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My Christmas wish this year is for the people in my class to finally take a shower

this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

*adds a certain je ne sais quoi

see the problem is that despite around 8 years of french schooling the french language has utterly escaped my brain so even the most obvious set up i had created for myself by accident was missed by me. such is life.

*c'est la vie

god damn it

i love archaic irish insults. like yeah sure we may not have an equivalent for "go fuck yourself" but we DO have "i hope the devil eats your liver and builds a stepladder out of your bones" and tbh i know which one is better

i love the strange reality of being a human person with a human brain. one time someone said something to me in a foreign language (japanese, which i do not speak) and i automatically responded in a different foreign language (spanish, which i do not speak well) and then we both said "what?" in english, an experience made more surreal by the fact that everyone around us was speaking loudly in canadian french (as this occurred in Quebec)

brain: ah yes a Foreign Language! i have One of Those!

official linguistics post

NOT. ONE. WORD. ANY OF YOU.

My brain loves foreign languages, especially when I'm in France, in which case it decides that all nouns are German, or in Germany, in which case it hands me obscure and long-forgotten French words.

buying books isn’t enough i need to actually read them

slowly realising that my love for writing and for literature is so closely connected to my love for languages, it is like i just have this indefinite hunger to collect all the possible ways on how to express myself and to soak up other peoples stories

I get humbled every time I have to look up for a kanji I've learned but can't remember

every time i see someone say that we should erase all other languages and make english the 'universal language' I'm reminded how ignorant and culturally insensitive some people are. to not be aware of the historical and cultural significance of a language in most cultures is bizarre. in erasing a language you would thus be erasing years of important history of a culture. i hope these people educate themselves before speaking on something they know nothing about simply because it would 'make their lives easier'. not to mention its so tone-deaf to the people who are fighting for language revitalization due to the historical language suppression of their ancestors.

This also applies to the idea of one global sign language. Each sign language has its own history and culture and all are important.