#english
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At least she's generous enough to share 😂 (She's not THE king but A king.)
"The" vs "a" is a super common mistake non native speakers make with English. Specific vs general. Single vs one of many.
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New entry on our website: "The Buffalo Creek Gold Rush – Lucky Luke | ACC #098"
https://astrocohors.club/2023/12/the-buffalo-creek-gold-rush-lucky-luke-acc-098/
#ASTROCOHORSCLUB #English #VideoSeries #LuckyLuke #TheFateOfTheFuture
Nothing against #english or #japan ese ..
....
But the #french version of \Weight of the World\ might just be the #best one :shibaaww: !
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cRSHvbu1UK4
Bilingdle answers for 2023-12-02
SHAPE (en)
VAGOS (es)
Example sentences:
https://list.bilingdle.com/archive/177d2378-1404-47d9-8dc6-c7bc8b03b424
#Wordle #WordleLike #bilingual #bilingue #english #spanish #espanol #ingles
#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Andrew Gurza
* Andrew Gurza (born 1984/1985) They use they/he pronouns. Gurza is Jewish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gurza
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Andrew_Gurza
Café des langues de Tarbes #41
https://mobilizon.fr/events/78aab3ce-565b-4b31-ba53-eda64fc92762
Heard the French expression "on est un con" https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_est_un_con a few days ago.
Translated to english it could be "They is an idiot", which in the end mean that if you don't specify who is "they" in one assertion, it's probably worthless.
You know, it happens in assertions like "Vaccines don't work, while they want to make you believe the opposite".
Is there a similar expression in English? Because I could use that a lot.
I disagree with the notion that #English spelling and pronunciation are pretty random.
Every language has defined spelling and pronunciation rules. So does English.
Every language has loan words. Some loan words preserve the original spelling and pronunciation while others are naturalized.
It's just that English has lots of loan words from different languages, that use spelling from another language and pronunciation from yet another. It's as simple as that (plus some drift).
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#music #gaming #english #streaming #programming #tech
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Detective-turned-teacher draws on previous career to help kids learn from mock crime scenes
By Emily Middleton and Jess McGuire
Luke Taylor quit as a police detective for mental health reasons. Now he's a teacher, and his former career is coming in handy.
Few people know that the word algebra comes from an Arabic expression, which once translationed into English means "the gibr."
(Yes, I typed translationed and I'm keeping it there. Screw your social conventions! Hahahahahahaha!)
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Chill night on Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Trucking around and chatting
#streaming #gaming #videogames #english #chatting #owncast #videogames #TheGamersTavern #italiano
The Venetian Lagoon is not just a lagoon. It is THE lagoon! Explains Wikipedia:
"The Venetian Lagoon (Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Łaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its name in the #Italian and Venetian languages, Laguna Veneta—cognate of Latin lacus, 'lake'—has provided the #English name for an enclosed, shallow embayment of salt water, a lagoon."
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Benoît Sokal: „Sinking Island“ #2 [DE/EN]
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New entry on our website: "Haunted House: Atari XP SOLD OUT Collectors’ Series! – Atari VCS / 2600"
https://astrocohors.club/2023/12/haunted-house-atari-xp-sold-out-collectors-series-atari-vcs-2600/
Bilingdle answers for 2023-12-01
RECIA (es)
RADII (en)
Example sentences:
https://list.bilingdle.com/archive/a486a01a-87cf-4530-adb7-5c7198dd823e
#Wordle #WordleLike #bilingual #bilingue #english #spanish #espanol #ingles
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Word of the day: Belletrist, "person who writes or is concerned with belles-lettres".
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/belletrist#English
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belles-lettres
#motdujour #wordoftheday
#ToulaDrimonis: Sadly, latest anglo scapegoatng comes as no surprise
« #BlocQuébécois MP #MarioBeaulieu made big show o revealng analysis he conducted “exposing” $$ #Ottawa has earmarked over the yrs 4 Quebec’s English minority-language community (it’s public information) & condemning what he called support 4 the “anglicization of Quebec” & the “decline of #French.” Because nothng anglicizes #Quebec more than ensurng #English services 2 those who already speak..English»
20 #JewishStudents were #arrested by #ProvidencePolice for staging peaceful #SitIn at University Hall. Escorted in handcuffs past hundreds of their peers singing the #Hebrew & #English song “Olam Chesed Yibaneh.” For close to two hours, the crowd repeated the lyrics: “Olam chesed yibaneh; I will build this world from love; And we must build this world from love; And if you build this world from love; Then we will build this world from love.”
https://newvoices.org/2023/12/01/past-informs-present-as-brown-university-arrests-20-students
Manish Goregaokar & Ben Joeng are acting out a scenario of a #Unicode proposal user community interview for #English, were #Latin not the basis for #ASCII. Actually justifying C vs G, explaining capital letters, etc is a fun and funny thought experiment for an Anglophone audience. #MultilingualDH
New entry on our website: "DEEP DIVE: The Daily Wire’s Streaming App for KIDS"
https://astrocohors.club/2023/12/deep-dive-the-daily-wires-streaming-app-for-kids/
#JackTodd: This holiday season, the #CAQ government is playing #Scrooge
«If only we could bid goodbye 2 this gov. There’s no excuse 4 the [LA] Kings fiasco. [Francois] Legault, that avuncular bully, was playing his usual shell game. “OK, we’re stiffing the teachers & nurses but we’re bringing #hockey 2 #Quebec!
& did you notice how we’re sticking it 2 #anglo universities? Huh? & telling them they can’t get health care in #English? Can we get 3 cheers 4 #scapegoating?”»
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New entry on our website: "Flat Earther Thinks They are Taking Over the World"
https://astrocohors.club/2023/12/flat-earther-thinks-they-are-taking-over-the-world/
Hare today, gone tomorrow: Another cautionary tale for expats headed home - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/12/01/language/leaving-japan-quarantine-animals/
> In another piece about leaving Japan, our departee learns some hard truths about the country’s quarantine guidelines for animals.
#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture
Japanese Pick Up Lines: Best Flirty Phrases to Make Your Move - Team Japanese
https://teamjapanese.com/japanese-pick-up-lines/
> Japanese pick up culture is a little more lowkey than that of the western world. Many Japanese people are more reserved with their feelings and mindful of their approach towards other people.
#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture
Good to know: This video really puts my own white cringe about "ax" vs. "ask" in context. Language is fluid & what is King's English one century (just "ax" Chaucer) is merely arbitrary classism the next.
«The umbrella org representng #English-speaking #Quebecers has condemnd #CoalitionAvenirQuébec gov plans 2 give its new #HealthAgency, #SantéQuébec, power 2 revoke right 2 #health & #SocialServices in a #language other than #French
“We r shocked ministr #ChristianDubé would drop this amendmnt in2 #Bill15 at last moment, just before gov is about 2 invoke #closure 2 ram it through the #NationalAssembly,” said #EvaLudvig, prez of #QuebecCommunityGroupsNetwork ( #QCGN )»
‘Forever chemical’ in #English #TapWater samples #carcinogenic, #WHO rules
Exclusive: Move to categorise #PFOA as linked to cancer in humans by #WorldHealthOrganization ups pressure on #UK government
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/01/forever-chemical-in-english-tap-water-samples-carcinogenic-who-rules
#PublicHealth
Nemomobile in November 2023
In November, Nemomobile integrated Qt6, enabling 100+ packages, including Lipstick, for operational end-user apps. Crucial fixes include Maliit keyboard compatibility. Qt Quick controls saw improvements. Compatibility achieved on Jelly Star.
Japan’s 2023 buzzword of the year is all about winning - The Japan Times
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/12/01/japan/society/2023-japan-top-buzzword/
> A.R.E — based on the Japanese word “are” (“that”) — took the top spot, after the Hanshin Tigers popularized the term as an indirect reference to victory.
