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🐶. wybie / 25 / he (eng + ptbr + esp)

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I will make grammar mistakes in my non native languages sometimes; please feel free to correct me!

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rockergiirl

damn your pussy fat and long and hard and outside

jester-operation

I habe some bad news

rockergiirl

BOTH TOWERS?

firebatvillain

One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."

reactsonly

bobbole

Noah Dao

mysterypuppys

U literally cannot save your mother like it cant be done

mousiebites

just took an edible and my mind expanded big enough that i have found out how to fix and change my mom

mousiebites

folks, it turns out she cannot be saved, and actually, should be damned to hell

daylights-rain

that's just how it is with mothers

captain-price-returns

Arrest everyone involved.

captain-price-returns

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

yamelcakes

world’s most evil man and I’m not being hyperbolic

lesbianshepard

fun fact about languages: a linguist who was studying aboriginal languages of Australia finally managed to track down a native speaker of the Mbabaram language in the 60s for his research. they talked a bit and he started by asking for the Mbabaram word for basic nouns. They went back and forth before he asked for the word for “dog” The man replied “dog” They had a bit of a “who’s on first” moment before realizing that, by complete coincidence, Mbabaram and English both have the exact same word for dog.

lesbianshepard

on a similar note, a traditional Ojibwe greeting is “Nanaboozhoo” so when the French first landed in southern Canada they thought that they were saying “Bonjour!” Which is fucking wild to think about. Imagine crossing the ocean and the first people you meet in months somehow speak French.

yu-gi-oh-slavia

nicolae-carpathia

my favorite Accessory Fact to this is that we know more about the etymological history of the Mbabaram “dog” than the English “dog”

The etymology for Mbabaram “dog” has been reconstructed back to Proto-Pama-Nyungan, which was spoken “as recently as about 5,000 years ago”:

From *dwog(a) < *udwoga < *gudwaga < Proto-Pama-Nyungan *gudaga. Related to Dyirbal guda, Yidiny gudaga.

While the etymology for English “dog” has been reconstructed confidently only back to Olde English, which was spoken from about the 5th to the 12th centuries:

Inherited from Middle English dogge (akin to Scots dug), from Old English dogga, docga, of uncertain origin.