#and portuguese and italian

[algumaideia]

There is a line in Blood of Olympus that annoys me a lot, which is where Nico knows what a sign says in Portuguese because he speaks Italian. Which is stupid. Instead of rambling about languages here is the line in English, Portuguese (i'm Brazilian so my translation might be wrong as European Portuguese is very different), and Italian (from google)

We, the bones that are here, await yours.

Nós, os ossos que estão aqui, aguardamos os seus.

Noi, le ossa che sono qui, aspettiamo le tue.

It is not similar!!

If it was Reyna, it could be acceptable because according to google here is the translation in Spanish:

Nosotros, los huesos que estamos aquí, esperamos los vuestros.

Portuguese and Spanish are close to one another, Portuguese and Italian not so much.

Besides that, at least for me, the sentence is weird in Portuguese, but maybe it was my translation.

[yvanspijk]

Wool & lana

The word lana (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English wool. For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other. Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana. The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

Do you speak spanish?

I have a deep fear of all romance languages.

[screwdriver-and-souffle]

[ninyard]

Okay but him mixing languages (attribute this to him mixing German and Russian in Trust Falls (And Welcoming Arms) (which, to the person who recc’ed it to you, thanks cause I’m hooked)) and the international fans having a collective moment.

Or imagine him speaking all those languages in one sentence. Andrew says in TKM he’s a raccoon and those chaos-causing traits present in the animal are certainly present in Neil.

oh tired neil mixing up his languages in an absolutely diabolical way is canon (its not) (but it is) (you know?)

him somehow speaking spanish german english and polish in a single sentence and the only surprising part about it isn't the fact that he spoke four languages over the space of like 15 words, no, it's when the fuck did neil start learning polish

[thelingodingo]

I loveeeeee the way languages that tend to not like ending words on a consonant sound.

Probably the most common example would be the Japanese language and how people with that accent tend to pronounce English words "cutely" due to the lack of final consonants such as "kito-kato" instead of Kit Kat.

But it's actually seen in so many other languages such as Korean and how a lot of Koreans tend to pronounce English words that end with an S sound with a "-seu" at the end such as "ju-seu" for juice or "bus-seu" for bus.

I've also heard vowels be added onto the end of English words in languages like Italian and Brazilian Portuguese when said in their respective accent and I think it's so interesting how some languages have their own "rules" of what kind syllables are allowed to be created with vowels and consonants in certain positions.

I love accents!

(In the case of Japanese and Korean it also leads to a weird amount of fetishization while unknowingly mocking speakers of the language but that's a discussion for another time...)

[langvillage]

hello language learners! new this month in the language village, a chill way to practice a little bit every day: the one sentence club! as the title suggests, the idea is to write one sentence in your target language(s) every day. for an extra challenge, especially if your target language uses a different script, try handwriting the sentence too!

join the language village discord server to receive daily reminder pings, get inspiration from a daily question prompt, and participate alongside other one sentence club members!

feel free to tag #langvillage if you post your sentences on tumblr ✨

[puppppppppy]

None of these words are in the bible

[bimdraws]

Free Palestine

Palestina Libre

Palestina Livre

Palestina Libera

Wolna Palestyna

Freiheit für Palästina

Befria Palestina

Palestina Aurrera

[gayvampyr]

multilingualism poll because im curious

& feel free to specify in the notes which ones!

edit: i meant to write *and, not “or”

[go-learn-esperanto]

I think only Italian and Portuguese people should be allowed to bid for this one. It's the principle of the thing. /j

[kathybluecaller]

when it’s 5am and the romance branch indo-european language family does it’s thing

[yvanspijk]

Feuer & feu

The German word Feuer looks a bit like French feu and both mean 'fire'. That's a coincidence, because they're not etymologically related in any way. Feuer, like English fire, comes from West Germanic *fuir, while feu stems from the unrelated Latin word focus, 'hearth', which only later came to mean 'fire'. Focus was borrowed into English and many other languages as focus, its meaning 'focus (of a lens; of an ellipse)' created by Johannes Kepler. My new infographic tells you all about these words.

[andietries]

I found this funny Paperinik comic (not sure which number is, I still don’t control that) and basically it’s about Donald tricking Gyro into thinking that, unless he helps him, the city will fall into chaos

(I’ll try to do a more or less translation in cursive as it’s in Portuguese)

It features Donald portraying uncle Scooge portraying a superhero

“The masked Top Hat”

And also him “revealing” his secret identity, but in a: no, actually I’m just faking being a superhero the real one died, so sad

Donald: ever since the Beagle boys stole all his money, he has loose some screws

Gyro: superduck!?!

Donald: no, I’m not me…I’m just your old friend

Donald: I just try to perdure the memory of the greatest masked hero

I just find it super funny for some reason, the whole façade

When I find the code I’ll tell you

[gwendolynlerman]

¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Happy New Year! Bonne année ! Frohes Neues Jahr! ¡Bon any! С Новым Годом! 新年快乐！Buon anno! Feliz ano novo! 🎉✨

[kyayamo]

Yesterday me and my gf were having an autism moment in vc and listened to EVERY. SINGLE. dub of Neal the Eel's voice . Chat he fucking meows when escaping into the vents in the japanese dub that's insane

(it won't let me upload audio files from mobile AHH,,, here's a video with it though)