May I ask you for some help with creating character names? I need them for an immortal character who takes on different identities but likes to somehow incorporate his longevity into his name as a private joke. For example he uses "Benjamin" or "Adam" as first names sometimes.
I'd love to have suggestions for suitable names in different languages.
В ответ на такой вопрос часто вытаращивают глаза — "Как кто, да Кирилл же и брат его Методий! "
Нет, конечно.
Братья никогда не бывали на Руси и никакой кириллицы для русских не создавали. Они создали глаголицу по заказу моравского короля, очень красивый и логичный шрифт, до сих пор использующийся хорватами в богослужении.
Зато один из них видел в Херсонесе у одного крещёного варяга молитвенник с "роусьскыми письменами".
Т.е., некто ещё до Кирилла приспособил греческие буквы для записи славянских слов.
У народов Океании "мужской дом", клуб для взрослых мужчин-воинов, прошедших инициацию, куда закрыт вход для женщин и подростков называется "хива" у полинезийцев и "кивунг" у папуасов.
Он стоит высоко на сваях и взобраться туда можно только по узкому бревну с небольшими зарубками. В зарубки можно вставить только большой палец ноги и этот акробатический этюд может исполнить только достаточно сильный мужчина.
Состарился? Ослабел? Не можешь? Тогда тебе нечего делать в собрании воинов. Такой вот простой экзамен на ГТО.
Индейская "кива", дом воинов устроена по тому же принципу. Попасть в неё и выйти можно только через достаточно высоко расположенный люк, подтянувшись на руках и осуществив "выход силой".
Is there a special word (phrase) for a (old master's) painting whose authenticity is beyond disoute and which is used as a benchmark, a point of reference for authenticating and establishing the authorship of other paintings presumably from the same period and / or by the same master? Many thanks!!!
I would like to give a name to nice new genetic elements, the name should sound good in the plural. Do any of these acronyms sound good for scientific English?
HIDER - Homologous if decoded repeat.
HURs
HUDs
Horeses
Hudegs
SSSes
SSSs
ssSeqs
Hurseqs
Seqhurs
Sehurs
Sehors
Sehours
Sehouds
Hodeses
Hodeseqs
Sistseqs
Sists
Strusims
HARs
Struhogs - Structural homologs
SSHogs - structurally similar homologs
Shogs
SHos
Shoseqs
Ssels
Strusels
Strusiels
Shoels
Ssiels
Hodels
Horels
Hourels
Siurels
Surels
SSEs
SHEs - structurally homologous elements
Here are the expanded versions in case you would like to make a new one
Source is a 1934 film, Mandalay, starring Kay Francis. Her character, Tanya, is abandoned by her lover as they cruise the Far East in his yacht. She takes up the only work she can find, "hostessing" in a Rangoon "nightclub" until she gathers enough funds to escape that life. "Spot White is her name?" asks a patron as she makes a glamorous entrance one evening. "It ought to be Spot Cash." I get that reference, but why she would be called Spot White in the first place is a mystery. Any aid appreciated, thanks.
I am watching a lecture by Robert Sapolsky about human behaviour and similarities/differences to/from other animals, and and at about 00:13:20 he talks about male chimpanzees patrolling the borders of their territory, and then I cannot understand the logic of what he's saying.
"And what is very significant is almost certainly all of these male chimps are brothers or close cousins be really scared when the males in the next valley over are getting along with each other because this may be one consequence."
What puzzles me is this "be" before "really scared". Does it make sense to you? Maybe he made some shortcut or maybe I didn't hear something. Could you please help me with this?
