Georgian on my mind

Langblr - Georgian and others. Main blog at surullinensaukko. 

[ominouscorvid]

incredibly good photo of little rats, with ancient greek particles to learn

[alatismeni-theitsa]

If you’re learning Greek of any era, this is the cutest way to learn or remember the particles of our language!

[romcommunist]

the name "theresa" is so funny like. theres a what

[fried-berries]

[dent-de-l1on]

de naam 'eris' is zo grappig. er is wat?

[shieldfoss]

Navnet "erik" er så spøgst. Han er ik hvad?

[bidonica]

Mi fa troppo ridere il nome "Donna", sì ho capito che sei una donna ma come ti chiami

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

Mae'r enwau "Beth" a "Pam" yn mor ddoniol. Pam beth? Beth pam?

[slavicbee]

Meno Tomáš je strašne divné. To máš čo? Máš to fuk? Haló?

[biosaatana]

”Anna” on aika vänkä nimi. Niinku, anna mitä? Kenelle?

[surullinensaukko]

"দে" খুব অদ্ভুত একটা নাম। দে? কাকে দেব?

[ahabixa-deactivated20221211]

you’ve seen the italian vagina map, get ready for the basque vagina (and penis) map <3 (sources and whole list: 1 2)

[beautiful-basque-country]

Ah, we love this!! Our favourites are potxoliñe and errikitu, quite honestly…

[aletheyass]

multilinguals whose voice is deeper when speaking your native language(s) but then goes high pitched the second you switch to L2 or L3… you’re very valid and also sexy

[twinicegiantorbiters]

i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

[jadethest0ne]

This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes

First up we have:

Compare with 太

The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ  “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.

Then we have:

Compare with 会 

The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”

And of course another social distancing one:

Compare with 話 

This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.

At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!

[anthonybourdainpartsunknown]

@anneemay

[ancesters-deactivated20210707-d]

Animals in Ono:da'gega' (Onondaga)

[languagessi-deactivated20210423]

“Star” in some Uralic languages: täht (Estonian), täht’ (Võro), tähti (Finnish), tiähti (Karelian), tähtaz (Veps), tešte (Erzya), tēḑ (Livonian), kizili (Udmurt), násti (Northern Sámi), csillag (Hungarian)

[lovelengua]

Russian Grammar - “Need”

In Russian, expressing a need for something is formed by using a pronoun in the dative case (Мне, Тебе, Ему (n,m), Ей (f), Нам, Вам, Им) + нужно which changes in gender and number depending on the gender and number of the thing being needed.

нужно = for neuter singular nouns and infinitives нужна = for feminine singular nouns нужен = for masculine singular nouns нужны = for plural nouns

This is then followed by a noun (in the nominative case) or infinitive. 

Мне нужно работать. - I need to work. Мне нужно молоко. - I need milk. Мне нужна кошка. - I need a cat. Мне нужен дом. - I need a house. Мне нужны деньги. - I need money. 

In addition, “мне надо” also means “I need”, but can only be used with verbs and is more colloquial than нужно.

Мне надо купить хлеб. - I need to buy bread. Тебе надо поесть. - You need to eat. Нам надо идти. - We need to go.

[robert-hadley]

A modern take on Delft tiles by Paul Bommer featuring names for animals in Norfolk dialect.

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: κακοθερής (kakotherēs), unfitted to endure summer heat

[aphilologicalbatman-deactivated]

this literally means “bad at summer” pass it on

[beziehungsstatuspizza]

today I learned that in the 16th century the German word “florenzen” meant participating in same sex activities or “having sex like they do in Florence” and that Florence was THE gay city during that time

[bubbleteakoala]

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[nurmesiandesign]

Muumi-kirjoja karjalan kielellä - Muumit

Kaiken kaikkiaan Muumi-kirjoja on käännetty yli 50:lle eri kielelle tehden Tove Janssonista käännetyimmän suomalaisen kirjailijan. Yksi suomalaisten korvaan ehdottomasti mielenkiintoisimmista käännetyistä kielistä on suomen kielen läheisin sukukieli, karjala. Karjalaa ja sen edeltäjää muinaiskarjalaa on puhuttu nykyisen Suomen alueella jo yli 1200 vuotta. Karjalan Kielen Seura perustettiin vuonna 1995 elvyttämään ja kehittämään Suomen karjalaisten kieltä …

Suomen ja Karjalan lisäksi suuria karjalaisyhteisöjä on muun muassa Venäjällä, Ruotsissa, USA:ssa ja Australiassa. Myös japanilaisten keskuudessa löytyy kiinnostusta karjalan kieltä ja kulttuuria kohtaan ja kuuleman mukaan karjalan kieltä jopa opetetaan pienimuotoisesti Japanissa

In addition to Finland and Karelia, there are large Karelian communities in Russia, Sweden, USA and Australia. There is also interest among the Japanese in the Karelian language and culture, and it is reported that the Karelian language is even taught in Japan

[porokollos]

Rohtuheinii karjalakse - Herbs in Karelian

[grumble-grumble]

Hildegard von Bingen’s 23 litterae ignotae, letters for her constructed mystical language Lingua Ignota. ca. 1200

[linguisten]

Speaking my language: Indigenous deaf sign

A University of Melbourne Atlantic Fellow explores the gap between Indigenous sign languages and AUSLAN, that can leave Deaf Aboriginal Australians isolated

[yeli-renrong]