#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/Ж), 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".

[shanti-ashant-hai]

so i have learnt most ppl just say 'tu' and/or dont add 'ji' when talking to elders and its fascinating, actually, how we're taught that its the sign of respect, whereas for y'all the respect is implied so you dont have to say it

[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?

[perfectlyripeclementine]

calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.

[foggysilverfeathers]

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

[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

[kitten-kokomo]

Yeah, I guess! Like, “what about [vehicle]?” “Which one? The red car? Or the blue horse?”

I guess that would make the category pronouns more like nouns that all have individual pronouns, the way “girl/woman” is attached to “she.” Like, maybe the noun is “the vehicle” but the pronoun is “the vee”

Random linguistic worldbuilding: A language with six sets of pronouns, which are set by one's current state of existence. There's a separate pronoun for people who are alive, people who are dead, and potential future people who are yet to be born, and the ambiguous ones of "may or may not be alive or aleady dead", "may or may not have even been born yet", and the ultimate general/ambiguous all-covering one that covers all ambiguous states.

The culture has a specific defined term for that tragic span of time when a widow keeps accidentally referring to their spouse with living pronouns. New parents-to-be dropping the happy surprise news of a pregnancy by referring to their future child with the "is yet to be born" pronoun instead of a more ambiguous one and waiting for the "wait what did you just say?" reactions.

Someone jokingly referring to themselves with the dead person pronouns just to highlight how horrible their current hangover is. A notorious aspiring ladies' man who keeps trying to pursue women in their 20s despite of approaching middle age fails to notice the insult when someone asks him when he's planning to get married, and uses the pronoun that implies that his ideal future bride may not even be born yet.

A mother whose young adult child just moved away from home for the first time, who continues to dramatically refer to their child with "may or may not be already dead" until the aforementioned child replies to her on facebook like "ma stop telling people I'm dead" and having her respond with "well how could I possibly know that when you don't even write to us? >:,C"

[pancake-breakfast]

In Japanese, if you want to refer to your boyfriend, you can say 彼氏 (kareshi) meaning something like "Mr. Guy" or "male person of importance." If you want to refer to your girlfriend, you just say 彼女 (kanojo), which just means "she" or, more literally, "that female person." Not "my woman" or "special woman." Literally the same word you'd use if you were to say, "She went to the store."

Alternatively, you can use 恋人 (koibito) for either, which means something like "person I am romantically in love with," but I think this is mostly used just for guys.

Or you can just be lazy and say "boi furendo" (boyfriend) and "gaaru furendo" (girlfriend), and wonder why you're bothering to put any effort into studying Japanese at all.