#Language

[prokopetz]

Jokes about which fictional characters would be calling people homophobic slurs on the Call of Duty voice chat can be much funnier if the character in question is from a historical or quasi-historical milieu and you imagine them using period-appropriate slurs. Picture your blorbo calling their squadmate a "sodomite".

[incognitopolls]

This list of the 11 most spoken first languages is from the 2024 publication of Ethnologue (via Wikipedia).

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[notafanbut]

Perfect ...and been there.....

I have come up with a better metaphor than “you can’t pour from an empty cup” for burnout. You can’t boil an empty kettle. Pouring from an empty cup just gets you nowhere. Trying to boil an empty kettle can ruin the kettle, the stove, and burn down your house if you keep trying it.

[prokopetz]

where does ‘bugfuck’ come from? ive never seen anyone else say it but you’ve evidently been on the bugfuck train for years now

According to Google Ngram, the word "bugfuck" first starts to show up in the printed corpus of the English language around 1970, though it's probably older than that in spoken use. The earliest citation I've personally been able to chase down is the 1975 edition of Steven Phillip Smith's American Boys (therein spelled "bug-fuck"), which suggests it may have its roots in American military slang.

[official-linguistics-post]

Artificial intelligence is not going to save the world’s languages. It’s hardly going to make any difference at all for the thousands of communities around the world currently under pressure to take up dominant languages. Looking at the world from the perspective of those four villages in Tibet, it is clear that artificial intelligence cannot solve the material, social, and political problems that are driving global language endangerment.

A short article by linguist Gerald Roche (supporting his new book, The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet) on the structural problems facing the push to use AI for work on endangered minority languages.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

More Words for Sex Scenes

love (Old English–) - Sexual desire or lust, esp. as a physiological instinct; amorous sexual activity, sexual intercourse. To make love.

play (Old English–) - Sexual activity or dalliance; foreplay; amorous recreation.

touch (a1400–1922) - Sexual contact or activity, esp. viewed as sinful or corrupting; an instance of sexual touching; an act of physical intimacy. Obsolete.

chamber work (c1450–1694) - Sexual activity. Obsolete.

venery (1497–) - The practice or pursuit of sexual pleasure; indulgence of sexual desire.

bedroll (?1552–1696) - A roll of bedding; a list of deeds or things; spec. a list of one’s sexual partners. Obsolete…

bed-glee (1582) ⚜ bed-game (1596)

fiddling (1622–) - Fussy trifling; petty adjustment or alteration.

twatting (1893) - Sexual intercourse or activity. Obsolete. rare.

sexual relations (1897–) - Sexual contact or activity, esp. sexual intercourse.

fun time (1905–)

massage (1906–) - euphemistic (originally U.S.). Sexual services, esp. as advertised by prostitutes.

sex play (1922–) - a. A drama about sex, or having sexual content; b. play having a sexual nature, spec. sexual activity that does not involve intercourse.

action (c1930–) - colloquial (originally U.S.). Sexual activity.

hanky-panky (1939–) - Sexual activity or dalliance, esp. of a surreptitious nature.

making-out (1957–)

lumber (1966–) - a. Amorous or sexual play. b. A person regarded as a prospective sexual partner; a casual pick-up, a date.

how's your father (1968–) - euphemistic. Sexual activity; sexual intercourse.

mifky-pifky (1985–) - Sexual activity, flirting (esp. of an illicit nature).

hootchy-kootchy (1986–) - slang. Sexual intercourse; (occasionally) sexual activity. Sometimes euphemistic.

SEXUAL PARTNER

sleeping partner (?1456–)

screw (1725–) - coarse slang. A woman with whom a person has sexual intercourse; a sexual partner; esp. (in earlier use) a prostitute.

sexual partner (1847–) - A person who or animal which engages in sexual intercourse with another.

shack-job (1946–)

shack-up (1969–) - A partner in cohabitation or sexual intercourse.

CASUAL

companion (1684–) - A short-term sexual partner; (now) esp. a person hired to act as such; an escort.

trick (1925–) - A casual sexual partner; usually spec. a prostitute's client. slang (originally and chiefly U.S.).

rough trade (1927–) - A rough or working-class man sought, and sometimes paid, as a casual sexual partner by a more privileged or affluent man (or occasionally a woman).

fuck buddy (1973–) - coarse slang (originally U.S.). A friend or acquaintance with whom a person (regularly) engages in sexual intercourse without the expectation of a romantic relationship.

INVITATION

proposition (1937–) - Originally U.S. A proposal or invitation to engage in sexual activity, esp. of a casual or illicit nature; a sexual advance or ‘pass’.

booty call (1993–) - A visit made to a person for the (sole) purpose of having sexual intercourse; an invitation to have sexual intercourse.

POSITIONS

position (1883–) - A particular posture adopted during sexual intercourse.

knee-chest position (1935–)

missionary position (1948–) - A position for sexual intercourse in which a woman lies underneath a man, facing him.

doggy position (1975–) - A sexual position in which one partner (who is usually on hands and knees) is penetrated from behind by the other partner; cf. doggy style, adv.

cowgirl (1993–) - A position for sexual intercourse in which a woman sits astride a man, facing him. Cf. reverse cowgirl, n.

reverse cowgirl (1993–) - A position for sexual intercourse in which a woman sits astride a man, facing away from him.

