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I've just run my first half-marathon

@CowperKettle That's amazing! I only run in my mind these days.

@JasperLoy It did not feel like an amazing feat, it was mainly boring (0:

Running for 1 hour 55 minutes is not enterntaining

I'm just 10 kilometers short of 1000 km this year

My friend, a 30 yo woman, has run 2600 km this year thus far.

So 1000 km is not that much.

We have a saying in Russian, a kind of proverb. "A foolish head gives the legs no rest".

"Дурная (foolish) голова (head) ногам (to the legs) покоя (rest) не даёт (do not gives)"

"Durnaya golova nogam pokoya ne dayot"

@CowperKettle Congrats, man. I hope to run a marathon soon ("soon").

My previous roommate has already done it, but he'd also been competing professionally for years. I should probs message him to see how he's doing.

@userr2684291 Our former mayor has run several marathons.

He is 50 years old

I've read about a 50 yo guy who has run 365 marathons, a marathon a day

Maybe I'll try running 30 kilometers to see what it feels like

This month, my average daily mileage is 10 km/day

@snailboat I don't think this best exemplifies youth used with female reference at all. At any rate, Jasper said he'd seen the citations where it refers to young women, just that there aren't any recent ones.

Right. It doesn't sound dated to me at all, just weird, but I've heard it used countably, so...

I appreciate it regardless.

Anyway, they've added some sort of exercises at ldoceonline.com. Interesting stuff.

Hahah.

Might be because it's dated. I sometimes can't use such words in my first language because I know I'd sound like a grandpa.

Good evening

Those exercises look well done. I thought Pearson gave up on the site. I emailed them and they refused to correct some errors, saying, basically, "not my job".

Hah, Pearson. I wonder if English-speaking people, well, I'm sure you do, immediately think of names with their literal meaning or such. That somehow takes away from them. Like when I translate Smith into my first language, it doesn't sound as impressive (it's a common surname here). But I don't really see the English surname as such, despite knowing well what the word means. Pearson is what, 🍐 son? Like, the son of a pear? Of someone who grew pear trees? Haha.

Maybe it's also seen/construed as "pierce-on" (I think that's closer to its pronunciation?), and English-speaking people tend to rely on that a lot, rather than spelling.

Pea arson

with the two "a" agglutinating in the process of linguistic something-fication

Holy moly, Piers is actually Peter.

But we also have Petar, and Pero would be the nickname.

But for example, your name George, when translated sounds like a... rather rural given name here, while George sounds OK in English.

Then again, I don't know what sounds are perceived as funny in English.

Or what combinations of sounds...

Hm, I think names more commonly found in the South might sound funny in the rest of the US.

> In Spanish, dictatorship is dictadura (dicta dura). Also, dura means 'strong'. So a dictatorship with less strength was called dictablanda (dicta blanda), as blanda means 'weak'.

Word of the day: dictablanda

When it rained last night, there were many snails on the ground and I had to avoid stepping on them.

@snailboat Note however that the Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary uses the IPA!

@CowperKettle I would like to ask you whether there is any Russian equivalent of the name Jasper. I checked behindthename.com and could not find any.

I thought it's got something to do with the name Gaspar or Casper, but apparently that's not the case.

Oh, it is.

Well, in Croatian Gaspar is just Gašpar, and I don't think it's much different in Russian.

The name isn't that popular in my first language, however. I think I've heard of a few Gašpars, but what comes to mind is the name of one of the Three Wise Men / Kings.

@JasperLoy Hmm, no

I think that in Russian you would be just called Jasper (Джаспер)

We know of the name Gaspar, but I haven't met a single Gaspar in my whole life

There are some famous Gaspars here: ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%80

I've only met this name in books

Yes, there is a page in Russian Wiki but it lists foreigners, not Russians.

Yeah, looks that way.

I recall that in mid 2000s a Russian couple wanted to name their son using a complicated code like KL8903*LL&&0

Or something like that

But they were not allowed to do that.

Now that's a shame.

I know that my name in Dutch is spelled the same.

But they probably pronounce it differently then.

(Beginning with a /j/.)

Kasparov and Karpov are great Russian chess players, but that is their last name, not first name.

Kasparov came to play chess in my hometown not a while ago. (:

I read he got involved in Russian politics.

@snailboat I never said that you said that I was a beginner. I was just emphasizing that Merriam is not too bad for me. Even though I also like WordReference but nowadays I try to read definitions all in English and find by myself the particular word in French. Like a scythe and a pickle. The definition is almost the same and it's a good training to find by yourself. And I like the Oxford Dictionary but sometimes it works weirdly.

the definitions are almost the same*