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language rant (im out and about on mobile so this is not well written or thought out or formatted lol):

trying to force our traditional language to fit into colonial constructs is not language reclamation.

asking us to translate your corporate out-of-office message into the language does not feel appropriate to me. (translating directly doesnt work like that either)

do you know how to introduce yourself, talk about where you are from and who your relatives and ancestors are? do you know how to pray and share blessings at feasts and gatherings? do you know the words for our cultural foods and crafts?

start there, if you dont. start there and stay there and everything else will come.

if you do already know all that, and practice that everyday, and you still want an out-of-office message in the language? you already have a feel for the language, so think of how you would share the sentiment /in/ the language instead of directly translating the english one.

reclamation involves a good amount of limiting the effects of anglophonic hegemony (english language supremacy) so. we gotta keep english away from our heritage language learning as much as possible. so direct translations are not ideal.

#!!!!!!!!!!

earllundquist

On the mountain trails of west Texas.

#lakodeutsch sentence that came to mind seeing this ->#‘Šuŋkawakaŋ ich liebe dich‘#between the two languages idk what grammar structure would apply to that phrase #but it was a result of my knowing Horse in Lakota and not German #so #do with that what you will

german-enthusiast

small German text from a book about teaching German as a second language:

erleben - to experience, here: to wittness

verpflichtend - mandatory, obligatory

möglichst frühzeitig - earliest possible, as early as possible

der Erwerb - the gain (of a skill, of money,..)

bedeutsam - valuable, meaningful

der Druck - the pressure (drücken = to push)

die Identitätsfindung = the finding/exploration of identity

⭐Because the last two sentences are sooo important, here my translation:⭐

Es geht beim Spracherwerb weder um das bloße Erlernen von Vokabeln und grammatischen Regeln, noch sollte zwischen der Bedeutung und dem Wert verschiedener Sprachen gewertet werden.

Learning languges is neither about simply learning vocabulary and grammatical rules, nor about comparing the meaning and value of different languages.

Alle Sprachen sind zuerst und vor allem Kultur und tragen zum Identitätsfindung jedes Einzelnen und zur Integration in einen gesellschaftlichen Kontext bei.

All languages are first and foremost culture and help in exploring the identity of every person and integrating into a social context.

#german #deutsch lernen

german-enthusiast

Positive German Words

lachen - to laugh 😄

lächeln - to smile 😊

sich freuen - to be happy

sich freuen auf - to look forward to

das Glück - the luck, the happiness

die Freude - the joy, the happiness

glücklich - happy

froh - joyous, happy

die Lebensfreue - the joy of being alive

lieben - to love 🥰

etwas gerne tun - to like doing something

cristalplanetheart

sneef-to-a-snorf-fight

This Just In: Giant Beast Gingerly Eats Dandelions. More at 11.

headspace-hotel

I know this beast could fuck my entire shit up and break all my bones, but i want to kiss its soft head so bad

why-animals-do-the-thing

One reason bison are so good at fucking people's shit up? That hump. It's not fat, like you might assume - it's pure damn muscle and bone.

Here's Ernie, the taxidermy bison mount at the Flint Hills Discovery Center in Kansas. Take a look at the inside of that hump!

If you remember in the giraffe neck post, I talked about how the spikes of bone that come off the backs of vertebrae are called spinous processes, and they're muscle attachment spots. (All animals have them because it's where a lot of spine muscles attach - when you run your fingers down someone's spine and feel bumps, you're feeling the much smaller human versions). The rule for muscles attachment sites is: the bigger the piece of bone that anchors it, the bigger the muscle. So those huge spikes of bone inside a bison's hump are the anchor points for absolutely monstrously sized neck/shoulder muscles.

Bison need these huge-ass neck muscles because they search for grass in the winter by shoving snow out of the way with their very large, heavy heads. It's quite literally a built-in suspension system for a meat-based snowplow.

According to at least one reputable source I found, the muscles in the hump also help the bison hold their head up when they run. (This tracks with analogous anatomy on other mammals, but I can't find a diagram of exactly what muscles attach where for bison to confirm it.)

All of this means that they can swing their heads with an enormous amount of force. That's part of why people who make bad life choices about harassing bison in national parks often get so hurt - they're not just dealing with a very angry, very large animal with very sharp horns, but one whose offensive capacity is backed by a huge heavy head and propelled by a truly extraordinary mass of muscle.

When there is no conflict, thought, that massive neck just supports their head while they daintily eat dandelions.