ERECTION

elevation (1543) - spec. = erection, n. Obsolete.

erection (1594–) - Physiology. The action of making rigid any bodily organ containing erectile tissue.

standing (1598–1654) - coarse slang. An erection of the penis. Obsolete.

tentigo (a1603–) - An attack of priapism, an erection; lecherousness, lust.

Jack (1604–) - slang. Also (and in earliest use) in plural. The penis, especially when erect; an erection. Now rare.

stand (1608–) - coarse slang. An erection of the penis.

fratration (1666) - Inflation of seminary vessels

surgation (1688) - Erection.

tent pole (1889–) - figurative and in figurative contexts. slang. An erection of the penis beneath clothing, sheets, etc., humorous.

cockstand (c1890–) - coarse slang (now somewhat archaic). An erection of the penis.

hard-on (1898–) - An erection of the penis.

hard (1927–) - slang (originally and chiefly U.S.). = hard-on, n.

boner (1936–) - slang (originally U.S.). An erection of the penis. Hence figurative: a strong attraction to or state of excitement about something specified.

hard up (1937–) - slang. = hard-on. Now rare.

half-mast (1963–) - colloquial. With reference to the penis: the state of being partially erect. Chiefly in at half mast.

bone-on (1969–) - An erection of the penis; = hard-on, n.

stiffy (1983–) - slang. An erection. Cf. hard-on, n.

morning-glory (1985–) - British slang. An erection on awakening, esp. one resulting from a full bladder. Cf. piss-proud, adj.

ORGASM

happy ending (1748–) - a. An ending in a novel, play, etc., in which the plot achieves a happy resolution (esp. by marriage, continued good health, etc.).

orgasm (1754–) - Originally: a surge of sexual excitement; the rut; oestrus. In later use: sexual climax; the highest point of sexual excitement.

spending (1856–79) - Obsolete slang. An orgasm; an ejaculation.

climax (1873–) - The highest point of sexual excitement, characterized by intense sensation.

Big O (1931–) - a. U.S. Railways a railroad conductor (now rare); b. originally U.S. an orgasm (usually with the).

EJACULATION

emission (1646–) - Physiology. = Latin emissio seminis.

spending (1856–79) - Obsolete slang. An orgasm; an ejaculation.

ejaculation (1888–) - The sudden ejection or emission (of seed, fluids, etc.) from the animal or vegetable system. spec. the discharging of the male sperm.

coming (1966–) - slang. The action or an act of ejaculating or achieving orgasm. Also (and in earliest use) in plural: ejaculated semen.

SEXUAL GRATIFICATION

fleshlihood (c1440–49) - Fleshly state or condition, fleshliness, gratification of the flesh.

pleasure (?a1450–) - The indulgence of physical, esp. sexual, desires or appetites; sensual or sexual gratification; to take one's pleasure: to have sexual intercourse.

pleasure of the flesh (?a1475–) - Pleasure or pleasures derived from physical, esp. sexual, indulgence.

ass (a1916–) - Sexual intercourse or satisfaction. Also (offensive): a woman or women considered as a source of this.

afterglow (1928–) - spec. A warm or pleasant feeling experienced after sexual intercourse.

Source ⚜ More: Word Lists ⚜ References ⚜ Historical Thesaurus ⚜ Part 1 Writing Tips: Sex Scenes (pt. 1) (pt. 2) ⚜ Types of Kissing ⚜ Physiology of Love

[waterwabe]

Me when i search something in Romanian and youtube does that thing where it translates the English video titles to Romanian and gives them to you no youtube babygirl if I wanted to search for English videos, I would've done something called. Search in English.

[contradictorypenguin]

I had a dream last night that I was trying to translate something into Italian and I discovered that Google Translate had added several languages that weren't,,, actually languages?

Like they had one called 'Neurotypical' that took cryptic double-meanings and made them straight-forward, and they had one called 'Corporate' that translated bureaucratic bullshit into plain words, but the one that I remember most clearly was called 'Passive-Aggressive Asshole,' and it looked like this -

In the dream I also put in "You're so welcome" and it translated it to "You'd better be grateful, you fuck."

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[vinceaddams]

People who try to copy historical writing styles don't say enough weird stuff in them. I'm listening to a 1909 story about a ghost car right now, and the narrator just said he honked the car horn a bunch of times, but the way he phrased it was "I wrought a wild concerto on the hooter".

[suomeakinkohan]

These can’t really compete and nobody asked but here is the Finnish equivalents:

Jumalan selän takana - behind God’s back

Hevonkuusessa - at horses’ fir tree (probably just euphemism for helvetin kuusi - hell’s fir tree).

there's this word in Serbian 'vukojebina' which literally means 'the place where wolves go to fuck' but they use it to mean 'in the middle of nowhere'. it sure does the job well, but the visual stayed with me longer than I would have liked it to.

[victusinveritas]

[incognitopolls]

Hypothetical scenario: someone is on Ao3, looking for fanfiction to read. This person only speaks/reads English, and they set the language filter to only show fics written in English.

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[mehilaiselokuva]

Why did you learn Finnish?

To communicate with my parents and extended family. At age 1 I started to feel a bit hungry and decided I should start speaking so that my parents would feed me.

Hope this helps!

[kensatou]

i'll let phie-san say it: