Yes, those 3 magical words. I've been looking for different ways to say "I love you" in different languages, and with the addition of Elvish (you know, that tongue-twisting-ly beautiful elven language in Lord of the Rings) the total number has reached 109. Thought I'd share with you my collection:

English - I love you
Afrikaans - Ek het jou lief
Albanian - Te dua
Arabic - Ana behibak (to male)
-Arabic - Ana behibek (to female)
Armenian - Yes kez sirumen
Bambara - M'bi fe
Bangla - Aamee tuma ke bhalo aashi
Belarusian - Ya tabe kahayu
Bisaya - Nahigugma ako kanimo
Bulgarian - Obicham te
Cambodian - Soro lahn nhee ah
Cantonese Chinese - Ngo oiy ney a
Catalan - T'estimo
Cheyenne - Ne mohotatse
Chichewa - Ndimakukonda
Corsican - Ti tengu caru (to male)
Creol - Mi aime jou
Croatian - Volim te
Czech - Miluji te
Danish - Jeg Elsker Dig
Dutch - Ik hou van jou
Elvish (from The Lord of The Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien)- "Amin mela lle"
Esperanto - Mi amas vin
Estonian - Ma armastan sind
Ethiopian - Afgreki'
Faroese - Eg elski teg
Farsi - Doset daram
Filipino - Mahal kita
Finnish - Mina rakastan sinua
French - Je t'aime, Je t'adore
Frisian - Ik hâld fan dy
Gaelic - Ta gra agam ort
Georgian - Mikvarhar
German - Ich liebe dich
Greek - S'agapo
Gujarati - Hoo thunay prem karoo choo
Hiligaynon - Palangga ko ikaw
Hawaiian - Aloha Au Ia`oe
Hebrew - Ani ohev otah (to female)
-Hebrew - Ani ohev et otha (to male)
Hiligaynon - Guina higugma ko ikaw
Hindi - Hum Tumhe Pyar Karte hae
Hmong - Kuv hlub koj
Hopi - Nu' umi unangwa'ta
Hungarian - Szeretlek
Icelandic - Eg elska tig
Ilonggo - Palangga ko ikaw
Indonesian - Saya cinta padamu
Inuit - Negligevapse
Irish - Taim i' ngra leat
Italian - Ti amo
Japanese - Aishiteru OR dai suki
Kannada - Naanu ninna preetisuttene
Kapampangan - Kaluguran daka
Kiswahili - Nakupenda
Konkani - Tu magel moga cho
Korean - Sarang Heyo
Latin - Te amo
Latvian - Es tevi miilu
Lebanese - Bahibak
Lithuanian - Tave myliu
Luxembourgeois - Ech hun dech gäer
Malay - Saya cintakan mu / Aku cinta padamu
Malayalam - Njan Ninne Premikunnu
Mandarin Chinese - Wo ai ni
Marathi - Me tula prem karto
Mohawk - Kanbhik
Moroccan - Ana moajaba bik
Nahuatl - Ni mits neki
Navaho - Ayor anosh'ni
Norwegian - Jeg Elsker Deg
Pandacan - Syota na kita!!
Pangasinan - Inaru Taka
Papiamento - Mi ta stimabo
Persian - Doo-set daaram
Pig Latin - Iay ovlay ouyay
Polish - Kocham Ciebie
Portuguese - Eu te amo
Romanian - Te iubesc
Russian - Ya tebya liubliu
Scot Gaelic - Tha gra\dh agam ort
Serbian - Volim te
Setswana - Ke a go rata
Sign Language - ,\,,/ (represents position of fingers when signing'I Love You')
Sindhi - Maa tokhe pyar kendo ahyan
Sioux - Techihhila
Slovak - Lu`bim ta
Slovenian - Ljubim te
Spanish - Te quiero / Te amo
Swahili - Ninapenda wewe
Swedish - Jag alskar dig
Swiss-German - Ich lieb Di
Surinam - Mi lobi joe
Tagalog - Mahal kita
Taiwanese - Wa ga ei li
Tahitian - Ua Here Vau Ia Oe
Tamil - Nan unnai kathalikaraen
Telugu - Nenu ninnu premistunnanu
Thai - Chan rak khun (to male)
-Thai - Phom rak khun (to female)
Turkish - Seni Seviyorum
Ukrainian - Ya tebe kahayu
Urdu - mai aap say pyaar karta hoo
Vietnamese - Anh ye^u em (to female)
-Vietnamese - Em ye^u anh (to male)
Welsh - 'Rwy'n dy garu di
Yiddish - Ikh hob dikh
Yoruba - Mo ni fe

