Nimănui nu i-ar veni uşor să scrie ce urmează. Dar fiindcă nu există
altă soluţie şi trebuie luate măsuri - cel puţin dacă România vrea să
aibă o alură internaţională, cu cât mai repede cu atât mai bine. Nu ştiu
cât ar dura să se marginalizeze şi elimine treptat nişte cuvinte din limba
română, dar altă soluţie nu este. Mai mult ca sigur că aceste cuvinte
au fost aduse de la periferia în centrul lexicului român în ultimii 50-100
ani. Dacă mai faceţi şi clic pe cuvintele în albastru veţi înţelege şi mai bine decât am încercat să explic eu de ce.
Pentru cei ce nu înţeleg că un cuvânt poate apare şi dispare într-o limbă, printre primele exemple de mai jos (exemplele, de altfel sunt în ordine alfabetică) este un exemplu de cuvânt care a fost anterior un termen de specialitate (demenţial) şi acum a câştigat statut de cuvânt foarte folosit, statut câştigat foarte recent.
crap - nume de peşte în română, din bulgarul krap. După cum în româneşte tot ce e ca un dulap alb, are uşă şi ţine frig înăuntru se numeşte frigider, cuvânt care aminteşte de frigid-aire (nici o aluzie trecutelor din viaţa mea şi unele chiar prezente încă doamne şi domnişoare), sintagmă însuşită, aţi ghicit, da, de o corporaţie, care a pus copyright pe încă o expresie; în engleză, crap vine de la crapper, care, aţi ghicit din nou, a fost nume de inventator şi apoi de firmă. (LOL, mă gândeam acum, la peşte în română, al doilea sens este... ştiţi voi...)
cum - să nu mai zic că de-acum tot românul cu internet ştie.
curcubeu - etimologie necunoscută, pare un cuvânt compus, să ne spună istoricii lingviști de unde dreaq mai vine în română că eu nu găsesc nimic. LOL ce coincidenţă... beu e aşa dracula iar dacă îi mai adaugi o singură literă devine beau care în engleză înseamnă amant masculin iar cu altă literă adăugată devine iarăşi belu.
demenţial - nu a fost modificat dar intens promovat cu înţeles de super. La fel şi bestial, de belea, etc. Apropo, să nu uităm de cimitirul Belu, o denumire mult mai veche, şi dacă tot veni vorba de cimitire, să amintim aici şi Ghencea, nume ce provine din limba turcă, inconfortabil de aproape de toponimia biblică Gheena care provine din ebraicul גיהינום, Geh-heh-nom sau chiar de cuvântul românesc ghenă.
domn -
Cred că e singura limbă în care se foloseşte acelaşi cuvânt -
interschimbabil - cu D pentru Dumnezeu ca şi cu d pentru formula de politeţe. Mai
este lord în engleză, dar sunt foarte puţini cei care au acest titlu. În
România toţi sunt domni, domnişoare şi doamne. Mai este şi expresia
"vai doamne!" sau simplu "doamne!" care poate arăta mirare într-o conversaţie, care poate
confuza mult pe un neobişnuit cu limba română fiindcă este o exprimare la persoana a 2-a care poate fi confundată cu partenerul de conversaţie. Interesant de menţionat că pe vremea dictaturii, adică vreo 50 de ani cuvântul domn nu a mai fost folosit decât în biserici, cu D mare şi reintrodus glorios în vorbirea curentă odată cu recâştigarea statutului de democraţie. Astfel dictatura are încă o notă bună, de nefolosire a acestui cuvânt. Deci un exemplu, mai singular, de cuvânt folosit în această formă începând într-o perioadă cred eu modernă, dispărut brusc 50 ani şi iar apărut. Deci se poate renunţa la un cuvânt, asta am vrut să spun.
drag - dar îl evocă şi pe ştiţi voi cine.
duş - chiar nu am reuşit să înţeleg niciodată de ce acest cuvânt care este acelaşi la pronunţare şi înţeles cu cel din franceză, a deviat aşa de mult de la înţeles în engleză, împreună cu multe alelele. (asta este şi o problemă franco-engleză, care la noi putea fi evitată la alegerea şi promovarea neologismelor.) Pentru cei ce nu ştiu, hai să menţionez aici în treacăt că a existat aşa ceva, mai ales într-o cultură centralizată, unde cei de sus făceau trendul pe vremea când numai ei aveau contact cu lumea.
