La Empanadanada

Empanadanada

En un bar notable yace, una tentación visual,

Los ojos hambrientos en trance, un aviso crucial!

Llena de nada y totalmente sin sazón

La empanadanada tiene sabor desilusión

Yankee en la Verdulería

El yankee en la verdulería

Ninguna fruta su nombre sabía

"¿Cómo se llama esto?" preguntó

"Es pera", el dueño le respondió

El yankee esperó sin saber

Y el dueño no supo qué hacer

Sin encontrar solución, ni salida

Por siempre se quedó, en la verdulería

Delicious recipe for glass noodles

First boil some spaghetti,  then immediately strain the boiling water out of the spaghetti with a tempered glass lid that is somewhat chilled. Recommended serving: do not.

Flight of the Timid Gull

Resurrecting the poetry tag on the blog to share a recent poem. The inspiration was the difference between the seagulls in Turkey (martı), and the ones in Patagonia. In Turkey - they are crazy - swooping like crazy and catching Ottoman bagels in mid-air (Simit).

In Patagonia it was pathetic, this is the specific seagull - it keep circling around looking at, but not even getting close to eat the bread until the tourist got frustrated and tossed it in the water.

Genesis, the Torah / Bible in Hieroglyphics 𓏴𓂝𓇴𓃾𓁶𓉐

It is generally accepted that the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet that the Torah was written in was derived from the ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics via Proto-Sinaic script. The modern sounds for the glyphs often come directly from the word, for example the Hebrew ע (ayin) which means eye is derived from the ancient hieroglyph for eye 𓁹. While the shapes became totally morphed, the order and meaning is unmistakeable. Note that the ancient Egyptians likely had different phonemes for each of glyphs and a different order. But the order of this "Aleph Bet" was passed on through Phoenician to Greek and spawned off most of the written scripts in use today (including this very one: AB[C]D).

We can write the Torah / Bible in hieroglyphics because of this ancient (nearly) 1-1 mapping from Paleo-Hebrew to ancient hieroglyphics, and because some awesome people have labored to expand unicode to include all the needed hieroglyphics!  For example: בראשית becomes 𓏴𓂝𓇴𓃾𓁶𓉐

You can download the complete genesis in hieroglyphics here, and see the first parsha / chapter below.

Note a few things to note:

• The Hebrew came from sefira.org, Tanach with Text Only (Hebrew). text without tags.
• Processing was done in python; can be done for the other books if needed.
• I wasn't fancy enough to get the right-to-left thing working, so the text here has all the characters in backwards order.
• There is some ambiguity in the mapping for example ו (vav/upf עוף) could be 𓅱 or 𓌉. In these cases I tried to choose the cooler looking glyph.

Genesis / בראשית / 𓏴𓂝𓇴𓃾𓁶𓉐

𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓉐 𓏴𓂝𓇴𓃾𓁶𓉐

𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓂝𓆓𓂋 𓋿𓁹 𓏴𓂋𓉗𓁶𓈖 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓉗𓅱𓁶𓅱 𓈖𓅱𓀠𓏴 𓂝𓆓𓂋 𓋿𓁹 𓂧𓇴𓉗𓅱 𓅱𓀠𓉐𓅱 𓅱𓀠𓏴 𓀠𓏴𓂝𓀠 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠𓅱

𓁶𓅱𓃾 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓁶𓅱𓃾 𓂝𓀠𓂝 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓂧𓇴𓉗𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐𓅱 𓁶𓅱𓃾𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓋿𓆛𓉐𓂝𓅱 𓉐𓅱𓄤 𓂝𓂧 𓁶𓅱𓃾𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓂝𓅱

𓆛𓉗𓃾 𓈖𓅱𓂝 𓁶𓎗𓉐 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓉐𓁶𓁹 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓀠𓋿𓂝𓋿 𓃾𓁶𓎗 𓂧𓇴𓉗𓋿𓅱 𓈖𓅱𓂝 𓁶𓅱𓃾𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓎗𓂝𓅱

