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Language Matters: Gender Benders On The Rampage
If there's one thing that really vexes native English speakers when embarking on learning a second language, then it's the curious feature of grammatical gender. The concept that nouns can be feminine, masculine or neuter is most baffling to them. English is one of the few Indo-European languages which do not have gendered nouns. Or, rather, it no longer has them.
Since English is the haughty offspring of an ancient variant of German, it once boasted three genders, just like its parent. But sometime after the Norman conquest, the genders bit the dust. German and French genders were clearly no love match and battled it out until total annihilation.
In my observation, the biggest hurdle for native English speakers is not the existence of grammatical gender per se, but all the mental energy they waste in their futile attempts to find logic in it. So, once and for all: THERE. IS. NO. LOGIC. It's just like the weather. Or taxes. Or what happens to pairs of socks in the laundry.
It would probably be a bit harsh to imply that native English speakers are the only numpties in this regard. I have witnessed several curious reactions when speakers of a gendered language are confronted, for the first time, with another language whose genders don't match theirs. I remember one instance, in a Portuguese class a few years ago, when my Spanish classmate, a builder in his early fifties about to start a job in Brazil, was dumbfounded by the discovery that a Portuguese ballpoint pen (caneta) was FEMININE, when, to his mind, pens (bolígrafo in Spanish) were MASCULINE.
"Look, Pablo," I said, "if it ain't got a dick or a cunt, how do you know what sex something is?!" (Note to aghast US readers: In Spain, such evocative vocab does not usually cause affront*)
But even this seemingly convincing line of argument has to be approached with extreme caution: In German, for instance, while man (Mann) and woman (Frau) are respectively masculine and feminine, the German word Weib, which is an outdated (and in modern usage a vulgar) term for "woman" closely related to the English "wife" is, in fact, neuter and NOT feminine.
The German word for "girl", Mädchen, is also neuter, although there is at least some logic to that one, as it's the diminutive of the (also outdated) feminine noun Maid (maiden), and all diminutives are neuter in German.
And, returning to our colourful vocab once more, it gets even more paradoxical: In Spanish, for example, the aforementioned naughty words for male and female genitalia are feminine and masculine, respectively, not the other way around, as you might expect.
In the native English speaker's mind, this sort of thing causes mayhem. Let me illustrate: I respond to queries on language learning forums, and a few weeks ago, a Brit had a minor existential crisis over the fact that person (persona) is feminine in Spanish, and that, when referring to himself as a person, he would – shock horror! – turn into a GIRL! Oh, the indignity of it! Just imagine what will happen the day he finds out that the…erm… most masculine of his male parts is a feminine entity in Spanish. At least grammatically speaking.
Taking the genders of nouns in one's native language to be universal brings some interesting problems. A Spanish friend of mine told me once that he had encountered some toilets in a German restaurant labelled not with the internationally recognised stick man and woman, but instead with a sun and a moon. In German, the sun (die Sonne) is feminine, while the moon (der Mond) is masculine. In Spanish (and all other Romance languages, I believe) it happens to be the other way around. I leave it to you to imagine the rest of the anecdote…
As a native German speaker, the concept of gendered nouns gives me no trouble, but I am nevertheless experiencing a maddening – and unexpected! – predicament.
I speak Spanish fairly well by now and know the genders of most nouns. I cannot, however, for the life of me, get my adjectives and pronouns to consistently agree with my nouns. This is not so much of an issue when the adjective either immediately precedes or follows the noun: una chica gorda, un buen hombre, etc. easy peasy.
But if the adjective or pronoun appear in a different part of the sentence at some distance from noun they refer to, or in another sentence altogether, I find that my brain will often revert to the GERMAN gender rather than the Spanish one, because that's how genders were first installed on my hard drive.
On some primal level, a table will always be masculine to me rather than feminine as in Romance languages , and, hence, it takes an immense amount of concentration to maintain gender agreement in my Spanish/Portuguese/French sentences. When I'm tired or my attention slips for just a few seconds, my brain will go straight to its native-language default setting – how could it be any other way? Since I'm pedantic to the extreme conscientious in my linguistic exploits, I find this insanely frustrating.
Messing up difficult grammatical constructions and features, such as the subjunctive, is one thing, but coming to terms with the fact that I probably won't ever be able to get something as basic as adjective-noun gender agreement down to a pat, is, quite frankly, a crippling blow. Just how am I going to get over it?!
Ah yes… something like this sure dulls the pain 🙂
[*For those interested in colloquial language, you may enjoy reading about how the most worstest of bad words in the English language is part of everyday parlance in Spain: Language Matters: C-Words of Difference]
This entry was posted in Language Matters and tagged Cake, Cultural Differences, English, German, Language, Language learning, Languages, Learning German, learning Spanish, Spanish on January 10, 2016 by ladyofthecakes.
English Phrases That Should NEVER Be Translated Into German
Colourful expressions make a language come alive. I'm always surprised by how many of them exist, in almost identical wording, in several European languages. For example, it's rude to look a gift horse in the mouth in English, German and in Spanish, and although the mouth changes into teeth in the latter case, the concept is the same. This doesn't apply to all sayings, of course, and there are some that are not merely rendered nonsensical in translation, but which are guaranteed to result in a serious case of red-face-syndrome.
Here's a just few that popped into my feeble mind last week. I'm hoping to collect some more. Input welcome 🙂
Teaching your granny to suck eggs
I love this expression, and I can't even think of what the German equivalent would be. But one thing is certain: if you tried translating this, it'll have your German conversation partner either raise an eyebrow, or rolling around on the floor in stitches.
The reason being that "eggs", which is "Eier" in German, is a slang term for testicles. (Incidentally, the same applies to the Spanish "huevos").
OK, German grannies probably do know how to suck both eggs and balls, but their grandchildren would much rather cling on to their image of them as a saintly and innocent creatures who only get close to a set of eggs when whipping up a mighty good strudel.
I'm going to hit the sack
It's been a long day, you're totally knackered, and you'll be calling it a night as soon as you've made it to the bottom of your 1-litre beer glass. But DON'T say it by using that phrase, if you can at all help it.
There's… uhm… a hairy issue with the word "sack" that you should be aware of. Sack means sack in both English and German, sure, but on planet slang, it also means scrotum. The German expression "Ich hau' ihm eine in den Sack" (I'm going to kick him in the nuts) is just too painfully close…
What did I say…?!
To run off with your tail between your legs
What's the problem with this one, you might wonder. Dogs do this when they've suffered defeat, even German ones, so it should be a pretty self-explanatory expression with little potential for confusion.
I totally see your reasoning. The problem is that the word "tail", which is "Schwanz" in German, doubles as a slang word for dick/cock. So, although your conversation partner will understand what you meant to say, it may be best to refrain from any linguistic experiments containing the words tail, eggs and sack when you're meeting your German in-laws for the first time.
Relax. This one won't be causing any embarrassment. But I'm still going to mention it, because it's a really common phrase, and if you're translating this literally into German (or into any other language, I should imagine), it will have people scratching their heads.