fac - fiindcă se pronunţă ca fuck (aveam un coleg la AVX american care învăţase faza de la alţi "colegi români" (acum ştiu că de fapt erau personaje) şi din când mă întreba, cu gura până la urechi: ce faci George?)
iubit = ubit
- în engleză pentru acest scop se foloseşte boy-friend sau girl-friend,
în română a fost prieten, dar a fost marginalizat mai ales de presă, mai
ales în ultimii ani. Cuvântul prieten în română are origine sanscrită sau proto-sanscrită, la fel ca multe altele - situaţie unică între celelalte limbi indo-europene -
cu rădăcina pri, care în sanscrită înseamnă plăcut, şi a mai dat în română verbul a prii.
mici - prea aproape de "cei mici", (the little ones). Forma lor, cam dubioasă. Românii, aduşi la adicţie, era una din puţinele delicatese sub dictatură. Aduşi în atenţie internaţională prin recentul scandal - artificial de altfel, sunt atâtea produse gen sărăţele, covrigei (pretzels), biscuiţi digestivi, etc. care au bicarbonat în reţetă. De altfel foarte asemănători la reţetă şi preparare cu burgers.
mitici sau mitici, cu accent pe primul i sau al doilea?
odor
poop - recent intrat în "lexiconul" românesc, este folosit peste tot în relaţiile on-line.
ţeapă - intens promovat, folosit şi în media, de persoane cu şcoală, prea aproape de personajul mitic pentru a nu deranja.
Dragoş - pe aproape de dragon.
Gheorghe - vechi nume românesc care provine din limba greacă, Γεώργιος, cu ruda lui Джордж în rusă, Giorgio în italiană, dar şi Georges şi George în franceză şi engleză. Ortografia curentă provine din "europenizare", în română nu e mare diferenţă de pronunţare dacă se scrie Gheorghe sau Ghiorghi.
Coincidenţă nefericită cu ascendenţa cuvântului gay, care de la blajinul înţeles de vesel, de la începutul secolului, la ce a ajuns acum, prin promoţie sălbatică. Un cuvânt bine definit şi cu înţeles clar în limba engleză pentru sute de ani a fost deturnat prin mijloace artificiale, greu de înţeles pentru omul de rând şi chiar lingvişti amatori. Profesioniştii ştiu. Mi s-a cerut de multe ori, la mişto, să spun cum se scrie şi se pronunţă numele meu în română, de către vorbitori de limbă engleză şi am fost nevoit să le explic, iar ei se făceau că nu înţeleg exact şi repetau, gay-or-gay?, iar eu exasperat, spuneam yeah, right..., fiindcă Gheorghe e numele meu înscris pe acte. Apropo, şi cuvântul homosexual are o etimologie forţată şi abuzivă începând cu engleza, am mai scris.
Gigi - e şi mai naşpa fiindcă în America e nume de femeie.
Iaşi - până nu demult localitatea se numea Eşi sau Ieşi (dulcele târg al
Ieşilor, Creangă).
Ion - care în engleză se pronunţă la fel ca ion, pozitiv sau negativ, mai mult negativ
prin promoţia mărcii de maşină Saturn Ion. Saturn este zeul care îşi
mănâncă singur copiii şi are un nume şi pronunţie în engleză foarte
aproape de Satan. Ion este un cuvânt care apare şi pe la icoanele
sataniştilor, nu ştiu exact de ce. A nu se confunda cu Ioan, un nume
mult întâlnit în Biblie, au fost nişte personaje prin anturajul meu cu
numele Ioan, pentru a scoate diferenţa la suprafaţă. I on se pronunţă
identic şi denotă egoismul şi excitarea, iar eye on supraveghere,
urmărire sau hipnotizare. Ion în engleză se pronunţă aproape la fel a iron care este o componentă a sângelui. Mai evocă şi cuvinte lion şi Zion.
Liviu - fiindcă se pronunţă aproape la fel ca live you, leave you dar cel mai aproape cuvânt în engleză este livid.
mă rog - folosit în conversaţie cu înţeles de whatever. Nu mă pot gândi la un echivalent în română acum. Nimeni nu înţelege logica acestei expresii folosită de multe ori în conversaţii pentru o pauză, sau a sublinia o lipsă de motivaţie sau o motivaţie a unei acţiuni. Tocmai această lipsă totală de logică îi dă celui neobişnuit cu expresia un sens blasfemic, pentru cei ce ştiu ce înseamnă aceasta.
Nicu - seamănă prea mult cu neck you. (Cine a fost Nicolaus Olahus?).
Vlad - ce să mai spun de ăsta.
