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i dunno if you even read these but there was no way to contact you on main: activeg's post with that maitide person got the OP transphobically harassed. it's not even a real person's opinion, it's a fandom rp blog. a real person's being harassed for an opinion on veganism posted by a fictional character. both OPs have been requesting people take it down for harm-reduction purposes.
aight i’ll take it down, thx for the heads up
If you don’t think it’s funny that ”stepdad” in swedish is ”Bonuspappa” then get out
One of my favourite things is when someone doesn’t know the Irish for a word so they just put a fada on the English word See: sófa
What’s even better is when an Irish word is just the English word with a fada See: fón
What’s EVEN BETTER is when the Gàidhlig is just the English word spelled out phonetically See: draibhear
But wait, there’s more! Tidsear (teacher) Gèam (game) Nurs (nurse) Baidhseagal (bicycle) And they’re just the ones I remember off the top of my head.
That’s not even trying, are there non-Béarlachas alternatives? Like guthán and gluaisteán in Irish instead of fón and carr.
When the Irish word is just an English word with an a after it: Lampa
Actually, in the case of car I’m pretty sure that the word carr existed in Irish before car existed in English. So while they’re very similar, carr is not an English loan word!
Yeah, carr was the word for a cart. Then cars replaced them but people kept using the word because they sounded the same and basically served the same function which is pretty cool.
Happy international mother language day!
Joyeuse journée internationale de la langue maternelle
おひつじ座・牡羊座・おひつじざ・Aries (3/21～4/19)
おうし座・牡牛座・おうしざ・Taurus (4/20 ～ 5/20)
ふたご座・双子座・ふたござ・Gemini (5/21 ～ 6/21)
かに座・蟹座・かにざ・Cancer (6/22 ～ 7/22)
しし座・獅子座・ししざ・Leo (7/23 ～ 8/22)
おとめ座・乙女座・おとめざ・Virgo (8/23 ～ 9/22)
てんびん座・天秤座・てんびんざ・Libra (9/23 ～ 10/23)
さそり座・蠍座・さそりざ・Scorpio (10/24 ～ 11/22)
いて座・射手座・いてざ・Sagittarius (11/23 ～ 12/21)
やぎ座・山羊座・やぎざ・Capricorn (12/22 ～ 1/19)
みずがめ座・水瓶座・みずがめざ・Aquarius (1/20 ～ 2/18)
うお座・魚座・うおざ・Pisces (2/19 ～ 3/20)
Index: [Commonly written・Kanji・Furigana・English]
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I thought I would put together a small post of all the resources that I’ve currently listed on the blog already.
congrats to the irish for refusing to give the english language a name
(source: Thirty-Two Words for Field by Manchán Magan)
Antoine Ó Raiftéirí
Mise Raifteirí an file, Lán dóchas is grá, Le súile gan solas, Le ciúnas gan chrá.
‘Dul siar ar m’aistear Le solas mo chroí Fann agus tuirseach Go deireadh mo shlí.
Féach anois mé Is mo chúl le balla, Ag seinm ceoil Do phócaí folmha.
I am Raifteirí the poet, Full of hope and love, Of sight without light, Of peace without pain.
Going back in my journey With the light of my heart Wan and tired To the end of my road.
Look at me now My back to a wall Playing music For empty pockets.
I got 56%, and I consider myself fairly good at linguistic indentification. Make of that what you will.
(That said, even when I got them wrong, I correctly identified the language family even if not the specific tongue.)
THE TYPO WAS NOT INTENTIONAL BUT IT FITS PERFECTLY
my keyboard is smart, it regroups all the languages I've chosen that use the same alphabet in one group, it can switch ofc but it can catch on and predict right
omg thats amazing
my iphone:
I don't trust a bitch that use qwerty
(c) Reddit
I just have the sudden need to tell you that the Czech version of “in the middle of nowhere” is “kde lišky dávají dobrou noc”, which literally means “where foxes say goodnight”
how cute, the Serbian version of “in the middle of nowhere” is “vukojebina”, which literally means “where wolves fuck” :)
french handles english loanwords SO gracelessly c'est pathétique. they can dish out language shift through half of africa and north america but they can't take some parisians calling it "un podcast"
get ready to pour one out for the very best they could come up with...
They are the people who proposed "acolyte des illustres" (acolyte of the renowned ones) for followers, what did you expect. And I love so much the "piège à clic". "Clic" is an anglicism.
also I speak very very little French but like.... this seems to really not get to the heart of the word podcast? iPod + broadcast? could they not go for something like abbreviating diffusion? i-diff? idk but like you need something convenient and like.... not poetic, but not as painfully literal as audio à demande
Especially since audio on demand can describe literally any recording
France hates english language because they’re like ‘we must stay pure pure language............’ like shut up you have lol in your dictonnary but can’t accept iel (neutral pronoun) as an official pronoun
ok but if I may add a few precisions:
As an older french person, I must say that french government did pass a law to "protect french language" by forcing companies to use french in commercial and communication. It was 1994's Toubon Law.
It's not as hard as it was supposed to be at the time but for a moment companies were forced to find a french equivalent of any foreign word they would use in commercial/official communication. Like, you weren't supposed to use "weekend" in those. (Everyone was and still use weekend all the time) but "fin de semaine".
L'Académie Française was asked for help, and that's when those ridiculous translations started. Or at least when they started to be talked about in media.
That was a lot of fun at the time. Satirical show "Les Guignols de l'Info", newspaper "Le Canard Enchaîné" and several comedians/cartoonists worked around "Mister Allgood"'s idea. My parents' had a small book called "Sky, Mister Allgood !" suggesting dumb translation for every single English word or phrase used by french people.
I think about it every time l'Académie Française makes a suggestion. It's been 26 years and no-one use those words.
So I laugh at it and let it die.
