ i ɑ ə oʊ ʊ ʉ
i, y, e, ø, æ, a (ie. front vowels) are even
u, o, ɔ, ɒ (ie. back vowels) are odd
ə is neither (like zero)
would you guys still follow me if we all started using the largest social media platform in latvia
Winged Goddess, Floating Greek, South Italian
mfa boston
Apulian, Probably ca. 340 BC
400 hundred year old abandoned maze in Spain.
As pointed out in the comments (thanks @missteadrinker for the link) this isn't an abandoned maze, but the cloister garden of Pazo de San Lorenzo, where symbols are cut into the shrub. Is 400 years old, though.
Very cool.
English added by me :)
I was gifted an original woodcut print by Lucky Sibiya a couple of months ago, and as he's one of my favourite artists I was of course very happy to receive it
the print was originally the 8th in a series of 15 Scenes from uMabatha (a Zulu adaptation of Macbeth), all sold together in a portfolio. (only 225 portfolios were printed, editioned and signed by Sibiya) but over the last half-century most of the portfolio sets have been split up, and you usually come across the scenes sold or exhibited individually (in fact I've never seen a complete original portfolio of all 15 uMabatha scenes)
part of my job is to keep up to date with exhibitions and auctions, and I've just noticed that 4 uMabatha prints are going on auction this week. and 3 of them come from the same numbered edition as the one I have !
part of me is like, buy them, try to get the full set back together !!
but on the other hand, that will likely never happen (sure I might be able to collect all 15 Scenes over my lifetime, but it's highly unlikely that I'll get them all from the same edition) in which case, buying these three now just for that possibility, would be a waste of money
but just think how cool that would've been
We should turn Speak Your Language Day into Speak Your Language Week, in my opinion. Maybe Month. Que tal?
RB if you agree :)
Or maybe a monthly thing. First Sunday each month or something.
or perhaps the first Monday of the month, as in :
Mother-tongue Monday
Moedertaal maandag
Muttersprachemontag
Lundi des langues maternelles
יום שני של שפת אם
Δευτέρα του δημώδους διαλεκτου
Понедельник просторечий
اثنین لغة الـأم (I tried... the alliteration is a bit of a stretch and I'm not entirely sure the grammar is right... in fact there may be a few grammatical errors in the other languages too. but as a proof of concept ? and we do like alliterative holidays here on tumblr.edu)
ik weet niet of de tweede Afrikaans of Nederlands hoort te zijn, maar als het Nederlands is, schrijf je het aan elkaar zoals in het Duits!
skuus, dis 'n tikfout ! dit behoort in Afrikaans ook aanmekaar geskryf te wees
#alhoewel daar in die nuutste uitgawe van die AWS heelwat toegewings is#goed wat nog altyd as taalfoute beskou was word nou aanvaar#dis daai hele debat oor vóórskrywend vs béskrywende taalkunde#(AWS = Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls)#en die los/vas skryf van samestellings is een van daardie areas waar party publikasies eerder hul eie stylgids volg#desnieteenstaande was dit in hierdie geval 'n fout
also how is it the 12th already ??!?!?!!!? I thought today would be Mother-tongue Monday have I just backed out for the last week ??
just spent a while making a post, clicked 'post', the loading thing at the bottom of the screen took a while, but eventually went away. but the post hasn't been posted. it's not in my drafts either. it's just gone. alas
oké well this one posted without issue ? where is the other one ? do y'all see a post about the South African artist Lucky Sibiya — it starts with 6 images follows by 4 paragraphs ?
just spent a while making a post, clicked 'post', the loading thing at the bottom of the screen took a while, but eventually went away. but the post hasn't been posted. it's not in my drafts either. it's just gone. alas
We should turn Speak Your Language Day into Speak Your Language Week, in my opinion. Maybe Month. Que tal?
RB if you agree :)
Or maybe a monthly thing. First Sunday each month or something.
or perhaps the first Monday of the month, as in :
Mother-tongue Monday
Moedertaal maandag
Muttersprachemontag
Lundi des langues maternelles
יום שני של שפת אם
Δευτέρα του δημώδους διαλεκτου
Понедельник просторечий
اثنین لغة الـأم (I tried... the alliteration is a bit of a stretch and I'm not entirely sure the grammar is right... in fact there may be a few grammatical errors in the other languages too. but as a proof of concept ? and we do like alliterative holidays here on tumblr.edu)