Există o campanie pe plan mondial de a modifica cuvinte sau înţelesul cuvintelor pentru a servi scopurile unora şi nu neapărat pe termen scurt. Această campanie are loc concomitent în mai multe limbi din care ce ştiu eu sigur, engleza şi româna.
- lista este mult mai lungă, acestea scrise deja sunt cele mai importante.
Lingviştii, mai ales cei români nu se pot implica fiindcă au fost de mult cumpăraţi cu bucata sau şantajaţi. Mai apare câte un ziarist nou şi face pe eroul cu câte un articol, dar este terminat imediat.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Saturday, May 11, 2013
FINITI
For those who keep asking themselves what's going on with the world, why there are two popes in Rome and especially why the music has gone so bad, here is a possible answer, the COMCAST XFINITI logo. Everybody knows that in west people say X-mass instead of Christmas. Xfinity is a Comcast logo. Comcast itself contains a crescent in it and the X from Xfinity in this logo is depicted as a falling cross. I'm not such a devoted christian but this is scary to me because of the means they use and because i know who these guys are. (Don't ask me what com or cast stand for.) You can find the same symbols, the crescent and the cross combined in the communist logo masquerading a sickle and a hammer.
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
"Adding Images to Getty ... Has Been Disabled"
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39325385@N07/6433321725/
There are years since i was trying the first time to sell images to Getty, Fotolia, Shuterstock, etc. Now i realize why dr.Negru and others on flickr told me years ago i should try and sell my pictures there. (So i signed up with them so they can send me emails.) For most of them the sign-up process and the account is the same for buying or selling. So they can say i'm buying my pictures from them. Cause they never bought any pictures from me. (There are a couple of reasons: I don't need them and i don't have money).
Today i finally got an email from Getty after years since i've signed up with flickr asking me to complete a survey to tell them about the types of cameras i use.
It's none of your business Mr.Getty or Klein or whoever how i use my cameras and how i do get this type of quality i haven't seen yet in any of the pictures watermarked Getty in the news media. And it wouldn't be for a long time. It took me some 20 years (since i got my first SLR) to figure it out. It's gone be a while until the camera manufacturers themselves will understand these things and then be taught in photography schools. (or maybe they know and apply them only to high end models).
And if i had a more expensive camera than the one i use i would do even better.
However i respect this camera. It's got a large CCD sensor, larger than any in its class. Stability control on sensor. It is heavy. All of the moving parts are controlled mechanically and probably counter-ballanced. It has a mirror and a second sensor. The lens although cheap, designed by Minolta, favor colors. High precision, though cheap, cast lens.
It is true most of the times when i take pictures there are many photographers on the site.
But i will not complete the survey as a photographer's exam.
The game your are playing is a media one. It involves convincing a majority i am posing as a photographer. So was Lady Gaga and so many others. Real photographers know but they also can be bought.
There are years since i was trying the first time to sell images to Getty, Fotolia, Shuterstock, etc. Now i realize why dr.Negru and others on flickr told me years ago i should try and sell my pictures there. (So i signed up with them so they can send me emails.) For most of them the sign-up process and the account is the same for buying or selling. So they can say i'm buying my pictures from them. Cause they never bought any pictures from me. (There are a couple of reasons: I don't need them and i don't have money).
Today i finally got an email from Getty after years since i've signed up with flickr asking me to complete a survey to tell them about the types of cameras i use.
It's none of your business Mr.Getty or Klein or whoever how i use my cameras and how i do get this type of quality i haven't seen yet in any of the pictures watermarked Getty in the news media. And it wouldn't be for a long time. It took me some 20 years (since i got my first SLR) to figure it out. It's gone be a while until the camera manufacturers themselves will understand these things and then be taught in photography schools. (or maybe they know and apply them only to high end models).
And if i had a more expensive camera than the one i use i would do even better.
However i respect this camera. It's got a large CCD sensor, larger than any in its class. Stability control on sensor. It is heavy. All of the moving parts are controlled mechanically and probably counter-ballanced. It has a mirror and a second sensor. The lens although cheap, designed by Minolta, favor colors. High precision, though cheap, cast lens.
It is true most of the times when i take pictures there are many photographers on the site.
But i will not complete the survey as a photographer's exam.
The game your are playing is a media one. It involves convincing a majority i am posing as a photographer. So was Lady Gaga and so many others. Real photographers know but they also can be bought.
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Hello!
As we mentioned in our Contributor Community Headlines newsletter last week, we have a surprising number of clients who ask us what camera brand a photo was taken with, or to do searches for them based on the brand, because they are doing an ad or other project for a particular manufacturer.
