February 2009
15 posts
TILT: Useful Bosnian Phrases
- Hello/Good Day Dobar dan (DOH-bahr dahn)
- Hello. (informal) Zdravo. (ZDRAH-voh) or Merhaba (MEHR-hah bah)
- How are you? Kako ste? (formal), (KAH-koh steh) Kako si? (informal) (KAH-koh see)
- Fine, thank you. Dobro sam, hvala. (DOH-broh sahm, HVAH-lah)
- My name is ______ . Zovem se ______ . (ZOH-vehm seh____.)
- Nice to meet you. Drago mi je. (DRAH-goh mee yeh)
- Please. Molim. (MOH-leem)
- Thank you. Hvala. (HVAH-lah)
- You’re welcome. Nema na čemu. (NEH-mah nah CHEH-moo)
- Yes. (“formal”) Da (dah)
- Yes. (“informal”) Ja (yah)
- No. Ne.(neh)
- Excuse me. (getting attention) Oprostite. (oh-prohs-TEE-teh)
- Excuse me. (begging pardon) Izvinite. (EEZ-vee-nee-teh)
- I’m sorry. Oprostite. (oh-prohs-TEE-teh)
- Goodbye (informal) do viđenja (doh vee-jeh-nyah) or ćao (chaoo)
- Do you speak English? Da li govorite engleski? (dah lee goh-VOH-ree-teh ehn-GLEHS-kee)
- Help! Upomoć! (oo-POH-mohtch)
- Good morning. Dobro jutro. (DOH-broh YOO-troh)
- Good night. Laku noć. (LAH-koo nohtch)
- I don’t understand. Ne razumijem. (neh rah-ZOO-myehm)
- Where is the toilet? Gdje je WC? (gdyeh yeh VEH TSEH?)
“Sarajevo was also the first city in Europe and the second city in the world to have a full-time operational electric tram network running through the city, the first being San Francisco.”
—Sarajevo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
TILT: The proper way to enjoy scotch
Thing I learned today (TILT):
The proper way to enjoy a glass of scotch is…
After swirling the whiskey in the glass and observing its color, sip a small quantity. Then work it slowly around your mouth for no less than ten seconds, tasting the spirit’s every note. Then swallow.
Another fun note: an ordinary blended scotch is made from up to 50 spirits from different distillaries. Single malt = one distillary (obv). Go with the single malt. And never ever use ice in a single malt. A couple drops of water is ok though, to bring out flavor.
H/T and quote from NatGeo Adventure Magazine.
Learn one new thing every day
That’s my new goal and it seems doable to me.
I’ve been thinking that, since college, a lot of my day goes by where I probably don’t learn a single new thing (of substance at least).
That’s going to change starting today. Whether it’s a few phrases of a new language, a recipe, a tidbit of history, a scientific explanation, a sport or athletic technique, an important set of statistics - I’m going to learn stuff again.
Some days I’ll be more ambitious than others. But I’ll try to learn stuff that you might find interesting too.
“What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn’t have done it. Who was it who said, “Blessed is the man who has found his work”? Whoever it was he had the right idea in his mind. Mark you, he says his work—not somebody else’s work. The work that is really a man’s own work is play and not work at all. Cursed is the man who has found some other man’s work and cannot lose it. When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world.”
—Mark Twain
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