𓈖𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓈖 𓆓𓂝𓉐 𓋿𓂝𓆛𓉐𓈖 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓂧𓅱𓏴𓉐 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶 𓂝𓀠𓂝 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓆓𓂧 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶𓋿 𓋿𓁹𓈖 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐𓅱 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶𓋿 𓏴𓉗𓏴𓈖 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐 𓋿𓆛𓉐𓂝𓅱 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓇴𓁹𓂝𓅱

𓂝𓆓𓇴 𓈖𓅱𓂝 𓁶𓎗𓉐 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓉐𓁶𓁹 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓎗𓂝𓅱

𓆓𓂧 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓀠𓇴𓉐𓂝𓀠 𓀠𓃾𓁶𓏴𓅱 𓆛𓉗𓃾 𓈖𓅱𓎗𓈖 𓋿𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓏴𓉗𓏴𓈖 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓅱𓅱𓎗𓂝 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓉐𓅱𓄤 𓂝𓂧 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓂝𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓂝 𓃾𓁶𓎗 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓀠𓅱𓎗𓈖𓋿𓅱 𓇑𓁶𓃾 𓀠𓇴𓉐𓂝𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓎗𓂝𓅱

𓆓𓂧 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓁹 𓅱𓉐 𓅱𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓅱𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓂝𓁶𓂋 𓀠𓇴𓁹 𓂝𓁶𓂋 𓇑𓁹 𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓁹𓂝𓁶𓈔𓈖 𓉐𓇴𓁹 𓃾𓇴𓆛 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓃾𓇴𓆛𓏴 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓉐𓅱𓄤 𓂝𓂧 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓂝𓅱 𓅱𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓅱𓉐 𓅱𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓂝𓁶𓂋 𓀠𓇴𓁹 𓇑𓁹𓅱 𓅱𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓁹𓂝𓁶𓈔𓈖 𓉐𓇴𓁹 𓃾𓇴𓆛 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓃾𓇑𓅱𓏴𓅱

𓂝𓇴𓂝𓋿𓇴 𓈖𓅱𓂝 𓁶𓎗𓉐 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓉐𓁶𓁹 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱

𓈖𓂝𓆓𓇴𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓂝𓋿𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓆛𓁹𓅱𓈖𓋿𓅱 𓏴𓏴𓃾𓋿 𓅱𓂝𓀠𓅱 𓀠𓋿𓂝𓋿𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐𓅱 𓈖𓅱𓂝𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐 𓋿𓂝𓆛𓉐𓀠𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶𓉐 𓏴𓁶𓃾𓈖 𓂝𓀠𓂝 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓆓𓂧 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓁹 𓁶𓂝𓃾𓀠𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶𓉐 𓏴𓁶𓅱𓃾𓈖𓋿 𓅱𓂝𓀠𓅱

𓈖𓂝𓉐𓂧𓅱𓂧𓀠 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓀠𓋿𓂝𓋿𓀠 𓏴𓋿𓇴𓈖𓈖𓋿 𓆓𓄤𓎗𓀠 𓁶𓅱𓃾𓈖𓀠 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓈖𓅱𓂝𓀠 𓏴𓋿𓇴𓈖𓈖𓋿 𓋿𓆛𓌙𓀠 𓁶𓅱𓃾𓈖𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓋿𓆛𓌙𓀠 𓏴𓁶𓃾𓈖𓀠 𓂝𓆓𓇴 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓇴𓁹𓂝𓅱

𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓁹 𓁶𓂝𓃾𓀠𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶𓉐 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓈖𓏴𓃾 𓆓𓏴𓂝𓅱

𓉐𓅱𓄤 𓂝𓂧 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓂝𓅱 𓂧𓇴𓉗𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐𓅱 𓁶𓅱𓃾𓀠 𓆓𓂝𓉐 𓋿𓂝𓆛𓉐𓀠𓋿𓅱 𓀠𓋿𓂝𓋿𓉐𓅱 𓈖𓅱𓂝𓉐 𓋿𓇴𓈖𓋿𓅱

𓂝𓁹𓂝𓉐𓁶 𓈖𓅱𓂝 𓁶𓎗𓉐 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓉐𓁶𓁹 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱

𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓁹𓂝𓎗𓁶 𓂝𓆓𓂋 𓋿𓁹 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓁹 𓂋𓂋𓅱𓁹𓂝 𓂋𓅱𓁹𓅱 𓀠𓂝𓉗 𓇴𓂋𓆓 𓇑𓁶𓇴 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓅱𓇑𓁶𓇴𓂝 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓉐𓅱𓄤 𓂝𓂧 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓂝𓅱 𓅱𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓂋𓆓𓂧 𓂋𓅱𓁹 𓋿𓂧 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓈖𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓅱𓇑𓁶𓇴 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓏴𓇴𓈖𓁶𓀠 𓀠𓂝𓉗𓀠 𓇴𓂋𓆓 𓋿𓂧 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓋿𓆛𓌙𓀠 𓈖𓆓𓂝𓆓𓏴𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓉐𓂝𓅱

𓇑𓁶𓃾𓉐 𓉐𓁶𓂝 𓂋𓅱𓁹𓀠𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓂝𓉐 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓅱𓃾𓋿𓈖𓅱 𓅱𓉐𓁶𓅱 𓅱𓁶𓂋 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓋿 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓈖𓏴𓃾 𓂧𓁶𓉐𓂝𓅱

𓂝𓇴𓂝𓈖𓉗 𓈖𓅱𓂝 𓁶𓎗𓉐 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓉐𓁶𓁹 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱

𓆓𓂧 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓇑𓁶𓃾 𓅱𓏴𓂝𓉗𓅱 𓇴𓈖𓁶𓅱 𓀠𓈖𓀠𓉐 𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓀠𓂝𓉗 𓇴𓂋𓆓 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓃾𓇑𓅱𓏴 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓉐𓅱𓄤 𓂝𓂧 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓂝𓅱 𓅱𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓀠𓈖𓆛𓃾𓀠 𓇴𓈖𓁶 𓋿𓂧 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓀠𓈖𓀠𓉐𓀠 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓀠𓆓𓂝𓈖𓋿 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓏴𓂝𓉗 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓇴𓁹𓂝𓅱

𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓁹 𓇴𓈖𓁶𓀠 𓇴𓈖𓁶𓀠 𓋿𓂧𓉐𓅱 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓂧𓉐𓅱 𓀠𓈖𓀠𓉐𓉐𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓂋𓅱𓁹𓉐𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓀠 𓏴𓌙𓆛𓉐 𓅱𓆛𓁶𓂝𓅱 𓅱𓆓𓏴𓅱𓈖𓆛𓂧 𓅱𓆓𓈖𓋿𓇑𓉐 𓈖𓆛𓃾 𓀠𓇴𓁹𓆓 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓈖𓏴𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓉐 𓀠𓉐𓎗𓆓𓅱 𓁶𓂧𓈔 𓅱𓏴𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓉐 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓈖𓋿𓇑𓉐 𓅱𓈖𓋿𓇑𓉐 𓈖𓆛𓃾𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓉐𓂝𓅱

𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓁹 𓏴𓇴𓈖𓁶𓀠 𓀠𓂝𓉗 𓋿𓂧𓉐𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓂋𓅱𓁹𓉐𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓀠 𓏴𓌙𓆛𓉐 𓅱𓆛𓁶𓅱 𓀠𓇴𓉐𓂧𓅱 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓏴𓃾 𓅱𓃾𓋿𓈖𓅱 𓅱𓉐𓁶𓅱 𓅱𓁶𓂋 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓈖𓀠𓋿 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓈖𓏴𓃾 𓂧𓁶𓉐𓂝𓅱

𓀠𓋿𓂧𓃾𓋿 𓀠𓂝𓀠𓂝 𓈖𓂧𓋿 𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓇑𓁹 𓂝𓁶𓂋 𓅱𓉐 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓇑𓁹𓀠 𓋿𓂧 𓏴𓃾𓅱 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓂧 𓂝𓆓𓂋 𓋿𓁹 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓁹𓁶𓈔 𓉐𓇴𓁹 𓋿𓂧 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂧𓋿 𓂝𓏴𓏴𓆓 𓀠𓆓𓀠 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓁶𓈖𓃾𓂝𓅱

