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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Not today Justin
Misplaced Lens Cap
YOU ARE THE REASON
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Discoholic 🪩
Product Placement
Origami Around
ellievsbear
pixel skylines
@theartofmadeline
we're not kids anymore.
AnasAbdin
occasionally subtle
sheepfilms
will byers stan first human second
Monterey Bay Aquarium
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u can call me Baz !! [bæz] or 바질. he/they. 🇨🇦 my main blog
한국어🇰🇷B1~2, svenska 🇸🇪A2 (heritage), español🇪🇸 A1, ASL🤟A1
Not actively learning, but interested in: Scottish G., Mandarin, Arabic, French (FR/CA), Cree + every language in the world :)
Aspiring History student! Thus will probably be posting misc other studies on here (will be tagged accordingly) but ling/langs will always be my # 1 <3
As much as I make fun of the English language, it is fun to recognize the slight difference between synonyms or words that ostensibly should mean the exact same thing.
Undoubtedly and doubtless, for example, should be interchangeable! And yet for reasons I am unable to describe, their tone is very different.
checked thru my following why has nobody posted in five years.. fallen langblrs i remember you 🤍
why do i feel more productive(?) sitting staring at the wall in silence than when im actually doing stuff on my phone/computer
hiii so I decided to make a conlang awhile back for my worldbuilding like, for funsies, but....now I am having the irresistible urge to make a second one.
how do I make it stop? is it over for me? is this my life forever now?
In all seriousness, I actually prefer to work on more than one language at a time. With one language, you get into a particular groove and you kind of stay there. Sometimes you get the itch to do something different with a language, so it's good to have a second language project going so you can take a break and scratch that itch when it comes.
tl;dr ur cooked
language learning is easy you just learn words... and then you keep learning more words... and even more words... and then maybe in 10 years you'll be somewhere
Je suis canadien mais je n'ai pas money how do i learn québécois & not french french without finding lessons LMAO???
tumblr should teach me languages. i am very responsible with them.
Top 3 things people love insisting they don't have despite it being impossible
Pronouns
An accent
Bias
Im going to shoot you people with a fucking gun
Everyone has an accent it came free with your language 🙄
Congrats to every reply like this for failing to understand the fundamental definition of an accent. Of course you think you sound normal! It's the way you speak!
Gonna sign language at you in a very southern accent
Sign languages also comes with accents, you can easily watch people sign and tell the difference
You get different sign language accents, you get regional accents, and you even get "second language speaker accent"
finally tried Swedish and wow that’s like actually really good
Speaking of us like we're a drug
Ok so you know how like people call your native language your "mother tounge". Here are all my other languages categorized as family members
Spanish: cool older sister language. The one I have the most fun with and am the most comfortable with
German: uncle language. I don't spend a lot of time with it unless school forces me to. Usually I end up talking about school, the weather, or plans
Estonian: not the step dad but the dad that stepped up language.
a fun thing to notice in reo tahiti, a polynesian language spoken in tahiti, is how often words like to repeat themselves.
this is called reduplication. according to wikipedia, reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word—or part of it, or even the whole word—is repeated exactly or with a slight change.
reduplication in tahitian is not just for emphasis—repeating a word can change its meaning in subtle ways. it might make something feel more poetic, more continuous, or even softer or cuter. it can also intensify or pluralize a word. the possibilities are endless!
since reduplication is a very common feature in reo tahiti, i could easily find quite a few examples. here's a short, non-exhaustive list of tahitian reduplications:
iti (small, little) → itiiti (very small; little by little)
to’a (coral) → to’ato’a (to smell of coral)
oni (male) → ’oni’oni (macho, to act like a male, to brag)
tio (oyster) → tiotio (small oyster)
rima (hand) → rimarima (finger)
tipi (knife) → tipitipi (to peel the vegetables)
rave (to take) → raverave (to shoplift)
ta’i (to cry) → ta’ita’i (to chirp, shout, cry repeatedly (over and over again, nonstop), cry together at the same time)
’ata (to laugh) → ’ata’ata (to laugh often, laugh with others, laugh together)
haere (to go) → hāhaere (to go—the two of us—together)
rahi (tall, broad) → rahirahi (two or more tall, broad things or people)
horoi (to wash) → horohoroi (to wash repeatedly)
tāpū (to cut) → tāpūpū (to cut several times, to cut into small pieces)
ta’oto (to sleep) → tā’oto’oto (to get some sleep)
fa’ari’i (to accept) → fa’ari’iri’i (to come to accept little by little, to tolerate)
ta’amino (to turn) → ta’aminomino (to go round and round; labyrinthine, as tangled as a labyrinth)
neva (to turn one's head to the side to look) → nevaneva (startled, restless, distracted, constantly moving, unsettled)
the tahitian language also uses what is known as metathesis, a process that involves reversing the order of syllables to change or alter meaning. for example:
niho (tooth) → honi (to bite)
’ōmuhu (to whisper) → ’ōhumu (to slander in a low voice)
maru (shade, shadow) → ruma (darkness) → rumaruma (nebula, nebulous; cloudy, obscured by clouds)
hook idea: reduplication is a highly productive process of word formation. it allows for the creation of new words and thus enriches vocabulary. sometimes it turns a noun into a verb, or a stative verb into an action verb; or changes the meaning altogether. newly created words can convey a wide range of nuances: more or less, smaller or larger, resemblance, greater quantity (plural), smaller quantity, repetition (frequency),... a whole range of nuances that are worth learning!
nānā :)
[Image of text saying,
Some AAVE speakers pluralize 'child' as 'childrens'. People get racist about this ("It's already plural!"), but 'children' actually comes from Middle English speakers doing the same thing: slapping their plural marker on word already pluralized by an extinct plural marker.
To oversimplify: in Old English, 'childer' ('ċildra') was the plural of 'child' ('ċild'). Middle English developed an '-en' plural marker, which we see in 'oxen'. Instead of updating to 'childen', people slapped their preferred '-en' onto the end of 'childer' - so now we have 'child-er-en'. AAVE carries on this tradition with 'child-er-en-s'.
"Pure" language is just impurity obscured by the passage of time.
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problem is i can't give people advice for language studying because i love doing it. don't ask me how to keep to your schedule i just do it because its my special interest and i can't stop lmao
Our Japanese class found it funny that in common terminology "food" isn't very distinguished from specifically "rice" until it was pointed out to us that in English "meal" is "loose roughly ground grain"
humans be like staple crop
staple crop to what
directly to forehead
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Closest match: Cannabis sativa cultivar ERBxHO40_23 chromosome 3
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accidentally morphologyaquisitionmaxxed too close to the sun and thought to myself in pseudo greek instead of russian "έχω καπεί на стол" (капнул на стол) (=i spilled smth on the table) (the idea here is that i used капнуть as if it were a greek verb, like καπώ or something)
