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Feuer & feu

The German word Feuer looks a bit like French feu and both mean 'fire'. That's a coincidence, because they're not etymologically related in any way. Feuer, like English fire, comes from West Germanic *fuir, while feu stems from the unrelated Latin word focus, 'hearth', which only later came to mean 'fire'. Focus was borrowed into English and many other languages as focus, its meaning 'focus (of a lens; of an ellipse)' created by Johannes Kepler. My new infographic tells you all about these words.

my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!

as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.

There no shame in never becoming fluent in your target language(s). Learning a new language even a little bit is great. Having the ability to communicate even a little bit is great. Learning about the culture(s) is great. You're doing great. Enjoy the experience.

Charles, Kerls & churls

English has the word churl, meaning 'rude, ill-bred, boorish person'. This word is not only related to German Kerl and Dutch kerel ('guy; dude') but also to the name Charles. Carolus, the Latin ancestor of Charles, was borrowed from a Germanic word meaning 'freeman', a variant of which became English churl. Click the graphic for more.

That's my boy Tardi. All he wanted was some privacy, which seems hard to get now, seeing as you found him in the vast expanse of a world he lives in.

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why are british people always so mad when people make jokes about their accents. sorry you say yewchube. it’s funny though innit

I was able to somehow fix it, but i still have school work to do, and I want to go to sleep earlier than I normally do because school starts tomorrow.

To make up, I'll draw 2 things tomorrow.

Also, my computer is still kind of acting weird even after I fixed it, but I'll also attempt to fix that as well.

So something weird happened with my laptop today. I was trying to finish up my summer work assignments since school is literally tomorrow (I'm still cooked). While I was doing my work, my laptop keyboard suddenly stopped working. So I searched online what to do. I did so many of the different tricks and methods that everybody online (forums, youtube videos, etc) did, but nothing worked. Then I tried restarting my computer. Guess what. That didn't work, so now I can't even sign into my computer. Sooo, I'm screwed.

Thats why there will not be any pixel art today or probably even for the next few days unless I can somehow fix this. I might be able to use Pixel Art Studio on my phone, but I am horrible at using my finger to make pixel art.

So if anybody knows how to solve this issue, I would be so grateful. If there is any information you need to know to help solve this issue, respond in the comments please.

I don't remember what model the computer is, but I will tell you what I do know. It is a Dell computer using Microsoft. It is a touchscreen computer.

Again, if there is anymore information you need or you know how to solve this issue, please respond in the comments please. I will be super thankful.

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friends.”

— Albert Camus