𓆓𓂧 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓀠𓋿𓂧𓃾𓋿 𓉐𓇴𓁹 𓎗𓁶𓂝 𓋿𓂧 𓏴𓃾 𓀠𓂝𓉗 𓇴𓂋𓆓 𓅱𓉐 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓋿𓁹 𓇴𓈖𓅱𓁶 𓋿𓂧𓋿𓅱 𓈖𓂝𓈖𓇴𓀠 𓂋𓅱𓁹 𓋿𓂧𓋿𓅱 𓇑𓁶𓃾𓀠 𓏴𓂝𓉗 𓋿𓂧𓋿𓅱

𓂝𓇴𓇴𓀠 𓈖𓅱𓂝 𓁶𓎗𓉐 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓉐𓁶𓁹 𓂝𓀠𓂝𓅱 𓆛𓃾𓈖 𓉐𓅱𓄤 𓀠𓆓𓀠𓅱 𓀠𓇴𓁹 𓁶𓇴𓃾 𓋿𓂧 𓏴𓃾 𓈖𓂝𓀠𓋿𓃾 𓃾𓁶𓂝𓅱

The above is chapter 1, for the other chapters see the full google doc with all of Genesis in hieroglyphics.

Websters Hieroglyphics Dictionary - new and updated

The Latin script we use in English can be traced back to logograms of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Given the way that language is moving back to logograms 🤪 I thought it would be wonderful if we brought the original hieroglyphics back into common use 𓀠. Lucky for us, in 2009 about a thousand actual ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics were added to unicode meaning you can easily copy/paste them into your favorite chatting apps. The only thing stopping us is understanding what they mean - and so here I present a brand new and totally modern:

Hieroglyphics Dictionary

These definitions are mere suggestions; the important thing is that you use the symbols and keep the 5000 year old tradition alive! (Websters in this case means a dictionary for people who use the web).

If you want to participate: Here is a living document where you can suggest new phrases and definitions.

Note: just copy/paste to use hieroglyphics, never been easier

Highlighted phrases you can use today:

𓄰𓀠𓀡𓀤 = hells yeah!

𓎩𓀁? = are you hungry

𓆡 = I'm not hungry

see you later 𓆊

𓁝 𓁅 = good morning 

𓁀 𓀒 𓀐 = good night

𓉥 = happy birthday

𓀣= NOPE / talk to the hand

𓀀𓀃 = calm down / tranquillo

𓍊𓁀𓍊 = magic mushrooms

𓁿𓀆𓀐 = Cannot unsee

𓀥𓀠𓀤 = let's dance

𓎹𓀠𓎸 = let's drink

Emotions

𓈖𓄰𓀠𓀡𓀤𓋥𓈖 = hells yeah!

𓁿 = cry

𓂘 𓂓 = hug

𓆫 = loving hugs

𓂜 = don't know / shrug

𓀒 𓁀 𓀐 = falling / tired

𓀗 = old / tired

𓀋 𓀑 𓀐 = headache/FML/orz

𓀀𓀃 = calm down / tranquillo

𓀣= NOPE / talk to the hand

𓁆𓁙 = come back baby

𓊹 = I surrender

𓄪 = deal with it 🕶

𓄅 = bad hair day / woke up like this

𓁿𓀆𓀐 = Cannot unsee

Greetings

𓁀 𓀒 𓀐 𓀿 = good night

𓁝 𓁜 𓁥 𓁅 𓈌 = good morning

𓍴 𓉥 𓉦 𓋥 = happy birthday

𓁆𓁙𓁋 = have a flower

Food related

𓀁 𓁉 𓊲 𓊴 𓎩 𓊸 𓂏 = eat

𓆡 = I'm not hungry

𓊯𓁂 = come over for dinner

𓊴𓁂 = breakfast in bed

𓎹𓀠𓎸 = let's drink

𓀆𓁨𓀈 = let's get smashed

𓏋 = milk

𓊡 = smores

𓋛𓋛𓋛= Ice pops

𓂦 = eating an ice-pop

𓆇 = egg

𓏑 = avocado

𓈑 = happy avocado

People

Cool people

𓀬 = baller

𓁇 𓀵 𓁘 𓁚 𓁥 𓁫 𓁰 𓁳 𓀲 𓁐 𓁈

Actions / activities

𓀟 = fight me

𓀥𓀠𓀤 = dancing

𓀟𓁄 = playing sports

𓀪𓀫 = jumping rope

𓂰 = getting ready for night out

𓁩 = selfie

𓊅𓁩 bathroom selfie

𓀅 = working on your computer

𓂷 = touch

𓁏 = touchdown

𓀙𓀟𓂻𓂻𓂻 = hiking

𓊝 𓍄 = sailing

𓄫𓄵𓄰𓏈 Day at the beach

𓁢 = fancy dress party

𓎳 𓉲 𓇅 = black tie

𓁲 = pooping. (𓄽 = poop)

