#language pun

[paliskale]

Eppi aulin to all who celebrate

[superat626]

@luisalecto hey did you want a pun today

I once handed an ant to a Frenchman.

Excitedly, he said "for me?"

Hang on I gotta check something

Okay yeah that's funny

[smolljester]

what does a Japanese cat say after a good meal?

U-nya-i

[mi-luli]

[prokopetz]

Real reasons to study Latin:

Construct spurious Latin plurals for non-Latin words

Give words which do have Latin roots the wrong Latin plurals

Understand all the stupid puns in species/genus nomenclature

Make complicated dick jokes only other Latin students understand

Give the stats in your indie tabletop RPG really annoying names

[mayasaura]

Big news, guys!!

I would like to introduce all my friends here to my new infant roommate.....

Professor Herbie Miaocchiato

My neighbor found her in a cardboard box, and now she lives in my bathroom

[hecho-a-mano]

a german woman who's a scammer call her a fräudlein

[alma37]

Very very bad pun... 🤣🤣🤣

The Language Nerds

[karnalesbian]

i get all giddy and kicking my feet with glee when I think about how fucking good the 'AI' in AI: The Somnium Files is. pun that works on several layers across two languages ohhhh that's the good shit

Aiba is an AI eyeball aibou (相棒, lit. 'partner') who loves you (ai; 愛) (she does. regardless of what she says). Beginning of the title can read as 'A. I.' or 'love' or 'eye' or 'I' (i.e. self-identity) and all of them are equally central elements of the story

[ofcrowsanddragons]

It was a guilty pleasure of Neve's to listen in as the Crows discussed their childhoods.

"¡Por el Santísimo Creador, Rook!" Lucanis exclaimed, throwing up his hands and letting his own chair skid back a few inches on the stone floor. "¿Qué demonios estaba pensando?"

Neve brought the mug of coffee to her lips. Rook was leaning back in their seat at the table, arms crossed, and Lucanis shifted to scowl fiercely at a spot behind Rook's shoulder.

"If I'm understanding correctly," Neve said, in a carefully even voice, "Your mentor actually bought you for the Crows?"

"I've killed people for less," Lucanis grumbled, putting his hands back around his own, delicate porcelain cup.

Rook shrugged. "He wasn't so bad. I helped him on a contract, so he paid my family off when he took me to Antiva. They would have been short on labour for the farm, otherwise."

They both looked at Rook, who finally caved. "If it makes you both feel better, he died with my knife in his neck a decade later."

"Así se hace," Lucanis said with a sharp nod, tipping his cup toward Rook.

"That's it," said Neve, her tone dry but satisfied.

"It was a contract, though!" said Rook, looking up at Neve with a pleading expression. "I didn't do it for no reason."

Crows, Neve thought, raising an eyebrow. As if Neve would ever judge over a slaver's death.

Lucanis looked like he wanted to ask what the hell had been going on at House de Riva before Viago's ascension. Instead, he looked over to a a space by the fire and slumped back in his chair. The man brought two fingers to the space between his eyebrows.

"What did they get him for?" he finally asked.

"Nothing out of the ordinary," said Rook. "Tax evasion."

Neve set down her cup and laughed fully into her hand. "I should have guessed that," she said, looking up. "Maybe Treviso's a lot like home, after all."

[ladyazurith]

[doorknobinmyayuss]

Inspirational Radioapple quote of the day.

Lucifer may have fallen for lillith…

But Alastor is gonna spend the rest of eternity trying to get a rise outta him.

[scrumptiousstuffs]

Source as above

THK Press Tour - 06/11/2024

[spoopers-bloopers]

Meme of the year imo

[mi-luli]

[prokopetz]

The letdown of learning another language is that it doesn't matter how fluent you get, you'll never fully appreciate why certain combinations of phonemes sound inherently ridiculous to native speakers, because that part is almost 100% deep-rooted cultural context. Like, I'm reliably informed by folks I know who grew up speaking Japanese that many popular anime characters have names that sound just as absurd to native Japanese speakers as most anime characters with "American" names sound to Anglophones, and I have to take their word for it because there's no way for me to ever really get it.