May 2013
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Awesome French: michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love... →
michaonthemoon:
yaoibutts:
I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”
like what stupid frenchman saw this:
and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE…
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10 Bizarre Languages Still Spoken Around the World... →
polylinguist:
fuckyeahmylanguage:
fuckyeahpolyglot:
http://listverse.com/2013/04/07/10-bizarre-languages-still-spoken-around-the-world/
“One of the things that’s so incredible about the language is that for any given verb, there could be as many as 1,500,000 separate conjugations.” Wtf. How is this even possible to learn? xD
!Xóõ…a click, tone, and nasalized vowel just in the name of...
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Here, learn some finnish. (place forms)
Nominative: Talo = House
Genitive: Talon = House´s
Accusative: Talo or Talot = House or Houses
Partitive: Taloa = (Part) of a house
Essive: Talona = As a house
Translative: Taloksi = To become a house
Inessive: Talossa = In the house
Elative: Talosta = From inside the house
Illative: Taloon = Into the house
Adessive: Talolla = At the House
Ablative: Talolta = From the house
Allative: Talolle = To the house
Abessive: Talotta = Without a house
Komitative: Taloineen = With his/her house
Instruktive: Taloin = By a house, or something like that..
It was pretty hard to try to translate some them to english.. Have fun.
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oncethefuture:
alexbuscusboop:
kamerlort:
luststrade:
swaggie: je swag, tu swags, il/elle/on swag, nous swagons, vous swagez, ils/elles swagent
swagger: yo swago, tú swages, él/ella/usted swage, nosotros swagemos, ellos/ellas/ustedes swagen
swaggen: ich swagge, du swaggst, er/sie/es swaggt,
wir swaggen, ihr swaggt, Sie/sie swaggen
swaggare: io swaggo, tu swaggi, lui/lei swagga, noi...
April 2013
mosoli:
i like writing kanji and i think it’s cool when they get complicated but this
has no excuse whatsoever to exist
But that’s certainly not Japanese, so not a kanji … … BUT LOOK AT THAT FUCKER! IT’S AS IF IT HAD EATEN EVERY SINGLE RADICAL THAT CAME ITS WAY!
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Have a peak at my beautiful essay
theres this idea that what we have seen has actually impacted it in a great way because theres is this thing thats does this other thing and together they do so many things is crazy, really
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Fuck. I’m getting really depressed about this damn thing. I’m probably going to end up worse. Besides, I only have 6 hours left to finish. I just want to be done with this.
itsnotgayifitsonthemoon:
3000—21:
oswinses:
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skuboglesby:
bilingual my ass. you’re either heterolingual or homolingual
#you’re not bilingual #you’re confused #stop being greedy
#it’s just a phase #you’ll meet a nice language and settle down
#the bible says adam and eve #not hebrew and cantonese
allthingslinguistic:
8 Bizarre Sounds You’ve Probably Made Without Knowing It
1. Bilabial trill What? When you roll an r, that’s a trill. What’s a bilabial trill? When you “roll” a b or a p. Who does that? Speakers of a few languages in Africa (Kom, Ngwe), Indonesia and New Guinea (Kele, Nias, Titan), the Pacific Islands (Unua), and South America (Pirahã,...
March 2013
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I decided to buy a burrito at school. I’m so confused. What the fuck is this thing? How am I supposed to eat this? I also asked for spicy sauce and it only tastes like tomatoes. It started to leak some sort of weird juice. I’m scared, send help ;____;o
February 2013
spanish and italian: So THESE words are feminine and THESE words are masculine, and you ALWAYS put an adjective AFTER the noun.
french: haha i dont fuckin know man just do whatever
german: LET'S ADD A NEUTRAL NOUN HAHA
english: *shooting up in the bathroom*
gaelic: the pronounciation changes depending on the gender and what letter the word starts and ends with and hahah i dont even know good fucking luck
Polish: here have all of these consonants have fun
japanese: subject article noun article verb. too bad there's three fucking alphabets lmao hope your first language isn't western
Finnish: How the fuck do you say any of this
Man this kind of posts really piss me off. I won't talk about the first 5 ones because I have no knowledge of Gaelic and the other ones are pretty much correct. In Polish a bunch of consonants usually has one sound, like in English the diagraph "sh" is pronounced as just one sound, and obviously, the only thing hard to pronounce are the sounds not present in your native language. Japanese has no ARTICLES, what you are talking about are PARTICLES, and it also uses 4 alphabets, not 3. And Finnish is a phonetic language, so what you see written is usually what you have to pronounce. God damn it people.
6l99dm9uth-cali69rn:
illustratedshadows:
[MUFFLED HYSTERICAL SHRIEKING OF ENTIRE HOMESTUCK FANDOM IN THE DISTANCE]
WE’RE NOT EVEN IN THE DISTANCE ANYMORE WE’RE SCREAMING RIGHT UP IN PEOPLE’S FACES.
HOOOOOOLYYYYYY SHIIIIIIIT.
dirkinabox:
January 2013
buttships-were-meant-to-fly:
quixoticcomposer:
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Denmark: Island
Sweden: Island
Norway: Island
Iceland: Ísland
Finland: Islanti
Next
Denmark: Norge
Sweden: Norge
Norway: Norge or Noreg
Iceland: Noregur
Finland: Norja
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Denmark: Danmark
Sweden: Danmark
Norway: Danmark
Iceland: Danmörk
Finland: Tanska-
Norway: FOR FUCK'S SAKE
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Denmark: Finland
Sweden: Finland
Norway: Finland
Iceland: Finnland
Finland: Suomi
Denmark: God damn it, Finland.
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Denmark: Sverige
Sweden: Sverige
Norway: Sverige
Iceland: Svíþjóð
Finland: Ruotsi
Denmark: ...
Sweden: ...
Norway: ...
Iceland: ...
Denmark: You're tearing this family apart.
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English: A dog
Swedish: What
English: The dog
English: Two dogs
Swedish:
Swedish:
Swedish: En hund, hunden
Swedish: Två hundar, hundarna
German:
English: No, go away
Swedish: No one invited you
German: Der Hund
English: I said go away
German: Ein Hund, zwei Hunde
Swedish: Stop it
German: Den Hund, einen Hund, dem Hund, einem Hund, des Hundes, eines Hundes, den Hunden, der Hunden
Finnish: Sup
English: NO
Swedish: NO
German: NO
Finnish:
English:
German:
Swedish:
Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran again, koirassa, koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin
German:
Swedish:
Finnish:
English:
Finnish: And now the plural forms
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It's a new year, and it's time for a giveaway!
fuckyeahforensics:
I’ll be giving away To Be a Crime Scene Investigator by Henry Holden to one lucky winner! Contest ends January 10 at midnight EST
RULES:
MUST be following me http://fuckyeahforensics.tumblr.com/
Must have LIKED the post
Must be 18 or older
THIS IS OPEN INTERNATIONALLY!
You can reblog as many times as you want. Each reblog will count as one entry
Winner will be...
December 2012
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floatingwaterbuffalo:
Apparently now the Mayan speak nahuatl. The internet is a strange place to learn things, as I remember those being totally different language families.
Makes my mind cringe a bit, but maybe it’s just ignorance on my part.
Nope, you are right. Maya and Nahuatl are completely different languages from different linguistic families. I think the people that made you think...
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November 2012
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October 2012
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