Do you know William of Ockham? Probably not. Then let me tell you, he's a 14th century logician and friar (no NOT liar). Both of his trades are unappealing and frightening to me, and the only reason that saved him from being eternally execrated by me is the fact that he knew. Sure being a fri-logician he knew a lot of things we don't understand and don't care, but what he knew above all was what is called Ockham's Razor and can be expressed in a brief sentence:

"Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate''

Do you speak Latin? Yeah, me neither. But I'll translate it anyway.

"Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily''

In other (my) words: "Keep it simple." The Razor has a more subtle meaning behind it, but we regular folks don't need it. Simplicity works, throw the complicated part to the trash, and let's stick with what we can understand in a few awkward sentences I write here. Which is exactly what Razor is all about. You're seeing it at work.

Let me make it a little clearer for any of you out there who may be a bit slow: when it comes to reasoning, the simplest explaination is the best. I don't know why it works. Perhaps the simplest explaination for it is none at all, but we invoke it everywhere as if we're little disciples of Ockham running around. And despite what I said in the first sentence of the post, if you need to read this to know what Ockham's Razor is, you're probably uneducated and/or just misinformed. The direct result of that lack of knowledge is that you've probebly spent all your life making complicated theories that even you can't understand fully about everyday's matter of little to no importance. In short, you're thinking too much. So a word of advice: if your "theory" is more than 2 paragraph long, has the word "but", "however", and/or "anyway", contain something you've just thought of at the precise moment you write it, and based on a popular (or not) anime series, then you're probably wrong.

 

 

 

And sending SMS's in Japan is free, too. Can you believe that %&^@*(&!?

Today was an incredibly hot day, which, for once, is a good thing. It reminded me that summer'd finally come. I was too busy at school to notice. Goodbye gloomy winter sky, big welcome to summer's color, though I can do without the heat. Thought I should take the camera out and contribute my first post to the club. I did. Here's the result

 

 

 

 

How old are you? If you're 13+, chances you're not unfamiliar with the idea of *love*. Speaking of love, chances are you also think immediately of boy-girl/man-woman love. If you do (and I'm sure you will), chances also are that you'll think of, well, sex. Come on, I know you do. Admit it. We're human, it's normal. And in this day and age when everywhere, at every hour, on every tv channel / newspaper / magazine you can find either a movie, commercial, ads, story... that associate love with sex, great love with great sex that is, in order to attract your attention, you must have been living in a cave to not have the idea engraved in your mind. So, the whole point is, in short, our minds are all corrupted. Heaven saves us!

Don't believe me? Don't want to? Can't accept the shocking truth? Well here's a test for you so you can't complain anymore. Look at the picture below. Closely.

What do you see? I bet all the dong in my pocket at the moment that like 98% percent of Earth population, you're seeing an intimate couple in a physical act of love. And that just proved that your mind is corrupted all the way to your basic instinct. But why?

Here's the answer. Take your 4 year old son/daughter/brother/sister/cousin, any kid will do. No no don't worry. Unlike you I have no intention of polluting their souls. Just let them see the pictures and ask what they saw.

Right, nine dolphins. That's because they're children and haven't been *adulterized* by the culture we created. At least not yet. Protect them, will you?

And if after reading all this you still can't find the dolphins, I have nothing more to say. Hopefully they will treat you nicely in hell.