Kielikuva

Mobile Shadow in Kumu: From Tallinn

As Konna seems to have gone blog crazy this week (warning: much like her postcards, there are still more to come!) I thought I would try to get a word in edgeways while she isn't looking. As you may be getting blog post fatigue I'll just point out:

• New pictures (from our Tallinn trip) on the sidebar and on Picasa;
  
• A short video of the NOFLUXUS light installation on YouTube (and on the sidebar);
• New links 'cloud' also on the sidebar (finally found how to do it by looking at the More Breaking Waves blog and then got code from phy3blog)
  

And some words I am enjoying a the moment (just don't ask about negative imperfect...)

• Kielikuva - figure of speech (literally: tongue picture)
  
• Crapula - hangover (really!)
• Suomentaa - to translate into Finnish
• Aakkonen - the word for a letter [of the alphabet] is the first word in the dictionary
• Meilailla/Meilata - to send an email (Meilaan - I send email; en meilaa - I don't sent email; meilasin - I sent email; En meilanyt - I didn't send email - okay I admit it, that is the negative imperfect of the Meilata form)
• Kaamos - the winter period of dark and cold above the arctic circle

And the best one:

• Hajuvesi - perfume (literally: smell water)

Any other suggestions? Obviously there are some strange English constructions when you think about it too.

Let me know when you have recovered from Konna's onslaught...

Word clouds

Since I'm in the business of nicking ideas from other people's blogs at the moment (see the 'Yearbook' photos below) I thought I'd do this one now.  You may have seen these around in various forms: 'word clouds' in which the bigger the word the higher frequency it's use in the text. So just a kind of graph really. Wow, I managed to make them sound really boring, and they are actually kind of fascinating.

Anyway, these are made using Wordle and represent the blog to date... 

 

above, left to right: July & August.

top: the whole darn thing (well July to September anyway)