The oldest known appearence of@in writing was in 1345 in a Bulgarian translation of a Greek chronicle by Constantinos Manasses. It was used as the first letter of the word Amen – @мин (@min) in the manuscript. In Catalan, Spanish and Portuguese@has long been used to refer to a ...
"I only drink on days beginning with a 'T'. Tuesday, Thursday, and Today." My neighbour doesn't dispute it at all, though. He invited me for a drink and said "I'm going to drink you under the table, then I'm going to drink myself under the table."Drinking...
(dollars per kilogram) than the hind quarters of any other sheep’. Then he cut up the hindquarters and said ‘Nothing I have ever seen is anywhere near as good as this’. He then held out a small (less than half a hand full) of waste. He then showed me a ‘normal’ bucketful ...
He probably means the people in northern Germany, especially near the Baden area, who are rather loose with their morals. Among these people there are some who are so loose and degenerate in the hot baths that they even drink and sleep and allow themselves all kinds of evil and other ...
Finns are safe drivers; most Finns won't get behind the wheel after even one alcoholic drink, even though by law they could. Street crime is rare; there's no heightened anxiety when you leave your home. If you do business with Finns, they fulfil their side of the deal, quietly and ...
I recommend the Finnish favourites: the Hartwall Original Long Drink (ask for the “lonkero” to sound like a local) is a sweet and incredibly refreshing gin cocktail, while a hot chocolate with Minttu can never fail to warm you up. ...
Me, with my godparents’ daughter, wearing her old pointe shoes—apparently my first time on pointe. I think I’m 8 years old. Me on the carousel at Linnanmäki probably around 9 years old. A fun photo I found from my brother, taken near our childhood home. My brother also had a...
but Saana lifted her up in his arms and rushed towards the shore of Lake Kilpisjärvi; a small lake in the west. There they both froze side by side; Saana even stiffer, and Malla near her mother, all facing south. From the tears of the mother and daughter, the clear-water Lake Kil...
After a spellbound hour gazing at the northern lights in my long johns, followed by less than three hours of sleep, I awoke the next morning to snow-reflected sunlight and the strong smell of coffee. (Finns, it is said, drink more coffee than any other people on earth, and theirs ...
LanguageandCultureinCommunication TheoryCommunicationissomethingwedoeveryday.Ittakesplacesonaturallythatwesimplyfailtonoticeituntilithiccupsorbreaksdown.Thoughitiscommonplace,itisnoexaggerationtosaythatcommunicationislifeandlifeiscommunication. Whenyoujoinasocialgathering,youmustbeawareofrulesandproceduresthatgoverntheway...