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As a friend of mine has pointed out there is a kind of similarity between the COUNT and BERTRAND RUSSEL! Not only that they both teach logic in an unmistakable way (or teached ... as to put it for the late Bertrand Russel. But enough talking exlperience it for yourselfs and don't forget to guess who is who...





Word of the day cat. esgarriacries span. aguafiestes dt. Spielverderber engl. killjoy.

Madrid se quema, se quema Madrid...
Burn Madrid burn Madrid...

This was one of the songs the catalans sang today. The spanish Äh I mean Madrid lost. Catalunia  äh Barca is victorius its a complete victory!
6 gols äh goals for Barcelona and only 2 for Madrid. Its an important victory and people partiing while I'm writing this entry...

Word of the day: cremar - burn

Words of the last Days:

1 Mai: mala jugada engl. dirty trick

2 Mai: poti-poti engl. pell-mell dt. Tohuwabohu

Again Catalan proves to be an amusing language but does the german Tohuwabohu not also sound very funny ?

Chapter I

There is quite a different vocabulary between catalan and spanish, although many loanwords from spanish exist and are used in everday life.

 

1. Lexical differences
   
   a) dt.: Tisch cat.: taula
                         fr.: table < lat. TABULA(M) Board
                      ital.: tavola Compare mhdt.Tavel

    but: span: mesa < lat. MENSA(M)

b) dt.: Fenster cat.: finestra

fr.: fenêstre < lat. FENESTR(A)

ital.: finestra

but: span.: ventana < lat. VENTU(M) meaning a hole for the air

c) essen cat.: menjar
             fr.: manger                  < lat.: MANDUCARE to eat
             ital.: mangiare
             but: span. Comer < lat. COMEDERE to devour

1. In many catalan words of latin origin (Erbwörtern) the latin initial sound (Anlaut) -l changes to the typical ll- sound of catalan
   

E.g.: lat. LOCU(M) > cat. Lloc

lat. LINGUA(M) > cat. Llengua

 

2. The personal Articles en/na in catalan are the last pieces of the formal greeting DOMI-NA or DOMI-NE. In front of a consonant -ne becomes -en.

    

3. Words ending in a stressed vocal have in the plural -ns as an ending. If you look at the latin origin the reason for this becomes obvious:

   E.g.: mà < * ma(n) < lat. MAN(UM)

           mans <mans < lat. MAN(U)S
           germà < *germa(n) < lat. GERMAN(-UM)
          germans < germans < lat. GERMAN(O)S
   

A short sweep through the history of Catalonia and its precious gem Barcelona
 

When the tribes of the stone age left the secure heights of the Pyrenees is dificult to tell. Archaeological evidence shows that humans live in that area as long as 70000 years ago but as the millenia swept by they must have decided to move into the more exposed plains. The climate may have been one reason which attracted celtic tribes in the 7 th century B.C. Philologists argue about the roots of the Celt-Iberian language and no one can tell for sure what happened and the migration of the Celts is still one of the most interresting events in human history. The Laietani are a name associated with a native tribe in the area which is todays Barcelona and one of the most likely and therefor possible locations for a settlement of any kind must have been the all overseeing Montjuïc.

The traders from greece set up trading depots at Rodes (near modern Roses) and Emporion (Empúries) and inspired Celt-Iberian art, ceramics and lifestyle. Traiding with coinage established a flourishing society. If it was really the father of Hannibal with the name Hamilcar Barca (died 228 B.C.) who established the first settlement on the site of Barcelona is in question, seeing as no direct evidence for this can be found. May be it was the mighty Hercules himself who in his long and farreaching travels founded the city. In this case we are obviously dealing with a typical historical topos , but it shows nevertherless that allready in roman times the self-esteem of the region was starting to be apperent. The romans, being the sworn enemys of the Carthaginians landed troops in Spain in 218 B.C. and mostly always showing tactical finesse attacked the rear of the Archenemy – Hannibal.

With this masterpiece the Romans cut of the supplies for Hannibals host which marched from victoy to victory towards Rome. When in 206 B.C. the war in Spain was over, roman garrisons stayed and out of one, Barcino was formed. The typical north-south axis (decumanus) together with the crossroad (cardo) and the temple near the intersection formed the nucleus of the city. Caesar Augustus, uppon his arrival in 15 B.C must have liked the properous provincial center seeing as he bestowed it with the title: colonia iulia augusta faventia pia. Four hefty columns of the temple raised to worship the emperor still stand today. Suprisingly early (first century A.D.) Bacino was encirceled with a citywall, eventhough the pax romana rendered warfare or invasion unlikely .

In this time it becomes evidently clear that the new elite was no longer recruted in the endless city itself but emanated from the provinces and made them even richer and more prosperous.

But storm clouds gathered in the north and we can imagine the little cristian community in Barcino sitting together in communion and prayer as christians prepare themselves and await the onslaught of the barbarians. For the fourth century shows the chaos and trouble to come.

 

 

Today is the day...

When I was little i prefered Wolverine before every other Marvel Superhero. So I'm curious what happens when they put a story around him. The hype about Wolverine made him another person. Now he not a raging bastard, he is more like a bad guy with a big heart. But I always liked him because he is a diehard ready to get put to the ground again and again and still keeps breathing.

Word of the day: ploramiques = sniveller = heulsuse/heulpeter

But it was a hard choice between ploramiques and el golut = wolverine = Järf (at least thats how my grandpa called him when I was little)

My first entry in my official webblog...

TEST

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Word of the Day: la barretina Vgl.: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barretina

Com la flor de la magrana,

queia bé al bosc i al jardí;

los més vells la duien plana,

los més joves de garbí;

des de Nàpols a Marsella

no floria un port sense ella,

era en terra flor vermella,

en la mar coral del fi.

Só barretinaire

de Prats de Molló;

me diuen cantaire,

més no canto gaire,

més no canto, no.

Jacint Verdaguer, La barretina, 2a. est.

Or on Obama...