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[wow-youre-so-pretty]

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[13thpythagoras]

savvy

a word meaning "shrewdness and practical knowledge"

I would bet this is a cognate from the Spanish word, saber, to know...

not pronounced like a sword you rattle, the Spanish pronounciation rhymes with the random phrase "not hair," or "au pair" like the French word for a live-in nanny/housekeeper. Saber is also pronounced with a "v" sound in Spanish not a "b" sound

this verb, saber, is infinitive, so if you wanna say like "ya know" as a phrase of speech, like people often do (y'know?) folks say "sabe?"

That's how you conjugate saber politely, or almost pedantically if it's a friend, otherwise you'd say "¿sabes?" to a friend casually.

And sabe is pronounced almost identically to "savvy" aside from the Latinized or Anglicized a-sound, and it's used exactly like Jack Sparrow uses it, savvy?! 🫠😨😲😵

[ouroboros-sys]

So remember the 2 related conlangs we posted abt like yesterday: have a cognate pair: /edeɸ/ — /ʃoːpoː/ yes this is real

[okierazorback]

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Porous Frontiers You do not really need to know another language to know that linguistic frontiers are very porous, resulting in words from one language being incorporated into another. English is a wonderful example of this, beginning life as a Germanic language that imposed itself on the native tongues of what was to become Scotland, England and some extent, Ireland.  That mash-up, in its turn,…

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