Having trouble remembering the difference between the flag of Belgium and the flag of Germany?

Remember this simple rhyme:
“Black touches Red, you’re in Germany like Kaiser Fred¹.
Black touches yellow, you’re in Belgium, so have a waffle with marshmallow².”³

¹This assumes that you know that Kaiser Frederick III was the second Emperor of Germany.
²This is only a slant rhyme, and it barely works since — while dessert waffles are associated with Belgium, and they would be pretty good with marshmallows on them — marshmallows are not particularly associated with Belgian waffles.
³Yes, I am not particularly good at coming up with mnemonics.

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Having trouble remembering the difference between the flag of Belgium and the flag of Germany?

Remember this simple rhyme:
“Black touches Red, you’re in Germany like Kaiser Fred¹.
Black touches yellow, you’re in Belgium, so have a waffle with marshmallow².”³

¹This assumes that you know that Kaiser Frederick III was the second Emperor of Germany.
²This is only a slant rhyme, and it barely works since — while dessert waffles are associated with Belgium, and they would be pretty good with marshmallows on them — marshmallows are not particularly associated with Belgian waffles.
³Yes, I am not particularly good at coming up with mnemonics.

#flags #vexillology #mnemonics

here are my horrible esoteric #mnemonics for #Greek:

1) αγόρι (agori) = boy; I remember an example in my syntax class with the phrase O Petros agorase = Peter bought. Agorase sounds like agori, Peter is a boy, therefore agori means boy.

2) κορίτσι (koritsi) = girl; this sounds like корица (koritsa) which means cinnamon in Russian. Cinnamon is sweet and spice-y, just like girls are expected to be.

leftist means government, and government means criminal

#Mnemonics

#Left vs. #right
#idioms #phrases #mnemonics

Practice: ហ្វឹកហាត់

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ថ្ងៃអង្គារ ទី២៥ ខែកក្កដា
Tuesday 25th of July

Wing: ស្លាប

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ស្លាប means wing, of a plane, of a bird, or even of a fan blade!

You can eat chicken wings, ញុាំស្លបមាន់ but be careful with the spelling and pronunciation of the word ស្លាប because whilst ស្លាបមាន់ is chicken wings, មាន់ស្លាប់ is dead chicken! (Tho មាន់ងាប់ is probably more correct, as whilst both ស្លាប់ and ងាប់ both mean to die, ងាប់ refers more specifically to animals)

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ថ្ងៃចន ទី២៤ ខែកក្កដា
Monday 24th of July

Sun: ព្រះអាទិត្យ

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ថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ ទី២៣ ខែកក្កដា
Sunday 23rd of July

Do you notice any similarities between the Khmer word for Sun, and the Khmer word for Sunday?

ប្រះ = Buddha / God / Celestial or Holy Being
ថ្ងៃ = Day
អាទិត្យ = Sun / Week

In my experience សប្តាហ៍​ is more commonly used for "week" tho I have heard both in spoken Khmer.

Moon: ព្រះច័ន្ទ

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There's several different ways to say moon, but ព្រះច័ន្ទ seems to be the most common, and is often heard in love songs.

An apparently more poetic alternative to ព្រះច័ន្ទ is ព្រះខែ, and given that ព្រះ translates to god, and ខែ to month, ព្រះខែ could be literally translated as the god of months, or month god.

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ថ្ងៃអង្គារ ទី១៨ ខែកក្កដា
Tuesday 18th of July

Vegetables: បន្លែ

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ថ្ងៃអង្គារ ទី២៧ ខែមិថុនា ឆ្នាំ២០២៣
Tuesday 27th of June, 2023

Keeping with the Fortune Teller theme in my last post:

https://mstdn.social/@khmer/110585673959803896

A bit of a messy one, but this is the four elements. I have related them to their associated suite in a typical deck of playing cards, where:

Diamonds are Earth: ដី
Spades are Air/Wind: ខ្យល់
Hearts are Water: តឹក
Clubs are Fire: ភ្លើង

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Not my best work as I can understand there being confusion with the translations here, but at least it's a four in one...

Fortune Teller: គ្រូទាយ

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ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍​​ ទី២២​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ខែ​មិថុនា​ ឆ្នាំ២០២៣
Thursday 22nd of June, 2023

Another instance where I really need to figure out vowel and subconsonant kerning.

One translation of គ្រូទាយ is teacher of guesses, but the word ទាយ also means horoscope or forecast or prediction.

Yesterday: ម្សិលមិញ

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ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ​​ ទី១២​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ខែ​មិថុនា​ ឆ្នាំ២០២៣
Monday 12th of June, 2023

Yesterday: ម្សិលមិញ

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ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ​​ ទី១២​​​​​​​​​​​​​ ខែ​មិថុនា​ ឆ្នាំ២០២៣
Monday 12th of June, 2023

Tomorrow: ស្អែក

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Both ស្អែក and ថ្ងៃស្អែក seem to be appropriate ways to refer to tomorrow. ថ្ងៃ is Day, and is used in the days of the week. For example:

Monday: ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ
Tuesday: ថ្ងៃអង្គារ
Wednesday: ថ្ងៃពុធ
Thursday: ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍
Friday: ថ្ងៃសុក្រ
Saturday: ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍
Sunday: ថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ

Tomorrow: ស្អែក

#Khmer #Cambodia #PhnomPenh #Mnemonics #Language

Both ស្អែក and ថ្ងៃស្អែក seem to be appropriate ways to refer to tomorrow. ថ្ងៃ is Day, and is used in the days of the week. For example:

Monday: ថ្ងៃច័ន្ទ
Tuesday: ថ្ងៃអង្គារ
Wednesday: ថ្ងៃពុធ
Thursday: ថ្ងៃព្រហស្បតិ៍
Friday: ថ្ងៃសុក្រ
Saturday: ថ្ងៃសៅរ៍
Sunday: ថ្ងៃអាទិត្យ

Photo: រូបថត

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I do really need to figure out kerning in Khmer script...

Photo: រូបថត

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I do really need to figure out kerning in Khmer script...

Husband: ប្តី

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Husband: ប្តី

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Also, I can't really figure out how kerning works in Khmer script. I wish the vowel and the sub-consonant were aligned...