d.t.fabula

Language Learner, speak 🇬🇧🇫🇷 learn 🇵🇹🇬🇷
Care about marine protection, european politics & culture.

[Laura El @iamlaurael]

My Illustration -Dog Days of Summer. 2023🌞

[Patrick Dexter @patrickdextervc]

The Auld Triangle. Brón an domhain i mo chroí

#RIPGlenHansard

[d.t.fabula @dt_fabula]

@realTomBohn N̈

[Karsten_mit_C @Karsten_mit_C]

@JasminKosubek Alles Einzelfälle im besten Deutschland aller Zeiten 🫠

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

When Judi Dench recited Shakespeare on The Graham Norton Show, it moved people to tears—not just because of her brilliance, but because it reminded us how deeply we crave poetry, romance, and beauty.

[Paul J. Pastor @pauljpastor]

I am grieved by the coarsening and cheapening of the world. It is everywhere, in our language, in our clothing, in our cities, in our manners. Please resist it, at every turn, with the ancient warrior spirit of courtesy--living fully, graciously, and with strong heart.

[d.t.fabula @dt_fabula]

@BettinaSRoss1 Dankeschön, liebe Bettina! 🤗 Ich bin immer mal wieder erstaunt, was es für tolle Wortschöpfungen in der deutschen Sprache gibt... 💛

[James Hogg @JamesAHogg2]

Your prize for making it to Friday is 92 seconds of Kenneth Williams talking about accents.

Good morning.

[Kirkdale Bookshop @KirkdaleBooks]

"Have you got Machiavelli's The Little Prince?"

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

In Old English, the ampersand, '&', was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. Children reciting the alphabet in school would chant 'per se', Latin for 'by itself', after letters that were words in themselves: 'A per se A, I per se I', etc, and also '& per se &'. This 'and per se and' eventually became mangled to 'ampersand'.

The symbol & was Roman shorthand for 'et', 'and'.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Shhh.. She’s fixing the world.. 😊

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

How to say “a stone’s throw away” in different languages…

6. A beret’s throw away (Polish)
5. A cat’s jump (German)
4. A small step of a rooster (Afrikaans)
3. At the end of an earlobe (Georgian)
2. As close as eyebrows and eyelashes (Mandarin)
1. At a dick’s length (Bulgarian)

[d.t.fabula @dt_fabula]

@gilestelscanvas This song always makes me think of Elwing, Elrond and Elros 🌟🌙

https://t.co/gUM1VWAf6p

[The Ocean Cleanup @TheOceanCleanup]

Our partner @teamseas is on tour to capture the impact of your donations - over $30m - on oceans and rivers.

Recently, they visited our Interceptors in Kingston, Jamaica, and invited a local reggae artist @Warriorking9 and his wife to see it for themselves. 🇯🇲

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing that I think everyone should consider:
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1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.⁣
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2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.⁣
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3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.⁣
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4. Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.⁣
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5. Start as close to the end as possible.⁣
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6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them-in order that the reader may see what they are made of.⁣
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7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.⁣
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8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.⁣

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

Best names for the @ symbol from various languages:

8. Alpha twirl (Norwegian)
7. Strudel (Hebrew)
6. Cinnamon roll (Swedish)
5. Little duck (Greek)
4. Monkey bracket (German)
3. Meow sign (Finnish)
2. Moon’s ear (Kazakh)
1. The ‘at’ symbol (English, the language of Shakespeare)

[Adam Sharp @AdamCSharp]

In 1990s Germany there was a trend of thinking up names for wimps, also known as Weicheiwörter (“soft egg words”). This is a thread of my favourites, starting with these…

Warmduscher = warm-water-showerer

Backofenvorheizer = oven-preheater

Sitzpinkler = sitting-down-pisser

[Living London History | Jack Chesher @livinglondonhis]

A hidden garden by Cannon Street station! 👇🍃

[d.t.fabula @dt_fabula]

@ElrondsPoem Beautiful! 💚