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@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social · 6h ago
The Hungarian version of "the tables have turned" is "the ice cream licked back." 🍦 #Hungary #language
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@lindasgoluppiart@mastodonapp.uk · 5h ago
@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social I have a question about this. What did they used to say before Ice-cream was available? Tables have been around a very long time but Ice-cream not quite so long. #Hungary #Language #fediverse #Mastodon
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@ottaross@mastodon.social · 2d ago
Morning word pondering: is the verb "deke" a Canadianism? Common usage examples: "The cat was chasing me and I deked him out." "I was in the area anyway so I deked into the 7Eleven for a bag of chips." The likely origin domain is hockey as in… "Lafleur deked around the defenseman and put it into the net." #words #Canadiana #language
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@SleepyCatten@cultofshiv.wtf · 2d ago
Hi fedi folks :FediverseSymbol: We have another linquistic query, aimed ideally at fluent/native English and German speakers. We're aware of the word Schadenfreude, in the English sense of deriving joy or pleasure from somebody else's misfortune. However, we're not aware of a suitable word to express the intense pain, anguish and despair of somebody else getting something that you cannot get. Every time we try to find a suitable word, all we typically find suggested are envy or Missgunst. The problem is that these words don't fit what we're looking for. For the word we're seeking, it's not envy, as there's no resentment of what others have or can get, nor is there any malice towards them for this. Instead, it's more like a deep pain and sadness of not being able to get what you need when others can. It's the kind of negative feeling that can cause you to withdraw from people who are sharing their joy and successes, or even to withdraw from entire spaces where these are highlighted. We watched Natalie Wynn's (ContraPoints') long video on envy years back, which we misremembered as being much clearer on the topic, but looking back over the transcript for it didn't help us at all. In fact, it made us more confused :Sighing_Face: We've had the same problem before with not finding suitable words, such as the pain of being misunderstood, a true-neutral replacement for the verb to hope, or the inability to experience hope. #AskFedi #linguistics #language #words #GenuinelyAsking #NoReplyGuysPlease #English #German
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@sumerian@archaeo.social · 6d ago
𒀯 Reading: mul Meaning: star, planet, constellation #Sumerian #sumerology #language #Mesopotamia #learning
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@bich@apobangpo.space · Apr 17, 2026
"Olivo eventually refused to serve as an ad hoc interpreter when her mom needed help communicating at the gynecologist's office. 'You do need to have somebody that knows what they are talking about — that have that terminology, and that they are able to really be your interpreter versus be your daughter,' Olivo said." https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5780035/rural-hospital-colorado-medical-translators #healthcare #language #LanguageAccess #translators #interpreters #families
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@PhilipCJames@mas.to · Apr 14, 2026
Is 'jazira' really Arabic for both 'island' and 'peninsula'? It must make life interesting for Arabic geography teachers and cartographers? #Language https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/peter-trudgill-did-tommy-coopers-fez-really-come-from-morocco/?utm_campaign=968afe29-39e7-45b6-a2e0-e403e0d51196&utm_source=1234573
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@kcm@mastodonapp.uk · Apr 10, 2026
Today on my blog, this month's "Ten Things" which is "Words ending in -lion" ... https://zenmischief.com/2026/04/ten-things-74/ #words #language #tenthings #blog #zenmischief
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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__dup_31736@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__dup_31065@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__dup_32189@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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