𓂠 = crystal ball / future looking

Women and children

𓁑𓁔𓁖𓏡

𓁒

Cool body parts

𓁶 𓁹 𓂀 𓂅 𓂈 𓂉 𓂐

𓂠 𓂡 𓂤 𓄐

𓂻𓃀𓃁 = Orthopedist office

This glyph seems much lower quality and would be cool to know why

𓁊 man wearing tunic with fringes and holding mace

Animals

𓅾 = dinosaur

𓃰𓃱𓃵𓃻𓄀𓄁𓄂𓃗𓃘𓃚 𓃲𓃷𓃹𓄃𓄅𓄇𓄚𓃟𓃠𓃾

Cool birds

𓅛𓅻𓅐𓅓𓅔𓅖𓅘𓅙𓅚𓅠𓅢𓅣𓅥𓅨𓅪𓅰𓅊𓅃𓅇𓅀𓅺𓆀𓆁𓆂𓅽

𓆃

Cute baby birds

𓅷𓅸𓅹𓅱𓅳

Reptiles, amphibian and fish:

𓆈𓆉𓆏𓆐𓆊

𓆛𓆡𓆝𓆜𓆞𓇼𓇽

𓆓𓆕𓆗𓆙𓆚 = danger noodles

Insects

𓆣𓆤𓆦𓆧𓆨

Random

WTF

𓌹 = A (actually comes from 𓃾 ... 𓂜)

𓂙 = flying saucer on a broomstick

𓋈 = heartrise on top of sunrise

𓍲𓍳𓂒𓁔 = breast cancer awareness

𓐦 = starbucks

𓏒𓊔 = band aids

𓏚 = asteroids game spaceship

𓏢 = guinness

𓏲𓐙 = smoking

𓏲𓐚𓏴 =  no smoking

𓐑 = tree

𓌢𓏙 = cool arrows

𓐩 = holy roman empire

𓊘 = da bomb

𓅋 = do you need a ride?

𓋟 = ?

𓋧 𓈳 =?

𓌵𓌶 = ?

Cool leggy things:

𓈝𓌬𓏎

Cool plants

𓆰𓇇𓇚𓇣

Technology

𓇰𓇱𓊽𓈐𓋍𓇭𓄨

𓄧 = Rooftop TV antenna

𓎚 =  wrench

𓏟 = traffic light

𓊕𓋌𓌳 = electric transformer

𓊗 = N1 rocket engines

𓇴 = snake jazz

𓍻 = magnet

𓆺  = fishing buoy

𓐓 = airplane

𓐫 = doorbell

Art gallery

 𓉡𓉢𓉣𓊊𓉓

𓉳 = pearly gates

𓉶𓉶𓉶𓉶 = crayons

Cool shapes

𓋤𓎛𓍰𓎂𓏆𓈗

𓈋𓈉𓈋𓈔𓈕𓈔𓏘𓈈

Dirty (how has the internet not known about this yet)

Also - sorry mom but this section was important.

𓂺 = 𓄺 + 𓂸

𓀰 𓀺 𓁤 = hard dick

𓁗 =  limp dick (queen with flower)

𓀏𓁅 = kink

𓂑𓂑 𓂒𓂒 = small and big boobs

𓌐 = vibrator

𓂨 𓄰 𓄺 =  cum

𓎁 = thinking with your penis

Kind of ruining the point of them being unicode - but in this world - you need cool pictures for the previews - so we're tucking this little image at the bottom.

