Antti Learns Languages

non omnis moriar

[unesaisonenenfer]

Ah ! ne pourrai-je jamais passer tranquillement une heure sur ton sein, serrer mon cœur contre ton cœur et confondre mon âme dans la tienne !

Goethe, Faust (via unesaisonenenfer)

Ach, kann ich nie. Ein Stündchen ruhig dir am Busen hängen, und Brust an Brust und Seel' in Seele drängen?

[anttilearnslanguages]

Hoc pictum me semper paenitebit.

I will always regret this tattoo.

[anttilearnslanguages]

Thanks for such a great list of Finnish resources - the only one I'd found helpful so far was memrise but I'm going to have a look at some of the others!

Thank you!

[anttilearnslanguages]

Dominus est non gradus anus rodentum. The boss isn't worth a rat's arse.

[1eyedluigi]

[neliaarch]

[opticallyaroused-deactivated201]

[mapsontheweb]

Most Commonly Spoken Language Other than English by London Boroughs

Related: The most commonly-spoken languages in London

[mapsontheweb]

What Germany is called in different European languages

[anttilearnslanguages]

Name: Antti Nickname: John Birthday: December 21st Gender: male, non-binary Sexuality: pan Height: 180cm / 5’11” Time Zone: GMT+2 What time and date is it there: 2014/09/06 15:42, JDN 2456907

Average hours of sleep I get each night: Something between three and twelve, I’d guess around seven hours on average

Last thing I googled: I couldn’t remember so I googled Conway’s game of life just now

Most used phrase(s): I seriously don’t know

First word that comes to mind: lacuna

Last thing I said to a family member: “olis kahvia” (the coffee is ready, literally there’s coffee)

One place that makes me happy and why: It’s not about any place in particular. I do know where I’d like to be right now. Generally I feel happy where light filters through a canopy of leaves or where you can watch the stars come out.

Favourite beverages: water, coffee, green and white tea

Last movie I watched in the cinema: X-Men: Days of Future Past

Three things I can’t live without: With physiological needs met I wouldn’t want to live without some sense of self, the ability to stay reasonably in control of my own life, and beauty.

Something I plan on learning: Russian

A piece of advice for all my followers: Pay attention. Spend time with those that matter to you.

You all have to listen to this song: You can listen to one of these: Absoluuttinen nollapiste - Valtani viimeinen päivä CMX - Siivekäs David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World Paleface - Maximize the Prophet Tehosekoitin - Ihmisen luonto

I am gonna tag:

[anttilearnslanguages]

[bruitist]

[x]

FAO babygoatsandfriends

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[gaimez-deactivated20170317]

Ten Germans try to say the word “squirrel”

As Jeremy Clarkson says: Germans can’t say the word “squirrel”. Though, to be fair, most native English speakers can’t say the German word for “squirrel” (eichhörnchen) either…

This is the cutest thing I’ve found

[whatstheirstorylike]

Extreme idiolect.

[allthingslinguistic]

Every argument you'll ever need for singular 'they'

Motivated Grammar has compiled all the arguments you’ll ever need the next time you have to persuade someone that really, singular ‘they’ is totally fine: 

I’ve wanted for some time to have one place to send everyone who complains about singular they, a single page that can debunk whatever junk they’re peddling against it. There’s been lots of great stuff written about why singular they is acceptable, but every time I want to smash the arguments against it, I have to waste time jumping through old Language Log posts and books and whatnot, so I figured I’d finally go about summarizing it all. Without further ado, here’s the evidence for singular they, and why you ought to stop “correcting” it. 

Read it, bookmark it, send it to the annoying prescriptivists in your life.

Interesting sidenote: a more recent Language Log post also lists some uses of people avoiding singular ‘they’ but still using singular ‘their’. 

[recoveringhipster-deactivated20]

The writing of a dictionary… is not a task of setting up authoritative statements about the “true meanings” of words, but a task of recording, to the best of one’s ability, what various words have meant to authors in the distant or immediate past. The writer of a dictionary is a historian, not a lawgiver… To regard the dictionary as an “authority,” therefore, is to credit the dictionary writer with gifts of prophecy which neither he nor anyone else possesses.

S.I. Hayakawa, Language in Thought and Action (via recoveringhipster)