#tatanka lowačiŋ hwo?#tatanka: haŋ lila loyačiŋ #the crunching is precious imo

german-enthusiast

Umlaut-punkte sind wichtig!

schwül - hot and humid

schwul - gay

#german

langernameohnebedeutung

Gewichtheberinnen oder wie ich sie nenne: women in stemm

langernameohnebedeutung

Postamtmitarbeiterinnen

oder wie ich sie nenne: women in stamp

unscharf-an-den-raendern

Waldarbeiterinnen oder wie ich sie nenne: women in stamm

german-garbage

Gebärdendolmetscherinnen oder wie ich sie nenne: women in stumm

official-german-puns

Opernsängerinnen oder wie ich sie nenne: women in stimm

missuli

Verbrecherinnen, oder wie ich sie nenne: woman in schlimm

langernameohnebedeutung

Bademeisterinnen oder wie ich sie nenne: Frauen in schwimm

official-german-puns

Schneewittchen, Rotkäppchen und Frau Holle, oder wie ich sie nenne: woman in Grimm

linguistness

Everytime i see this post it just gets better and better

rainbowsandchocolate

Lesben oder wie ich sie nenne: Women im Sinn

linguistness

IT GOT BETTER

#german

words-in-starless-skies-studies

Random tips for learning German

1. Always learn the article / gender with the noun and don’t assume the gender only basing on the word’s form. It’s true that many words that end on -e have the article “die” and are female, but not all! - “der Affe”, masculin and “der” But also learn the general rules that exist for the articles, like: Every noun ending on “-heit” goes with the article “die”: die Krankheit, die Freiheit, … Every noun ending on “-ung” also goes with “die”: die Heizung, die Versammlung, …

2. Always put new words into sentences to see them in context. That’s actually my advise for every language. I never only study words, I always try to put them into easy sentences. In German you can train the form of the words like that, since they change a lot due to genders: “Ich habe einen Vogel”, aber: “Ich habe eine Katze”.

3. Learn Modal Verbs first: can, must, might, may. With those verbs you will be able to communicate a lot of things.

4. Learn with texts. Take a German text and underline the different kinds of words in different colors, for example nouns in red, verbs in blue and adjectives in green. Get familiar with the forms of those words until you recognize them and how they work in sentence structure.

5. Get familiar with sentence structure and word order. Look at sentences and translate / repeat them.

6. That’s kind of obvious, but watch German movies / shows and listen to German music, to get used to hear the language.

7. The most important thing for learning a language is repetition and repetition doesn’t have to take long or be complicated. Just grab a piece of paper and write every German word or sentence you can remember - maybe give yourself a timer, like 5 minutes are enough. Then go check what you did right and where you do have to repeat the rules etc. This is like I learned most languages and like I studied for university. I have heaps of paper on which I just randomly write things I remember. Then I correct the mistakes and do it again … It’s easy and it does help.

presidentalpaca

meta, bytedance, and openai (facebook, tiktok, and chat gpt) have been paying workers in africa $1.50 an hour to moderate their ai. those workers are now unionizing, which has gotten a lot of press. however the really important part will come when those workers begin negotiations. keep an eye out in the future for any support they may need. this is going to be a big fucking battle against these massive, super protected entities just to not be paid starving wages

More than 150 workers for Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union

mindblowingscience

Math is called the “universal language,” but a unique dialect is being reborn

In the remote Arctic almost 30 years ago, a group of Inuit middle school students and their teacher invented the Western Hemisphere’s first new number system in more than a century. The “Kaktovik numerals,” named after the Alaskan village where they were created, looked utterly different from decimal system numerals and functioned differently, too. But they were uniquely suited for quick, visual arithmetic using the traditional Inuit oral counting system, and they swiftly spread throughout the region. Now, with support from Silicon Valley, they will soon be available on smartphones and computers—creating a bridge for the Kaktovik numerals to cross into the digital realm.

Today’s numerical world is dominated by the Hindu-Arabic decimal system. This system, adopted by almost every society, is what many people think of as “numbers”—values expressed in a written form using the digits 0 through 9. But meaningful alternatives exist, and they are as varied as the cultures they belong to.

basileater

this is so cool

seventy5th

Absolutely love it

#hello???? this is wonderful!!!#also re: prev tags #me too I have dyscalculia too & someone made an orthography for Lakota in the 70s and the numbers are represented by hand shapes #& it is sooooo much easier to understand #i love seeing letters & numbers created by peoples with historical oral traditions

cupsnpages

something you should know about second language acquisition is that the whole process of learning a new language is dynamic but slow. it doesn’t matter if you’re leaning French, Spanish or German, it is going to take time and that’s okay. it actually takes years for learners to build up a system similar to native speakers. “instantaneous acquisition”? forget about it. so, enjoy the process! do not feel bad bc you’re not native-like. try to communicate as much as you want in your L2 but don’t be harsh on yourself bc you made mistakes <3