IL Nome- Italia etimologia

 

“Fatta l'Italia, bisogna fare gli italiani” 

 questa frase, associata in genere, a Massimo D'Azeglio indica una entità ed un nome: Italia.

17 marzo 1861, nasce l'Italia unita moderna.  Ma il nome?

 contestare un'idea di un luminare nel campo della etimologia è un po azzardato ...

tre opzione da  Quora   ITALIA

• Secondo Giovanni M. Semerano, filologo e linguista, il nome Italia deriva dall'accadico "atala" col significato di "occidente, tramonto", in quanto territorio ad ovest delle terre mesopotamiche.
• una delle Grazie Thalia che e' associata alla coltivazione del vino (anche in Italiano "innesto di buona qualita di vite" si puo' dire talea). In latino "Ici" abbreviato ad "I"=qui se dici I-Talia=Italia significa "qui buon vino"
• attuale Calabria era abitata da un popolo che aveva quale totem il vitello e furono pertanto chiamati dagli Elleni colonizzatori della zona (v)ituli; da qui il nome della regione in Vitulia; con la scomparsa della Vau (lettera del greco arcaico) Vitulia è diventato Itulia/Italia

•  Notare che i Vituli erano una tribù degli Enotri, cioè abitanti dell'Enotria che in Greco voleva dire "terra del vino" da qui il termine Enotria anche questo anticamente usato per dare nome all'Italia dell'estremo Sud.

  
  

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Per caso, sarebbe stata accettabile la teoria del Semerano se un nome simile comme Iberia...

 Ἰβηρία -antico greco ...  Iveria ( georgiano: ივერია)

• qualche correlato con
•  le parole Basque  ibai (fiumme) and ibar (valle)?
• giorgiano Georgian bari 'pianura'?

The chief significance of the Caucasus in Asian history, therefore, is as a gateway of migration. It also plays the part of an ethnic museum, for very many of the peoples who have passed this way have left detachments in the remoter parts of the mountains. Like Afghanistan farther east, Caucasia has often functioned as a buffer zone between rival empires.  Following the influx of tribes driven from the direction of Anatolia by the Cimmerian invasion of the 7th century BCE and their fusion with the aboriginal population of the Kura River valley witnessed the growth of the important kingdom of Iberia, the region that now comprises modern Kartli and Kakheti, along with Samtskhe and adjoining regions of southwestern Georgia.

Between the modern centuries history is reconstructed, and it is extended. False origins are created. One of their deceptions is the creation of the  myths of origin, which hides an intruding power from .... the Caucasus?

Genetics studies and new theories wil make things more interesting...

Reading Korean words... easy-peasy !?

  You can READ some Korean  BUT you never tried.
(and you will  ... wait till you reach the end of the post!). 

Hankul s’escriu morfofonèmicament. Així  태 권 도  té set lletres coreanes

on  cada bloc ha de ser més o menys  de la mateixa mida. 

La primera horitzontal, la segona vertical i tercera vertical. Vegem-lo:

My favourite sport is ...

a 3-syllable,

 7-Korean letter one:

 태 권 도

I can convince some of you  English is a useful tool IF YOU DARE play the 3 games.

Korean is written into “blocks” that make up one syllable. 

Italian ---> MICHELANGELO /mikel.langel.lo/ 

미 켈 란 젤 로 

Spanish ---> MIGUEL ANGEL /migel anxel/

미 겔   앙 헬

GAME 1. Yes-you-can RIDDLE (1): 

If I tell you that Korean is an alphabetic LANGUAGE 

and  the word   바 나 나,  

corresponds to and sounds /banána/.

Can you answer these questions (the average score has been 3/4):

1) What is the symbol for the consonant ?

2) for the vowel ?

3) for the consonant ?

Canine epilogue: 

If you see a dog with a collar around its neck 

with this written inscription:  

바 바

        

4) What's the name of the dog?  answer: ............

CULTURAL NOTE:  

Korean is written into “blocks” that make up one syllable. One block always has exactly one syllable.

Being an Asian language, it looks Asian!

Syllables or characters could look Chinese or Japanese...

but do not get fooled!

It is an alphabetic language... Easy-peasy. 

For my Cultural Introduction (in Catalan),  click here. 

To learn about Korean language (in Catalan), click here. 

Ready for a sort-of-tetris Challenge?

Some time I said to someone that I could make up the equivalence of the Korean letters in my name. Today is the day. 

Tools:  google translator and the sound it provides!

GAME 2.   Renaissance RIDDLE (2): 

 In 6 minutes you can read MIQUEL ANGEL!

I gave you two spelled words with their approx. phonetic transcript:

Italiano ---> MICHELANGELO /mikel.langel.lo/ 

Spanish ---> MIGUEL ANGEL /migel anxel/

INPUT 1. Remember “blocks” that make up one syllable.

 One block always has exactly one syllable. 