By any means, feel free to say "willkommen" when German visitors arrive on your doorstep and you're planning to usher them in for a steaming cuppa and a slice of fruit cake. But as a response to someone who's thanking you for doing them a favour, it won't do. A German will need to hear "gern geschehen" or "bitte/bitte sehr/bitte schön", NOT "du bist willkommen" – it makes no sense to them at all.
This explains why Germans will often respond with the word "please" (translated from "bitte") to an English speaker thanking them, which is just as puzzling to the latter as "you're welcome" to a German. Spanish and Portuguese speakers frequently counter with "for nothing", a literal translation of "de nada", which can come across as slightly rude, because of its association with the sarcastic English phrase "Thanks for nothing!". What they mean to say, of course, is that "it was no trouble at all".
Now we've got that one out of the way, let's move on to something slightly more entertaining. And, potentially, excruciating.
I'm so hot, baby. I'm stone-cold. I'm… warm.
Welcome to a veritable hot-bed of temperature-related faux pas. Trust me, you'll want to avoid these clangers. Here is how:
In German, when you're sweltering in the summer heat, you say, "Mir ist heiß", which translates as "It is ('is' as in 'feels') hot to me". It's a dative construction.
A sweaty-browed English speaker, however, tends to veer towards the more literal, nominative construction, and comes out with this: "Ich bin heiß". And it does indeed mean that he's hot. But in the… erm… randy, gagging-for-it sense of the word.
In English, "to be hot" is, of course, a double entendre, but the meaning is usually clear from the context. In German, by contrast, you have one way (the nominative) of conveying your horniness and another (the dative) for prompting your hosts to turn on the aircon. Try not to get them mixed up.
If you're feeling warm or cold, follow the same sentence pattern, i.e. "Mir ist warm/kalt", NOT "Ich bin warm/kalt". Otherwise…
"Ich bin kalt" is Mafia speak for being dead (dead bodies are cold), and if you have proclaimed, "ich bin warm", you've effectively outed yourself. Yes, as in "I'm gay".
So, are there any phrases and expressions in the languages you know that are amusingly corrupted if subjected to literal translations? Please share them 🙂
[In case you missed it, you might enjoy How To Be A "Hater" With German Good Phrases.]
This entry was posted in Language Matters and tagged English, German, Language, Language learning, Learning German on July 8, 2014 by ladyofthecakes.
My Take On Gibraltar…
For as long as I can remember, I've been fascinated by islands, archipelagos and peninsulas. Having been born in mid-continent, a thousand miles from the sea, to parents who were disinclined to travel any farther than the nearest cigarette dispenser, lonely outcrops of lands encircled by thrashing seas seemed just as mysterious and (un)real to me as the junglescapes of the Planet of the Apes.
Strange things happen on islands that nobody can explain, while, at the same time, they explain everything. Who erected those giant stone statues on the Easter Islands? And had Darwin not stopped by the Galapagos and set his beady eyes on a bunch of finches, he'd probably never have come up with the concept of evolution.
When humans settle on islands, things become even more interesting. Their identities are rapidly re-shaped by island life. I've perpetually been left confounded, for example, by the firmly held belief of the British, that they are, in fact, not European.
According to Brit gospel, those Europeans inhabiting "The Continent" are a species afflicted either by a lamentable sense of humour deficiency, or by highly questionable timekeeping skills. And sometimes, both. Said Continentals, who try to compensate for their languages' inherent lack of precision by means of florid gesticulations, have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the British island breed, whose forefathers sprouted from spores that fell from the moral backbone of the heavens onto these mist-shrouded isles.
Applying the island rationale, when you ask a Brit whether Sardinians or Majorcans weren't European either, or whether Japanese people ought to be considered exclusively Japanese and not Asian as well, you will earn yourself but a blank stare. With a dash of benevolent contempt, if you're lucky.
Britons are, quite simply, more unique than anyone else. Incidentally, British citizens of Indian or Chinese heritage can both be British and Asian, but those pallid specimens descended from, let's say, Norman conquerors and Danish seafarers, may be English and British, but definitely NOT European. Such is the mind-warping power of islands.
I've an interminable list of insular destinations I desperately want to visit, including Tristan da Cunha, Svalbard, Kamchatka, the Maldives, the Falklands, the Faroe Islands, Christmas Island… I could go on… but seeing that most of these are way beyond my paltry travel budget, I have to take what I can when the opportunity presents itself.
So, a few weeks ago, when the Andalucía trip came about, I was delighted – delighted, I tell you! – to discover on Google Maps that Algeciras, the town where Maria and I were going to be staying, was slap bang right next to Gibraltar.
Taken from the car as we were crossing the border. "The Rock" even has its own weather! And just look at that grumbling cloud casting doom and gloom over British territory while the rest of Spain is bathed in resplendent sunshine… what more proof does anyone need that Gibraltar is, in fact, part of the UK!?
Gibraltar, a lump of limestone fused onto the southern tip of Spain, a mere 2.3 square miles with 30,000 people squashed onto it. Gibraltar has been under British administration since 1704, which pisses off the Spanish no end. In the last referendum, held in 2002, 98% of Gibraltarians were adamant that they wanted to remain part of the UK rather than cede to geographic realities. The diplomatic skirmishes between the two nations feature prominently in the news here in Spain, and in the UK as well, of course.
View of the town half-way up the rock on our way to visit the famous resident monkeys
"Got some nuts?"
You can even take one home!
I never realised that Gibraltar's innards were, in fact, a warren of caves. There's 150 of them, apparently. St Michael's cave, 300m above sea level, is like Mother Nature's giant cathedral.
I half expected the Elven King to step down from that…
Overhead shot. Best not cough. Those things could pierce your head…
Back in town, we passed by some changing-of-the-guards malarkey. Stiff marching, peering out sternly from underneath slightly-too-big hats, and lots of unintelligible shouting. British tax money well spent.
Gibraltar lighthouse, with the African coast in the background.
So, is Gibraltar more like the UK or more like Spain?
Predictably, it's neither fish nor fowl. It sports, of course, plenty of "authentic" pubs on every street, with the requisite British food items on the menu, from toad-in-the hole and beef wellington to chicken tikka massala. Listening to people's accents, there were plenty of 'real' Brits milling through the streets and rummaging behind shops' counters, but there was also a weird kind of indigenous English being flung about.
There are enough British High Street shops to have made me feel, for a fleeing moment, like I was back in the UK, and I got a bit homesick. I stepped into an M&S, and I may have had a minor orgasm somewhere between the chocolate Easter eggs and the hot cross buns. I also spotted a WH Smith and several UK clothing chains, such as Monsoon. But, to my abject disappointment, there was no Boots! I even asked about it in the Tourist Information office. Shaking of heads all round. But there were, I was told, "plenty other chemists". I'm sorry, but a British town without a Boots is just inconceivable.
I wasn't in the least bit disappointed by our trip, and I would certainly not label Gibraltar as "fake" or "boring". It is what it is: Its own microcosm, a confluence of several worlds and a colourful history that has given rise to a way of life that is, well, quintessentially insular.
Gibraltar glows in a hazy sunset. Viewed from Algeciras beach.
This entry was posted in Gibraltar and tagged English, Gibraltar, living abroad, Living in Spain, UK on April 14, 2014 by ladyofthecakes.
What Does Your Language Suck At?