#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture
🕘Z At the top of the hour it's The Fingertip Show Presented by Jorgen Hansson www.JorgenHansson.com in #English and #Swedish. Good ✌️music and fun!✌️ https://theglobalvoice.info:8443/broadband #audio #TGVRadio 🎉🎉🎉🎶🇸🇪🎶
A Conservative member of Parliament from #Alberta was accused of undermining #bilingualism and insulting #francophone Canadians after she asked a cabinet minister from #Quebec to speak in #English during an appearance before a parliamentary committee. MP Rachael Thomas later apologized in writing. #Canada #politics #language
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/thomas-accused-insulting-francophones-1.7044958
A true English major would say "I too love you". Unless they are not monogamous.
988 suicide crisis helpline launches across Canada
https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-5465-68f4-566e-1ea506605766
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Oye, beltalowda! Camina is back, let's wreak havoc - The Expanse
#streaming #gaming #videogames #english #italian #chatting #owncast #videogames #TheGamersTavern
"The present article is then concerned with the standardisation of the apostrophe in the English orthographic system in the period 1600–1900 and pursues the following objectives: (a) to study the use and omission of the apostrophe in the expression of the past tense, the genitive case and the nominative plural in the period; (b) to assess the relationship between the three uses and their likely connections; and (c) to evaluate the likely participation of grammarians in the adoption and the rejection of each of these phenomena in English."
CALLE-MARTÍN, J., & PACHECO-FRANCO, M. (2023). ‘The night before beg'd ye queens's pardon and his brother's’: The apostrophe in the history of English. English Language & Linguistics, 1-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1360674323000552 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #English #Language #Linguistics #Philology #Grammar @linguistics
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Schöne neue Welt: „Kaptain Brawe: A Brawe New World“ [DE]
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My homeschooler son taught me a new #word yesterday. OVERMORROW, It means the day after tomorrow. I guess they stopped using it in the 16th century, but it's a good word. We should bring it back?! #overmorrow #2DaysAway #BringItBack #English #language
On #LearningKorean.
I can't help but notice that many pronunciations and transliterations of #English loan words in #Korean are based on #BritishEnglish. As a #PhilippineEnglish speaker, it is confusing.
Example: computer
* Philippine English: kom-pyu-ter (neutral and syllabic)
* British English: kom-pyu-to
* Korean transliteration: 컴퓨터
* Korean romanization: keom-pyu-teo
* Korean pronunciation: kom-pyu-to
If it was me, the transliteration would've been 컴퓨텔 (keom-pyu-ter) or 컴퓨텔루 (keom-pyu-ter-ru).
Again, I'm still learning. These are just my observations coming from Philippine English and #Filipino #languages.
I think I've found my winners for "Unfortunate English Mistakes" this year...
In the "One Letter Makes a Difference" category:
"American companies are hunting minorities; especially Hispanics and Blacks."
and...
In the "Unfortunate set of typos in the same phrase" category:
"Blackock is the largest asses manager in the world."
🥥 When it comes to the #ElginMarbles, the #English don't have a plinth to stand on. 🥥
@pbump
The #english #linguistics #historyofenglish #ushistory #ESL hashtags might help here.
PeerTube v6 is out, and powered by your ideas ! https://framablog.org/2023/11/28/peertube-v6-is-out-and-powered-by-your-ideas/ #collectivisonsinternetconvivialisonsinternet #collectiviseInternetConvivialiseInternet #Outilsémancipateurs #JoinPeerTube #coin-coin #framahome #PeerTube #English #YouTube #Google #twitch #GAFAM #Video
Merriam-Webster's definition of "plangent": http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plangent
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Tactical Piracy: „Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew“ #9 [DE/EN]
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Via the #MontrealGazette
« #Quebec’s plan 2 target #English universities w/ #tuition overhaul could make it more expensive 4 #McGill & #Concordia 2 borrow $$$
#Moody’s credit agency has warned the provincial government’s controversial plan is “credit negative” for the province’s two biggest English universities.
