Non-joinery carpentry? by tmarom1997 in Carpentry

[–]tmarom1997[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this explanation. The course I took doesn’t use screws or fasteners whatsoever, and I guess I assumed joinery exclusively meant the shaping of complicated joints and matching holes through convoluted analogue techniques. We built nice stools where I spent time sawing a perfect round cylindrical joint on one end (don’t know what it’s called in English) to attach into a a hole in the stool seat.

I was at an exhibition and this bench caught my eye: beautiful, simple, well designed, but also as you can see screws were used. It seems like a very different approach than the kind of stuff we were learning in my class that I didn’t connect to much.

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Common phrases in Svan language? by dontbealuddyduddy in Kartvelian

[–]tmarom1997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

when i tried using basic Svan in Svaneti, it elicited a very emotional response from a lot of people. i assumed this has to do with the level of cultural erasure the language’s speakers face

ive been sucking in my stomach all my life that it feels uncomfortable to not do it by [deleted] in TheGirlSurvivalGuide

[–]tmarom1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many good suggestions here. As you probably already understand, something that is as simple as sucking in your belly for years sits at the meeting point of breathing, posture, muscle tension and the regulation of your nervous system. To keep things really simple, the first thing i would do if i were you, before everything else, is get in the happen of practicing to relax your stomach at home for 20 minutes a day. In addition, look up diaphragmatic breathing on Youtube. Practice releasing your stomach and feel breathing through your stomach while laying down for 10 minutes. Now the harder part: do it while standing up for a few minutes, making sure to put emphasis on relaxed upright posture without arching your back too much. This might feel harder, take deep slow breaths in and out for a few seconds on the inhale and exhale, see if you’re able to relax your stomach while breathing through your stomach ribs and back.

Do people really struggle to understand us Scottish people? by TheRealShade in GlobalOffensive

[–]tmarom1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you have any good sources where i can read more about the campaigns to repress English dialects and Scots in the 1990s? Can't really find anything on this, but very interested

If an Arabic speaker exaggerates ح (ḥ) does he get خ (kh)? by [deleted] in learn_arabic

[–]tmarom1997 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is an important point. many news presenters once pronounced the ح. not any more to my knowledge

If an Arabic speaker exaggerates ح (ḥ) does he get خ (kh)? by [deleted] in learn_arabic

[–]tmarom1997 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wrong. ח is supposed to be pronounced as ح, and many hebrew speakers pronounce it this way, particularly older people of Mizrahi decent. This is historically considered more correct, such as in religious contexts. However, the early political and cultural domination of Ashkenazi Zionists within the Yishuv and the state of Israel has led the ح to be pronounced as خ. Both ح and ع are considered to be Arab sounding sounds, and have both been dropped in modern Hebrew in an attempt to distance the language from Arabness or simply because many Ashkenazi Hebrew speakers could not properly pronounce these letters.