![]() And they look at that most polite form of irony, saying ‘no thank you’ when you really want to give an emphatic ‘yes please.’ They look at the origin of irony, and a classic comedic scene between Hercules and one of the Greek gods. Our hosts dive into the Ancient Greek arts of speech and rhetoric. They’re too polite to say it themselves, but really they’d love for you to listen. This week, Emily and Kyle discuss the meaning and origin of the word accismus. Produced by Seth Gliksman, Kyle Imperatore, and Emily Moyers Special thanks to Grogan Ardizzoni for their vocal talents. What really is art? What makes good or bad writing? Does the author matter? They also link flarf poetry to other works of modernism and surrealism, and see how it contrasts to more process oriented writing. They read a poem or two from this new genre, talk about how Google plays into their creation, and discuss the divisive impact these poems had on the larger poetry community.īut flarf also leads our hosts into asking the BIG questions. Our hosts travel back to the early 00s internet, and see the emergence of a rather avant garde form of poetry. Poetry lovers are either gonna love or hate this one, because Seth takes Kyle and Emily on a journey through the meaning and origin of the word flarf. Produced by Seth Gliksman, Kyle Imperatore, and Emily Moyers Kyle introduces us to some (apparently) oft-used phrases like “cark and care” and “toil and moil.” But Emily takes particular joy in cark’s modern usage in Australian slang. They also talk about the many modern words cark is related to, like car and charge and cargo. ![]() They talk about the many meanings and pronunciations this little word has traveled through, varying from physical weight or labor to mental stress or worry. Our hosts dig into some etymology and talk about cark’s roots in French, Latin, and more. Take a load off and put your cares aside, because today Kyle and Emily are talking about the meaning and origin of the word cark. Main theme and accompanying themes by Kyle Imperatore ![]() Produced by Seth Gliksman, Kyle Imperatore, and Emily Moyers Join us every week as we explore the fascinating origins and meanings of words, uncovering the hidden stories behind language and how it evolves over time, for language enthusiasts and etymology buffs alike. Emily and Kyle also bring this word to the modern era, talking about their experiences with banned books in libraries. They read bowdlerized quotes from Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Our hosts (and producer) also perform a bit of theatre, taking a look at a famously censored edition of Shakepeare. Our hosts talk about the Regency and Victorian eras, when modesty and morality were of the utmost importance. That takes them on a deep dive into a time which was very concerned with being family-friendly. They begin by talking about the family name from which this word derives. As those are statues of gods, they possess some special powers too.Take a trip through the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of censorship, as Emily and Kyle discuss the meaning and origin of the word bowdlerize. Here are their names, from the left: Lada, Triglav, Veles, Rod and Perun. You can download them all together, as a merged file, or separately. ![]() ![]() By no means, please don’t treat those short descriptions as a carved-in-stone truth! Reconstructing stuff which was deliberately erased from people’s memory isn’t an easy task, so it’s good to take it all with a grain of salt. Take the first statue from the left, Lada: some claim she was an important goddess of beauty, while others doubt if she ever even existed and wasn’t just made up later, as a Slavic counterpart of Aphrodite. Greek or Scandinavian mythology, aren’t well documented and it’s all a bit of a guessing game. Please keep in mind that Slavic beliefs, in contrary to eg. They all come with the name of the given deity and a short description of what they were allegedly responsible for. It’s still not little, but the best I could do without bigger loss of quality - and as usually you would probably put just one such statue per lot, in a temple or sth, it shouldn’t slow your game down too badly.Īll the statues can be found under Sculptures (duh) or simply by typing ‘VS’ in the search bar. I lowered the polycount to make them all TS4-friendly, to ca. All of the meshes come from Sketchfab: 4 were made by a user named Iliadus and one (Veles) by 3dhdscan. It’s a small collection of statues of different Slavic (= pagan) deities. It’s finally the time to share publicly the first of my Simblreen treats. ![]()
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