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Urine was actually used to make the color more permanent in the fabric. The Smithsonian Magazine had a nice summary of pre-industrial uses of urine, readers might find interesting.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/from-gunpowder-to-teeth-whitener-the-science-behind-historic-uses-of-urine-442390/
Great! Thanks for sharing :)
I can’t believe I just noticed the math under the stocking and title. You’d think an old math teacher would notice patterns. Guess I was to anxious to get to the German. Shouldn’t the minus sign in front of (0!) be a plus for this? 2, 4, 16 plus 1. Or am I missing your pattern? Now I have to go back and look at the other days….fun for me.
Yup, should be + :).
I’m sure that’s not the only mistake, to be honest, so please please let me know if there’s another one.
Maybe I should do something with sin or cos or e or i… but my math is rusty :D. (I did look up 0!, actually.
I know that in eighteenth century England, beerhouses uses to sell vats of customers’ pee to textile factories. Perhaps that avoided the problems of having all your employees in a permanent state of inebriation!
I don’t know if you know this, but in Russian the color that’s the sky color is a COMPLETELY (like, nothing in common) word than blue. Blue is blue, like royal blue or navy blue. In Russian it’s siniy. Light blue, like the sky or people’s eyes is goluboi. You’ll never call someone’s eye color or the sky “blue” in Russian.
Wow, that’s news to me!
I asked my Bulgarian grilfriend and they definitely use their version of siniy and she’s never heard of goluboi.
Would people understand what I meant, though, if I say the sky is siniy?
And do you use goluboi for something other than eyes and skies?
Auf Italienisch haben wir auch verschiedene Wörter: “azzurro” für hellblau, “blu” for dunkelblau. “Azzurro” kommt aus dem Persischen für “Lapislazuli”, die verwendet waren, um die Farbe zu machen
Hellblau,
der Nachmittag, der ist zu hellblau
es ist lange, für miiiiich….
In Català language the same color is also BLAU
Wow, that’s interesting. I wonder how the word made its way there.
“would work even when you added a bit of a certain other chemical called ethanol” – should this be “even better”? As it is, it reads like the ethanol isn’t necessary to the process.
“which means to skip work (when you should)” – it’s not super clear whether you mean skip work when you ought to skip it, or skip it when you ought to be working.
Oh dang it, yes, I meant “even better” and “you ought to be working”. Sorry for the confusion.
Kein Stress! Auch habe ich wieder kein “Done” Knopf. Ich dachte ich hatte es schon commentiert aber vielleicht nicht.
*keinen
Mist! Jetzt ist er da :)
Was für ein einzigartige Farbe ! Es hat viel mit westlicher Geschichte des Europa und der amerikanischen Kontinent im besonderen USA zu tun .
Das rohe Stufe des Blau war so teuer wie das Gold damals, im Mittelalter bis Neue Zeiten, Anfangs 19. Jahrhunderts . Das war ein Wettbewerb zwischen Grösse Mächte wie zurzeit über seltene Erde mit China . Man kann nur an Kokagne Land ( Schlaraffenland) denken wo fliesst viel und Milch . Oder an den Blue jean als Symbol der intensiver Entwicklung , Industrialisierung , Ausbeutung des Menschen ist Indigo immer bemerkenswert !
Bis Morgen
When I was a youth, stores and most everythang was closed on Sunday in the US of A – these rules were referred to as the “blue laws”.
Blue being used like that in English comes from the 17th century, as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and to those who observed them… particularly in blue-stocking, a reference to Cromwell’s supporters in the parliament of 1653.
(gracias, wikipedia)
so drinking tinted the clothes which teetotalers preferred.
Hello,
Typos:
“and the drank a lot of beer” (and then (or they, as you wish) drank a lot of beer)
“the had the chemicals premixed in their body, and they had jolly good time” (they had the chemicals premixed in their body, and they had a jolly good time)
True or not, this story is a great way to memorise the word/expressions and that’s good enough for me!
You said blau machen means to work (blau machen, which means to work) but your example seems to suggest the opposite, i.e. “not to work”. Heute mache ich blau, translated as I’m not going to work today… I’m confused on that one…
Bis morgen!
Yeah, I forgot “NOT” there. Blau machen means to NOT work :)
Die Sendung mit der Maus is also available in pod form for those of us who aren’t willing to sit glued to the New Boob Tube/idiot box.
Listened to that one and Logo (children’s news) every day for nearly two years. Still listen to Radio Teddy Nachgefragt. Can highly recommend all three.
Is that just the audio track of the show or do they produce new content for pod format?
Hi Emanuel, I understand the origin of the Sprichwort “aus die Maus”. But why is it die rather than der?
I think that is nothing but a rhyme. There is no grammar in there.
Thanks. I was beginning to think I did not understand the dative case at all.
No, it doesn’t mean “out of the mouse”. Then it should indeed be “der”.
Totally unexpected backstory to that phrase, but very interesting!!
“the expression blau machen, which means to work (when you should).”
Should say “to NOT work” or “to SKIP work”, right?
That’s the only way I understood it with the example and it making sense
Oh, yeah, sorry for the confusion!!
Things I never thought I would learn when I decided to learn a foreign language: for thousands of years, people had to stomp around in pee dye to make pretty blue fabric. (How did they figure out how that works?)
Also Ferris macht blau is a pretty good movie.
Is that what “Ferris Bueller’s day off” is called in German or are you talking about a different film?
Same movie! That’s what it’s called in German.
“(How did they figure out how that works?)”
I am wondering that about a LOT of things. Including cat poo coffee.
or even just coffee… getting from a red berry to a hot drink is quite a few steps.
Also cassava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava#Potential_toxicity …”hmm, we soaked it and let it dry for 4 hours, Jimmy still died. Shall we try 5 hours?”