What do you call Snow White’s 7 dwarves in Swedish? God Bless You, among others!

How about: Dustbin, Namby-Pamby, Apache, Trotter, Gongolo, Uckertanuni, and Dotto!

ragbag:

languages are you

just as the family in the swiss family robinson was not named robinson in the book, the 7 dwarfs from snow white and the 7 dwarfs also had no names until disney got involved. these now iconic dwarf aptronyms have since been translated into every language in which disney has found a market and i have made it my morning’s duty to translate them back.

i was reading an old book once that had the very curious phrase “translated out of german” on its title page. i assumed “out of” was just a colloquialism for the much more standard “from” but it wasn’t until i was discussing it with a friend that i learned what it actually meant. apparently the original text was written in latin, then translated into german, and the book i was reading was a translation out of it [into english]. it was the whisper-down-the-lane method of literature!

this dwarf chart is thus a translation out of various languages back to english.

ie. dopey (english) > cucciolo (italian) > puppy (english)

i used google translate for all the terms and was pleased at the proficiency of its engine. when i entered the list of 7 names, it would immediately recognise them as disney’s dwarfs and give me a perfect translation. entering each name separately, without context was the only way to get google to stumble.

you wonder how the utopian present leads to the dystopian future? i’m not totally certain, however it probably has something to do with google robots trying to foil my understanding of forest dwarfs and their associated personalities.

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i used this list and other online discussions to determine the dwarf names in other languages. obviously, the lists and my chosen translation service are not without error.

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Your Nutritionista: Fighting Food Fatigue

nutritionista:

This post comes from Your Nutritionista contributor Maggie G. Maggie is a food and nutrition journalist with a passion for everyday cooking — quick, easy, and healthy. In her post, she discusses a common eating phenomenon I’ve never heard such an apt name for: FOOD FATIGUE. We all get it,…

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Will you eat fish from the Gulf?

peacelovezen:

THE TRUTH IS…by Kindra Arnesen

Today no one knows what the total impact on the Gulf & any and all the Gulf supports, by the BP blow out will be. Corruption is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY ( Obama’s words). Fact is the entire time the disaster in the Gulf has unfolded, we have witnessed more corruption than we knew exisited in OUR government. I believe we have a human right to clean air, clean water, clean food, & to live with the security our tax dollars pay for. Before 4-20-10, I felt that our government was doing their job. We were busy working, rebuilding, & raising our family. I thought pay my taxes, raise productive members of society, and help those in my path, I was living the AMERCIAN DREAM. Them WAM BP!!!I thought if I went to their meetings voiced my concerns along side my fellow citizens that Washington would hear what was really going on & they would stand & do the job they were elected to do. I am a much different person today then I was before BP. Today I am well aware that our federal government is NOT OURS, they are bought & paid for reps of corporations, & banks, from all over the globe. The whole bunch of em are sell outs!!

       Last year when this all started I went to my local officals and begged them to evacuate the women elderly and children from Plaqumines Parish, they did not want to cause a state of panic, now we 3 in 5 are sick, most are children, I have brought this issue to everyone & have recieved only brush offs from those paid to look out for us & our communities. We have had no luck with doctors only many rounds of antibiotics has been the  BLANKET TREATMENT across the Gulf Coast with little to no sucess. Before doctors can be sufficent in treating patients along the Gulf they need proper training, but until our Federal Officals ADMITT THAT PEOPLE ARE SICK FROM THE CHEMICALS BP FOGGED US WITH this training will not take place, bottom line is people continue to suffer. Is this acceptable????

 Fineburg made a statement saying he recieved no health claims, we  in this area have no knowledge of a system set up within GCCF that takes health claims now if they in fact have a system set up to pay health claims that is news to me. The only things I am aware that GCCF has a system for is income claims & food claims for those who can’t eat the seafood that everyone else can eat. Fineburg has done everything he can to paint the claimants as criminals fraudlent criminals. Trust that before we are made whole Fineburg will be retired,dead of old age or both. SO whats the point, we have no choice but to see this to court. Who knows maybe we will recover 13% a lil more then the Valdez survivors recovered ya thats right they recovered 12% of their losses and most of them are dead.

Fineburg is not our hope or our future my advice to everyone is hire an attorney.

  They say its BACK TO BUSSINESS IN THE GULF, that everything is fine.