Using the 9 guided questions in the Socrates way...

READING only the Italian word in two font types!:

Italiano ---> MICHELANGELO /mikel.langel.lo/ 

미  켈 란 젤  로 

                    미 켈 란 젤 로

a) can you discover the five syllables in Italian?

/mikel.langel.lo/ 

INPUT 2. Sometimes a syllable has two or three elements:

 

b) can you discover the two elements in syllable 1  (mi )  ?

 

                   미 

INPUT 3. Sometimes a syllable has  elements BELOW:

f) can you discover the two elements in syllable 5:  lo

                        로 

d) can you remember 

    the three Korean VOWELS so far in  mi ,  lo and lan?

                i =    .........

               o =   .........

               a =   .........

if  you got more than two correct answers ...

                          you are BRAVE!

Using only the Spanish word:

INPUT 4. Korean interpret as sound /ñ/

Spanish ---> MIGUEL ANGEL /migelañel/

미 겔   앙 헬

e) can you discover the FOUR syllables in it?

f) Watch the two elements BELOW in syllables 2 and 4 

can you discover  it they are vowels or consonants?

              겔    헬

g) can you discover the three elements in syllable 2:  gel

if  you got more than five correct answers ...

                          you are more than BRAVE!

NOW; using both words:

Italian ---> MICHELANGELO 

미 켈 란 젤 로 

Spanish ---> MIGUEL ANGEL 

미 겔   앙 헬

h) can you discover the three elements in syllable 3:  lan

                        란

i) can you remember 

    the two Korean CONSONANTS that are written  

    BELOW in syllables 3 and 2 ( lan and gel ) ?

                n =    .........

                l =   .........

Sorry, we said ONLY 9 questions.

if  you got more than seven correct answers ...

                          you are the Bestest!

Extra Bonus track:

j) is Catalan  ---> MIGUEL ANGEL   (  미 켈 란 젤 로 )

 pronounced as in Italian or in Spanish?

GAME 3. Can you DO this sports  RIDDLE (3): 

My favourite sport is 태 권 도.

My favourite sport is ...

a 3-syllable,

 7-Korean letter one:

 태 권 도

Yes, indeed : __ __ +  __ __ n + __ o

*  GUIDE TO  6   VOWELS:

Next are the basic vowels you will need to know. (Not the double 

Again, do whatever you can to memorize the English representations to help you learn them.

• ㅣ = i
• 
  
• ㅏ = a
• 
  
• ㅓ = eo (Romanized as “eo” -Barbarian the lingüists!)
•                   but it sounds closer to /eh/ in Spanish or  /uh/ in English)
• ㅡ = eu
• ㅜ = u
• ㅗ = o

Catalan  ---> MIGUEL ANGEL

미 켈 란 젤 로

===== =    KEY to Riddle (1):    ======

  바 나 나,   corresponds to and sounds /banána/.

Can you answer these questions (the average score has been 3/4):

1) What is the symbol for the consonant ?   ㅂ

                  2) for the vowel ?                        ㅏ

                          3) for the consonant ?         ㄴ

If you see a dog with a collar around its neck 

with this written inscription ...  바 바

        

4) What's the name of the dog?  ... NANA

===== =    KEY to Renaissance RIDDLE (2): 

is Catalan  ---> MIGUEL ANGEL   (  미 켈 란 젤 로 )

 pronounced like _italian 

===== =    KEY to sport RIDDLE (3): 

My favourite sport is a 3-syllable,  7-Korean letter one:

         태            권           도

       __ __   +    __ __ n  +     __ o

       T  ae    +   Kw o  n  +     D o

It needn’t be a WESTERNcentric world -MAPS

intro:  

 Western mindsets on the northern hemisphere

Mercator Misconceptions: Clever Map Shows the True Size of Countries

Nopv  2018 
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mercator-map-true-size-of-countries/


In 1569, the great cartographer, Gerardus Mercator, created a revolutionary new map based on a cylindrical projection.  BUT, and it it is a big but, Mercator’s map inadvertently also pumps up the sizes of Europe and North America. Visually speaking, Albeit no-one complained at the time.... At least in our euro-centered view of the world.

PART 1___ 

A matter of perspective: 

• A perspective from .......: does it matter? to whom? 

• Get used to these new options ... here

• Pacific-centred?  

•  Azimuthal polar projection?

PART 2___ 


          

       What is the Center? 

• Sinocentrism in China 
• From  211 BCE to 1831 CE

When China was the Center of the world and we were Barbarians

"The Complete Map of the Myriad Countries" (Wanguo Quantu), Jesuit's adaptation of Western geographic knowledge to Chinese cartographic standards (early 17th century).

PART 3 

               It needn’t be a Eurocentric world 

 McArthur's map -1979

PART 4   

Ifrika - Africa

But no-one can fool everybody everytime!

