In the way to a multilingual life

Advanced Linguistic student/ White Uruguayan (hispanic)/ Fluent in English; Portuguese, LSU and French student/ Gabriel; he/she/they /Dyslexic and HoH

[alas-pucha]

their keyboard doesn't even have a Ñ key...

[haystarlight]

[uwuguay]

no ñ no opiñon

[latinotiktok]

hey tumblrs search blocks the word mijo do u know why asking cuz i dont

solo hay una conclusion

tumblr quiere erradicar las voces latinas

[anti-parent]

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

[anti-parent]

fantastic. i love it. i posted this after my wife said it yesterday and as i was doing it i was like "this can't be an original thought. as soon as i hit post someone's going to say 'you stole this from a tweet from 2014' and i'll say 'no, i stole it from my beautiful wife.'"

[manu-script]

"the us is 50 countries in a trench coat!"/"english is just a bunch of languages smashed together lol" your mind is rotten by exceptionalism and you will not survive the winter

[manu-script]

I don't wanna hear one more anglophone complaining that other languages "aren't written how they're pronounced", your language has almost no consistent pronunciation rules and the few there are were obviously written by the devil himself to spite all the real people (non anglophones)

[translingual]

This argument in these tags I feel like reifies English's uniqueness. Like all languages are influenced by other languages to various degrees (I don't see English speakers calling Spanish Latin and Arabic in a trenchcoat for example), English is not unique in that it has imported large amount of its vocabulary from other languages across its history

[nightpool]

Against Access

by John Lee Clark

An ASL interpreter would never have done that, unless they allowed their instincts to overrule their training. When I teach ASL interpreters that they must share their opinions and assessments, they always protest, “But I don’t want to influence the DeafBlind person!”

“If you’re worried about influencing us,” I reply, “you give yourself too much credit and us too little.”

Another thing ASL interpreters habitually do is describe the whole of things. Upon entering a room, for example, they stop and say, “This is a midsize room with a few tables, here, there, and over there. There are… let’s see, one, two, three, four, five, six, okay, six windows—”

Here I stop them. “Why are you telling me, telling me, telling me things? Your job isn’t to deliver this whole room to me on a silver platter. I don’t want the silver platter. I want to attack this room. I want to own it, just like how the sighted people here own it. Or, if the room isn’t worth owning, then I want to grab whatever I find worth stealing. C’mon, let’s start over. What we’ll do is start to touch things and people here, together, while we provide running commentaries and feedback to each other.”

[siliconaddict]

i hope i can nerd snipe you idiots with this

[hardwrench]

to me, correctly using 5+ commas in a single sentence is like perfectly executing a combo in a fighting game. to me.

[little-theatre-fairy]

if you think a sentence needs 5+ commas it should be two sentences

[hardwrench]

it’s not about what the sentence needs, i’m afraid, nor is it about economy, clarity, or style. it’s about winning, little-theatre-fairy.

[startedwellthatsentence]

Comment on my MA thesis:

[ratty-writer]

english major brain: words can evolve and develop as a society goes on. the way a word is used is its definition. it's pointless to hold onto the idea of right vs wrong words human brain: THAT IS NOT WHAT LARP MEANS!!!!!

[akelafang]

Larp is the most immersive, passionate, creative, and knowledgeable nerdy community I have ever had the privilege of being a part of. How the hell did it end up being used as an insult to mean "fake fan"?! Linguistically, it doesn't even make sense either cause it's not a word; it's an acronym. Live action role player has no place being used instead of poser, phony, faker, or any of the other myriad of words we already have for this kind of situation. And the only excuse I've seen people use when this is pointed out is some bull along the lines of "it sounds funnier to say larp". Good to know you value the sound of a word over the fact you're using the most dedicated people a fanbase can have as an insult intended to mean the opposite.

[lindleland]

real but i wanna take a step back for a second to enjoy the implication that english majors aren't human

[xmaveria]

HYPED HYPED THERE'S A SOUTH AMERICAN ANIME IN THE WORKS MADE AND FOR SOUTH AMERICANS Its so rare to see southam animation let alone one that has mythos!!!!!!! HYPED It looks like it is made from a studio based in Peru named Ninakami. The anime takes a lot of inspiration from the indigenous Quechua influences and other Andean and regional cultures. It even uses the indigenous language in its tittle! 🔥"APUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN- El Regreso de los Dioses/ Return of the Gods "🔥

You can watch the trailer here!

APUKUNAPA KUTIMUYNIN - El Regreso de los Dioses - PV

Las leyendas del pasado regresan a Sudamérica. De las ruinas, criaturas se levantan a reclamar lo que fue suyo. El peligro, el misterio y la

[discoursedrome]

so "incubus" means someone who lies on top of something, and "succubus" means someone who lies underneath something, and the former also turns up in the word "incubate", which means to lie on top of an egg. To ensure closure we could therefore posit an analogous term "succubate", which would be something like this:

he is succubating.

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[kingdeath000]

now, pecker means penis. and wood means boner. so of course you would make assumptions about the term woodpecker. but no. the bird

[sixthrock]

I LOVE hearing that other languages have so many beautifully unique ways to construct dick jokes

[partywithponies]

My woke take, as someone who has worked in both a public library and a school library, is that we desperately need both more books that are at a higher reading level but a less mature subject matter, and more books that are at a lower reading level but a more mature subject matter, because 8 year olds who are advanced readers are still 8 year olds and don't want to read about graphic violence and torture, and teens and adults who have learning difficulties or who are just later readers for whatever reason are still teens and adults and don't want to read about Billy the Bunny going to school or whatever the hell.

[partywithponies]

Shoutout to people in the notes also mentioning people learning the language, I should've mentioned that really, given that I've been stuck reading German picture books myself while learning German.

[batbetbitbotbut]

"focaccia, serves 4" yes all 4 me

[batbetbitbotbut]

"tiramisu, serves 2" yes all 2 myself

[introvertia]

Pizza, serves 8, yes I 8 it all.

[breathethewater]

@funnier-as-a-system wordplay aside we think this counts

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Something fun about Spanish is that there are certain situations there are two words for the same thing because one word comes from Latin and the other comes from Arabic.

So for example for scorpion we have "escorpión" (latin) and "alacrán" (arabic), for oil we have "aceite" (arabic) and "óleo" (latin) (although in this case aceite is by far the most common, óleo is only used in very specific context, e.g. when you're talking about oil paintings). Similarly for olive we have "oliva" (latin) and "aceituna" (arabic).

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Alternate universe where everything is the same except that the standard term for olive oil in Spanish is not "aceite de oliva" but "óleo de aceituna"

[escuerzoresucitado]

[mihai-florescu]

Languages tend to peak at their word for butterfly. Never seen 2 that are the same, either. Papillon. Mariposa. Borboleta. Fluture. Vlinder. Schmetterling. Pillangó. Babochka. Farfalla. Sommerfugl. Perhonen. Farasha. Titali. Chōchō. Nabi. Húdié. Buom buom. Great job guys, i really mean it.