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[madheri]

https://www.instagram.com/loudlacquer/p/CYl9DE3sas7/?utm_medium=share_sheet

[ununquadius]

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

[samayla]

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!

[bending-sickle]

some examples of printed vs. handwritten, and handwritten variability

chinese:

korean:

russian:

greek:

[kephas-rolling]

[drlinguo]

Linguistic prescriptivists make terrible zoologists

thx @as for sharing

[lingling40hrs]

i love 80’s music and by 80’s i mean 1880’s i’m talking about tchaikovsky again

[madheri]

"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."

[oldblogarchived]

english: coconut oil

french: :)

english: oh boy

french: oil of the nut of the coco

[disc80s]

IM CRYINGNFN

[my-name-is-long]

english: ninety-nine

french: :)

english: oh no

french: four-twenty-ten-nine

[spirited-simmer-deactivated2016]

english: potato

french: :)

english: oh geez

french: apple of the earth

[catchingjinns]

french: papillon

english: :)

french: don’t

english: beurremouche

[watercolorsheep]

French: pamplemousse English: :) French: pls no English: raisinfruit

[you-had-me-at-e-flat-major]

english: squirrel

german: :)

english: oh dear

german: oak croissant

[languageoclock]

english: helicopter german: :) english: uh oh german: lifting screwdriver

[commie-saskia-deactivated202211]

english: toes

spanish: :)

english: no don’t

spanish : fingers of the feet

[agoraphobeifiwantto]

english: bowl

spanish: :)

english: oh lordy

spanish: deep plate

[redroomballerinas]

english: car

polish: :)

english: i changed my mind

polish:  that which walks by itself

[false-dawn]

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

[ichikun]

English: jellyfish Japanese: :) English: what yo got Japan Japanese: ~*~*o c e a n m o o n*~*~

[languageswithceles]

English: gloves Dutch: :) English: omg what now Dutch: hand shoes

[hotairballoon221]

English: porcupine Dutch: :) English: … please, no Dutch: sting pig

[pol-yglottin]

JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER

[hotairballoon221]

English: Poppy

Dutch: :)

English: … tell me

Dutch: Clap rose

[oranguin]

English: dragon

Finnish: :)

English: for fuck’s sake

Finnish: salmon snake

[narwhalsarefalling]

english: dragon

asl: :D!

english: tell me?

asl: SPICY DINOSAUR

[sinningforasrian]

English: nap

Romanian: :)

English: huh?

Romanian: a baby of a sleep

[kylorenshighwaistedpants]

@the-cloud-road

[013-jackson]

English: Giraffe

Latin: :D

English: what?

Latin: camelopardus!

[coffeethesnake]

English: In the middle of nowhere

Slovene: Behind God’s back

Serbian:

Serbian: Where wolves fuck

[polishyourpolish]

Polish:

Polish: where dogs bark with their asses

[irmaatenre-deactivated20210711]

English: somewhere really far and isolated

Italian: :)

English: what now?

Italian: in the ass of the world

[teashoesandhair]

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: :)

[labelleizzy]

There may be a day I do not reblog this post but today is not that day!!!

[oceaneyes1834-deactivated202312]

English: raisin

English: Come on French, isn’t raisin a word in you vocabulary?

English: French?

French: …

French: DrY gRaPe

[elwenn-dreaming]

English: grape

French: you’re not gonna like it.

English: what?

French: in my defence I was first.

English: What?

French: raisin 🥺

[gaeilge-rules]

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?

[madheri]

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 🤣🤣🤣

[carryoncastiel]

I’m sorry for using the Drake meme but this had to be done.

[madheri]

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.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[madheri]

Collocations in English.

[madheri]

Oh, okay, I see how this is. Thanks, Duolingo. Thanks. Gonna go watch some Brad Mondo videos and feel better about myself.

[philanthropy-lite]

[madheri]

I give you Turkish, the intersection of boss, Spanish, and Harry Potter.

[practicingtheliberalarts]

[madheri]

Oh God #Truth

[notallwugs]

[tiny-loudness]

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

[madheri]

Someone needs to make an action movie involving linguistics so that sentences like the above can be said in lieu of "The molecular acid..!"

[department-of-linguini]

“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?”

[madheri]

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?