Conlang = a constructed language. Это искусственно созданный язык. Conlangs придумывают для вымышленных миров, для международного общения, эксперимента ради, и даже просто по фану. "Почему бы и нет" - это уже достаточный повод, чтобы сотворить свой язык.

- When does a conlang count as a real language? And what do you consider what a real language is?
- Not even a room full of linguists would agree with each other on what "a language" is.
- ESPECIALLY not a room full of linguists.

- Когда конланг считается настоящим языком? И что, по-вашему, такое "настоящий язык"?
- Даже в комнате, полной лингвистов, не было бы единого мнения о том, что такое "язык".
- ОСОБЕННО в комнате, полной лингвистов.

Если что, comfortable-удобный - это именно про комфорт, всякие свитера, диванчики и ощущение эмоционального комфорта, релакс и всё такое прочее.

А convenient-удобный - это про удобство использования, экономию времени и т.п.

Как я обычно задвигаю на занятиях, если ваш train comfortable, то там сиденья мягонькие, а если он convenient, то вам быстро/удобно добираться.

A convenience store may also be called a cold store, party store (Michigan), bodega (New York City), carry out, mini-market, mini-mart, corner shop, deli or milk bar (Australia), dairy (New Zealand), superette (New Zealand, parts of Canada, and in parts of the US), corner store (many parts of English-speaking Canada and New England), a späti (from 'spätkauf' (lit. 'buy-late') in Germany, a konbini (コンビニ in Japanese) in Japan, based on the English loanword 'convenience', dépanneur or dep (used in Canada, primarily Quebec, in both English and French. It is a loanword from the French 'troubleshooter').

Yet another tradition instructed to pluck a single berry from the mistletoe with each kiss, and to stop smooching once they were all gone.
Еще одна традиция предписывала срывать по одной ягодке с омелы при каждом поцелуе и прекращать целоваться, как только ягоды закончатся.
Кстати, омела ядовита.

When the god Odin’s son Baldur was prophesied to die (= было предсказано, что он умрёт), his mother Frigg, the goddess of love, went to all the animals and plants of the natural world to secure an oath (= дать клятву) that they would not harm him.

But Frigg didn’t consult with mistletoe, so Loki made an arrow (= стрела) from the plant and it was used to kill Baldur. According to one sunnier version of the myth, the gods were able to resurrect (= воскресить) Baldur from the dead. Frigg then made mistletoe a symbol of love and promised a kiss on all those who passed beneath it (=обещала поцелуй всем, кто пройдет под омелой).

The name comes from the way the plant is propagated by birds eating the berries, then passing the seeds through the gut, and excreting the deposits onto the branches of trees.
Название происходит от способа размножения растения: птицы поедают ягоды, затем пропускают семена через кишечник и “выделяют” их на ветви деревьев.

Good, we're gonna stay down here on our backs. You're gonna lift your feet up so they're at 90° angle and arms are gonna be extended up straight as well. You're gonna press the low back to the floor we're gonna do some dead bugs. You're gonna extend opposite leg, opposite arm. They don't touch the floor and they come back...
So your low back should be pressed into the floor this whole time so that your lower abs are engaged.

1) gymnasium = a term in various European languages for a secondary school that prepares students for higher education at a university. It is comparable to the US English term "preparatory high school" or the British term "grammar school".

2) gymnasium = the big open room in a school where students play sports and exercise, and often have assemblies because it's the only room big enough to fit all the students at once. Тот самый зал в школе, да. Если вы скажете рандомно слово "gymnasium" на английском, то большинство людей подумает именно про это место.

But of course, most school kids (and teachers) often shorten 'gymnasium' to 'gym' anyway, e.g. "The assembly's gonna' be in the gym, as usual." So just think of 'gym' as having a couple of different meanings and choose the correct on based on context (as one must do with so many English words with multiple meanings).

Athletes competed nude, a practice which was said to encourage aesthetic appreciation of the male body, and to be a tribute to the gods. Gymnasia and palaestrae (wrestling schools) were under the protection and patronage of Heracles, Hermes and, in Athens, Theseus.

that nauseating, big, bulbous, haggard, ancient, vomit-yellow, speckled, Antarctic, clay, funereal urn
эта тошнотворная, большая, луковицеобразная, помятая, древняя, блевотно-желтая, в крапинку, антарктическая, глиняная, погребальная урна

- I think adjective order is a rule that feels surprising even to native speakers... we imagine we have a free choice and then learn that we've been following a complex seeming rule that we didn't even know existed.

- I love how this ordering is just instinctual when you talk, but if you tried to construct a sentence that followed these rules it would probably take you a bit.

- As a native English speaker, I never realized this. Golly, how inconvenient for foreigners.

- About 10-15 years ago, I saw a homemade sign on a telephone pole posted by a person advertising for work. The writer described herself as something like a "Russian mature woman", which was strikingly jarring, and quite obviously written by a non-native-speaker. And that's when I was first consciously aware that there is some unwritten rules to ordering adjectives in English. And I started to work out in my head

- My theory is that it's a kind of collocation. Just like we almost always say "black and white", and not "white and black". We got used to using and hearing a certain adjectival order, which became a norm, which became a rule.

- There is a lyric in a Magnetic Zeros song that goes: "...old big Sun". I wondered why it sounded so striking, now I know.

- My favorite adjective fun is "Deep blue sea." Is the color of the sea deep blue, or is the sea both blue and deep?

She’s bearing a child - Она вынашивает ребёнка

I can’t bear it anymore - Я больше не могу это выносить

The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Невыносимая легкость бытия

bear with me - послушай меня/подожди. Одна из моих любимых фраз ever, её шикарно можно вставлять в длинные монологи, так как посыл в духе “щащаща, потерпи мою историю ещё немного, сейчас такое будет!”

Но теперь я грущу, что из-за литературного перевода русалочки Андерсена в русском языке смешались понятия русалки и морской девы, хотя они абсолютно разные :(

Например, во французском есть pomme-яблоко, а картошка - это pomme de terre (fruit of the earth)
помидор - это “золотое яблоко” (от итальянского pomo d'oro)
pomegranate - это “зернистое яблоко”. И да, гранат и гранулы - это родственные слова.

fingeræppla (finger-apples) = dates (финики)
eorþæppla (earth-apples) = cucumbers
appel of paradis = bananas

As I understand it, in the Germanic languages "apple" (or the earlier Germanic form of the word) was a generic word for fruit. This can also be seen, for example, in the word for orange, "appelsin," in Danish, which would translate as China-fruit, rather than China-apple.

mort = dead

gage = pledge (залог/обещание и т.п.). В современном английском отсюда же слово engage, которое про “вовлекаться во что-то, участвовать”. У него ещё миллион подобных значений, включая "быть помолвленным" (be engaged).

I won't do it - я не буду это делать
I want to do it /I wanna do it - я хочу это сделать

- The term 'wont' is still in common usage among speakers in the US. It is not dead.

- Certainly, educated Americans are likely to have it in their passive vocabulary, but I would expect that very few of them use it in writing and even fewer in speech.