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@indieauthornews@indieauthors.social · Mar 01, 2026
Moreso or More So? Anymore or Any More? Helpful insights and tips related to these and other tricky terms Continue reading on The Writing Cooperative » https://writingcooperative.com/moreso-or-more-so-anymore-or-any-more-ed1bf2ddca0 #language #english #education #writing #writingwell
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@arutaz@social.n2.mikronod.se · Feb 25, 2026
I'm back on GrapheneOS ☺️ I settled for an Google Pixel 10 Pro XL. Will try to keep that for two years but we'll see. I have a tendency to buy new hardware quite often. (way too often). And of course I started donating to GrapheneOS again. Today I found a great keyboard that has support for auto correct in many languages, my included (Swedish). The keyboard app is HeliBoard, an actively developed fork of OpenBoard. So far I've found one app that does not really work with GrapheneOS and that is a car parking app (Parkering Göteborg), but I haven't used that in ages and I've read that there should be other ways to pay for parking in Göteborg when / if I go there again. #GrapheneOS #Pixel #GooglePixel #GooglePixelProXL #Android #HeliBoard #Keyboard #AndroidKeyboard #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Swedish #Language #AutoCorrect
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@davidpwhelan@mastodon.world · Feb 23, 2026
Interesting read from The Rest of the World (and a reason I enjoy following them) about how an AU company used low-wage gig workers around the world to build out data in foreign languages which it then sold on or licensed to the US military for its surveilliance tools. https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen #AI #Language
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@HollyCo26588808@universeodon.com · Feb 22, 2026
How far back into history can you go before written English becomes unintelligible? It's a thorny question https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark #stem #science #history #linguistics #language #interesting
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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt · Feb 22, 2026
How far back in time can you understand English? It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post. "... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler." https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english #english #language
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@CiaraNi@mastodon.green · Feb 22, 2026
“This flood of low-quality and fake content from AI is particularly affecting minor languages. AI acts as a type of hyper machine translation. These minor languages then become overwhelmed by AI translations and other fake AI content.” Reading this with Danish-speaking eyes, I realised that this problem had never occurred to me. Hvor dejligt. A whole new consequence of contemporary AI to dislike. From '99th Day: A Warning About Technology' by Gerry McGovern #AI #Books #Language
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@tehuti88@universeodon.com · Jul 23, 2023
Uhm... #introduction Nothing really to say about me as a person, I have crippling #anxiety & so no life/accomplishments to speak of. Here are some of my interests, I'm an expert on none. #writing #writers #fiction #books #etymology #language #journaling #blogging #art #DigitalArt #genealogy #photography #NaturePhotography #history #psychology #Jung #geology #trees #forest #Lovecraft #WeirdFiction #TrueCrime #LawAndOrder #politics #asexual #LGBT #paranormal #panentheism (appears nobody's into that) #anthro (like #furry , sort of) #Michigan #MackinacIsland #GreatLakes #spirituality (not organized religion, no) #Anishinaabe #Haudenosaunee (I'm of European descent--don't wish to give a false impression) #AncientEgypt #mythology #myths #folklore #MentalIllness #MentalHealth #SocialAnxiety #depression #autism (not diagnosed--again, don't want to mislead) #NeueDeutscheHarte #SymphonicMetal #PennsylvaniaDutch #PennsylvaniaGerman #Urglaawe #heathenry uhh...maybe more later. 2026 update: I post political stuff & am kind of inconsistent with warnings/tags. I see such things bother some users, but I'm tired of policing everything I say in my own space, so, just a heads-up you may want to mute me. I welcome followers & try to reciprocate, but if you seem like a bot, or I can't figure out why you followed me, or if you post "Genocide Joe/Killer Kamala/Both sides are equally bad" content, I will almost certainly not follow back. Please just avoid me. Apologies if I'm doing anything wrong, I mean no offense.
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@cbcmb_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net · Feb 21, 2026
Why I'll always speak my mother language of Bangla, while embracing a new life in Canada "Every time I hear my mother tongue, Bangla, it feels like home, even when home is far away," writes Steinbach's Itrat Anwar. "That's why everyone should celebrate their own mother language, no matter where in the world they live." #language #culture #identity #Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/first-person-itrat-anwar-mother-language-9.7081340?cmp=rss
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@futzle@old.mermaid.town · Feb 18, 2026
Today’s fun English suffix is “-age”, a very flexible nounifier. “-age” can be stuck on a verb to mean “the thing that is verbed”. Luggage, coverage, appendage, wreckage. It can be stuck on a verb to mean “the place where verb happens”. Storage, carriage, anchorage. It can be stuck on an adjective or even another noun to abstract the word’s core concept. Shortage, postage, percentage, roughage, leverage. It can go on a concrete noun to refer to the noun’s quality collectively. Peerage, sewerage (all the pipes), footage (length of film), mileage. Then there are words which look like they might have an “-age” suffix but it’s just a coincidence. Sausage, message, advantage. #etymology #english #language
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@freezenet@noc.social · Feb 05, 2026
Good: Making your store bilingual. Not so good: making it REALLY obvious that you have no idea which language the locals speak. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxjw0v4kn2o #UK #Welsh #Tesco #Language #Awkward
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@verdantsquare@mastodon.world · Jan 31, 2026
Now on Verdant Square Radio: https://mastodon.social/@VerdantSquareRadio/115990227442175861 #Vsn #Diversespectrumoftheleft #SupportIndependentMedia #Arts #Language #Linguistics #Radio #Publicradio #SupportPublicMedia #VerdantSquareRadio #vsn #DiverseSpectrumOfTheLeft #SupportIndependentMedia
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@HaTetsu@mastodon.com.pl · Jan 31, 2026
A public transport terminology question: What do you call a kind of (usually bus) route feature where the line turns onto some side street, serves one or more stops along it, turns around, goes back along the same street, and then continues onwards on some 'main' road? (And seriously, this feels obscure enough that I'd like answers in literally any language) I know two Polish terms for it - "zajazd" and the clearer and perhaps more professional "wjazd kieszeniowy" - but nothing that could possibly be recognized by anyone not from Poland, which might be an issue with regard to documenting a thing I'm working on. Attached is an example of what I'm talking about from a Brno line map I had lying around: #PublicTransport #DuckDuckFedi #language #bus #zajazd #WjazdKieszeniowy
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@no_anions@mindly.social · Jan 30, 2026
I'm down to the last 4 canon Oz books. I'm still not used to some of the cultural differences. At least in the US, we don't kiss friends. This is especially true in certain areas where even family rarely hug or kiss each other. However, this does seem to be commonplace in depictions of royalty and high society. Even some Nancy Drew books had friends kiss. Some of the language is outdated. Even the standard dictionary didn't have the words. I grew up with strict grammar. My skills have waned some since college. So, the poor grammar used by someone in high school really bugs me. Sometimes Dorothy behaves like a young child. It makes me wonder what typical behavior was like in the 1920s. What I enjoy the most is the messages from the author. He really appreciates his readers, and he loves receiving their messages. #Oz #language #mannerisms
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@TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us · Jan 16, 2026
SPANK. (WHIP) To run neatly along, beteen a trot and gallop. The tits spanked it to town; the horses went merrily along all the way to town. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) -- #books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons@a.gup.pe
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@melanyabelta@wandering.shop · Nov 23, 2025
Oh dear. #AI #language #linguistics #meme
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