#language fun

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[ninelanguages]

Language fun

I just learned “gedankenverloren” means “absentmindedly”. I’m looking at this German word with wonder. ‘Gedanken’ translates to ‘thoughts’, ‘verloren’ is ‘lost’. So you get something like ‘thoughts (are) lost’. Love it.

[jojadoja1]

[triaelf9]

There was a funny moment at naginata today where the ladies didn't know the English word for a creature and I didn't know the Japanese word, so I was offered the description of "it's a worm but like dracula" which is the most hilarious way to describe leeches XD

[handedsanitiser]

hoes and hoesettes and hoetrons

cunts and cuntinos and cuntrons

whoros and whoras and whortrons

divas and divos and divons

[essickmango]

So, in north-eastern switzerland there's the expression of "<person> isch voll putzig worde": "<person> has very (literally: fully) angry become". But the word putzig in high german means cute, and in (swiss) german could also denote the adverb for a cleaning person, though never used.

[yet-the-world-spins-on]

In light of the whole-language post that I reblogged recently, and another post that I did not reblog talking about the difference between the names of letters and the sounds those letters make, I have made a lettered list!

It is intended to clarify the difference between the "name" sound of a letter and the "easiest" or "starter-phonics" sound of a letter. Ok I lied it is not clarifying bc it depends on what accent you are using, I am (sadly) not using the fancy phonetic-dictionary-thing.

NAME SOUNDS

A is for Abel the Just B is for Bee C is for Ceiling D is for Dealing E is for Enough F is for eFFervescent G is for Genome H (ache) isn't really for anything? I is for Ice J is for (blue) Jay K is for Kale L is for eLephant M is for eMily N is for eNough O is for Only P is for Peanut Q is for Queue R is for aRe S is for eSSential T is for Tea U is for Ukelele V is for Veering W (double-u) isn't really for anything? X is for eXcellent Y never makes its own sound by itself. Even "why" requires the "wh" Z is for Zebra (unless you're Canadian, in which case, is Zed a word with any other meaning?)

STARTER PHONICS SOUNDS (an attempt)

ah is for apple buh is for butterfly cuh is for cat duh is for dog eh is for egg fuh is for fish guh is for goat hhh is for hat ih is for igloo juh is for justice kuh is for kite ll is for leaf muh is for mop nuh is for night aw is for ostrich puh is for penguin kwuh is for queen rah is for rabbit ruh is for rough ree is for really sss is for snake tuh is for tub uh is for umbrella vuh is for violin wuh is for weasel ks is for x-rays yuh is for yogurt zz is for zebra

COMBINE TWO LETTERS TO MAKE A NEW SOUND (START OF THE WORD EDITION) (incomplete)

chuh is for change er is for early fruh is for frog thuh is for that wh is for whale