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Learning a language that doesn’t use the same writing system as your native one is so fun because they change the font and you’re doomed
I had a penpal from Greece in high school. She had the neatest handwriting ever. She taught me a bunch of basic stuff, and it got to the point that we’d write our letters almost exclusively in Greek (a big deal, as this was before Google Translate was even a thing).
Cut to junior year of college. I took Classical Greek as part of my degree, and I was feeling like I had a leg up over my classmates, whose Greek handwriting looked like kindergarten chicken scratch, while mine was smooth and quick. I turned in my first assignment feeling pretty damn proud of myself.
About three assignments later, my professor pulled me aside with the goofiest look on his face…
“I appreciate the effort, but…”
You remember that phase I think all little girls go through in middle school/junior high? Where we have swirly tails on our G’s or our Y’s get all swoopy, or we dot all our I’s with little hearts?
Yeah…
Turns out, all the perfect little flourishes I’d been putting on my letters were not, in fact, part of the letters at all. My penpal had just still been in that phase when she taught me the alphabet!
some examples of printed vs. handwritten, and handwritten variability
chinese:
korean:
russian:
greek:
Linguistic prescriptivists make terrible zoologists
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i love 80’s music and by 80’s i mean 1880’s i’m talking about tchaikovsky again
"Mr. Stark, I don't feel so good..."
"Here Stark, ich fühle mich nicht so gut..."
"Sehr geehrter Herr Kräftig, ich fühle mich nicht so prächtig."
english: coconut oil
french: :)
english: oh boy
french: oil of the nut of the coco
IM CRYINGNFN
english: ninety-nine
french: :)
english: oh no
french: four-twenty-ten-nine
english: potato
french: :)
english: oh geez
french: apple of the earth
french: papillon
english: :)
french: don’t
english: beurremouche
French: pamplemousse English: :) French: pls no English: raisinfruit
english: squirrel
german: :)
english: oh dear
german: oak croissant
english: helicopter german: :) english: uh oh german: lifting screwdriver
english: toes
spanish: :)
english: no don’t
spanish : fingers of the feet
english: bowl
spanish: :)
english: oh lordy
spanish: deep plate
english: car
polish: :)
english: i changed my mind
polish: that which walks by itself
french: coccinelle
UK english: ladybird!
american english: ladybug
french: weird
dutch: :)
french: …what
dutch: the good lord’s little animal
french: …ok
irish, polish and russian: *giggling*
french: …just tell me
irish, polish and russian: GOD’S SMALL COW
English: jellyfish Japanese: :) English: what yo got Japan Japanese: ~*~*o c e a n m o o n*~*~
English: gloves Dutch: :) English: omg what now Dutch: hand shoes
English: porcupine Dutch: :) English: … please, no Dutch: sting pig
JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER
English: Poppy
Dutch: :)
English: … tell me
Dutch: Clap rose
English: dragon
Finnish: :)
English: for fuck’s sake
Finnish: salmon snake
english: dragon
asl: :D!
english: tell me?
asl: SPICY DINOSAUR
English: nap
Romanian: :)
English: huh?
Romanian: a baby of a sleep
@the-cloud-road
English: Giraffe
Latin: :D
English: what?
Latin: camelopardus!
English: In the middle of nowhere
Slovene: Behind God’s back
Serbian:
Serbian: Where wolves fuck
Polish:
Polish: where dogs bark with their asses
English: somewhere really far and isolated
Italian: :)
English: what now?
Italian: in the ass of the world
Welsh: hiraeth
English: :S
Welsh: …
English: a longing for something or somewhere which no longer exists, to which you can no longer return; the longing for the lost homeland of your ancestors, which you know only through blood and tradition, and will never feel under your feet
English: ladybird
Welsh: :) :) :) :) :) :)
English: look, you literally just made fun of me for my lexical limitations, why are you -
Welsh: little red cow :)
English: aw :)
Welsh: :)
There may be a day I do not reblog this post but today is not that day!!!
English: raisin
English: Come on French, isn’t raisin a word in you vocabulary?
English: French?
French: …
French: DrY gRaPe
English: grape
French: you’re not gonna like it.
English: what?
French: in my defence I was first.
English: What?
French: raisin 🥺
Aimsir Fháistineach 3
Future Tense – The Second Réimniú - Slender For the purposes of this post we’re going to work with the verb ‘imigh’ which means ‘to leave’. This verb is in the second réimniú because it is more than one syllable in the infinitive form.
This verb is made up of two components – the root and the end. ‘Im’ is the root and ‘igh’ is the end. It is slender (caol) because the last vowel in the root is slender – the ‘i’ in ‘im’.
In order to conjugate verbs in the future tense in the second réimniú, we remove the end of the verb and add suffixes to the root. We place the pronoun after it. Imeoidh mé* - I will leave Imeoidh tú – You will leave Imeoidh sé/sí – He/she will leaves Imeoimid* - We will leave Imeoidh sibh – You (plural) will leave Imeoidh siad – They will leave Imeofar – free verb (saorbhriathar)**
*In the case of the singular and plural first person the pronoun is morphed into the verb. I believe the proper grammatical term is synthesis but I’m not a linguist. **The free verb is used when describing an action taking place but without specifying who is enacting it – e.g. the use of ‘is used’ in the previous sentence.
The negation of the verb is created by placing ‘ní’ before it. There is no lenition because imigh begins with a vowel. The question form of the verb is created by placing ‘an’ before it. There is no eclipse for the same reason. Ní imeoidh me An imeoidh tú?
What a great explanation. Even having really no understanding of Irish Gaelic this totally makes sense. Now if only I knew how to pronounce any of this... The spelling isn't giving me anything 🤣🤣🤣
I’m sorry for using the Drake meme but this had to be done.
Hmmm... Duolingo needs to update this to reflect the current political reality in Istanbul. If they really wanted to break the chains they could also turn it back into a church, but whatevs.
Collocations in English.
Oh, okay, I see how this is. Thanks, Duolingo. Thanks. Gonna go watch some Brad Mondo videos and feel better about myself.
I give you Turkish, the intersection of boss, Spanish, and Harry Potter.
Oh God #Truth
Lectures on linguistics are like
When you are listening closely: the word 'book' has one syllable, cats meow, grass is green, sky is blue
After you got distracted for a second: and that's why the isomorphic sememe syntax of the English phonology and the Proto-Indo-European phraseological vowel harmony can get a little bit confusing
Someone needs to make an action movie involving linguistics so that sentences like the above can be said in lieu of "The molecular acid..!"
“Wow, you’re a linguist? How many languages do you know?”
Let’s start a thread! Ready? Go!
“Wow, you’re a pulmonologist? How many lungs do you have?”
Although... Being only able to speak one language is a handicap if you're a linguist. That's my personal take. Sure, you don't HAVE to speak multiple languages, but attempting to actually learn to speak other languages does, IMHO, make you a better linguist. Controversial opinion?