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ADG7

2021-08-20T20:59:03Z

ADG7 is another Korean group whose music and performances I enjoy. They use traditional instruments, and the songs I've listened to so far are very lively and upbeat.

"The colorful costumes are derived from images of shamans who wear vividly colored clothes and bold jewelry. Crossdressing expresses shamans' genderless quality because they are mediums channeling heaven and earth. As for the vocalists, they often wear women's hanbok while putting on traditional hats worn by men," Park explained.

Like Leenalchi, I discovered them via the Arirang TV channel's club.KOM show.

Video title: [Club.KOM] ADG7 (악단광칠) & Aucha (어차)
Posted by: Club KOM - 클럽닷컴
Date posted: Oct 14, 2020

Video title: Ak Dan Gwang Chil - “Youngjeonggeori” (Bonus Track)
Posted by: Skirball Cultural Center
Date posted: Sep 3, 2020

~~I haven't yet been able to find out what ADG7 (Ak Dan Gwang Chil) stands for.~~ (see below)
(Google Translate says it is Haitian Creole for "and chilled teeth"! LOL, but doesn't give any result for Korean.)
I am guessing that "Ak Dan Gwang" is Korean for the letters A, D, G, and Chil is Korean for the number 7 (which still wouldn't tell me what they stand for), but I haven't even been able to confirm that much. When you count from one to ten, seven is not "chil", but... oh yes, I posted about the different Korean counting systems before, and "chil" does mean seven!

Their Bandcamp page: https://adg7.bandcamp.com/

Update: mellowtigger found an explanation of the band's name. In this video, bandmembers answered:
"Akdan" means a group of musicians; And we were formed on the 70th anniversary of Gwangbok-jeol [the National Liberation Day]. And that is why we're called AKDAN-GWANG-7.
We came up with the name with an intention to remember the true meaning of liberation and those who are still suffering after all these years."

I've determined that the Google Translate webpage only translates Korean text which is entered/pasted in the Korean alphabet (Hangul). It doesn't work for romanized versions of Korean text in the Latin alphabet.

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lawyers, avocados, syllabaries

2020-09-26T05:16:30Z

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abugida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abugida

"a segmental writing system in which consonant–vowel sequences are written as a unit; each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary."

I'm still not clear on the difference between an abugida and a syllabary or alphasyllabary. But no matter. I'm posting this mainly in case I forget the word, as I suspect I will.

It feels like a Spanish word to me... abogada/abogado, that's what it reminds me of. Lawyer.
And that sure is similar to avocado, now that I think of it.

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sign language alphabet

2020-07-17T17:39:00Z

random thought:
It must be horrible to be intubated and not even able to communicate something as simple as "I am very cold, please give me blankets".

It would be good to learn to finger-spell the alphabet signs, so one would still have a way to communicate that didn't require pen&paper or keyboard, etc.
But then again, I wonder how many medical professionals are able to recognize and understand it?

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And then again, if they had to strap down your hands to keep you from pulling out the tube like they did with Qiao after his car accident, that wouldn't help much. At least they keep you mostly in a daze so maybe you don't even feel things like being cold.

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cursive ghost lock

2014-01-27T05:02:24Z

I've gone through a few more old family documents. A couple are written in an old German cursive script that was hard for me to decipher. But I was finally able to read them using the charts shown at the top of this page.

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There are so many weird noises in this room. I saw a cockroach a few days ago; it hid before I could catch it. I think it must be making some of the noises. Several times over the last months, every once in a while I hear a distinct chewing/crunching noise from inside the wall at the top of the doorway to the kitchen. It usually happens late at night. I've wondered if a squirrel could have gotten in between the walls. Or a mouse or rat. But maybe that is a cockroach too; it's weird how small things can make big noises sometimes.

Tonight, while watching Downton Abbey, I heard a noise to the right, looked over, and even saw the cup on top of the small cabinet move/shake! I picked up a flashlight (there are bunches of flashlights in this house) and carefully peeked behind the cabinet. Nothing there. I peeked into the cup. Nothing there.

If I believed in ghosts, I'd think there was a ghost in this room.

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Sherlock season 3 is being aired on our local PBS station on Sundays right after Downton Abbey. It starts at 10pm and is scheduled for 2 hours each episode. That would make me late for bed. I decided to watch the rerun instead, which starts an hour earlier on Thursday. Last Sunday I was tempted to stay up and watch part of it anyway, but had to nix that due to dealing with a malfunctioning washer.

I ended up watching it online on Tuesday and on TV on Thursday. For the TV broadcast, I turned on closed captions, to catch some of the dialogue I missed during my first viewing.

Today I was good again and turned off the TV before Sherlock came on. I'm still up late for other reasons, but I'll surely be in bed earlier than I would be otherwise.

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Oh gosh now a noise is coming from behind a different cabinet.

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