Columbus gets a lot of flak for mistaken the Americas for India, but c'mon, the guy couldn't exactly consult GPS and Google. 

My fav goofs

• George W. Bush: 

• "Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.”  

• Paris Hilton 

• “I love Africa in general. South Africa and West Africa. They are both great countries.” 

• Britney Spears 

• "I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know that's very popular out there in Africa."

BONUS CATALAN  MAP

MEDITERRANIAN: The best Catalan map 1375 
-made in Mallorca    by  Abraham Cresques 

«Cresques lo juhueu qui lo dit mapamundi a fet»

"Les cartes portolanes: la representació medieval d'una mar solcada",  a body of knowledge regarding the map-makers of Majorca of the late middle ages that had not obtained the recognition it deserves in the English-speaking cartographical research world.

 Crescques was the first to draw an ornate compass rose on a map. By the end of the 15th century, Portuguese cartographers began drawing multiple ornate compass roses throughout the chart.

His son, Jafuda (Jehuda) , dues to the Crown persecutions of 1391 converted to Christianity, at which time he took the name Jaume Riba, Jacobus Ribus,

Despite the map's rather approximate cartographical design, which emphasize the earth's spherical shape and the state of the known world, many Indian and Chinese cities can be identified. The explanatory texts report customs described by Marco Polo and catalogue local economic resources, real ones or supposed ones. This, indeed, is perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Catalan Atlas : to the east of the well-defined Mediterranean world lie immense regions whose economic importance is clearly understood, but which remain mysterious and unexplored. This world of spices, silks, and fabulous riches described by Marco Polo is the one that Christopher Columbus would attempt to reach by a western route 117 years later.



Everybody makes mistakes sometimes....

Yanko Tsetkov -map of prejudice:


AND

Martin's Positive stereotypes: such as ‘Japanese and Koreans are all very smart’, ‘the French are very romantic’, and ‘all Canadians are polite.’”

Click an pick up your negative ones  

   mapping stereotypes

or Independence day!

mapping the territory: order and the border

 ordering the borders 

oral-2  Our view and their view(s)

You  two work for two rival newspaper Regio7 and  El nou 9 and are deciding to cooperate in a 8-page cultural supplement  called  It needn't be a self-centric world. 

Have a look at both pics, try to discuss which is the best image to include as a cover in our supplement. The images are  these:  

•  the famous sculpture in the London School of Economics  The world upside down  (2019)
• a UNESCO-promoted project (1976)   to offer a more realistic view of a world map with the real size of your country:  Peters' map (1979) 

 

You may use these 2 sets with bullet points in you discussion:

•  Your own reaction to one picture
•  How successful would you say the supplement may be?

•  Why might people criticise your cover?

              set2 

• What other pieces could be used?
• some political implications
• your readership knowledge
•  ...... 

The world upside down

Peter's map

to read more, click here

Worldcentric: Peters' map

McArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World has a fabulous history, 

made by an Australian who was tormented for coming  ... 

from the "bottom of the world". It was the first modern south-up map, 

published in 1979

the  most famous and controversial map has been Peters world map.

He devised a map based on Gall's orthographic projection in 1967 and presented it in 1973 as a "new invention." He promoted it as a superior alternative to the Mercator projection, which was suited to navigation but also used commonly in world maps. The Mercator projection increasingly inflates the sizes of regions according to their distance from the equator

the world around us: Two pieces of news below

1. the borders affected the meaning of the piece of art.... here2 . 
2. Change.org took issues with the sculpture  ....              here

  3. another way with WORLDMAPPER... here

The art of Note-taking -Caroline Criado-Perez twice

 

Beloved invisible asymmetries

 in a model (?) world, OURS!!!

her book -instant success ...  REVIEW  here

PART 1 ______ 

The art of Note-taking  with VIDEO 1.

     MARCH 2020   (some months ago)

magine a world where…

· Your phone is too big for your hand

· Your doctor prescribes a drug that is wrong for your body

· In a car accident you are 47% more likely to be injured.

If any of that sounds familiar,  

chances are you’re a woman.

I just don't believe someone 

would use that excuse if they weren't

thinking of women as a minority rather than half the available population !

'Why car design is killing women' | Caroline Criado Perez

'Why car design is killing women' | Caroline Criado Perez Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women, explains why women are 47% more likely to be seriously injured...

PART 2______ 

As a way of entertaining yourself, try again 

i like her here:  video 2- dialogue helps (some months ago)

INTRO_ VIDEO for pleasure for 6min and they are entering the topic.

      06:02 all the research is still massively male-dominated ....--->

THEN take notes till 06:02 12:25

designed by people who seem to 

have no idea about how problematic the

data that they're feeling their algorith -

12:26

Caroline Criado Perez: Algorithms make sexist data even more sexist

Caroline Criado Perez: Algorithms make sexist data even more sexist Author Caroline Criado Perez recently published her book ”Invisible Women” where she writes about the world bein...