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Some frown upon to ax as a variant of to ask, but to ax is more than 1200 years old. It stems from Old English ācsian, a variant of āscian. Chaucer used both axen and asken in Middle English. The interchange of two sounds, such as /sk/ → /ks/, is called metathesis. Here are more examples from the Germanic languages.

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rb this and tell me what ur accent is. this has no purpose except the fact i just realized i could have like… mutuals with cockney accents or newfoundland accents or something and thats just wild

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its so crazay how being in a transitional period will have you obsessively reevaluating every decision in yr life to the point of actual insanity…hello

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Tocharian

Around 3,000 BCE, speakers of an early branch of the Indo-European languages decided to go for a little hike, and wound up all the way in South Siberia.

A few thousand years later, scholars discovered manuscripts in northwestern China dating to 500–800 CE that were shown conclusively to be written in a language from an early branch of Indo-European. They named this language Tocharian.

The discovery of Tocharian upset decades of research on ancient Indo-European languages and revitalized interested in them for two reasons:

Nobody even suspected that another branch of Indo-European existed, let alone in China’s Tarim Basin.

It was previously thought that the Indo-European languages were divided into eastern and western groups, based on whether the /k/ sound had changed to an /s/. The western languages that retained the /k/ were called centum languages (the Latin word for ‘hundred’, pronounced with an initial /k/), while the eastern languages with /s/ were called satem languages (the Avestan word for ‘hundred’). Yet Tocharian was a centum language sitting further east than almost any other language in the family. (Linguists later hypothesized that the centum-satem split wasn’t so much an east-west split as it was a spread of /s/ from the center of the language family outward, a change which didn’t reach the furthest members of the family).

Tocharian was written in a variant of Brahmi; here’s a sample of Tocharian script on a wooden tablet:

If you really want to challenge yourself, here’s a problem about Tocharian from the International Linguistics Olympiad:

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Average Icelandic-Faroese online experience:

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Iceland is the best country in the world 🥰

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The Faroe Islands are way better

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Kys

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Kys

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Kys

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Kys

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Kys

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Kys

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Fuck you you live on some tiny rock in the middle of nowhere

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So do you and also your mother is a whore

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What's it like not having independece

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Does anyone care about us

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No

14 people arguing about fish in the notes

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People are often surprised I speak four languages but I consider it to be fairly average for where I'm from so now I'm curious

*if you're confused whether a language counts or not, ask yourself if you can hold a basic conversation in it. If not, and you can only understand but not speak it, skip it.

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Send me to Mars with party supplies before next august 5th

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No zero days 2023 - June & July

At this point I have realized that I do have the habit of interacting with Icelandic/spending time with it every day. However I don't feel like it's enough, and the table I was using before became sort of like a checklist at this point, which kinda defeats the purpose of the "heatmap", so I'm choosing to abandon it.

Instead, I want to try replacing more of my entertainment with Icelandic-language content. It's something I should have consistently done long ago, but eh, it didn't happen, it will happen now, I guess.

In other words, just keeping up the habit is not enough at this point, I need to put in more hours.

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Countries with more sheep than humans.

by thebluemaps

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that feeling when you write a fckn essay of a letter on slowly to someone in your target language and even though oftentimes you have to dumb your wording down because you don't know that many idiomatic expressions yet you still get your point across and can discuss complex topics and Actually Communicate with someone. that feeling

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kiwi b ird held so gen tle and sweet . wonderful .

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Sometimes, words were saved from death because they were borrowed. The descendants of Proto-Germanic *uzgōlīn (pride) became extinct in Germanic, but borrowings live on in Romance: e.g. French orgueil and Italian orgoglio. Proto-Germanic *haifstiz (conflict) was even brought back to Germanic thanks to Old French borrowing haste.

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aha we will be reading "ég heiti grímar" on this blog i have found the perfect children's book! ive been meaning to read it for a while

expect a post with links and everything soon! i think ill do one chapter per post, they're quite short

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explain to me why these are treated differently (literally two consecutive posts i saw)