A Valediction, Forbidding Freezing.
| My old heater like a steam engine long since retired puffs, whines, and groans. I'm sorry, Heater dear, you cannot take a break— Outside, Mother Nature lays in wait to invade, curious to see At what temperature the icicles that were my toes will finally snap off. |  |
Labels: "moving to Fiji, dammit", poetry
posted by Anniina | 2:02 AM
11 Comments:
It's unfriendly cold here as well. But I can't put it into such nice words :)
watch out for the cannibals...
still below 0° F here in WI.. -18° C or worse...
-20 C (or -4 F) in Helsinki, I love it :) Lots of snow + the sun was shining today = pretty. But I'm a polar bear...
I am a bit worried about my ancient furnace, too... and my ancient water heater. (Hold out a few more years, guys!)
Stay warm!
I need some help, please!
I am a member of a women's group and we are looking for expressions for pregnancy, being pregnant in different languages. The word itself is interesting AND the meaning of it. For example the Hungarian word 'várandós anya' means 'expectant mother', which is a neutral expression, but 'terhes anya' means 'a mother with burden' which does not sound so good. See what I mean? Can you help?
Thanks!!!
Well, Just like pregnant means "heavy; laden with weight", so does the finnish term "raskaana oleva nainen". "Odottava äiti" (waiting/expectant mother) is a newer term, probably since after the middle of the last century. Perhaps there's a pregnancy or baby website where you mnght get a lot of answers if you posted? I'm sorry, we're on foreign ground for me here :P I haven't done babies, yet, just dogs, heheh.
Wow, thanks! I was hoping for a little Finnish!
I have heard of 'pea in the pod' and 'have a bun in the oven' as synonyms for carrying a child within. Are they used by the general public or are they special terms for special people?
They're general public ones.
those last two are 'slang' and generally used in a joking type context.
True, thanks for pointing that out Moph. And 'bun in the oven' is not always used as a nice thing.
Thanks for making the picture more clean!
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