Last month, Linda of expateyeonlatvia wrote an impassioned piece about a number of vexatious statements put forth by her students, which had made her blood boil. One of her hapless tutees opined, for instance, that "English wasn't a rich language". [Click here if you want to see the post].
I commented on Linda's post that a Spanish friend of mine had once said something very similar. The general consensus in expateye's comments section was that if you didn't speak a language very well, then, of course, you wouldn't be able to express yourself eloquently. A vocab of a paltry 3,000 words may be enough to communicate your basic wants and needs and let you spout a few fusty opinions about the latest Matt Damon flick, but, well, it doesn't compare to what a fairly well-educated native speaker can expound on with their 60,000 words. And then there is a wealth of expressions, colloquialisms and cultural references, which even an advanced learner, who's never lived in the country of their target language, hasn't got a cat in hell's chance of mastering, no matter how many episodes of How I Met Your Mother he submits himself to.
All good and well… but then… after ruminating over this for several weeks, I've now come to a seemingly contrary conclusion: The "you just don't know enough" rebuff is far too simplistic. In fact, I concede that you may not be able to express all of your sentiments in another language, no matter how proficient you are. And herein lies the crux of the gripe voiced by these pesky students, prompting them to vent infuriating pronouncements at their long suffering teachers about the woeful inadequacy of whatever language they happen to be grappling with.
Let me give you an example. Spanish (and this is also true for other romance languages) makes a huge great big deal of diminutives, and the opposite, namely augmentatives, are equally as important. Spanish diminutives are achieved by adding -ito, -cito or -illo suffixes to a noun, and the augmentative is formed by tacking on -azo, -ato or -orro, for instance. To illustrate: "Beso" means kiss, besito is a little kiss, and besazo a great big smacker.
English doesn't really do diminutives (nor augmentatives). Instead, you'd have to opt for an entirely different word, employ an adjective like "little", or turn "dog" into "doggy". And that's just not a good style. Ahem… 😉
German, on the other hand, does have proper diminutives, constructed by furnishing its nouns with -chen and -lein endings. However, these should be used very sparingly. They have the (intended) effect of infantilising the language, and overuse will make you sound like you're talking to Forrest Gump.
Spanish, though, slots diminutives and augmentatives into sentences left, right and centre. And they don't just work with nouns, you can even tag them onto adjectives, which is outright impossible in English or German.
Therefore, it is entirely understandable that a native Spanish speaker will feel somewhat bereft to find that a whole linguistic dimension of how he expresses himself on a day-to-day basis, how imbues his statements with humour, warmth, ridicule and exaggeration, amongst other nuances, is pretty much a no-go zone in English and German.
I suppose that each and every language has seams of glittering richness as well as areas that are a bit more on the threadbare side. English, for one, sports an inordinate amount of synonyms, which, more often than not, differ ever so slightly in their connotations. English also lets you have great fun with homonyms (words that sound the same, but differ in spelling and/or meaning), which introduces an entire universe of humour inconceivable in Spanish or German.
While both English and Spanish lend themselves fairly well to creating portmanteaus, in German, you can really go to town when it comes to fabricating entirely new words by merging any number of nouns into fancy compounds. You can make them stretch all the way to Mars and back, if you're so inclined.
Compound noun mania does not only afflict German speakers with a sense of linguistic hilarity. A machine designed for producing a certain type of liquorice sweet is called a Lakritzschneckenaufrollmaschine (four nouns fused, not at all uncommon), and a (now defunct) law dealing with the supervision of beef labelling is termed Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz (seven nouns joined in holy matrimony!).
Lakritzschnecken (= liquorice snails)
Returning to my original point, the upshot is this: Every language learner will, at some stage, make a frustrated attempt at using their target language in the very same way as their native language. If it can't be done, then of course they end up feeling like they are being censored, and that the language is, therefore, "deficient".
Chances are, when learners hit a language's inherent limits, and then rail on about how "unexpressive" it is, they will not yet have discovered its richness.
Learning to express oneself in a new language, which features alien cultural and linguistic concepts as well as uncharted facets of expression that do not exist in one's native tongue, requires a high degree of competency. You actually have to be able to "think" in the new language, rather than just translate from one to the other. It's like going fishing in a new lake: By the time you realise that your familiar fish don't live there, you're still a very long way from discovering the oysters at the bottom, never mind getting at their pearls.
Language. Levels. Layers. Depth. Perspective. New Horizons.
[Pic taken last week at Algeciras seafront]
Now, I'm very curious to hear from those of you who are competent in more than one language… which features do you really enjoy in one of your languages that are tricky to convey in another? Any thoughts, whether from a learner's or a teacher's perspective, are very welcome 🙂
[For a short post on German compound noun craziness, click here.]
This entry was posted in Language Learning, Language Matters and tagged English, German, Language, Language learning, learning Spanish, multilingual, multilingualism, Spanish on April 8, 2014 by ladyofthecakes.
Language Matters: Assorted Pronunciation Gripes
For the adult learner, foreign languages aren't exactly easy to get one's tongue around. They have sounds that just don't exist in their native language. I, for one, will forever struggle to produce the trilled Spanish "rr". I can just about fake a single "r", but the double one, forget it. Although, some kind Spaniards once complemented me on my "r"s. But they might have said "arse", I can't be sure.
Anyway, I have every sympathy for Spanish speakers who cannot produce a German "ü" or "ö", never mind the many diphthongs that litter the English language, or Brits who can't quite muster the phlegm-hacking Spanish "j".
What constantly puzzles me, though, is people's apparent inability to reproduce the same sounds in a foreign language, which readily exist in their native tongue.
Last week, there was an amusing little discussion happening on Bev's blog (see this post & comments), about why Germans insist on pronouncing "cat" and "hat" as "cet" and "het", respectively. There's also no audible difference when most of them they say "man" vs. "men". Although it was a long time ago, I do vaguely recall that my (German) English teachers spoke like that. Why on earth, why?!? It's totally baffling.
English speakers (probably as an act of revenge) will keep pronouncing the German "z" like an English "z", staring off words like Zeitgeist with a long soft ssss sound, which is equally annoying. English is replete with German "z" sounds (sounds just like the "t's" in what's and that's), so this problem should not arise in the first place.
OK, let's pick on Spanish speakers for a bit 😉
I understand why it is difficult for them to produce complex vowel sounds, but it seems that, for no other reason than sheer laziness, they just lop final consonants off English (and also German) words, or take perverse pleasure in maiming them in some other way. So, "thing" atrophies into "thin", even though they can pronounce the syllable "-ing" just fine, e.g. as in the Spanish slang word "minga", which means "dick". "New York" becomes "New Yor", "Hong Kong" becomes "Honkon", "bank" becomes "ban", etc, and this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Whenever the (German central bank) "Bundesbank" is mentioned on the news (i.e. every day sixty times), for instance, giving the final "k" the chop effectively turns it into the "Bundesbahn", which is Germany's National Rail company. Also a big institution, granted, but this is where the similarity ends.