How to find the dangerous areas of a city you don't know

Travel tip: use e-scooter parking maps to know what areas of a city are safe. This: Lime Scooter zone in Meterrey Mexico. pic.twitter.com/b9yekYScJW

— Jonathan Lansey (@JLansey) June 20, 2022

How to be ridiculous in Hungarian, Estonian, Georgian and Chinese

I've started to pick up on a few fun ways to be ridiculous is other people's languages, it can be super fun so I wanted to share. Rather than take forever putting them in separate SEO optimized posts, with audio clips - I'm going to give the cliff-notes version of them all here.

The easy way to be ridiculous

A lot of other countries use their words a lot more literally than we do. For example if they say "great" they really mean something is actually great. If you speak English from the US - imagine telling somebody a cake they baked is "good" no way - it would almost be offensive; "good" to us has taken on a meaning "not good" we just don't want to say it. "Thanks" in American English it is just a hair away from being sarcastic; and if you say "thanks very much" it might not mean a whole lot of thanks. I enjoy this way to talking and so adopting this manner of speech is my favorite way to be ridiculous in other languages.

Lots of languages have slang terms that evolved from English, you usually have to dig for them since they don't appear in official translations and won't often be taught in schools. It is often funny how the local grammar mixes with English; and even funnier when you say it because nobody will expect it.

Be ridiculous in Georgian

Mariam's Georgian company got acquired by a company from the US and her new boss said something she did was "phenomenal." In Georgian the literal translation is ფენომენალური (penomenaluri) where the P and Ph are very similar phonologically and "luri"is a common Georgian suffix. I never once heard a local say this word in two months of living in Georgia. It is reserved only for the most phenomenal situations; like if St. George himself descended from the sky in front of you. People almost always smile when you use it - but be careful because the word is so powerful that you might sound sarcastic if you don't use it properly.

If you compliment food - Georgians will refuse to accept, often denying that it is truly "penomenaluri" - but if you compliment a landscape view, or refer to Georgia in general as penomenaluri then you will make friends quickly. To use it - point at a thing or answer a question with "es penomenaluria" which means "it is penomenaluri"

Hello in Georgian is გამარჯობა (Gamarjoba), and the best most normal response is "Gaumarjos" but folks will often respond "Gamarjoba" instead - especially to foreigners when it is assumed they don't know Gaumarjos. You can also alternatively say Gagimarjos. Gaumarjos is also used as "cheers" when drinking so it is jovial to say. Here is how to have a whole ridiculous conversation with someone you are just passing by:

You: Gamarjoba

Them: Gamarjoba

You: Gaumarjos

Them: * usually they will laugh here and stop, but if they respond gaumarjos, then it is peak ridiculous to respond gagimarjos

Words change in Georgian depending on how many people you are speaking to - by adding the letters "at" so Gamarjoba is to say hello to one person and Gamarjobat is to say hello to two or more. Except that "garmarjoba" is the exception where "officially" you should always say "Gamarjoba" even if saying hello to multiple people. Probably 90% of people will say it "correctly" but spend some time traveling around Georgia where people are so friendly and everyone says hi - then you will definitely hear "gamarjobat"

To be ridiculous - ignore the exception and say gamarjobat when saying hi to multiple people.

Note: I am of the opinion that there is no "wrong" way to speak - since language is a kind of big collaborative art project. Fun discussions to have if someone wants to argue with you.

Tbilisi Georgia

How to be silly in Hungarian

Hungarian is already a little silly for English speakers. To say hello, people say "szia" which sounds just like "see yah!" in English. Note that Szia is to say hello to one person, sziestok for two people. Then they use the English-derived "Hello" for both hello, and more frequently for goodbye, kind of like the Italian "Ciao." You you can say "see yah" for hello and "hello" for good bye; can't get any sillier than that... but actually you can get significantly sillier still:

Just conjugate "hello" in the form for multiple people by adding "stok" like Szia->Szie-stok, so hello becomes "hello-stok" when greeting to multiple people. Note: this is a kind of teenager slang from the 90's that for sure nobody uses anymore, but if you do - then it is absolutely penomenaluri  (thanks Kristof).

