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Infographic I just made about how the letter Aleph has gotten around

Might do this for the other semitic letters at some point

This is technically a slight oversimplification, South Arabian was derived from Proto-Semitic and not Phoenician, but it's close enough that I don't think I'm going to change it. I'll note it here though for anybody interested. If I make more of these I'll reblog this post with them.

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Now that I'm working on an unofficial fanslation of Pokémon Red/Blue into Yiddish (Pokemonim: Royt un Bloy), I'm also considering attempting to make a Yiddish fanslation of Pokémon Special/Pokémon Adventures Would y'all want that? Also, since I'm by no means a Yiddish scholar, or fluent, my translations are no doubt pretty messy. I'm wondering if it might be worth trying to find ways to collaborate on this so it's not just me doing all the work only to find that my translations are horrible lol So let me know if y'all have any ideas

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Pokémon in Yiddish (Pokemonim in Yidish): Part 8

It's been a while! For Wartortle, we're going to take שילדקרעט (shildkret) from last time and this time combine it with כוואַליע (khvalye) "wave" in reference to its tail to get

שילכװאַליע • (Shilkhvalye) n, plural שילכװאַליעס (Shilkhvalyes)

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Pokémon in Yiddish (Pokemonim in Yidish): Part 6

I like how I've unintentionally caused this evolutionary line to have Charmeleon and Charizard related but not Charmander, just like in Japanese. For this one, we take בראַנט from last time and add דראַקאָן (drakon) meaning "dragon" to get

בראַנטראַקאָן • (Brantrakon) m, plural בראַנטראַקאָנען (Brantrakonen)

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Me yesterday while eating tacos: You know, "napkin" sounds like it could be a diminutive noun because it ends in -kin, the mostly obsolete diminutive suffix equivalent to German "-chen"

So I looked it up. It's a diminutive of "nape"

I love being able to guess etymology just from context clues lol

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"Don't Forget" from Deltarune, in slightly shoddy Middle English by me

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Realised today that the transliteration I was giving for my Yiddish fanslation of Pokémon's title was inherently flawed so I'm fixing that now. It's a loan from Hebrew, so logically it would shift pronunciation like the natural lones. It wouldn't be Pokemon and Pokemonim, it would be Pokemon and Pokemoynem

And it should be spelt the Hebrew way too, so not

פּאָקעמאָן/פּאָקעמאָנים

but

פּוקימון/פּוקימונים

so I'm changing all of my work to reflect that

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A recipe for the English language

you take a bowl

you pour in Germanic

you stir it for a few centuries until the Anglo-Frisian separates from the continental bit

you pour that into a sieve until the continental bit comes out

add 7.8/10 too much water and the frisian part is melted away that's Old English

then, you take an entire box of Old French

and throw it, box and all, at the bowl

pour the contents into a blender

forgetting how to read for about 400 years is a crucial step

douse the slurry in Latin and blend it a second time

then just for good measure, smash it a few times with a cartoonishly-large mallet, just for good measure

stick it in the oven at ung_dly temperatures for a couple centuries

grab your best machete and slice the entire oven in half

and throw a bunch of smaller knives at the right half to split it up further

pick up the pieces at put it all into another oven

wait until the entire thing explodes

and extinguish the raging nuclear fire with tea and beer

the result? the English language minus all of the like, everything else that's the toppings. add a few pinches of random languages at your discretion