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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2006.04.13 23.42 |
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 "Nors esame pasaulyje tik trys milionai," the song erroneously goes, but despite making up a statistically insignificant population of the world, speakers and writers of Lithuanian have managed to collaborate to move Vikipedija up to 30th on the list of Wikipedias by article count. There's almost 17,000 articles there, waiting to get checked out.
And though I don't use Vikipedija much (I stick to the English, except on matters of Lithuanian history, where I read both articles and compare), it's kind of cool that it's so big. But, as I learned today, there's competition: Vikipedėjė, the žemaičių Vikipedija. It only has 11 articles for now, but watch out! As diaspora members, we've bought into the linguistic nationalism of the Lithuanian state, so our exposure to Samogitian/Žemaitish is rather limited. "Pempel, pempel" is probably the extent of my own famliarity with the dialect/language, and if you compare it to Vikipedėjė, I'm not sure it even counts. But, still, I thought I'd mention the Vikipedėjė for those of you who are interested in seeing something self-consciously žemaitish. Also, the English article about Samogitian includes a brief audio clip of a woman speaking the dialect, which is also worth checking out. Remember, if there's no mutual intelligibility, it's not a dialect (or something).
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2006.04.14 00.03 )
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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2006.04.10 18.37 |
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I came across a cute little assemblage of etymologies of Lithuanian names the other day, and started plugging away. I was rather surprised to find some names that I thought had no chance of being there ("Skaidrys"), and I was startled by others that weren't ("Vija," for example). Still, what's perhaps most interesting is that when looking up my mom's name, "Daiva," this comes up: Daiva (08.06), Daivis – sanskrito daiva „lemtis, dalia“ (Vydūno sukurtas vardas)
It had always struck me as cute that there was a word in Sanskrit , "दौव," that sounded like "Daiva," but I never imagined that the name was, in fact, ported over to Lithuanian by no less a luminary than Vydūnas. This, of course, would serve to be the seed of my grand scheme for my own brood, which was to give all the girls Sanskrit names (Sapna, Kavita, Priya, et cetera...). So what's your name mean? |
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2006.04.11 08.15 )
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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2006.04.08 16.40 |
 princas Harry (iš Lietuvos Ryto) Karo mokslų baigimo proga Didžiosios Britanijos princas Harry su keliais draugais patraukė pasilinksminti į striptizo klubą, šeštadienį pranešė britų bulvariniai laikraščiai. Kaip rašo laikraštis „The Daily Mirror“, trečiasis pagal eilę sosto įpėdinis į vakarus nuo Londono esančiame „Spearmint Rhino“ klube nepanoro pašokti su viena iš pusnuogių merginų, sakydamas: „Ne, dėkui, aš turiu draugę“. Tačiau šokėja, kurią laikraštis vadina Mariela Butkute iš Lietuvos, teigė, jog 21 metų Harry leido jai prisėsti ant kelių trumpo, maždaug 10 minučių pokalbio.
The Daily Mirror article LR references is available here, and it provides some extra content.
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2006.04.09 17.07 )
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Įrašė Moacir P. de Sá Pereira
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2006.04.09 01.00 |
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 Bostono LB will have reception for olympic marathoner Živilė Balčiūnaitė at the Klūbas starting at 5pm on the 17th of April, following her running of the Boston Marathon. Refreshments and a bar. $10.
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Paskutinį kartą atnaujinta ( 2006.04.18 14.09 )
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