index card

[corvi]

 

Today for no particular reason I cut a bunch of holes in a 3x5 card and ended up with a not-terribly-accurate version of Russian archeologist Elena Shumakova's reconstruction of a reindeer tattoo found on a 2500 year old Pazyryk woman whose body was preserved in permafrost in the Altai Mountains.

(Archeologists are divided about what the decorations on the reindeer's antlers are - either flowers or eagle heads.)

That was fun. I would like to do it again.

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[spiralsheep]

\o/

[thnidu]

Literal, unfeigned, involuntary jaw-drop.

!!!!!

[corvi]

I know! Me too! It's an amazing design. You might like to see the rest of Elena Shumakova's Pazyryk tattoo reconstructions, or at least the rest that I have found online.


Tattoos on a male body.


The tattoo I recreated on the index card, originally on a woman's shoulder.


Tattoo on a man's shoulder.


Small Pazyryk finger tattoos.


The rest of the tattoos on the arm of the woman with the Eagle-Antlered Elk.

[ladymondegreen]

That is splendid.

[corvi]

Thank you!

[spiralsheep]

P.S. Apropos of the One True Word that rhymes with "orange"? The Blorenge. ;-P

[corvi]

!!!

Alright, if Rhyme and Reason or any other MIghty But Intangible Forces ever send me on an Epic Quest, I am definitely gonna choose you are my Quirky But Ultimately Helpful Mentor. :)

[spiralsheep]

I tend to think of myself more as A Warning To Others than a Helpful Guide but I concede that I did guide someone to urban stalactites earlier this week, hee!

The comparative...

[thnidu]

... of "orange", as a color, is "oranger", like "redder" or "bluer".

An oranger might be someone who sells oranges or does something else with them, like preparing them for cooking in special ways. An Oranger could be a supporter of the House of Orange, including Northern Ireland.

And a porringer is a bowl for porridge.


Silver porringer by Paul Revere. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Whom: Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological Busybody

On the subject of rhymes for orange and related terms

[spiralsheep]

\o/

I want an oranger to be someone who works in an orangery, partly because I like the word orangery and partly because afaik it has no true rhymes in English on the grounds that "Blorengery" (place in which one grows Blorenges) and "porringery" (like a porringer) are almost certainly not in common usage, although I have heard ramblers use the terminology "Blorengey" (like the Blorenge).

A. Pedant, curator of the Wor'shipful Company of Greengrocer's Apo'strophe Archive's.

[stolen_tea]

That's awesome!

[corvi]

Thanks! It was a lot of fun. :)