Now, the Spanish word for bank is "banco", which is virtually identical to the English and German equivalent, save for the vowel at the end, but why the "k" has to die together with the "o" is beyond my comprehension. Surely, if you can say "banco", you can say "bank"????
Another thing that really grates on me is when words terminating in "m", are suddenly pronounced as if they ended with an "n".
OK, to be fair, not every Spanish speaker does this, there's about a 50/50 split. Up for this type of consonant buggery are, for example, all Latin words ending in -um. (These are part of Spanish vocabulary just as they are part of English and German). So, curriculum and referendum turn into "curriculun" and "referendun". I've even seen them spelt like that by Spanish people.
In the same vein, the .com domain in website addresses morphs into .con. Now, hearing a company advertising itself as "www.usedcars.con" wouldn't particularly entice me to buy from them, I must say.
Well then, let's hear it from everybody else – do you have a mental list of particular pronunciation pet peeves for which, in your opinion, there's just no valid excuse?
While you're all ruminating over that, I'll be trying to kick my "r"s into shape… sigh.
This entry was posted in Language Matters and tagged English, German, Language, Language learning, Spanish on October 30, 2013 by ladyofthecakes.
How I (Almost) Found A Job Instead Of My Teacher
As those who read my Sunday post will know, I had my first 1-2-1 Portuguese lesson with my new teacher Teresa on Monday night. And it all started off in the worst possible way.
I don't know her part of town very well, so I asked the bus driver to alert me when I needed to get off. It's about a 15-minute ride. I reminded him once half-way. It was not busy on the bus. I was sitting in the first row behind him to the far right, so I was somewhere in his peripheral vision. And he forgot about me. He seemed embarrassed, but did not apologise.
So, I stomped off the bus in a huff and trudged back about three stops, only to discover that I'd taken the wrong map with me which didn't cover that part of town. Ahrgh! There were plenty of people about, though, and by asking for directions, I found the right street without much trouble. Because I'd left home very early, so I was still good for time and not overly stressed at that point.
…until I realised that I'd left my diary with Teresa's address and phone number at home. I remembered the house number, but it was a block of flats the size of the Forbidden City and with about as many entrances as an African termite mound. The thought that I was languishing right outside her apartment, and that she was waiting for me somewhere upstairs was vexatious, to say the least. It was one of those rare moments when I wished I had Wassapp…
There was a language school directly opposite, and it appeared to be open. All flustered and with my glasses steamed up, I stumbled in, and explained my pathetic situation to the woman at reception, asking if I could use her computer to access my email.
Not only was she happy to help me out, but she also offered me a job teaching English.
What cruel irony, I thought, that in a country with an unemployment rate of over 25% (and 56% youth unemployment!) somebody like me, by the sole virtue of being a foreigner (with the "right" skin and hair colour, I presume) can just walk into a school at random, all frazzled and really NOT at her best, and be offered a job they're not even qualified for. I should mention that, at this point, she'd not heard a word of English out of me. When I told her I was German, her eyes grew even wider, as "there were no German teachers in Toledo" and she was overrun with enquiries.
Anyway, by this time, I'd actually managed to get hold of my teacher – phew! – so I took the school's card (just in case) and dashed back across the road.
The lesson itself was great. Insanely painful, yes, but great. I've written before about how much I detest language classes. To say that I'm a reluctant speaker is putting it mildly. Every fibre and neuron in my body seizes up, my mush brain goes blank, I get into a strop with myself, and then I switch off and let the others get on with it. In a 1-2-1 setting, though, chickening out doesn't really work, you've just got to push through it.
As anticipated, I was struggling with accent issues, as Teresa's from Lisbon and so far I'd been studying Brazilian Portuguese. I was relieved I understood a fair amount of what she was saying, and that I was able to respond. Well, sort of.
I found that thanks to playing that silly Duolingo, I actually had some vocab to toss into my incoherent bleatings. Also, seeing as Portugal is so close, literally just down the river from me, it would be a crying shame if, after putting in all this effort, I couldn't couldn't communicate with my immediate neighbours. I'm more likely to make frequent trips to Portugal than Brazil. They've got good cakes there, I've been told 😉
So, the upshot is that I'm very excited about my fresh start with Portuguese. I'm thrilled about actually having spoken some Portuguese (entire sentences, even!) to a native speaker, and I'll be back there next Monday.
This entry was posted in Language Learning and tagged English, Portuguese, Teaching, Toledo on October 24, 2013 by ladyofthecakes.
Language Matters: The Delicate Issue Of Accents
A recent discussion on Danny Breslin's blog got me thinking about how people respond to the sounds of different languages, accents and dialects. For example, there seems to be a general consensus that French and Italian are very pleasant to listen to, while Chinese and German are considered a bit…erm… challenging on the ear.
Then there's also the issue of non-native speaker accents. I remember – it must have been 20 years ago – seeing pictures of Pakistani cricket legend Imran Khan, and thinking he was pretty hot. But listening to him being interviewed on the BBC one day made my celebrity crush evaporate in an instant. THAT accent just makes my hormones die, I cannot help it. English spoken with a strong German accent also makes me cringe – I guess it's just too close to home 😉
It's not uncommon for regional accents to elicit this kind of response. In the UK, 'Brummie' spoken by people in and around Birmingham seems to be the most despised. I understand that accents across the West Midlands vary, and that it's not all Brummie, but, to the ears of people not originating from or living in that area, the subtle nuances are lost. To me, it's all just various shades of unpleasant.
About a decade ago, I set up meeting with a guy I'd encountered on a dating site. I knew he was from Wolverhampton (a town just north-west of Birmingham), so I should have been prepared. Well, actually hearing him speak on the phone for the first time sent my lustometer readings spiralling into the coal pit.
(On this note, I'd like to point out that I'm not so shallow that I can't overcome my dislike of certain accents if I actually connect with someone. It just didn't happen on that occasion.)
The German equivalent of Brummie is the Saxon accent. It is the unanimously most reviled, nobody can listen to that and maintain an easy smile on their face, except, of course, for the perpetrators themselves. (Oh cruel irony of ironies, the German word for the Saxon accent is "Sächsisch", which is pronounced "sexish" – and it's so definitely NOT!!!). I have no idea how what the Saxons do those poor vowels can possibly be legal, but, unfortunately, crawling through their windows at night and severing their vocal chords isn't.
A jibe based on the fact that the German word for "cats" is pronounced like the verb "to barf" by the Saxons.
Well, I'd love to hear if there are any languages/dialects/accents that make your small intestine wrap itself round your pancreas. And what's the most loathed regional accent in your country?
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It was already a huge moment this past weekend in the Seattle Seahawks vs. San Francisco 49ers game when running back Travis Homer had scored a touchdown on a fake punt with an impressive 73-yard run, but then Homer himself made the moment even bigger for Attack on Titan fans when he celebrated the occasion with the same salute Eren Yeager and the other members of the Survey Corps had given over the course of the series' first three seasons. Check it out below as spotted by Expensive-Market-233 on Reddit:
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ist eine Stadt im   der Region  auf der Südinsel von Neuseeland. Sie ist Sitz des  .

