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In Italian beard means boring
What a beard! = how boring this is!
beardy = boring and long (because it takes time for a beard to grow I guess)
a lie=
a pile of drying hay (after it's been cut)
a ball
a fairy tale (old)
Are you interested in moustache too?
Mmh no, you need to check your Italian sources I'm afraidItalian (perhaps different Italian region): a colloquial word for lies is 'female buffalo' / nothing for beard.
I agree with rosada. Theatre is about putting on a 'mask' and pretending to be someone else, so since you're going to apply a beautiful 'mask' it means a beautiful performance then. And resulting 26 is a great omen for public appearances.Olga, in regards to a theater project I think this line could be seen as a positive omen as theater is all about creating a beautiful illusion.
Has showing off a negative connotation?
Dear Diamanda:So, very unsurprisingly, “beard” predominantly symbolises:
-- masculinity / strength / agreessiveness
-- dignity and wisdom / maturity / old age
It means nothing else metaphorically or idiomatically in most languages I got feedback about (Norwegian, Portuguese, German, Czech, Italian, French, Hebrew, Chinese). It can mean “lies/nonsense” in Greek, “boring” in Italian, “someone pretending to be a partner” in the US, and “academics” in the UK.
Since nothing sensational came out of this little linguistic experiment, there’s no conclusion!
Olga, in regards to a theater project I think this line could be seen as a positive omen as theater is all about creating a beautiful illusion.
I agree with rosada. Theatre is about putting on a 'mask' and pretending to be someone else, so since you're going to apply a beautiful 'mask' it means a beautiful performance then. And resulting 26 is a great omen for public appearances.
Wow, great 'catch' tacrab, thanks!What about the converse: "a bald-faced lie"?
Dear Diamanda:
I trust in cross culture meanings. don't despair.
I believe that there are two problems is H.22.2 the meaning of the character translated ADORN / ADORNMENT and the character translated BEARD.
In the first the sense of merely decorative cannot be unique, some attibrutes adorn one's character or personality. Maybe it would be better to translate it HONOR / HONORING
In the second charater BEARD belongs to a more complex character, the
In the first the sense of merely decorative cannot be unique, some attibrutes adorn one's character or personality. Maybe it would be better to translate it HONOR / HONORING
Dear Diamanda:...
Thanks for this Charly! It seems that there was a copy/paste error, and your last sentence remained unfinished. Could you please add a beard to it at the end?
«Lends GRACE to the BEARD on his CHIN.»
«Beard of CHIN... This word suvivies in Yue and Min dialects,
elsewhere it has been replaced by hu zi 鬍子»
Schuessler: ABC Dictionary ...
Must recognize that LISE said TO HONOR first.BÌ (name of 22): bright, decoration, brilliant, bright, luminous, ornate, to honor, adorning. Pronounced ben1: ardent, brave, energetic, strenuous, to forge ahead, to blossom out, zest. Pronounced fen2: great. Pronounced fen4: defeated. Also in an inscription used for a kind of sacrifice.
I was sitting in the backyard with my books and everything, figuring out the meanings of the hexagrams. Next to me was an Azalea-bush which was on the verge of blossoming. The buds were swollen and looked as if they were loaded with energy. I saw the ideogram - and the buds next to me, and they looked exactly the same.
Then I saw what beauty really is: the energy of life showing itself gloriously. It is a lot more than adornment, it is how life looks. Nobody knows exactly what it is, but we all know how it looks.
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