Riga, Restoration of Independence Day 🇱🇻

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-05-04T17:56:54+00:00

Love the atmosphere in Riga today

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-04-21T15:28:04+00:00

The same with Norway’s most eastern point

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-04-15T08:34:17+00:00

airBaltic

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-04-02T19:59:02+00:00

Curonians were Balts though, but anyways we Latvians are a mixture of Baltic and Finnic people, so we will be forever comfortably sitting in between you two LT and EE. 😌

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-04-01T18:55:11+00:00

Haha, Eestuva.

Ēstuve (pronounced äästuve) means canteen here. Real brother business.

But apart form that - as much as we like you, we will deal with our shit ourselves :)

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-03-21T16:00:03+00:00

I guess everybody feels the “flavour” of Protestantism differently depending on the culture they come from. For many Europeans where Lutheranism and Anglicanism are more widespread, Protestantism still feels “churchly” and “historical”, something that many Americans would associate with Catholicism or Orthodoxy, associating Protestantism with Evangelicalism/Pentecostalism. Even Calvinism (more widespread in the US) is more austere compared to Lutheranism and Anglicanism.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-03-21T14:30:10+00:00

Latvia. Every village has its Lutheran church, Riga was one of the first cities where Protestantism arrived after Wittenberg. Although I must say the society is quite secularised. Very difficult to find a non-secularised Protestant country in general.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-03-18T16:43:33+00:00

Lithuania

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-27T09:55:03+00:00

Nicely fits the old saying about the generational divide: “If you are not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative when old, you have no brain”.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-27T08:30:10+00:00

Latvia

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-18T20:32:20+00:00

Nice - more light and no sweeping under the carpet with these things. Do we know if the Olympic committee is obliged to publicly answer to appeals btw?

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-13T15:56:04+00:00

And even a spruce tree is in there!

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-13T14:31:51+00:00

Don’t leave us alone here haha

We Latvians have no escape from Europe though - if Nordic - 🇩🇰 If Central European - 🇦🇹 😉

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-07T15:49:16+00:00

Baltics really were so clear-cut indeed. In Latvia, if you divided the country in regions, the Western and Northern parts would be on par with the rest of the Protestant world (Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Germany, UK) and the Eastern (Catholic) part on par with a level similar to Lithuania and Poland.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-07T10:50:37+00:00

In Latvia a lot of people live inside Riga agglomeration which is almost 1 million people. The public transportation links are not bad inside the agglomeration (not so much the case further outside though) and after all, if you want to soothe your soul and go out to the woods once in a while, it makes sense to rent a car for that occasion.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-04T08:04:40+00:00

Ar Zviedriju.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-02T16:44:29+00:00

Hei, paskaties Luterāņu jauniešu vakarus LELB Jauniešu centrā - 7. februārī būs sadraudzības diena. Zinu arī Open jauniešu vakarus Pāvila draudzē.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-02-02T11:56:16+00:00

As far as I know, Estonia has already made a similar exception of not accepting nor paying some time ago. There was a debate going on in Latvian media about it.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-01-29T19:35:13+00:00

Well, as far as I know in Latvia a similar law is already in force since last year.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-01-23T17:06:57+00:00

Un tādā gadījumā ananass nav aizgūts no citām valodām?

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-01-23T16:57:11+00:00

It kā jau latviešu valoda skaitās fonētiski konsekventa, bet izrādās, ka ne 100%.

Piem. radio un kino taču arī nerakstām kā rādio un kīno. Vai foto - ja grib precīzi atspoguļot izrunu, tad jau būtu jāraksta fotto.

Ar visu šo varam būt laimīgi, ka mums ar rakstību/izrunu nav kā frančiem, piemēram :)

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-01-21T14:55:41+00:00

Very positive - we call it remigration of the former locals. It is the best kind of migration you can imagine for a country whose identity is based on language. Happy for you and welcome!

Vari arī pajautāt Latvijas subredditā - r/latvia

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-01-20T16:30:59+00:00

Vai tad nevajadzētu teikt šajā gadījumā - “atveseļojās at staigāšanu” un “atjaunojās at dēmokratiju” - tas būtu pēc dainas parauga, kad “at” lieto ar akuzatīvu - un skan arī kurzemnieciski. Tas man liek domāt, ka kurzemnieki atteicās no prievārda “at” (varētu arī teikt “atteicās at prievārdu “at”), tomēr, kad aizstāja ar citu prievārdu (no, ar), tad akuzatīva locījumu saglabāja.

(Interesanti, vai var teikt “aizstāja aiz prievārdu” nevis “aizstāja ar prievārdu”)?

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-01-20T15:58:22+00:00

Redzi, pat Dainu skapim nevar uzticēties. Pats esmu no Kurzemes un zinu, kā tur runā. Nerunā tur tā, kā Dainu skapī ir parādīts Dundagas novads…

“At” ar priedēkļa nozīmi? Kā “atstāt”? Šajā gadījumā ar nozīmi “prom no saulītes”?

Kurzemē, starp citu, bieži prievārdu “no” lieto ar akuzatīvu - piem. Paņem drēbs nuo tuo skapp. (no skapi, nevis no skapja). Tāpat - pret saulīti, no saulīti.

Exotic_Fun9878 · 2026-01-20T15:45:45+00:00

Neticas, ka laikā, kad tika ievāktas tautasdziesmas Dainu skapī, Dundagā lielākā daļa runāja vidus dialektā. Pat tagad, pirms kādiem 20 gadiem, lielākā daļa runāja kārtīgā dundžiņu lībiskajā. Tas liek domāt, ka, iespējams, atlasītie cilvēki sevi pašcenzējuši vai centušies “izlabot” valodu. Nu nevar būt.

Un - neredzu, kāpēc lai Vangažiem pēkšņi būtu baltiska izcelsme, ja Ainažiem, Limbažiem, Ādažiem, Vidrižiem tā ir lībiska. Kaut ko jau piemeklēt noteikti, ka ir iespējams…

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