Namensherkunft
Der Name der Stadt bedeutet in der Sprache der  soviel wie "Tag oder Ort des Friedens". Damit wird an den Friedensschluss zwischen den  und den  erinnert, die sich über viele Jahre hinweg erbittert bekämpft haben.

Geographie
Die Stadt befindet sich rund 25 km nördlich von  in der weiten Ebene zwischen dem   und dem . Das Stadtgebiet grenzt an das südliche Ufer des , der rund 11 km ostnordöstlich in den Pazifischen Ozean mündet.

Klima
Da die Stadt im Gegensatz zu dem küstennahen  etwas weiter im Inland liegt, sind die Sommer in  etwas wärmer und die Winter entsprechend kälter. Die offizielle Höchsttemperatur, die in Neuseeland je gemessen wurde, konnte am 7. Februar 1973 mit 42,4 °C in  dokumentiert werden.

Bevölkerung
Zum Zensus des Jahres 2013 zählte die Stadt 15.018 Einwohner, 23,7 % mehr als zur Volkszählung im Jahr 2006.

Infrastruktur

Straßenverkehr
Durch  führt der , der die Stadt über  und dem  mit  verbindet. Eine untergeordnete Landstraße, die in  nach Westen abzweigt, verbindet die Stadt mit dem im Inland liegenden .

Schienenverkehr
Rangiora liegt an der Bahnstrecke Christchurch–Picton. Sie verbindet den Ort mit  und den südlichen Landesteilen entlang der Ostküste sowie dem nördlichen Teil der Südinsel, wo in Picton ein Trajekt (Interislander Ferry) zur Nordinsel anschließt. Der TranzCoastal hält im Bahnhof von Rangiora.

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Die Stadt besitzt mehrere Grundschulen und zwei weiterführende Schulen. Die   hat etwa 1650 Schüler. Sie ist eine der größten weiterführenden Schulen der Südinsel. Mit ihrer Gründung durch einen Parlamentsakt im Jahre 1881 zählt sie auch zu den ältesten Schulen des Landes. Die Schule öffnete erstmals am 28. Januar 1884 und feiert Ostern 2009 ihr 125-jähriges Bestehen. Sie brachte in den letzten Jahren mehrere gute - und -Spieler hervor.

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Von  aus können mehrere Weingüter in Richtung  besichtigt werden.
 Die   sind der Ort der jährlichen Autoshow  und .
  rühmt sich Neuseelands erster und einziger Herstellungsort für Met (Honigwein) zu sein, der von der Stadt aus in viele Länder exportiert wird.

Sport
Die Stadt besitzt mit dem  einen Fußballclub.

Kultur
In  gibt es zwei Theatertruppen, die  und die   , außerdem eine Anzahl von Musik-, Tanz- und Schauspielschulen. Das Kino  befindet sich im Gebäude des historischen Rathauses von .

