#language humor

[strawberrus0da]

Learning another language is funny bc someone will say something like “sien” and you’re like what word is this. what secrets are you withholding from me. share with me your forbidden knowledge and they just misspelled sein

[imptricks]

Fucking English....North American Speakers....

How you pronounce the word below?

connectivity /kŏn″ĕk-tĭv′ĭ-tē/ - Audio example

connectivity /kəˌnekˈtɪvəti/ - Audio example

I never heard it pronounced like number 1, until I just watched this video. And I was like what the fuck? It sounds like a North American thing to me. US specifically lmao.

How Do You Pronounce Connectivity?

Like In Example 1

Like In Example 2

Voting ended onMay 16

[maineshewrote]

if the plural of mouse is mice, then logically it follows that the plural of spouse is spice, which is why in the presence of two spice things can get a little spicy

[victusinveritas]

[star-rey-night]

Languages are funny because in french we have a word that's transparent and translates literally to "lovable" except it's often used in a way to criticize someone's social behavior or manners.

I feel like telling somebody "You're not really lovable, you know that ?" right after a conversation where someone was a little cranky in English would fucking obliterate them man. That shit isn't casual anymore.

[writerystuff]

You can't really blame him--Welsh is totally opaque to most non-Welsh.

[sysirauta]

This time in English, about my attempt to learn Ukrainian. I've come to a conclusion that when your starting point is something as nuts as Finnish, then Ukrainian, a language with its seven conjugations, 33 letters, gendering things, and a few extra hissing sounds is easy enough. Languages are not my forte and three months is merely a start, but I'm stubborn enough that I will learn to understand and speak this language. Having some English, decent German and (mostly forgotten) Swedish on the background do help as well. (Technically a couple of Latin courses too, but...)

This time some thoughts about verbs, both Ukrainian and Finnish. English: run, runs.

Yeah. I feel like having a very unfair advantage with past tenses. Ukrainian has only one kind of past tense instead of imperfect/perfect/pluperfect as far as I've understood, and that doesn't go to the conjugation grinder like Finnish does. (There's however the future tense that Finnish lacks, but it's super easy and no issue with English already on hand.)

And of course, Finnish learners encounter this wonderful hell as well:

The fact that I don't need to try understand this (as I already do), is motivating in its odd way.

On the other hand, I've gained a way more understanding why exactly Finnish is tricky for any learner with an Indo-European native language. You're very brave and I promise that you won't need most of these words anywhere ever. I showed this conjugation table to my (as well very Finnish) dad and he just looked at it and went "what does 'juostaveine' even means?" so even if Finnish can do this, it doesn't mean that it is even useful or coherent, even for natives.

[knight--error]

Saw a post that says something really cheeses their cake. Love that, we need to do that more. Cheeses my cake. Olives my oil. Frenches my fries. Pops my tarts. Ceasars my salad. You understand.