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@lingasms
hi all (who though) - new & improved me who’s done some thinking about some problematic things i’ve said in the past. heyo. thank you for everyone who even took the time to try to explain that shit to me / i wasn’t hearing. might get back to a little tumblr activity 🤘
embezzle is one of those words that i think is perfect when pronounced in the voice of a skeptical old butler, but then so is vajazzle
what people think language learning is like
what language learning is actually like
LINGUAL: of or relating to language (or speech); a mix for language lovers.
"Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye." ― Anne Sullivan in William Gibson’s play, The Miracle Worker.
Language dates
Come over and learn the basic grammar of my conlang
Let's create a Memrise course of the worst swear words in both our languages
We should make cookies in the shape of kanjis and see if we manage to make any that are recognisable after baking
Hey, let’s listen to a language we don’t know for 30mins to get a feel of how it sounds and then try and come up with words in that language and check if they exist on a dictionary: winner gets 1 kiss for every point of advantage they scored on the other
If I don’t understand your language, you tell me a sentence and I have to understand if it’s a compliment or an insult “your lips are really soft” vs “did your face get hit with something”
some of my favourite text abbreviations in english are p for pretty and v for very
they’re both v nice
You they’re v nice and p
no but i personally would only use p when it functioned as an adverb, not as an adjective! possibly something for @allthingslinguistic
some of my favourite text abbreviations in english are p for pretty and v for very
they’re both v nice
TAKE ME ON A BED OF LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS
I WILL CONJUGATE TO ORGASM IN OH! SO MANY TENSES
I WON’T MIND YOU ADJECTIVING ME
IF ONLY YOU KEEP TRACING THAT SAME KANJI FROM MY CENTRE
LET ME TEACH YOU THE ORDER OF STROKES
A VOICELESS UNARTICULATED FRICATIVE WILL ESCAPE MY LIPS
LIKE A PANT LIKE A SIGH MY GLOTTIS WON’T STAY STILL
MY BODY TURNS INTO A PLOSIVE
YOU KNOW THE LANGUAGE OF ME
[…] It’s a useful thing for lots of people that there is a language that’s almost a global language, you can get around the world using English, but never think that this is because the English language is so fine and noble and bold and true and suited to this purpose. It’s in some ways a rather rotten language to have fallen into this privileged potision. It has a truly terrible writing system - learning to spell English is just awful. You can literally learn how to spell Finnish, and get everything right - so you’d always have a hundred percent on any spelling bee - in about ten minutes. And that’s generous. That’s just an alphabet that works, and nothing else to learn. No exceptions. Enter English - thousands of exceptions, and even years of education leave some people quite uncertain about spelling. What’s more, it’s rather difficult to pronounce compared to a lot of languages. It doesn’t have a simple consonant-vowel syllable structure. You have syllables like “strengths”. And not everyone can do n-g-th-s in a go, and without stumbling or sticking extra vowels in. It could have been better chosen. And its grammar? English has about two hundred irregular verbs, and they’re so complex that native speakers get some of them wrong. Occasionally you hear people say that they “sung” a song, when they mean that they “sang” a song, and so on. Irregular past tenses, and about two hundred of them. And various different patterns, I don’t know, thirty or fourty patterns that they follow. Do you know the number of irregular verbs in Swahili? Zero. There are no irregular verbs. The language is highly inflected, but every verb is regular. That would have been a lovely language to have as a world language. It’s already a trade language across the whole of East Africa. And what do we get? English. Well, that’s unfortunate. Though it’s lucky if you’re an English speaker and you want to travel in foreign countries. Just don’t ever imagine that you deserve it. You don’t deserve it, you’re just lucky. - UQx WRITE101x Interview with Geoffrey Pullum - [x]
The only thing that doesn’t sit right with me about this interview is how he not once acknowledges that English is a global language largely due to grisly historical reasons rooted in exploitation. And he says it could have been “better chosen” and that it’s “unfortunate” we now have English. So yeah. The rest is an okay read, though.
fml “fuck my life” in morse code is perfectly symmetrical
there is beauty in the world
Watch: These Palestinian rappers are tearing down sexism one lyric at a time
I DIDNT KNOW THAT GORBACHEV IS STILL ALIVE
HES RECORDING MUSIC NOW
OHHHHh my god. OHHHHH MY GOD. oh my god.
Whaaat
i say we start a meme where we take jokes that don’t work in other languages and translate them without explanation maybe only tagging with the original language and confuse the heck out of everyone on tumblr who’s not in on the meme like
in italian we say “prince light blue” (prince azzurro) instead of “prince charming” and i just saw a joke that in english would be “if you can’t find your prince charming, the solution is to take a random dude from the street and paint him”
what’s the difference between a stapler and a sewing machine? a stapler staples and a sewing machine doesn’t
i take it back, these are still funny in a completely different way
i say we start a meme where we take jokes that don’t work in other languages and translate them without explanation maybe only tagging with the original language and confuse the heck out of everyone on tumblr who’s not in on the meme like
in italian we say “prince light blue” (prince azzurro) instead of “prince charming” and i just saw a joke that in english would be “if you can’t find your prince charming, the solution is to take a random dude from the street and paint him”
me speaking to a word in my target language: I recognise you. I know I've seen you before. But who are you?
"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish" in Italian inspired by my Italian father who has taught me to work hard & follow my passion/whatever makes me happy. Done by Ian W. @ Magic Cobra Tattoo Society in Brooklyn, NY.
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Quindi non ci sono sono italiani che si scrivono stronzate in cinese, ci sono anche americani che si scrivono stronzate in italiano.
Porello, l’intento era bello eh, ma ritenta, magari sull’altro braccio.
Someone tell this dude that he’s got “silly living room” on his fucking arm. (How’s that even possible to fuck up this bad with Italian? I mean, not even google translate can fuck it up this badly.)
