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“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)

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did you have a similar issue with goncharov that you had with the fourth person pronoun? if not, then what's the difference between the two kinds of misinformation?

the fourth person pronoun thing is people being confidently wrong about my exact area of expertise. the goncharov thing was people joking about a fake movie

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@ duolingo users

More ai shit taking jobs

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Christmas in European languages.

by geomapas.gr

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The "Americanization of the global internet" post and slow deterioration of local native culture gave me an idea: many users don't even know there is native language communities on this website, so if you know of a regional group/"subculture" on Tumblr, reblog/comment with the tags they use so people can find them and connect with other folks from their countries or speakers of a language they'd like to learn

I will try to update this post with every new addition to hopefully make a comprehensive list of Tumblr regional communities

The list so far:

Europe

• Czech

#česky, #hezky česky - general Czech language posts, frequently featuring user-written poetry, art, sometimes politics and current events, warning: often contains vent posts

#čumblr - Czech but frequently used by Slovaks as well, primarily memes and fandom things, shipping, art, cultural things, frequently overlaps with #česky

#obrození, #obrozujeme - memes and fandoms as well but with more emphasis of maintaining and developing Czech culture, is a mostly humorous parody/self-proclaimed continuation of the Czech National Revival of the 1800s, overlaps with #čumblr and #česky

• Slovak

#slovensky - general Slovak language posts

#slumblr, #sumblr - Slovak, general posts, memes, fandom and culture things, sometimes overlaps with #čumblr

• Polish

#polska, #polish - Polish, general posts, art, politics and current events

#polblr, #polishposting, #polskie rzeczy - Polish, more humorous general posts and memes, often overlap with the above

• Ukrainian

#ukraine - general Ukrainian posts, often in English

#укртумбочка - mostly used by artists

• General Slavic

#slav, #slavic, #slavposting, #slavic stuff - mixed Slavic, usually cultural things, memes, art and photography, sometimes politics, sometimes visited by other East Europeans

• Irish

#gaeilge - Irish, general posting but especially cultural things and memes, often features posts for language learning

• Welsh

#cymraeg - general Welsh posting, memes

• Romanian

#romanian - general Romanian tag

#romanisme, #vlandom - Romanian, mostly memes and humor

• Hungarian

#magyar, #hungarian, #tumbli - Hungarian language, mostly quotes

• Finnish

#suomitumblr, #suomitumppu, #suomipaskaa, #suomeksi, other variations beginning with suomi - general (shit)posting

any and all swear words such as #perkele, #vittu, #saatana, #helvetti and #paska - shitposts, overlap with above

• Dutch

#dutch, #the netherlands, #netherlands, #holland, #nederland, #nederlands - general Dutch posts

#nedermemes, #dutchcore - memes, shitposting

• German

#deutsch, #german stuff - general German posting

#BundesTag - memes and humor

blogs like @official-deutschebahn, @official-german-medienlandschaft and other official-deutsche- blogs, "because THE joke of German tumblr is to act like an overly bureucratic public institution"

• French

#upthebaguette, #french side of tumblr - general French posting but especially memes, comics, art

Please share around wherever you're from, US American local cultures are welcome as well, especially indigenous (though that should go without saying)

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I wanna translate a cute article about linguistic differences between the north and south of Croatia ah ah ah

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Linguistic families in the South Caucasus.

by geomapas.gr

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i love the way women talk… every woman has their own fun expressions and mannerisms we have FUN with it men all talk the same

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What complete injustice to mark us by a recent loanword like фея with zero cultural significance instead of the native words самовила/самодива/юда with centuries of folklore behind them. Rip tear gnaw etc.

Fairy in different European languages

by u/porredgy

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if you've grown up with cyrillic and latin your brain switches between them very easily. except in cases like e.g. Rita Ora (or as I call her Puma Opa)

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what is your preferred method (or which do you like more if you don't write in cyrillic). mine is 2

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The word for ‘shrew’ in European languages.

by @Oysteib

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*for non americans, that’s what you attend between the ages ~11-14 btw

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anglophones trying to be progressive with speakers of other languages will be like 'don't worry english is such a weird language' and 'english is one of the hardest languages in the world!' and 'english is several languages in a trenchcoat!' like brother. no and no and no you're not special you're not the main character. please shut up 👍 out there reinforcing their own ingrained exceptionalism every day

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Азъ actually comes from OCS/Old Bulgarian, it's a borrowing into Old East Slavic, the precursor to Russian. The native OES 1st person singular pronoun was ꙗзъ, whence modern я (Note: medieval Cyrillic did not have a я/ya letter and used a iotated a to convey the sound.) Whereas in modern Bulgarian, the "I" pronoun is аз and it still matches with the first letter of the alphabet.

Moreover, this is not a coincidence, it's by design. The original Cyrillic letters are named in such a way that when strung together in proper alphabetical order, they convey meaning: азъ боукꙑ вѣдѣ глаголи, etc. — "I know (how to) speak the letters." Asserting one's literacy by the very act of reciting the alphabet had a powerful symbolic, even religious dimension at the time, and I find it quite poetic that it's retained only in Bulgarian, the direct descendant of OCS.

Did you know…

The pronoun ‘I’ in Old Russian used to be called the same as the first letter of the alphabet, азъ (-> the modern а), whereas now it corresponds to the last one, я.

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Endangered Languages in Europe, 2018.