That means Moody’s is cautiously watching the situation, raising the spectre of higher borrowing costs for McGill and Concordia. »
Guess I should probably do an #introduction! Names Alex (they/ze). I'm a university student currently studying #English and #Creative Writing in hopes of being an author one day! I'm currently residint on the east coast of Turtle Island. I enjoy #crocheting, #knitting, drinking #tea, and #vampires. Would love to follow queer #artists and other queer #creatives on here!
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Open Sunday: „Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series“ #2 [DE/EN]
#streaming #gaming #linux #videogames #english #deutsch #hatclan
#Joomla module new release:
💡 zitat-service.de 2.0.2
Now also for #joomla5. The Joomla module displays a random #quote from the collection of the user community.
The selection of quotes can be limited by language (#Deutsch 🇩🇪, #English 🇬🇧, #Español 🇪🇸, #日本語 🇯🇵 and #Українська 🇺🇦), author, category, or the quotes set by an user. #OpenSource and free.
Demo page for the module: https://joomla.zitat-service.de
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Benoît Sokal: „Sinking Island“ #1 [DE/EN]
#streaming #gaming #linux #videogames #english #deutsch #hatclan
#YouKnow what's #Wyrd, #MisterDen...?
#InAllCases of #CompleteNobodies #BitchingAndComplaining about #ALTText (at least #InMyExperience); #EachAndEveryone has been #Articulated in #English (or at least a #NearApproximation of #English)...
I wonder #WhatWouldHappen were I to do #AllMyAltText in:
• #Spanish (my #NativeLanguage);
• #French;
• #Dutch; or,
• #Japanese…
🧙⚔️🤖🐺🤖⚔️🧙 | :fediverse:🦹:loading:🦄:loading:🦹:fediverse:
"US Navy 'excited' by prospect of better communication with China, but says more work needed"
The US Navy finally hired their first interpreter. However, the interpreter has only completed one year of university-level Chinese. Therefore, more work is needed.
#USNews #USNavy #China #Chinese #English #interpretation #satire
What's #English for "Fachidiot"?
#German #translation #vocabulary
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Deadly Friday: „ELEX“ #8 [DE/EN]
#streaming #gaming #linux #videogames #english #deutsch #hatclan
#TheMetalDogArticleList
#BraveWords
THE ROLLING STONES Launch English And Spanish Language Lyric Videos For "Don't Stop"
#TheRollingStones #DontStop #RockMusic #OfficialLyricVideos #English #Spanish #Facebook #Youtube #Instagram #SphericLabs
As expected
the #English #Government is taking the first 'open' steps
to #privatize the #NHS
...
DO NOT allow it
the privatization of the Public Health System is an economic slavery
from which there is no escape
a State whose Government does not care about its citizens
cannot be called a 'State'.
if the State doesn't care about you... why pay them taxes?
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Moorhuhn Adventure: „Der Fluch des Goldes“ #1 [DE]
#streaming #gaming #linux #videogames #english #deutsch #hatclan
Dear native speakers of #English, please help me to settle a question:
If you hear "half six" as a time descriptor, do you understand it, and does it mean 6:30 or 5:30?
I know, in the South East of England it's a common way of stating the time, and it means 6:30.
But elsewhere?
Even as a native English speaker, I'm still learning English every day.
@RickiTarr The word "Quay" pops up a dozen times in each of the hundreds of Enid Blyton adventure books I read as a young kid. (Famous Five, Secret Seven, etc). With a qua- like "quasar" & "quack", I pronounced quay as "Kway" for years. It's just not commonly used irl unless you live in a harbour, I guess? 🤷
Anyways - apparently Quay is properly "Key".
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/quay
I'll do it again in #english, maybe it is of interest for others too:
@heiseonline is on of the biggest official accounts on #Mastodon by a german media organization. It's now a year old and I had a look into the ~62k followers. Turns out, that federation in the #fediverse seems to work: Less than a fourth are from mastodon.social, the rest are on more than 1900 different instances.
