Tonguespeaker

This is my sideblog for language learning, linguistics, conlanging, conculturing/conworlding and language-related philosophy!  My other blogs are oceanfoxo (main), doctorfoxtor (medblr) and arcadescapade (video game, animation fandom blog).

[solarg0blin]

Ego, Miettam leviter pedis latere tangens: Mietta, movere, ne in te incurram

Mietta, oculis magnis: tu Miettae calcem IMPINGIS? illius corpori sicut folli calcem impingis?! eheu! eheu! In carcerem Mater conjiciatur! In carcerem in Mille Annos conjiciatur!!!!

Millions of thanks to @alda-rana for a much, much better translation

[grecoromanyaoi]

ive seen ppl using /gen, but what abt /nom, /voc, /acc, /dat and /abl?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Why does like every language do things with their R sounds that nobody else understands

[benzohoarder]

[figural]

#google translate does not capture the tone switch so i have to say. first two sentences are like. normal maybe kind of feminine posting tone #& the last is like. shounen manga protagonist. action movie hero. jojo's bizarre adventure character. #the tone you would use if you were holding a gun with the safety off (– @chadlesbianjasontodd)

[minothtime]

Basically, a translation could be:

I just think it's so interesting that people end up falling in love with their friends' boyfriends! I absolutely despise every single one of them. give me my fucking homie back you goddamn bastard

[liminalweirdo]

translation tags by @minothtime because they are so so good

[official-linguistics-post]

fricative friday

[yvanspijk]

Homo & hetero: same

Homosexual and heterosexual aren't as different as they look. The parts hom- and he- stem from the same Proto-Indo-European root. It meant 'one'. From this root we've also got the word same. Click my new infographic to learn all about these words and their histories. The box on the right features additional derivatives of this root in Latin, Ancient Greek and Germanic.

[yvanspijk]

Not homo but homo-

Note that the part homo- in homosexual isn't related to Latin homō (person; man) in any way. Homō comes from PIE *dʰǵʰm̥mṓn (human). This word also became Proto-Germanic *gumōn. A relic of it can be found in bridegroom, a conflation with groom. Dutch bruidegom wasn't conflated.

[erylon]

A loanword is a word taken from another language, such as ‘angst’ or ‘tsunami’ or ‘calque’. A calque is a literal translation of a word from another language, such as rhinestone (from French caillou du Rhine) or blueblood (from Spanish sangre azul) or loanword (from German lehnwort).

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[nathanielthecurious]

this is going in my slides. because. teaching is an art

[beemovieerotica]

english slang is awful i would hate to be learning this shit. like the word shit. something can be horseshit or bullshit which means it's a lie. but cow shit is just poop. and something can be dogshit which means it's really bad quality. but cat shit is just poop.

[beemovieerotica]

more notes: batshit means CRAAAZY. but rat shit is poop. if something is shit, it's bad, but if it's THE shit, it's good. eating shit is ew. but if someone just ate shit, they fell on the ground. no shit? = for real? yeah no shit = duh!!!

[summerofspock]

[earthnation]

I want to fuck your throat

my thrussy!?!?

[ventrue]

[schakira]

sorry for being dramatic but this post did irreparable damage to the english language

[timebendinglunatic]

Horrible job, everyone! Thank you!

[earthnation]

my bad damn

[marxism-transgenderism]

Happy birthday my thrussy post

[marxism-transgenderism]

Happy 7th birthday my thrussy post

[marxism-transgenderism]

Happy 8th birthday my thrussy post

[victusinveritas]

[razielim]

oh i'm going to misusle and straight up fuckle this knowledge so badly

[kelpiekorn]

I feel like the thing thats really different about the polish trans experience is that because the language is heavily gendered and asking about a persons gender is very much not normalized, now that my body looks mostly androgynous people started referring to me with grammatical forms that have never been uttered by human tongue before. Last week a woman couldn’t decide what gender I was so after trying several she settled on speaking to me in plural and infinitive

[tower-of-hana]

Subjunctive and domjunctive mood

[renegade-hierophant-deactivated]

Medieval Byzantine Greek minuscule script

ὁ βίος βραχὺς ἡ δὲ τέχνη μακρή

[prophecyofgray]

conlang class is ridiculous. i literally have adjectives due tmrw (and i am so stressed about it)

[eagle-writes]

Veni vidi conveni consedi

I came I saw I fits I sits

[chthonicist]

Delightful update - I learned "sits" as just "sedi" so I idly looked up "consedi" and:

I came, I saw, I fits, I establishes residence

I think this improves it immensely.

[parkchanwoohoo]

This is a minor thing but it is very annoying to me when people replace every instance of "th" with þ, while ignoring the existence of ð. Like those indicate very different sounds I'm sorry you are not really saying "þat, þis, þose" unless you are hosing me down with saliva

[parkchanwoohoo]

Now, writing like ðis might be confusing, but at ðe very least ðis actually follows what English sounds like. I only ask for consistency. "ðis þeremin." "ðat þursday." "ðis is ðe þanks I get?"

[option-monad]

Þats how þeyre used in contemporary Icelandic, but in old to middle english þey were used interchangeably. eventually eð was dropped from þe alphabet altogeþer and only þorn was used until þe widespread use of þe printing press, at which point þorn was also dropped in favour of th. it's not incorrect to use þ for a voiced th if you're transcribing english.

here's a source from þe course notes for a class on medieval and early modern manuscripts, which is just one of þe first google results I hit: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~sreimer/ms-course/course/eng-chrs.htm