October 4th

1:06 AM I did not know Sputnik means spouse or fellow traveler in Russian but i bet is not used in every day Russian in this way. It is most likely an artificial linguistic construction that nowadays is synonym with satellite. I did not know it had as root the word put which in Russian means path. Sanskrit pathika पथिक, the millennia old Indo-European connection.

With all these said i have to add it is almost an anagram of Putin. And nowadays it is used to name one of their main mews agencies and radio station.

On the other hand, in English we have the very common word spite, which means... The other word that sounds similarly in English is spit, with past tense spat.

I doubt those who choose it did not know the meaning in English. But not the regular Russians who never knew this until now... A very unhappy choice at least which means subconsciously antagonizing the Russians again and again and again... One more reason for the decades long cold war.

Another unhappy linguistic construction that i come across every day (through the license plates i see) is KGB, which in English pronounces cage be. GRU - gross, FSB - frostbite, etc..

1:50 Talking about linguistics. The origin of name Gaga. One of the reasons i don't go to see doctors anymore. And who is behind her.

2:30 More semantics? Iron dome or Iran doom?

8:18 Seen on MSN (Microsoft Network) as a paid ad. I saw many ads in my life but nothing like this. Who's paying for this? What's next? Alien sex?

10:10 Are those lotus motifs? Is that a swastika?