Persönlichkeiten

 Robin Clark (1935–2018), neuseeländisch-britischer Chemiker
 Barry Philip Jones (1941–2016), römisch-katholischer Bischof des Bistums Christchurch
 Graeme Higginson (* 1954), Rugby-Union-Spieler
 Nick Smith (* 1964), Politiker
 Joseph Sullivan (* 1987), Ruderer
 Eve Macfarlane (* 1992), Ruderin

Siehe auch
 Liste der Baudenkmale in Rangiora

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Einzelnachweise

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Pierre Stanislas Maruejouls est un homme politique français né le  à Gaillac (Tarn) et décédé le  à Montans (Tarn).

Propriétaire, administrateur du district de Gaillac, il est député du Tarn à la Convention, votant pour la détention de Louis XVI. Il est député de la convention nationale du  au . Il fait partie du groupe de la plaine.

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Bio: Short Biography: Dr. Steyer received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Mechanical Engineering. He was employed in engineering consulting for 21 years with SDRC serving in numerous industries including automotive and aerospace. His professional activities have centered on system dynamics and noise and vibration. Glen has been employed by AAM for 16 years. He is currently serving as Executive Director with AAM with responsibilities in Engineering Systems and has overseen NVH, Gear Engineering, CAE and Product Validation. Dr. Steyer is actively engaged in product design and development for driveline products, including electric drive axles. Dr. Steyer has published over 50 technical papers on the topics of testing and simulation for noise and vibration concerns and is the holder of 2 patents.
Bio: Mr. Chapman has over 30 years of experience developing and testing power equipment and propulsion systems for marine vehicles and other commercial applications. He has over 20 U.S. and international patents on power conversion systems for applications ranging from shipboard propulsion to magnetic bearings and artificial hearts. His current focus is on development of advanced power systems and rotating machinery that include propulsion motors, generators, lithium Ion batteries, circuit protection, system safety, power semiconductors and controls for integrated power conversion systems.


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Hi friends! It's Jess again with the Mommy Makes Things blog! I'm here to share another simple Refashion idea for the little ones and just in time for Back to School!
Peter Pan collars are still one of my favorite fashion trends and thank goodness it doesn't seem to be leaving us anytime soon. What I've done here is take a $4 clearance tank top and added my own. This is where it gets awesome. Shop at the Thrift Store, clearance rack…or even find something old and boring from the closet and make it "brand new" (at least to you) to help with those Back To School shopping expenses!
Step 2. Place your top on the fabric and trace around where you want the collar to go making SURE that you allow 1/4 inch bigger all around for seam allowances.
Step 3. Finish off free handing the way you want the bottom of the collar to look. Some like the triangle edges, but I chose the rounded edge. Do your best to make them symmetrical.
Step 5. Sew closely along the top and bottom sides with a zig zag stitch unless you have a serger. Make sure to leave the 2 shoulder ends open so that you can flip this inside out.
Step 8. Pin along the collar of the shirt to make sure it stays in place. Just make sure you don't pin the front of the shirt to the back of the shirt.
Step 9. Now, you can pin the collar along the neckline hem to sew but I found that it would bunch up and didn't allow for much "correction", so I just folded a small amount into the neckline and sewed very slowly along the inside, making sure it was even and a very straight line because you will see it on the front side.
Here's the finished result! Now you can leave it like this and it will be darling, or….
Now you're done! Ironing the collar down will help make it look nice and clean. You can make a bigger collar if you want and you can even embellish it like we chose to do!
I decided to take it a step further and add some bling! This really gives it a flashy new look and what little girl doesn't love to feel sparkly? Ok, maybe one of my triplets doesn't but hey she's not complaining either!
You can sew your sequins on but boy is that a daunting task. I decided to use a hot glue gun instead. We're best friends.
Now didn't that turn out cute and trendy? Theres more…you can do this with ANY top so try it again for Fall/Winter tops and there's more…give yourself a treat. This is NOT a toddlers only idea! Peter Pan Collars are everywhere and they look darling on the ladies as well so dig through that closet and find something that is crying out for a new collar. In case you haven't seen them floating around yet, there are plenty tutorials on how to make REMOVABLE Peter Pan Collars that are basically necklaces! So have fun with it!
Great idea, girls will love it, but is that hot glue strong enough? I'm worring that squins will fall after washing the blouse.


1. ST MARY'S STREET 5239 Parish Church of St Mary with Holy Trinity (formerly listed as Church of St Mary) SU 4211 4/225 14.7.53 II 2. Massive church built 1878-84 to the designs of G E Street on the site of a major collegiate church of the middle ages. But gutted in the Second World War and rebuilt in 1954-6, retaining Street's steeple and some outside walls. Built of ashlar C20 nave with buttresses, clerestry with plain modern lancets and slate roof. Large tower in 3 stages circa 1880, having broached spire with lucarnes erected in 1914 but to Street's design. The Baptistory of circa 1880 survives and has stained glass by Clayton and Bell. The reredos depicting the Nativity by Earp also remains. Included for fine tower and steeple which are also a local landmark.


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SUNDAY, March 15, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- With screening, colon cancers can effectively be detected and prevented. Though colon cancer is the third-leading cause of cancer death in the United States, one-third of Americans over age 50 are not getting screened.
"Screening saves lives and can prevent colon cancer," said Dr. Susanne Shokoohi, a gastroenterologist at Loyola Medicine in Maywood, Ill.
More than 140,000 Americans are diagnosed with colon cancer each year. Shokoohi shares five things you need to know about the disease.
1. All adults should be screened for colon cancer starting at age 50, but some groups should start even sooner.
African Americans have a higher colon cancer risk and should get their first screening at age 45. Those with a family history of colon cancer, a genetic risk for the disease or a history of inflammatory bowel or Crohn's disease should be screened earlier, too.
"And, of course, if you have symptoms, talk to your doctor," Shokoohi said.
2. A colonoscopy is the most effective way to detect and prevent colon cancer.
While there are several ways to screen, including at-home stool tests, a colonoscopy is the most common and effective tool, Shokoohi said. It allows doctors to view your entire large intestine.
"The goal is to remove the polyp before it becomes cancerous," Shokoohi said. "If cancer is detected, we are often finding it at an early stage -- before symptoms arise -- allowing us to treat the disease more effectively."
She added getting your first screening is easy and important.
"A colonoscopy takes just one day in your life, and it can be lifesaving," Shokoohi said in a Loyola news release.
3. Colon cancer is on the rise in younger adults.
More than 90% of colon cancers are diagnosed in patients over 50. But a study last year found a troubling rise in rates among younger people.
"We are seeing a jump in the 20 to 40 age group," Shokoohi said. "And we're not sure if the cause is genetics, obesity or diet. I would advise patients in this age group to not ignore any symptoms, and to talk to your doctor right away if any symptoms arise."
4. Knowing the symptoms of colon cancer is vital.
The symptoms include rectal bleeding, changes in bowel habits, unintended weight loss, new or ongoing abdominal pain, as well as weakness and loss of appetite.
5. Healthy diet and lifestyle choices are good prevention tools.
Diets high in fruits, vegetables, fiber and fish can help prevent colon cancer, Shokoohi said. Processed meats are linked to a higher rate of colon cancer. Smoking, obesity, heavy alcohol use and physical inactivity are other risk factors.
The American Cancer Society has more on colon cancer.
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Q: date conversion mktime returns wrong date I got this code
<?php
function dateFunc($month)
{
  setlocale(LC_TIME, 'spanish');
  $monthSub = date('m',strtotime($month));
  $name=strftime("%B",mktime(0,0,0,$monthSub,1,2000));
  $name = $name.' '.date('Y', strtotime($month));
  return strtoupper($name);
}
$output ="";

