Linguistics is cancelled

smallest-feeblest-boggart:

copperbadge:

pinglederry:

decoy-ocelot:

Oh, oh, this reminds me of the only known bilingual palindrome:

Anger? ‘Tis safe never. Bar it! Use love.

Spell that backward and you get:

Evoles ut ira breve nefas sit; regna!

Which is Latin for:

Rise up, in order that your anger may be but a brief madness; control it!

@copperbadge

Whenever I see stuff like this I wonder how people even come up with it.

i’m so glad you people are out there being clever so i don’t have to be

Amazing!

storytellerluna:

tsuki-chibi:

prokopetz:

In the modern idiom:

“So Bob said […]” indicates that I am directly quoting Bob.

“Then Bob was like […]” indicates that I am paraphrasing Bob.

“And Bob was all […]” indicates that I am paraphrasing Bob, and additionally I am being a dick about it.

I don’t know about you, but I think it’s fantastic that we have a specific grammatical convention for that.

What I find most frustrating is when people don’t understand this! I don’t know if it’s a generation thing, but sometimes I’ll be talking and say “So I was like “are you fucking kidding me” and the person will look at me all horrified and say “you didn’t actually say that, did you?”

I said LIKE heidi keep up jesus

I’ve explained this to baby boomers so many times, and every time, I get a bewildered “If you say so…” and then they proceed to not understand me the next time I say something like this.

they’re like “if that’s how YOU use it, fine, but no one ELSE does that”

like no Barbara, the language has evolved, keep up.

mens-rights-activia:

thenorwegianmonk:

mens-rights-activia:

Fr*nch language: we call these houses “chateaux”

Me: oh cool

Fr*nch language: but it’s pronounced “shat o”

Me:

justbadpuns:

Did you hear about the French baker who drowned in bread? He was in a lot of pain.

laughingmistress:

plainvanillaserialkiller:

I actually have this head cannon that all of the Amis are from different French speaking parts of the world and thus they all have slightly different dialects that at one point all merge into one dialect. Like give me Haitian Combeferre, French Canadian Joly, Swiss Marius (speaking five languages), Moroccan Bahorel, from New Orleans Cajun French speaking Grantaire, and of course French Enjolras and Courfeyrac (best friends since childhood).

The head cannon also being:

One day Grantaire ticks off Enjolras, so Enjolras thus turns around and screams at Grantaire “Your French is terrible” Grantaire in response says “So is your English but you don’t see me complaining”

*If you have other suggestions for an amis and their dialect of French reblog with the addition*

Bossuet is probably from Acadian Nova Scotia. The accent confuses the hell out of people, or so I hear.

mickmercury:

abagfullofbi:

snowlfstar:

snowlfstar:

everyone talks about how Grantaire’s name is literally the french way to say ‘R’, but why does no one ever mention the significance of Enjolras’ name???

i mean, the verb ‘enjôler’ literally fucking means to seduce with fine words why does no one talk about that

*Grantaire screams in the distance*

Ah, but see, the very real last name Enjolras doesn’t come from French – it comes from the more local language Occitan, from a word meaning “to terrify.” And “enjôler,” less florally, means to flatter or “to charm.” Oh, and the first syllable is pronounced the same way as “ange” – angel. Now what was his introduction again?

“Enjolras was a charming young man capable of being terrible. He was angelically handsome.”

aljofares:

Tbh the idea that German is an angry or ugly language is just French propoganda to divert attention away from the fact that French sounds exactly like when your dog is choking on some plastic wrapper he found somehow

To people who use “þ” as an aesthetic “p”

greenbriarkitsune:

v1als:

miss-serket:

solarine:

tkdancer:

tharook:

notquiteapolyglot:

þink again.

getting thorny in the linguistics fandom

þorny*

That also goes for using ß as an aesthetic B.

On my old server, there was a character named ßillyßadass.

This never failed to make me laugh, because that letter is not pronounced like B. It is a sharp S.

That guy named himself SsillySsadass.

Also to people who you Σ as an aesthetic E

that’s an S too, Σo maybe check next time

oh boy

Д as an aesthetic A? Дon’t be a

дumbass.

И as an aesthetic N? don’t be sillи.

П as another aesthetic N? stoп it.

У as an aesthetic Y? ty bad.

Ш or

Щ

as an aesthetic W? nope. it’s “sh” and “shch”!

Я as an aesthetic R? surprise! it’s “ya”.

ah yes, that classic horror film SNYEYAPOVUL DIAYAIES

Language tumblr, teach me more

tuiliel:

twilight-blossom:

autistic-zuko:

bisexualmorgana:

So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

holy fuck

I just did a quick perusal of the Coptic resources on this site, and it has all the resources I’ve personally found worthwhile and then some. These are resources that took me months, if not years, to discover and compile. I am thoroughly impressed. The other languages featured on the site are:

Akkadian

Arabic

Aramaic

Church Slavonic

Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)

Elamite

Ethiopic (Ge’ez)

Etruscan

Gaulish

Georgian

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hittite

Latin

Mayan (various related languages/dialects)

Old Chinese

Old English

Old French

Old Frisian

Old High German

Old Irish

Old Norse

Old Persian

Old Turkic

Sanskrit

Sumerian

Syriac

Ugaritic

For the love of all the gods, if you ever wanted to learn any of these languages, use this site.

Likely helpful for various recon-oriented polytheists.