#MastodonMigration #TwitterMigration #SocialMedia #analytics
Original Post:
https://social.heise.de/@mho/111450312122480440
‘Pachi pachi’ or ‘kachi kachi’? Japan launches foreigners’ guide to tricky world of onomatopoeia | Japan | The Guardian
#Japanese #English #日本語 #英語 #LearningEnglish
#LearningJapanese #日本語の勉強 #英語の勉強 #Japan #JapaneseCulture
I think the impulse that leads some people to call Jira tickets just "Jiras" is the same as the one that has people calling blog posts "blogs". Either way, it drives me nuts.
It's also probably the same that got Senator "Series of Tubes" Stevens to say "I sent an internet the other day".
Just heard Dove Cameron's "Sand", and while #grammar sticklers might want to reflexively quibble with her on the less/fewer front, I am 100% willing to put it aside, because "I have less pieces of you than…" parallels the "more pieces" in the previous line, and the demands of meter here *absolutely* trump those of grammar. Jamming "fewer" in there would've been lumpy and killed the (heart-rending!) emotional charge.
Lyrics: https://genius.com/Dove-cameron-sand-lyrics
Music: https://tidal.com/browse/track/327342649
#English #usage
@kelvin0mql
See if you can goad them into saying the name of the letter 'H' (aitch).
:-)
#English #language #pronunciation #grammar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmVnr7rsWrE
About me: #introduction #presentation
Country: México 🇲🇽
Timezone: UTC-6
Pronouns: She/They
Major: Computer Systems Engineering
I speak:
- #Spanish
- #English
- #Portuguese
- #French
- #Esperanto
I can code in:
- C/C++
- Python
- JavaScript
- Java
- Rust
- BASIC
Interests: #GNU_Linux, #FOSS, #Software Development, #Music, Languages/Linguistics, Mycology
Hobbies: Music production, language learning, reading, videogames, video/film production, #philosophy
I also have accounts in: Mastodon, Lemmy, PeerTube
I don't recommend you use "irregardless," but it first appeared in print more than 200 years ago!
In this week's Grammar Girl podcast, Susan Herman looks at the history of this much-hated word, why dictionaries include it, and if it will ever move beyond its "nonstandard" status.
APPLE PODCASTS: https://applepodcasts.com/GrammarGirl
SPOTIFY: https://spoti.fi/454uDte
TRANSCRIPT: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/irregardless/transcript
YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/aJ78C228AD4
How #MomsforLiberty and a #notorious #English #teacher #exploited a #highschool #student.
"A #teacher (from a neighboring county) asked the #student to #checkout the #book, that #teacher then gave the book to a member of #MomsforLiberty, who gave it to #Gurski."
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Florida #Education #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://popular.info/p/how-moms-for-liberty-and-a-notorious
It’s good to have built-in #English spell checking on computers: receive vs. retrieve. To make things even more confusing, sieve is pronounced “siv”.
An interesting new medical training course started appearing on #Ukrainian #medical social media feeds.
Whole Blood Field Transfusion Course
Available at no financial cost in both #English and Ukrainian.
Course and content provided by the THOR (Trauma, Hemostasis and Oxygen Research) network.
Looks very interesting! Add it to the list.
Very happy to learn that if I ever expatriated to Ireland, I'd be able to use both "amn't" (as per the article) and"youse" (mentioned in comments) without, apparently, anyone batting an eye!
As a child, I was taught that "amn't" is incorrect, and never to use it, and social disapproval has kept me in check, but in my heart of hearts, I've always felt it *should be* the right word.
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/amnt-i-glad-we-use-amnt-in-ireland/ #English #grammar #Ireland
it's interesting to see what names #languages give to the place various forms of public transportation pick up passengers at.
#French: arrêt de bus, arrêt de tramway, station de métro, gare
#English: bus stop, tram stop, metro station, train station.
meanwhile in #Hebrew (and I think in #Yiddish as well?) it's all the same word, lol
Is there a language that distinguishes between the words for tram stop and bus stop, making this a four-way distinction? I'm yet to find one.
Welcome. It's not that I am #NewToMastodon, but I am rather #neuhier with regards to the server I am on, so please allow to introduce myself, politely:
This is a rather private profile, with occasional toots around German and local #politics, #football and my personal life decisions (they’ll bring me to hell, I bet, if you believe in such stuff).