$output.=
dateFunc(date('Y-m', strtotime('-1 month'))).'

'.dateFunc(date('Y-m', strtotime('-2 month'))).'

'.dateFunc(date('Y-m', strtotime('-3 month'))).'

'.dateFunc(date('Y-m', strtotime('-4 month'))).'

'.dateFunc(date('Y-m', strtotime('-5 month'))).'
';

echo $output;
?>

The output is
JULIO 2017
MAYO 2017
MAYO 2017
MARZO 2017
MARZO 2017

I´m expecting this output
JULIO 2017
JUNIO 2017
MAYO 2017
ABRIL 2017
MARZO 2017

Some day I read the problem, the conflict comes on 30 days  month´s and the mktime() needs another parameter but I don´t remember how to fix it.
Suggestions please...

A: Here is how I might go about it.
https://iconoun.com/demo/temp_alberto.php

<?php // demo/temp_alberto.php
/**
 * Month computations
 *
 * https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45422134/date-conversion-mktime-returns-wrong-date
 */
error_reporting(E_ALL);
echo '
';

function lastMonth($date='next month')
{
    $m = date('Y-m-1', strtotime($date));
    $x = date('F Y', strtotime($m . '- 1 day'));
    return strtoupper($x);
}

$out = NULL;

$lm = lastmonth();
$out .= PHP_EOL . $lm;

$lm = lastmonth($lm);
$out .= PHP_EOL . $lm;

$lm = lastmonth($lm);
$out .= PHP_EOL . $lm;

$lm = lastmonth($lm);
$out .= PHP_EOL . $lm;

$lm = lastmonth($lm);
$out .= PHP_EOL . $lm;

echo $out;

A: You can do it like this:
$output.=
dateFunc((new DateTime(date("Y-m-1")))->modify("-5 month")->format("Y-m"));
echo $output;

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Lena Hatchett, PhD, is Director of Community and University Partnerships in the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago. She leads the institution in health equity research and education through program and policy development. She received her PhD in Social and Health Psychology from State University of New York Stony Brook and her post-doctoral training in Community and Prevention Research from University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health. Dr. Hatchett's research reduces racial and economic health disparities. To improve the local food systems, Dr. Hatchett co-founded the Maywood Multicultural Farmers Market and the Cook County Green Corps, a youth green job training program. On-going projects include Proviso Partners for Health, a multi-sector coalition to promote food justice through policy, system, and environmental change. She co-founded the coalition with community organizations to support over 25 youth serving organizations from the business, health, and community sectors. This work is funded by RWJ foundation to the Institute for Healthcare Improvement for the SCALE initiative and most recently, the Trinity Health System Transforming Communities Initiative.
Dr. Hatchett is a public health advocate with the following organizations; Cook County Department of Public Health Community Health Advisory Council; Advocates for Urban Agriculture; American Public Health Association Community-based Public Health Caucus Policy Work group; Cook County Department of Public Health, Alliance for Healthy and Active Communities; Institute for Healthcare Improvement 100 Million Healthier Lives.
Maywood Multicultural Farmers Market, Lena Hatchett, PhD. Sponsors: Neiswanger Bioethics Institute, Dominican University, Maywood Environmental Beautification Commission.
Cook County Green Corps, Lena Hatchett, PhD Funded by American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.
Urban Garden Connection, Lena Hatchett, PhD Funded by Model Community grant from the Cook County Department of Public Health and the Public Health Institute of Metropolitan Chicago.
Scaccia JP, Chavez NR, Hatchett L, et al. (2017) Community Health Improvement and the Community Psychology Competencies. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice 8(1): 1-25.
Hatchett L, Elster N, Wasson K, Anderson L, Parsi K. (2015) Integrating Social Justice for Health Professional Education: Self-Reflection, Advocacy, and Collaborative Learning. Online Journal of Health Ethics 11(1).
Hatchett, L, Brown, L, Hopkins, J, Larsen, K, Fournier, E. (2013) Something Good Can Grow Here. Chicago Urban agriculture Food Projects Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community.
Swetz KM, Jama AA, Quirindongo-Cedeno O, Hatchett L. (2011) Meeting the Needs of Somali Patients at the End of Life. Minnesota Medicine- Clinical & Health Affairs, December: 43-6.
Hatchett L, Herbert-Bernie J, Tenfelde S, Lavender M, Brubaker L.(2011) Knowledge and Perceptions of Pelvic Floor Disorders Among African American and Latina Women. Female Pelvic Medicine & Reconstructive Surgery 17(4): 190-4.
Slavin SJ, Hatchett L, Chibnall JT, Schindler D, Fendell G. (2011) Helping Medical Students and Residents Flourish: A Path to Transform Medical Education. Academic Medicine 86(11): e15.
Hatchett L, et al. (2009) Life Impact of Urological Pain Syndromes. Journal of Health Psychology 14.6: 741-50.