Budapest Hungary

Surprise people in Estonian

This one is hard - it is difficult to get Estonians to show emotion about anything - but one way to that sometimes works is to give way over the top thanks in true USA style. Literally translating our casual "thanks very much" into "suur äitah teile." In sentiment - this again goes way over the casual way we use it in the US - but that is kind of the point.

Another way is to use the Estonian/English slang phrase for "what the heck" which literally translates to "what a hedge" but you can really easily say it with a lot of emphasis "Mida hekki" which is awesome, almost like you are singing. Interestingly in Finland they say "mitä helvettiä" which is "what the hell" ... so rude.

Kõrvemaa Bog Estonia

How to be silly in Chinese

People teach you to say Hào chī when complimenting food, but it is much funnier to go way over the top and say it is Měiwèi 美味. One benefit of this is that the tones make is super easy to be emphatic about it, you say it kind of like you are stamping your foot on the last syllable.

People are super nice in China - so as soon as you say more than three words in Chinese people will compliment you saying that your Chinese is great, or sounds great. The humble way they teach you to respond is saying "Nǎlǐ nǎlǐ" meaning "where where" kind of like saying "hey obviously you aren't talking about me." This is a tad funny - but MUCH better is to say "it isn't" Bùshì and follow up with saying your Chinese is Mǎmǎhǔhǔ 马马虎虎. This translates literally to Horse Horse Tiger Tiger but it is silly idiom to mean "so so" or "a clumsy person" so people will always crack up if you say that describes your Chinese aptitude.

This isn't something you say out loud - but in text "3Q" means thank you, because the mandarin way to say 3 is "Sān", and reading Sān-Q phonetically sounds like "Thank you" with a Chinese accent.

Shanghai China

What to teach other people to say in English:

It is nice to learn local slang - but to be fair I try to teach folks some words that came to English from my part of the country, the greater New York City area, and donated by my own immigrant family's native language Yiddish.

The word is Schlep.

And the thing I like about "schlep" is that it doesn't just describe to haul or carry something - it describes how you feel about the act. You definitely do not want to be schlepping anything - and if you have to then you will do it begrudgingly. Also a versatile word, you can schlep yourself too and whether it is across an ocean or from the couch to answer the door - if you have to schlep there then you really didn't want to. Now there are a few select people out there who know only three to four words of English, and one the words they know is schlep.

Lower Mystic Lakes in Medford (basically Boston, USA)

Fly with bird wings on the moon at the Icarus Theme Park

It is said that if people were to fly like birds, our wings would need to be at least *6.7m wide (about 2ft). People also talk about strapping on wings and flying like a bird on Saturn's moon Titan; because the gravity is very weak, and the atmosphere is 50% thicker than on Earth.

Titan is pretty far - but I think this experience should be possible on Earth's moon, where there is 1/6th earths gravity; and if you build a nice dome then you could pressurize the air to earths pressure. I can't say for sure - but I think (with enough effort) human-powered short flights should be possible; or at least wing assisted giant leaps will be possible! (Kind of what chickens do).

            Photo by GerhardLipold form PxHere

One limitation is arm muscles which are a bit weak compared to our leg muscles. For example the human powered helicopter AeroVelo Atlas and Aeroplane Gossamer Eagle both used leg power. For thrust we might might benefit from using giant fins like with freediving in water, but bigger. And then wings would be for lift and control.

Photo by Jean-Marc Kuffer

I imagine a giant domed play area with trees you could fly up to and "roost" on, then glide down. In an environment where exercise is crucial for maintaining muscle mass - this could be a super fun way to go about it. A dream.

While we're at it - some other sports that could be super fun on the moon - freestyle diving into a deep ball pit, where you kind of fall in slow motion and have lots of time to do cool spinny tricks. Also - trampoline jumping where you can go crazy high, comparatively limited risk to breaking your neck. Basket ball could be fun - dunking on impossibly high baskets, though I imagine that dribbling would get annoying fast.

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*These people are Payal Marathe, who wrote this in Yale Scientific and everyone quoting her, I haven't found any other source.
https://www.yalescientific.org/2013/03/qa-why-cant-humans-fly/