The Famous Bear From Darkest Peru

Let me tell you what I've been learning

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Translation: "The church of St. Mary in the hollow of white hazel trees near the rapid whirlpool by St. Tysilio's of the red cave"

This is the name of a Welsh town - it contains 51 letters (Welsh double l counts as one). The name of the town was much much shorter prior to the 1800s, when the town council extended the name as a way to encourage trains, travellers and tourists to stop en route to Chester or Holyhead. However, this is not the longest place name around.

Tetaumatawhakatangihangakoauaotamateaurehaeaturipukapihimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuaakitanarahu.

Translation from Maori:"The brow of the hill where Tamatea, with the bony knees, who slid and climbed mountains, the great traveller, sat and played on the flute to his beloved."

This is a town in New Zealand and is the current holder of the Guiness World Record for longest place name (92 characters I think), although apparently there's a place in Thailand which isn't counted.....

(Thanks http://www.llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.com/)

Just a Thought

For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.

- 1 Corinthians 10:33

Wouldn't it be fantastic for this to be 100% true about every aspect of our lives?

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

My Year of Beaches

- Racecourse beach, January 2009

- Shell beach, January 2009

- Bondi Beach, Feb 2009

- Beach at Hawkes Nest, July 2009

- Beach at Lake Tabourie, November 2009

- Mollymook Beach, November 2009

Beach between Lake Tabourie and Burrill Lake, November 2009

Thought #2,000,007

So I was thinking the other day, purely for your benefit blog readers, about the way in which drama in many books and television shows is created.

You know how? By lie and misunderstandings due to the fact that people a) feel the need to 'hide'certain facts or b) just can't tell how they feel.

This is the basis of drama.

Return to Inspiration From Quotes

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur

- Doug Larson

The logic in this quote is slightly askew, but I like it all the same. Because it points to the bizarre nature of the English Language, which makes it rich and diverse and interesting. And reveals it's history.

How many languages in the world are as global as English, and reveal it by their pure existence? By the words that make it up? English is nearly almost everywhere, and its 'vocabulary' so to speak is a testament to this fact. The words of English are actually an amalgamation of words from all over the world - or at least, too many nations and languages to mention.

And this is why English 'doesn't make sense', why it is the number one most difficult language to learn according to my father, who says that that is according to the SMH. But, as we verge onto this territory, I would juts like to point you toward this post. Enjoy, I did (hence why I posted it).

Wow

The other day I found Monqiue's tumblr (thanks Paul), and I liked it. But also, it made me appreciate how individual we all are. That you can give every person in the world a pen and paper (or a keyboard and blog) and they will all come up with something different. Similar, maybe, but with subtle differences in word choice, style, subject choice, openness. It's amazing.

Which means that God is.