Trying To Make Up.

Welp, Thursday, Friday and Saturday were again crazy, and I'm wiped. Seriously. I fell asleep during drawing The Grim DotCom - that's gotta be a bad sign.

And now I'm kind of guiltily trying to retrieve the news of these three days. Not an easy task - I can find Friday's, Sp!ts, I can retrieve the Metro of all three days, but the other newspapers limit their archives to one day, some with a searchable archive but not date-referenced, so I can't just search for all articles from these three days. At least not as far as I can tell.

Bear with me, I'm trying to find 'em. There won't be many and I won't be thorough. That much I can promise already...

Thursday:

- 'microfoongesprekken' (microphone conversations). This means 'conversations secretly recorded by hidden microphones'. How do they differ exactly from regular conversations ? In the fact that they were recorded ?? I don't think this justifies this word.
- 'verkeersveiligheidscampagne' (traffic safety campain). Do I even need to go into this one ?
- 'detailhandelsspecialist' (retail specialist). Is there really any non-Dutch speaking person who won't find this word long and confusing ? It can easily be solved in a much less confusing manner.

Ok, Word of the Day (since I'm done with Thursday) is 'microfoongesprekken'.

Friday:
- 'slaapkamerproducties' (bed room productions). This is from a producer/DJ who makes music on a G4 in his bedroom. But it's clear the word's supposed to mean 'music produced in a non-professional studio environment with non-professional studio equiptment'. Blegh.
- 'leer-werk-plicht' (study - work - duty). Our government is putting even more silly responsibility on the unemployed for their own situation: now a new law is proposed to make sure young people are officially forced to either study or work. Now.. it could just be me, but I can't think of a single young person (and I know a lot of young people) who isn't already forced to one of the two, if not friggin' both. In fact, way too many young people are already actively throwing their life away to make sure our government can pay off their debt, keep pensioners alive, and pay for Joint Strike Fighters for our American buddies. Isn't the whole point of being young that you have this time to be NON-grown up ? And don't you think the enourmous pressure the government keeps putting on the young people is what makes so many of them go to extremes in their opposition of society and government ?

Ok, worked up enough to know: the Word of the Day for Friday is: 'leer-werk-plicht'. No use looking any further.

Saturday:
'straatterroristen' (street terrorists). From what I gather from the article, this doesn't really differ from any other form of terrorism, so where the addition 'street' came from, I have no idea. Except that it involves 'foreign' youth. I'm fairly close to accusing the inventor of this word of racism. So I'm not looking further: this is today's winner.

And since it's techically Sunday: here's the Word of the Week ! (Good grief, what an efficient post, no ?)

- Monday: 'turbokapitalisme'
- Tuesday: 'exploronaut'
- Wednesday: 'sexwinkelcentra'
- Thursday: 'microfoongesprekken'
- Friday: 'leer-werk-plicht'
- Saturday: 'straatterroristen'

And the Word of the Week is: 'exploronaut'.

Goodnight !