To help facilitate those searches and hopefully generate more sales for you, we’re asking you to take a short survey about the camera(s) you use when creating images you send to us. We’ll use the results internally for reference, and may also occasionally share them with a client who is doing their own searching.
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Carpet Pad
In the last month, maybe years, i started to have some neurological problems. Main symptom is general weakness, slight paralysis especially in the spine. There are better days and worse days.
But lately i started to make a link between the temperature, the vibrations and my symptoms. And i think i found the problem i suspected before. It's the pad under the carpet.
I believe in the summer of 2011 i tried to replace it. I wrote about here. I gave up because the new one was smelling the same.
Yesterday at times i was feeling like could not stand or walk easily. Lately there's been a lot of stomping around here. Apparently i have a new heavy weight neighbor down stairs who likes to cook and move around. So he's shaking the building really bad, sometimes for hours.
Vibrations also come from planes, helicopters (every time i leave the building at least one plane making big noise showes up, i just came back when i started to write this from a short walk (a different story), when i left there was a heavy helicopter at maybe 300 ft above, probably the OHSU helicopter), or from heavy diesel powered trucks, like the garbage truck this morning. Garbage truck comes always when i eat or immediately after. Always.
When the building shakes or vibrates, whatever is being released by the padding mixes with the air in the room faster and the concentration is bigger. Dust also falls from the walls. At times i feel high. At times like i cannot breathe easily. Lately i feel some sort of weird pain and paralysis on my spine.
The smell of the padding is a combination of sweet smell, diesel fuel smell and 10 year old worn-out perspired snickers.
So i decided to do something about. And i was thinking. 2 years ago, under the padding, on the floor i put some self adhesive shelf liner when i tried to replace the padding, to seal the floor. About 10 rolls in total. Above the padding there is some sort of thin plastic foil i thin that has holes at places. But actually the pad is sandwiched between two foils of plastic. So i injected 6% chlorine for home use between these two foils, in many places, using a syringe needle with a small polyethylene bottle (flux dispenser for soldering) one foot apart for the whole area except under the furniture. That sweet smell is gone but now it smells like chlorine and i think the chlorine is trapped between those two foils and will stay there for a while.
For those who don't understand what's going on, the small pad in the picture from the link above has been in the closet in the balcony for almost a year and it smells so bad i cannot describe. The smell didn't go away.
But i believe the pad itself is not enough to explain what's happening. Probably whatever substance is coming from it is combining with something, maybe sulfur from the walls, i don't know (Sheetrock is made of gypsum, which is calcium sulfate, that in certain conditions can decompose).
But lately i started to make a link between the temperature, the vibrations and my symptoms. And i think i found the problem i suspected before. It's the pad under the carpet.
I believe in the summer of 2011 i tried to replace it. I wrote about here. I gave up because the new one was smelling the same.
Yesterday at times i was feeling like could not stand or walk easily. Lately there's been a lot of stomping around here. Apparently i have a new heavy weight neighbor down stairs who likes to cook and move around. So he's shaking the building really bad, sometimes for hours.
Vibrations also come from planes, helicopters (every time i leave the building at least one plane making big noise showes up, i just came back when i started to write this from a short walk (a different story), when i left there was a heavy helicopter at maybe 300 ft above, probably the OHSU helicopter), or from heavy diesel powered trucks, like the garbage truck this morning. Garbage truck comes always when i eat or immediately after. Always.
When the building shakes or vibrates, whatever is being released by the padding mixes with the air in the room faster and the concentration is bigger. Dust also falls from the walls. At times i feel high. At times like i cannot breathe easily. Lately i feel some sort of weird pain and paralysis on my spine.
The smell of the padding is a combination of sweet smell, diesel fuel smell and 10 year old worn-out perspired snickers.
So i decided to do something about. And i was thinking. 2 years ago, under the padding, on the floor i put some self adhesive shelf liner when i tried to replace the padding, to seal the floor. About 10 rolls in total. Above the padding there is some sort of thin plastic foil i thin that has holes at places. But actually the pad is sandwiched between two foils of plastic. So i injected 6% chlorine for home use between these two foils, in many places, using a syringe needle with a small polyethylene bottle (flux dispenser for soldering) one foot apart for the whole area except under the furniture. That sweet smell is gone but now it smells like chlorine and i think the chlorine is trapped between those two foils and will stay there for a while.
For those who don't understand what's going on, the small pad in the picture from the link above has been in the closet in the balcony for almost a year and it smells so bad i cannot describe. The smell didn't go away.
