Credit to @cinderelladressinmidnightblue

To people who use "þ" as an aesthetic "p"

þink again.

getting thorny in the linguistics fandom

þorny*

That also goes for using ß as an aesthetic B. 

On my old server, there was a character named ßillyßadass.

This never failed to make me laugh, because that letter is not pronounced like B. It is a sharp S. 

That guy named himself SsillySsadass. 

Also to people who you Σ as an aesthetic E

that’s an S too, Σo maybe check next time

oh boy

Д as an aesthetic A? Дon’t be a дumbass.

И as an aesthetic N? don’t be sillи.

П as another aesthetic N? stoп it.

У as an aesthetic Y? ty bad.

Ш or Щ as an aesthetic W? nope. it’s “sh” and “shch”!

Я as an aesthetic R? surprise! it’s “ya”.

ah yes, that classic horror film SNYEYAPOVUL DIAYAIES

Whenever I see anglicized/repurposed Cyrillic I remember watching the Russian film The Thief with my mom, which led to the following conversation:

Stockholm metro Photo @_karasinski

meeting a new group of people

Someone finally said it it’s so annoying!

One day I was eating at a restaurant in Peru with the 3 guys who were volunteering with me and someone asked us where we came from. So I said France, the German guy said Germany, the Maltese guy had to say Italy because almost no-one in Peru knows where Malta is, and then the American guy said Portland, like he didn’t even specify the state he just thought everyone knew where Portland is 😤

i can’t tell whether this is better or worse than

and

The American comments on this post are so irritating. I think that some of them don’t realise that the USA is just a country while Europe is a continent made up of different countries where you can find different religions, different autochthonous ethnicities, different languages etc; You can’t compare a single country’s diversity to the diversity of an entire continent.

“But Texas is so different from Oregon! People need to know which state I’m from because they’re all so different!” We don’t care. We are going to see you as an American, not as a Texan or a Californian or whatever, just like you’re going to see someone from Bavaria as a German, someone from Normandy as a Frenchman or someone from Piedmont as an Italian, not as a Bavarian, a Norman and a Piedmontese. European countries have regional differences too, even more than US states yet we don’t feel the need to specify that to foreigners when they ask us where we’re from unless they ask us to elaborate.

“But the US is so big! Some of our states are even bigger than your countries!”

Russia is the largest country in the world and undoubtedly more diverse than the US. If you were to ask a Russian where they’re from they would say that they’re from Russia, not Komi or Tuva unless they’re speaking to another Russian or someone they know to be familiar with Russian geography.

You’re not special nor does the world revolve around you, just accept that and move on.

Tip to my fellow Americans just say you are from the U.S and then say the specific state.

Yeah, I just say I’m from NY, though originally from MA lol

Listen I am not going to risk being mistaken for a fucking Texan, or, god FORBID, a Floridian. 

I should start saying I’m from Tampere before anyone thinks I’m from Helsinki. Or worse, from Turku.

1.09.18 // studygram: alimastudies

wow it’s september already ??? 

#tbt that time two brothers bought their own planes, learnt to fly them and disguised them as soviet planes so they wouldn’t be questioned and then flew into east germany to rescue their third brother from a park and recorded the entire operation and got away with it

no but legit this is one of my favourite stories from the 20th century it just sums up human ingenuity and how walls just don’t fucking work when people will do anything to cross them

the first brother and a friend paddled over the Elbe on inflatable mattresses in the middle of the night to escape the east. they got picked up by a Wessi police officer, who said something like “bit cold for swimming, ey boys?” and the brother says “not when you’re trying to leave the East.” because all East Germans were automatically citizens of the West too, they were taken into town and established themselves there. 

the second brother scoped out a particularly dark stretch of the wall. He escaped over it to the west by getting into a high building and shooting an arrow with a steel cable attached over to another building in the west. He then ziplined over. In response to his escape, the Stasi and the Wall designers built another guard tower in the middle of the stretch so no one else could pull the same stunt. 

the two brothers met up and heard that their who was still in East Germany also wanted out. So, they learnt to fly planes and disguised them as soviet planes. This was so, if the border guards saw them, they wouldn’t fire on them - they’d have to ring up the Kremlin and ascertain whether they were actual soviet planes on an organised fly-by. they flew into East Germany at dawn (recording it all on camera because you’ve got to do it for the vine even before vine exists), landed in a park where their brother was hiding in the bushes, loaded him onto one of the planes and flew out of East Germany, laughing all the way.

other great moments include - the guy who broke out of the GDR by driving a very low-slung sportscar under a barrier, the family who built two hot air balloons with their bare hands, the guy who managed to windsurf out of East Germany, the man who stole a tank (my hero), the people who removed the petrol tanks from cars so people could squeeze into the gap where the tank should have been, and of course, one of the most famous photos of the 20th century, with Eastern border guard, conrad schumann noping the fuck out of there when he was meant to be on duty guarding the wall when it was under construction in 1961

Don’t forget about the dude who converted a one person rowing boat in a way that one other person could hide in the small space underneath. He could just claim he was on a single boat trip on the east sea when he was stopped and they never really checked, because the boat was clearly too small to fit more than one person. He smuggled like 15 other people into the west.

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american: *decrusts their toast*

german cackles in the distance. a Krustenbrot™ is being cut with the help of a saw and several strong men. infinite chewing and jaw breaking begins. the crunch can be heard over miles, people flinch. it is Abendbrotzeit.

“‘Big cultures and languages can easily find programming, books, everything in their language. For my own people, I’ve noticed there’s really nothing and I like the sound of my language — hearing that sound, hearing it spoken in everyday life, hearing it spoken in unique situations.’

Sutherland said he thought about how nice it would be to watch the shows he enjoys in his own language and decided that, since no one else seemed to be doing it, he would try his hand at dubbing cartoons in Anishinaabemowin.”

Did you know…

…That the French word for ‘fox’ (renard) comes from the name of Reynard the Fox, the protagonist of a literary cycle of the same name (fr. Roman de Renart), that used to be very popular in Medieval Europe.

The fables tell the story of Reynard’s adventures, mocking West European aristocracy and clergy of the epoch (presented by other animals). Reynard, a peasant-hero and a smart trickster, fools them for his own advantage and almost always manages to avoid possible consequences of his risky actions.

The stories were written by different authors (Pierre de St. Cloud is known to have opened the cycle), and the characters appeared in many literary works of different kinds created later.

So why did a fictional character’s name replace the old French goupil? Some people think it happened due to the incredible popularity of ‘Reynard the Fox’; others believe that this word was used as an euphemism, since it was considered bad luck to name wild animals.

swedish vocabulary (interjections & exclamations)

ok, so i absolutely adore all these cute words the swedes use to express… well, literally anything. just look at these. if they aren’t the coolest thing i’ve seen then i don’t know what is.

In german we don’t say “Quickly now!”, we say “Arme und Beine bilden eine rotierende Scheibe wobei der Arsch der höchste Punkt ist!”, and I think that’s beautiful.

Anyone heard of or used WordDive? I just found it looking for Estonian & Finnish apps and just caught a first glimpse but it seems cool! And I love that it has both of the langs tbh You can learn the basics, vocab for travelling, for work or advanced vocabulary. Also it has audio which I find super important!! So yeah it seems cool so I thought I’d share.

when you are french canadian this is 100% more funny

how did they get my grade 5 french teacher for this?

as a french (from France), i can confirm this is 50 times funnier

*wheezing so much you have no fucking idea*

this video is brought to you by the amazing canadian teacher Authentik 

(it’s me)