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Timber buildings reaching for the skies
Strandparken Hus B was built with Canadian Cedar
Timber as a building material continues to break boundaries and reach new heights, literally. Gone are the days where high rise buildings are built using conventional building materials. Timber skyscrapers have arrived and are making their mark across the world.
Periscope tower
Located in the Finnish city of Seinäjoki, the Periscope tower is a giant wooden periscope structure that serves as an observation tower and engages the viewer in a dialogue with the landscape.
Made entirely of wood, the building is composed of an inner core of cross-laminated timber (CLT) and an external wooden frame that serves as a load bearing structure. The inner core made of CLT forms the frame for an extra-large periscope with stairs circling around it. When taking the stairs up or down one can experience a rich range of different views framed by the various openings cut into the structure.
The tower is composed of three prefabricated elements with the roof forming a fourth element. The façades and the stairs are made of larch. The details and the security netting are of steel. The idea was to create a simple wooden structure of high quality in a way that supports learning and reflects a commitment to empowering and strengthening the local community.
The Periscope Tower is situated on the shore of a man-made lake that has been built on top of a hill in the vicinity of the centre of the city of Seinäjoki. The man-made lake, Lake Kyrösjärvi, has been created in order to serve three main functions: to help keep the flooding in the plains of Ostrobothnia under control, to generate energy for the electric power plant serving the city of Seinäjoki, and to form an attractive site for a new residential area to be constructed on the shores of the lake. 120 000 square meters of new housing will be built there to provide homes for about 2 000 people.
Woodcube
The IBA Woodcube project in Hamburg Germany, demonstrates how the traditional techniques involved in solid wood construction can be re-interpreted in a striking design.
Woodcube, a five-storey apartment building, consists almost entirely of wood; neither glue nor any type of protective coating has been used. Slab-like balconies jut out of the untreated, naturally ageing wooden façade, and are a marked feature of the building's design. Inside, wood forms just as conspicuous a feature of the building as it does on the outside: ceilings, outer walls, and floors all have wooden surfaces. One utterly novel feature is the bare solid wood casing around the massive staircase, which eschews layering or adhesives. In addition to forming the structure of the building, the 32-centimetre-thick solid wood walls also provide complete insulation.
The Woodcube puts untreated wood, as one of the oldest and most traditional construction materials, at centre stage, but gives it a completely novel spin. Solid wood is an integral part of the whole building and is made as visible as possible in the ceilings, outer walls, and floors. As the façade has been left untreated, it is ageing naturally, emphasising the aesthetic of wood as a building material.
Strandparken Hus B
The Strandparken Hus B is a 540m2 wooden building located in Stockholm, Sweden. The building consists of 31 apartment units and was built with Canadian cedar.
The shingles were mounted under a temporary roof, which made the entire construction site dry and comfortable. As the elements of cross-laminated massive wood are very light compared to concrete, the attic had to be fixed to the foundation with bolts. Shingles were chosen because of their natural variation in colour. Although the façade will turn grey, shingles are able to handle variations in colour naturally and without any demands for maintenance.
The building has gained a wide recognition, and been awarded for their forward-looking, yet traditional and well proved, technology. The architecture has a parallel character; contemporary in its combination of wood, glass and balconies, but also conventional in its almost iconic house shape with references to a widely spread type in Swedish post-war architecture.
Mjøstårnet
The Norwegian town of Brumunddal is home to Mjøstårnet, the tallest timber building in the world. At 85.4m high, the building was opened in March 2019 and holds the record for the world's tallest timber building.
Mjøstårnet has a combined floor area of around 11 300m². The building has 18 storeys that include apartments, a hotel, offices, a restaurant, a rooftop terrace and common areas. Peaking between 80 and 90m high, the structure boasts intriguing anti-fire features. According to Even Andersen, a fire consultant with Sweco Norge AS, glulam, or glued laminated timber, was used in the construction as glulam beams don't burn.
The structure was first assembled at the factory in Moelv before being transported to the building site for final assembly. During construction, several hundred glulam beams were hoisted into place in the structure over the course of a 10-month period. The height of the top part of the building of the building – with the pergola beams – was increased by 4.4 metres. To achieve this, the pergola beams at the top had to be rounded off to reduce wind loads. They were initially planned to be rectangular.
Woodcube was part of the International Building Exhibition Hamburg project in 2013
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Timber IQ
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Son lived in mother's apartment to care for her in her last years, but had not been granted permanent permission to live in the apartment. Victoria Aponte was the tenant of record, and sole authorized occupant, of a one-bedroom apartment located in a NYCHA-owned housing development at 150 West 174th Street in the Bronx. In 2009, Ms. Aponte's son, Jonas Aponte, moved into the apartment to assist his mother who had been diagnosed with advanced dementia and could not live alone without regular assistance. During Ms. Aponte's lifetime Mr. Aponte submitted two requests for permanent permission to live with his mother. NYCHA denied both requests, stating that approval would violate NYCHA's rules by creating an overcrowded condition in a one-bedroom apartment.
Upon Ms. Aponte's passing Mr. Aponte sought to keep the apartment by claiming remaining family status. NYCHA denied his request, ruling that Aponte was not eligible for remaining family member status since he had never been given permanent permission to reside in the apartment.
Mr. Aponte filed an article 78 petition. Supreme Court Justice Cynthia S. Kern denied the petition and dismissed the proceeding. The Appellate Division reversed, finding that NYCHA's decision denying Mr. Aponte the apartment was arbitrary and capricious. The Housing Authority appealed to the Court of Appeals.
The Court of Appeals sided with NYCHA, reversed the Appellate Division, and rejected Aponte's claim to the apartment. Eligibility for succession rights required that Mr. Aponte have attained permanent permission to reside in the apartment. NYCHA properly denied Mr. Aponte's requests for permanent permission to reside in the apartment because Mr. Aponte's presence would have violated NYCHA's overcrowding rules. Under these facts NYCHA's denial of Mr. Aponte's request for succession rights to his mother's public housing apartment was neither arbitrary nor capricious.
Aponte v Olatoye, 30 N.Y.3d 693 (2018).
Would giving that man the apartment really have made any difference? Of course not . Considering all the vile mismanagement NYCHA has blantantly carried on throughout the years; this is heartless and shameful .
Aponte was denied the apt and rightfully so. NYCHA's rules must be upheld. The waiting list to get into NYCHA is too long to bend and change rules when it's convenient for certain people.


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Mary went on a closet cleaning binge yesterday and, amid the chaos, she redicovered this picture of her grandfather, D-Dad, and a couple of friends. We believe the shot to have been taken in the late 1940s after a fine day fishing in central Florida, around Sebring. I'd have been thrilled with just the little one.