But i believe the pad itself is not enough to explain what's happening. Probably whatever substance is coming from it is combining with something, maybe sulfur from the walls, i don't know (Sheetrock is made of gypsum, which is calcium sulfate, that in certain conditions can decompose).
Monday, May 6, 2013
Orthodox Easter Eve
This post has been triggered by the reports in the news about cougar sightings near a Lake Oswego Elementary School at post date and time.
Last Saturday was Orthodox Christian Easter Eve. Tradition says you have to fast at least as much as you can during the previous period (by eating vegetarian food). I did not. I don't think i'm going to go to any of the Romanian Orthodox Curches in the area anymore. Maybe none of the Romanian Churches. Because i don't know exactly who is coming there, and even if there's barely any Romanians. Especially after seeing this guy at Saint Mary's when i've been last time in there.
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At the Church i arrived @2 AM, the service was still going on, first i parked on the alley but i saw this nervous guy checking his van with a flash light and i moved next on the street, and i was amazed by the amount of traffic at that time and the fumes from the exhaust, maybe two cars a minute, always coming from different directions and meeting at that place, went back on the alley, the guy checked his van again, i think he had a dog in there, then my wife came and i took her home. On 43 before down town Lake Oswego i saw a coyote and almost hit a raccoon. On down town Lake Oswego the Police stopped me for going 37 in a 25 area and gave me a warning ticket. My wife had a couple of small plastic jars with ceremonial wine and bread from the Church in her hands. I saw two more Police cars on the empty streets before i got home, one near the broken car that was being towed.
Last Saturday was Orthodox Christian Easter Eve. Tradition says you have to fast at least as much as you can during the previous period (by eating vegetarian food). I did not. I don't think i'm going to go to any of the Romanian Orthodox Curches in the area anymore. Maybe none of the Romanian Churches. Because i don't know exactly who is coming there, and even if there's barely any Romanians. Especially after seeing this guy at Saint Mary's when i've been last time in there.
04/14/2013 10:34:18 AM St Mary Orthodox Church Portland, OR
So i decided not to go. Especially after the week that passed, with our new neighbors and noises and stomping. I mean i was exhausted.
Saturday just before midnight i was barely awake. My wife wanted to go alone and i should just let her but she didn't sleep more than a few hours the night before and only one hour that afternoon. I am a more experienced driver despite being so tired. So i left, and realized i am very low on gas. The light was on. There was all kinds of smoke on the street and i noticed last week the sound of a small exhaust leak (again) under the hood so i used a breathing mask.
None of the gas station we saw on the road were open.
We arrived at the Descent of the Holy Spirit Church in Oregon City exactly when they were going round the church (Within Orthodox Churches at Easter tradition requires going round the church three times at a certain time during the special Easter Liturgy. So when i turned around to leave my headlights were beaming the whole crowd, could not turn them down, they're automatic.)
I went back with no major incidents. I found gas at a station on Nyberg St. At home minutes after i got inside i noticed the dust mask i was wearing was smelling a lot like unburnt emissions, oil and gasoline. Either from my exhaust leak from under hood or from the street.
Around 1:30 i went back to pick her up. On McNary right after the intersection with Monroe (LOL this is the first time i realized it's the last stage name of the diva), right after i left home, two Police cars were securing the road because of a broken car. They allowed me to pass on the other lane, and i went forward. Then i choose 43. Then at the ramp of 43 towards 205 N, in the middle of the "clover leaf", a deer showed up on the right, about to cross the ramp. I saw it in time, gently hit the breaks, i would have had time to stop, on the very curved ramp, when the deer changed its mind and went back on the right and uphill. What would have happened if i didn't see it and the deer had crossed the ramp? Probably would have lost control because of the curve.
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At the Church i arrived @2 AM, the service was still going on, first i parked on the alley but i saw this nervous guy checking his van with a flash light and i moved next on the street, and i was amazed by the amount of traffic at that time and the fumes from the exhaust, maybe two cars a minute, always coming from different directions and meeting at that place, went back on the alley, the guy checked his van again, i think he had a dog in there, then my wife came and i took her home. On 43 before down town Lake Oswego i saw a coyote and almost hit a raccoon. On down town Lake Oswego the Police stopped me for going 37 in a 25 area and gave me a warning ticket. My wife had a couple of small plastic jars with ceremonial wine and bread from the Church in her hands. I saw two more Police cars on the empty streets before i got home, one near the broken car that was being towed.