#languages are weird

[brazilspill]

Me: I don't get why people think that the Mineiro dialect of Brazilian Portuguese is hard to understand! :(

The Mineiro dialect:

Since it's a dialect thing Google doesn't automatically translate to it, but look! It understood me!

Bonus:

French is easy!

Japanese is easy!

[nosleeppotions]

So... some people think English is weird but Allow me to introduce you to a little tiny bit of Afrikaans

Afrikaans : English Leer : Leather Leer : Study/Studying Leer : Ladder Leer : *when your stockings and/or socks rip, apparently because it looks like a ladder(?)* Leêr : Ring Binder/File Leër : Army Tuinslang : Hose Pipe/Garden Snake Laat : Late Laat : Let As : Ash As : If As : Axle As: As (though if someone says “ashoop” they’re likely talking about a trash heap or dump, though a pile of ash is completely possible too.) Was : Wash Was : Was (past tense) Was: Wax Kant : Side Kant : *fine decoration for garments and/or other items* Sy: Silk Sy: His Sy: She Sy: Side Haar: Hair (singular) Haar: Hers

[cool-person-yey]

i rly like the name " zip ties" in english. like yep. that's a zip tie. I can't decide if it's worse or better than in portuguese, where it is enforca-gato ( cat-choker)

[dracofeb]

Out of the handful of Maltese songs I've listened to, this is one I really like. Very good tune. Whenever I listen to this song (or one of the others I listen to), my want to learn the language. Maltese sounds cool, a pretty decent challenge to check out.

[seriously-mike]

And what about a certain Menzies with a Ż?

From my conversation with @jurian-is-cinnamon-roll.

It's funny how the surname "Menzies" is properly pronounced with a letter only common in Slavic and some Baltic languages (and that would be Ż/Ž/��), and kinda sounds Lithuanian.

Menžies.

But it's okay, when a certain MacLeod of Skye arrived in Poland in 1821, his descendants localized their surname to "Machlejd".

[billingualballads]

all these languages and I still can't find the words to tell you how beautiful you are (polyglot rizz)

[vickytokio]

I'm not sure what to do with this information, wtf?! G.G

I mean, obviously I was aware that I know English, but my God! I know for a fact that I got at least a couple of those questions wrong because I got ahead of myself and some I just really didn't know and that's my result?!?!

I got the Top 4.47% on this English Vocabulary test

[baobei-bu]

Clan head!Gojo

[thetreestumptherapist]

Synonym intensity

Does anyone else have levels of intensity for synonyms? Like, interesting vs fascinating. For me interesting is like passive interest, like "ok that's a little interesting, but I can live without knowing more." While fascinating is like "dive headfirst into a neurodivergent hyperfocus on this topic. I will die if I don't learn more about this topic." Does anyone else have this or is it just me?

[foggysilverfeathers]

Honestly adore how horrified people get when they learn about Swiss German

[vickytokio]

Honestly, I love how it took at most two sentences before I was understanding the baby talk perfectly before reading the family's responses lol

(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)

baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*

my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.

baby: ighbu.

sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!

baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!

sister: exactly!

baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.

my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?

baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.

[a split second goes by]

baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.

me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?

baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.

me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?

baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.

*pronounced like "on" without the n

[iwasbored777]

We're not appreciating the Weird Barbie enough. It's said in the movie that she helps everyone who need help while they always see her as someone who's not as good as them. She was friends with all dismissed Barbies and Kens, was there to offer support and safe shelter for everyone who needed it in Kendom, without her nothing in the movie would've been alright. When Stereotypical Barbie calls her "ugly and unwanted" she still helps her.

She was representing a woman in women's world who was pushed aside by other women because she didn't fit in but still had more wisdom and kindness than everyone who thought they're better than her.

[tlinh]

Wh- Where did the /a/ sound come from

[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."

[ivycryptid]

it's closer to dove (past tense of dive) abruptly cut off

it's always a good day to complain about English speakers

[kumeramen]

They're having book discussion~