Today’s Hili Dialogue features Hili’s new toy, which she loves (she ignored the catnip mice I brought her):
Hili: I’ve never met such a playful scientist.
Jerry: A scientist should be inquisitive like a cat and always ready to play.
Indeed!
Here’s the dialogue in the original Polish (Hili is of course a Polish cat):
Hili: Jeszcze nigdy nie spotkałam tak zabawowego naukowca.
Jerry: Naukowiec powinien być ciekawski jak kot i zawsze skłonny do zabawy.
Given that I have the post election blues from Australia, I’m enjoying your play too. Rupert Murdoch’s papers were so blatant – and the media is our biggest threat to democracy.
As some vaguely on the (sensible) “right”, I cordially disagree. Murdoch’s papers don’t set the agenda, they merely reflect the agenda of their readers. If there was more money/readers in being “left-wing”, Rupe’s papers would turn in a heartbeat.
I couldn’t agree less. For as long as I’ve been politically aware he’s been pushing a line that varies from year to year. He doesn’t follow his readers, he tries to bludgeon them along the path that suits him at that moment. I despise him.
May I ask if Hili elaborated her views on Old verses New Atheism?
My cats have one of those, it had a few feathers on the end but they didn’t last long.
How old is Hili? My cat, Poes, who looks very much like Hili and is now about 3 years old, used to play also a lot when she was younger. Now she seems to play only to do us a pleasure, but she tires quickly of the game. I suppose that being outside and chasing butterflies or bumble bees is a lot more exiting for her.
Hili is just over a year – she was born July 2012.
I see. Enjoy her playing as long as it lasts.
😉
I’d say that zabawowego seems a very playful way to say playful.
There is a Polish saying:
Głupi czyta, bo ciekawy.
Mądry pisze dla zabawy.
The stupid one reads because he is curious.
The wise one writes for fun.
zabawa means fun.
zabawka = toy
zabawiać = entertain
So “tak zabawowego naukowca”
would mean “such a playful scientist”
*Sending virtual chin rub to Hili.*
Aww! I’m so happy that Hili likes my present! (=^･ｪ･^=)