V2MK Languages

English (native), Polish (B2/C1), Russian (C2), and Ukrainian (A2). I study linguistics, government, and everything Slavic. Feel free to ask me anything or reach out by DM.

[rebornofstars-deactivated202510]

ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens gmail* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens youtube* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens an unstable vortex in time and space* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens ao3* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens discord* ok time to lock the fuck in *opens tumblr*

[translatingpostsintopolish]

odrodzonazgwiazd

dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram discorda* dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram tumblera* dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram gmaila* dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram youtube'a* dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram niestabilny wir w czasie i przestrzeni* dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram ao3* dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram discorda* dobra czas napierdalać *otwieram tumblera*

[safespacepol]

[bvader95]

If you see your Polish mutual looking at the news and then going to the kitchen to cook excessive amounts of bigos, that can mean nothing good. The gotowanie bigosu na uspokojenie is a ritual meant to calm down frazzled nerves of you or your loved ones and resorting to it is an unambiguous sign of great distress.

[prokopetz]

The best part about knowing Latin plurals is using them incorrectly on purpose and seeing if anyone who knows why you're full of shit is within earshot. Insist that the plural of of "waitress" is "waitrices". You know you want to.

[sileana]

Was discussing the plural of ‘Prius’ with my middle school child. They asked if it was ‘Priuses’, or ‘prii’ like ‘octopi’. I said that as far as I know, those are both acceptable, but I encouraged the deployment of ‘priodes’ just in case it had a Greek origin.

[cdarklock]

I mean clearly it is one Prius, several Pria.

[prokopetz]

"Priuum", surely.

[maniculum]

Well:

The Prius is so named because Toyota wanted to express that it was the first of its kind (i.e. mass-produced hybrid vehicles) so they borrowed a Latin word meaning “first” or “in front”. Specifically the Latin word prior, which also exists as a loanword in English with a similar sense — prius is the neuter form in the nominative case. The nominative neuter plural of prior is priora.

So if you wanted to present an etymological argument for a spurious pluralization of Prius, it should be one Prius, multiple Priora.

[trzpiotka]

[ev-n-learning]

hey tumblr followers of mine and/ or tag searchers

do you (!) know/ understand belarusian? are you reasonably confident in your ability to navigate a computer filesystem? have you ever wonder just what the fuck an "ukagaka" even is (and how theyre made)? Most importantly, are you any good at giving feedback?

if yes to like at least one maybe 2 of these questions i have . A quest. For you, even.

... 👉👈 help me proofread my belarusian ghost guide? (No images for now)

I already know it's going to be full of grammatical errors & random russian words (it was a nano project,,) i am just not sure where exactly all those grammatical errors are. Also stray typos.

To contact me you can start a reblog chain (long) tumblr ask (ok) or a tumblr ask about discord* (off anon so i dont give my discord to like everyone)

*(or if you want to join the ukagaka dream team discord & find me there that also works)

thank you! :-)

[sovietpostcards]

"A Spring Fairy Tale" by Vladimir Tokarev (1970s)

[shrews-studies]

I have this paradoxical emotional process where listening to music in a language I don't understand is immensely appealing and pleasant to me, and it immediately makes me want to study the language, essentially taking away the reason why I was listening

[v2mk-languages]

[eyelessseraphim]

in my phonology. straight up stressing it. and by "it", haha, well, let's justr say. my penult

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[what-even-is-thiss]

What they don’t tell you about speaking multiple languages is that your brain does not in fact have a box labeled Spanish and another one labeled German. Instead it has a box labeled “Not English” and sometimes when you’re talking or writing in one of the languages you speak it will just start pulling random words from that box.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I just wrote down “Tengo eine Katze” and then put my head in my hands

[dnptheinfinity]

‘Homo sum’ in Latin: ‘I am a human being’

‘Homo sum’ in Polish:

[dnptheinfinity]

reblogging because this post has been released from horny jail after 6 years (the review took 3 minutes i just never bothered to appeal before today)

[heyitschartic]

Just saw on Quora a guy asking if Poland was more German or Russian and every reply was a Polish guy detailing the ways they wanted to kill him

[kronika-ilustrowana]

[ltwilliammowett]

On board the Polish destroyer ORP Piorun the ship's cats Żaba (Frog) and Tygrys (Tiger) are being encouraged to make friends with a stowaway which must have escaped from an oiler, late 1940

[isawken]

hey man. nice regional dialect. mind if i apply some baseless assumptions about your personhood to it? i was also gonna prescribe morality to it as well. if that’s cool with you

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[salvadorbonaparte]

"How many languages do you speak?" Lame, Cliché, Boring.

"How many languages do you read?" Now that's interesting.

[unhonestlymirror]

[slavetomyheadcanon]

Why do all the other languages get the cool and appropriate words