When shrimp season opened in August everyone was hopeful, we learned quickly that their were very few small shrimp so future crops will see an impact, August season ended around the last week of Novemberfirst week of December. Then we waited in January dead dolphins, turtles, fish, starfish, seahorses, etc washed up all over the shoreline of the Northern Gulf coast this continued trough Febuary March and April, not sure how much of each or how much continues to wash up dead. May 16th  brown shrimp opened the fleet poored out into the bayou, soon we heard back small loads were coming in usually a small boat catches 3000 to 4000 lbs the first day this year they were coming in with 300, 500lbs no loads just dissapointment. Shark season opened back in March most of the fleet was tied up after the first week of going in the hole there wasn’t enough sharks to pay the fuel. We don’t know what as a fishing community holds.

 Now the fishermen are being blamed for the deaths of the turtles washing ashore. WOW!!! Everyone reffers to this BP mess as a year ago people seem to forget that the blow out wasn’t shut off untill July 2010 only 5 1/2 months before the dead sealife started to wash ashore in record #s . NOAA put it out there that fishermen are breaaking the TED (Turtle Excluder Device) law, NOAA has charged, convicted, & hung the fishermen out to dry NOAA has painted our fishermen as comon criminals with no day in court  NOAA has slandered fishermen since NOAA’s very begining. Kick them when their down. How is it that NOAA scientist can say that tissue samples are not back yet turn around and put the blame on fishermen. SHAME SHAME SHAME, NOAA, SHAME SHAME SHAME!!!

 Last but not least the others who have joined the ban wagan of NOAA & slandering our fishermen, SHAME SHAME SHAME, I feel sorry for those who set out everyday to take out the small guy because they do not have the backbone to face the real problem. SHAME SHAME SHAME!!! try growing a backbone and placing the blame where it should be. SHAME SHAME SHAME

 I mean what did our fishermen ever do to anyone to deserve the flow of crap that people send their way. Our fishermen provide a food source for our country and have for generations. And I am dam proud to be the wife of a commercial fisherman and always will  be he is not a criminal but a family man who woks hard to provide a good life for our family, He helps those in his path is a wonderful parent, & partner. O & he pays his taxes. So before jumping in and pointing the finger @ our fishermen I ask you this consider the truth for once instead of the crap our officals are feeding you. God bless you and yours. 

                                        Thank You, Kindra Arnesen

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Who says our water is safe to drink?

peacelovezen:

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According to the city of St. Petersburg, it is. They have sent out their 2010 Water Quality Report for everyone to review and though they are patting themselves on the back, the information could give you goose bumps.The report was rather sketchy in the beginning when it states, “The…

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Ancient Wisdom of the Earth and its Creatures

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PEACE LOVE ZEN: New federal aquaculture policy paves way for Gulf of Mexico fish farms

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***THERE YOU HAVE IT, FOLKS! THE REASON THE FEDS WANT THE FISHERMEN OUT OF THE WATER! (KMH)***AND WHY THE SHRIMP WAS ALLOWED TO COLLAPSE AS WELL. (AS)
Posted: Friday, June 10, 2011 
HTTP://SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [Times-Picayune] By Benjamin Alexander-Bloch - June 10, 2011 -©…

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Your Nutritionista: Eat More Basil! 5 Must-Make Recipes for Fresh Basil

Have you planted a patio herb garden yet? If not, what are you waiting for?! It’s easy, cheap, and will provide you with more fresh herbs than you know what to do with… literally! My basil is growing faster than I can make pesto. So I thought I’d do a little research on what’s so great about…

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Differing definitions, but this looks like serentiy…

sweethomestyle:

 HILARY WALKER

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Losing Weight in the City: How to Host a Book Club After Work

losingweightinthecity:

1. Agree to host book club at your apartment because it means you get to hang with your dog AND your friends AND you don’t have to go anywhere.

2. Put date in your calendar, forget about it until day before. Briefly freak out, decide to not worry about it until next day.

3. Frantically Google…

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Your Nutritionista: Don't Get Cheesed about Cheese

nutritionista:

Cheese shouldn’t be demonized.

Recently, I got a reader question about this New York Times article. The gist of the article: Americans are eating more cheese. Cheese…

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Your Nutritionista: The Only Non-Diet Book You Ever Need to Read

A thought-provoking read!

nutritionista:

You know you’ve just finished a life-changing book when you feel the need to buy it for your parents, your boyfriend, your roommate from college, and your health-conscious coworker. Yes, Gary Taubes, you can thank for me for five orders of your book

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Your Nutritionista: Is Eating Meat the Best Way to Fight Factory Farms?

nutritionista:

Please check out this article from Tree Hugger.

ETA: I’m not making a statement here, just raising the question!

Quote excerpt from Jenna Woginrich, a former vegetarian-cum-livestock farmer:

“It’s a hard reality for a vegetarian to swallow, but my veggie burgers did not rattle the…

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Seven out of 10 Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless.

Pras Michel | Humility Now (via humilitynow)

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Kelowna, British Columia



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