Saturday, August 04, 2018

Mail and Stuff

*Mail

Outgoing

Postcards





My niece moved to Texas.

 one letter


*More words with no direct translation to English:


Germany: verschlimmbesserung [versh-lim-bess-air-oong]
To make things worse by trying to improve them.  (Oh, boy, do I recognize the meaning of this one!  Can't really pronounce it, but it perfectly describes certain situations.)
Portugal: saudadenoun
  1. (in Portuguese folk culture) a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent:the theme of saudade in literature and music.
(There are a number of songs and melodies that evoke this feeling for me.  Music does tend to have vivid connections in memories.)

*Books/Reading--finished Val McDermid's Broken Ground and Kate Atkinson's Transcription.  Both are good, but I haven't reviewed them yet.  


9 comments:

  1. Your mail is fantastic. I especially like the bird delivering the letter. He has so much personality. But all the pieces are mailbox jewels!

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    1. Thanks, Annie! I keep experimenting, but also coming back to the cartoon characters. Any excuse to draw them suits me. :)

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  2. There's also a word - which I can't now recall - for "broken because you fixed it". Sometimes I feel that for all the breadth of vocabulary in English, we don't come near to some of the really useful phrases we could have used regularly!

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    1. Ha! "Broken because you (or I) fixed it" is definitely a word I need to add to my vocabulary! If I can't find it, maybe I'll make up a word. My own neologism! :)

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    2. Found it! Farpotshket: There are people in every culture who cause havoc despite their good intentions. The Yiddish language has the perfect word for these people – (pronounced far-Potch-ket) it means something that is broken because someone tried and failed to fix it.

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  3. Such a fun post-language is a fun thing to play with and read about. Always love the mail art too...

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    1. I was almost disappointed to find the word "farposhket"--I was ready to make up my own!

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  4. Your mail art is so whimsical and fun. Whimsy is hard to pull off, but you’re a natural. I wonder what your mail delivery person thinks.

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    1. Thanks, Rian. I think our mailman does enjoy both incoming and outgoing mail, but then he's friendly to everyone. :)

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