starlightespresso: polyglotswede: procrastinating-polyglot: I don’t know how I didn’t figure this out but now that I have I don’t know what to do with this information This is some woke shit wtf
Tag Archives: language
ruby-white-rabbit: gottasleepgottastudy: I wish I could like… download languages into my brain. It’s called studying but the buffering speed is a bitch
francaise-de-coeur: slav-reject: Russian person: *points at an owl* сова French person: *abruptly turns around* Très bien, merci French person: ça va ? Russian person: Ну где сова?
To people who use “þ” as an aesthetic “p”
v1als: miss-serket: solarine: tkdancer: tharook: notquiteapolyglot: þink again. getting thorny in the linguistics fandom þorny* That also goes for using ß as an aesthetic B. On my old server, there was a character named ßillyßadass. This never failed to make me laugh, because that letter is not pronounced like B. It is a sharp S. …
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thepunksink: nutheadgee: prozdvoices: getting into a conversation in a language you don’t actually speak that well The “fuck” at the end LMFAO God this is me
ginevre: theaustinstollhaus: i-am-corbin-dallas: theaustinstollhaus: theaustinstollhaus: When people go off about how English is the worst language, I just wanna point out a few things: – Our future tense requires only one word (looking at you, Spanish) – Words don’t change meanings depending on tone (Cantonese) – We don’t live in some bizarre Beauty And The …
nighthawkslair: micmp3: my professor: if he or she was to use his or her- me: All language is spoken, and its rules come from its speakers. Academics love to make up bogus rules and dictate how we speak, but in truth they have zero authority over language…absolute zero. The following are all rules dreamed up …
jonbrnthal: i just found out merriam webster has a time traveler feature that tells you some of the words that were “born” the same year as you. it’s pretty neat yall should do this
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vilespit: copperbadge: pinglederry: decoy-ocelot: Oh, oh, this reminds me of the only known bilingual palindrome: Anger? ‘Tis safe never. Bar it! Use love. Spell that backward and you get: Evoles ut ira breve nefas sit; regna! Which is Latin for: Rise up, in order that your anger may be but a brief madness; control it! …
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