Silbo Gomero is a variant of Spanish that is whistled rather that spoken. Spoken phonemes are converted to whistles. The whistling can be heard 5 km (over 3 miles) away
This language developed is whistled on the island of La Gomera, one of the Canary Islands.
Your elbow skin doesn’t have a lot of nerve endings. It has to be tough skin to serve it’s function, stretching out over the bent elbow at an acute contact point. More nerves in that location wouldn’t be useful.
And yet pinching the skin on my knee does hurt.
In Berlin itself Berliners are called Pfannkuchen, which would translate more or less as “cake fried in a pan”. The rest of Germany calls them Berliner, except in South Germany and Austria, where they are called Krapfen. Wikipedia (English version) explains Berliner as a doughnut without the hole, which I find funny.
And still when you hit the elbow at a certain angle it hurts like hell. Does not feel useful at all, still that is so.
I learned today that there is something called a parallel cousin and a cross cousin.
Your dad’s brother’s children and your mom’s sister’s children are your parallel cousins. Your dad’s sister’s children and your mom’s brothers children are your cross cousins.
In some cultures this distinction is considered important.
Parallel cousins are also known as ortho-cousins, a fact I learned from a Nero Wolfe novel.
Being near Denmark, they probably eat a Danish dish which resembles bunless hamburgers but are closer to meatballs.
It is very useful to learn to avoid hitting your elbow like that.
You’ll never guess what book I started reading this morning.
That’s the ulnar nerve, buried under the skin:
It’s fairly well protected by running through a groove in the elbow joint, but an impact from the right direction can still get at it.
The overlying skin is nonetheless relatively insensate. A handy feature, given all the objects an elbow might strike, slide on, or rest against during normal use.
Contrast that with the skin six inches higher on the backside of your arm. Pinch that just a bit, and it’s agony.
And then there’s:
The Red Box?
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner!
Don’t spoil it, or I’ll have to put you on my list. I’m not sure how I would implement such a list, but you’ll be on it alright.
Excel ?
Ashton-Tate’s DB IV?
A common one of these is “morph”, from metamorphosis. In that word, “meta” means change and “morph” means shape or form. I want people to start saying things meta into other things!
Edinburgh, on the east coast of Great Britain, is farther west than Liverpool, on the west coast.
So does Mark Zuckerberg