Anschel

queer quaker commie cat

In addition to the blurb above, I'm a recovering mathematician, Jewish, and autistic as fuck--those didn't alliterate

Sometimes I write poems, mostly in English and Spanish

I feel weird putting my age in my bio but I am in fact a Grown Up if you were worried

רעד מיט מיר ייִדיש

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anschelsc@gmail.com

toothandshore
@toothandshore

if there's one thing that i think is really fun in this world, it's comparing idioms across languages. the ones that have equivalents and the ones that don't are equally delightful.

tonight i got to talking about this with my housemates, who are from lithuania. i'm english and have spent a portion of my life in thailand, so we had 3 languages to compare notes across. the best discovery was that the english 'out of the frying pan and into the fire' has much more zoological equivalents in the other languages: the thai 'escape from the tiger and meet the crocodile' and the lithuanian 'flee from the wolf and you may run into a bear'.

other particularly evocative things they have taught me are the insult 'a peppery goat' and to say a person or animal is clingy by calling them 'a wet leaf'

i'd love to hear any favourites from speakers of other languages!


NoelBWrites
@NoelBWrites

In Spanish (Argentina) to say someone is trying really hard to find fault with something we say they're "trying to find the hair on an egg"


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