I'm #antifascist, and a #nocar person, and from that I think it is easy to conclude on the rest of my political views. If in doubt, please ask. Be prepared that most of my views are leaning #left - Hegelian.
Having worked in #ops and considering myself as #philosophy nerd for years, I am currently looking into #dev and #infosec a bit more to find a more sustainable way of living as I am sure that humankind needs to change in that regards, and these four have to play a major role in that change.
Living in #Leipzig, #Germany I am happy to answer all questions around topics taking place in mid Europe, as I consider myself as European rather than German.
I have a question to Canadian 🇨🇦 users here: Is is common to say the German word "und" in Canada instead of "and"?
I ask because Linus seems to say "und" at 3:33 ("there und there") and I've never noticed that in the English language before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AoSXyVbCe4
Or is it just slang / a personal habit?
The #TYPO3 #CodeOfConduct is short and sweet at 157 words — and available in 17 languages. 🇺🇳 More translations are very welcome! (Contact me if you want to add one.) https://typo3.org/coc
#translation #arabic #chinese #croatian #danish #dutch #english #french #german #hindi #indonesian #italian #norwegian #spanish #SwissGerman #Urdu #welsh #CCBY
@mina
I completely sympathise!
Going right back to the BBC Micro I used to find ways of substituting proper #English for annoying pandering Americanisms :-)
#maths #humour #language #ThoseFunnyAmericans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYqfVE-fykk
Diphthong. A word that's all sexed up just to distract from the fact that it conveys a rather ordinary concept.
A shame that (even) words (have to) resort to such cheap tricks to get attention. ☹️
I was talking with my friend yesterday and she mentioned the only reason she hasn't started a Mastodon account is she keeps being indecisive about what instance to join. Does anyone have a good instance suggestion for a #literary #translator of #Finnish (aka #Suomi) novels into #English?
#introduction! I'm a pro #guitarist with the band Maggie Speaks. Freelance video editor (indie doc Cover 21: Ignite Chicago, on Amazon). Amateur #photographer.
Interests:
#guitar
#music
#musician
#audio
#recording
#MusicProduction
#photography
#VideoEditing
#postchat
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#tech
#ios
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Languages: #english #spanish #german #espanol #deutsch #francais #italiano
New entry on our website: "Elon Musk is making Twitter a Right-Wing Dating App???"
https://astrocohors.club/2023/11/elon-musk-is-making-twitter-a-right-wing-dating-app/
Europeans are appropriating the English language, just for the laughs
🆕 📰
I've just published a new issue of The European Perspective!
"The rise of the European comedians performing in English"
https://europeanperspective.substack.com/p/the-rise-of-the-european-comedians
"Attempting to prevent accents from changing is like sweeping back an incoming tide with a broom – fruitless and defying nature. Instead, we should embrace linguistic diversity, work to combat accentism (discrimination based on a person’s accent), and accept that accents will always continue to change."
#accents #dialects #English #speaking #voice #acting #VoiceActing
You know if you ever refer to someone as 'she' when the 'she' in question is present, some uptight older woman will pop her head up like a grammar jack-in-the-box and say, 'Excuse me, *she* is the cat's mother’?
I thought that was, like, the law.
But I just had a beta reader pluck this please out and query why it’s there when there are no cats in the book.
But this is a real thing, right? I swear I’m not making it up.
It's weird how the word "ignore" implies intention, but "ignorant" isn't intentional unless you prefix it with "willful".
You can be "ignorant" without knowing it, but you can't "ignore" something without knowing you're doing so.
Either "willfullness" should be implied in "ignorance" like it is with "ingore" or you should have to say "willfully ignore" when used as a verb.
I wish #English speakers stop using the word "doula". It means "slave" in its original #Greek definition. As a Greek, I cringe every time I hear it or see it written. It's just too strong of a word for us, because it's still used in modern Greek to signify women who have had bad marriages or they're otherwise in "#slavery" work or life conditions. Just use the word "helper" instead. Doula is a bad word to use to simply mean that someone helps you out.