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playthings2007

Don't come to elf practice tomorrow

translatingpoststogerman

spieldinge2007

Komm(t) morgen nicht zum Elf-Training

transtribbles

may i suggest: Elf-Übung

translatingpoststogerman

Several people have suggested this. After doing some research (looking at wiktionary), yeah, Übung works.

Consequently, Fußballtraining is thus Fußballübung, Krafttraining is Kraftübung, and so on.

translatingpoststogerman

#< vielleicht unterricht? ich fände auch ne elfen-schulung gut

#fucking #elfen-ertüchtigung

#klingt als müssten wir uns da ein tolles neues zusammengesteztes substantiv ausdenken

@a-sunset-outside-my-window

Elfen-Ertüchtigung!!! Das ist ein gutes, deutsches Wort!

Neue Übersetzung:

Komm(t) morgen nicht zur Elfen-Ertüchtigung

translatingpoststogerman

"Elf" is another example for a word that has different meanings depending on the grammatical gender.

Der Elf (masculine) - male Elf

Die Elf (feminine) - a somewhat poetic term for a soccer team (literally "the eleven", because a soccer team has eleven players on the field)

Die Elfe (feminine) - female Elf

(Yes, I know that soccer is also called football, but to avoid confusion with handegg (American football) I prefer to call it soccer)

paninigram

I have a question: I've seen the word Elb/Elbe used to mean elf. Is there a difference with Elf?

#german

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most-sane-classicist

pliny's natural histories was basically just wikipedia written by a snob send post

yvanspijk

Unexpected cognates

The word town shares its origin with German Zaun (‘fence’) and Dutch tuin (‘garden’), even though their forms and meanings are quite different. They all stem form Proto-Germanic *tūnan, whose meaning is reconstructed as ‘fenced area’. Over the course of 2000 years, they’ve grown apart.

My new graphic shows nine unexpected but true cognates in English, German, Dutch, Frisian, and Swedish.

In the article on my Patreon (850 words, tier 1), I explain how the meanings of these nine words group diverged over time.

#historical linguistics #linguistics #germanic

real-language-facts

i speak the secret language where all sentences are true

i speak the other secret language where all sentences tell lies, lets go guard some doors

mi-toki-pona-e-sina

jan-pi-nimi-ala li toki:

mi toki kepeken toki len. lon ona la toki ale li lon.

sona-toki-lon li toki:

mi toki kepeken toki len ante. lon ona la toki ale li lon ala. ni la mi tu o tawa o awen e lupa.

grimeclown

I don't know which of you needs to hear this but "narc" is not short for "narcissist" when someone calls you a "narc" for snitching they are calling you a "narcotics officer"

gaesnek

monkey-mulch

technically narc isnt even short for narcotics officer its just cant for Cop, I believe Roma in origin

red-mercer

I read years ago in a book that it was derived from nakk, Romani for nose, as in someone who always has their nose in other people's business

grimeclown

ITS DERIVED FROM "NARCO" AS IN "NARCOTICS" WHAT FUCKING BOOK

grimeclown

Okay you know what pulling back on my derision because i can see how this mistake would be made but narc and nark are etymologically unrelated

headspace-hotel

Etymology is always doing some shit like this

bogleech

Convergent evolution.

bisexual-engineer-girl

Linguistic crab

backofthebookshelf

Two entire linguistic traditions have merged to remind you not to be a fuckin narc

#etymology

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polespullspolls

sexiest punctuation?

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Voting ended onMay 31

#why am i not surprised

sovietnam

brazilspill

Only in Brazil.

The book is titled "I'm Glad My Mother Died" and the signage at the bottom reads "Happy Mother's Day"

yvanspijk

To seek & to search

Despite their similar meaning and appearance, the verbs to search and to seek don’t have any etymological relationship whatsoever. To seek comes straight from the Proto-Germanic ancestor of English, while to search was borrowed from a French word related to circle. Searching is going around looking for something. Click my new infographic to learn all about these two word families.

To seek has the highly irregular past tense sought. Why does the k become a silent gh? And why does it have ou instead of ee? In the extra long article on my Patreon (1300 words), you’ll learn that this irregular past tense started out perfectly regular but became irregular due to regular sound changes. You’ll also discover that what happened with to seek ~ sought is connected to the irregularities of verbs such as to teach ~ tought, to think ~ thought and to buy ~ bought.

#etymology #germanic

grootficguy

goku — or, as the french call him, geauxcoup,

#french #I guess

velvet-lover

would u still bless me on my third sneeze

wanderingnelipot

Salud, dinero, y amor

bookdragonlibrary

A tes souhaits

A tes amours

Pour toujours

(wishes to you, love to you, forever and ever, more or less)

paninigram

There's also "A tes souhaits, à tes amours, à tes emmerdes"

#french

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official-german-translationen

Ich: *Schreibt einen weiteren Satz* Ich:

official-german-translationen

OK Word minde doch einfach dein eigenes Business

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

@staff @humans nobody wants your shitty UI changes and if we wanted to be on twitter we already would be. this will make the site worse

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

actually you know what? staff doesn't read posts

everyone who sees this, submit a support ticket. you go to Help -> Support, mark "feedback," and let them know how you feel about this change and whether this is likely to make you use the site less or more.

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion

Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

Levels of understanding other slavic languages

oh we also have X and it means the same!

that looks like X but misspelled

that's just the archaic variant of X

this sounds a lot like Y from another slavic language I know which means X in mine so this almost 100% also means X

this word is completely different but I can kinda tell the meaning from the morphology

what

okay right now I'm gonna have to dissect the entirety of this language's history to figure out how the FUCK did y'all get to the point of calling X that and not something more normal

I wanted to ask for X and accidentally called someone a whore

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

I don't even have to look at the blog and I just know this is from a Pole about Czechs

suffering

byrons

KAKAOVY CHLEBICEK???!!!???

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

hissing growling scratching you etc etc

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

for example

(Polish: are you looking for a squirrel?, Slovak: excuse me, he is doing what to the squirrel?)

(also "hladna pića" means "cold drinks" in Croatian. means "hungry cunt" in Slovak and Czech)

("you're weird" in Czech is the same as "you're amazing" in Croatian, while "you're amazing" in Czech is the same as "you're terrible" in Croatian)

poetka

My favourite recent-ish example of #8:

visloka

czto-nebud-blog

Don't forget this:

And of course pomoć (help) vs pomoč (ordering you to piss on something)

czto-nebud-blog

Also remembered this shop from my trip to Croatia (piko means meth in czech and slovak)

kaazdalena

przepraszam w CZYM ta restauracja????

axolotl-anemonoides

This reminds me of that time my (Czech) family went to Poland for my uncle's wedding (because my aunt - his wife - is Polish and they decided to get married in Poland).

The wedding afterparty was in full swing, everyone was drinking and partying.... and an elderly Polish lady approached my two aunts (who were also drinking a lot and partying hard) and commented something along the lines of "jesteście odporne". Which in Polish means "you're resilient" (as in they're handling the alcohol well) but in Czech it means "you're disgusting".

It took my aunts a bit to remember that it means something different in Polish. 😅

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

another beautiful case of n.8 from @someidioticurl

Czech vision: ah yes an emergency button to press in case of emergency

Polish vision:

ta-bajna-cerna-okybaca

Oh, I have a few!

'pozor' in Czech means 'watch out!', but means 'shame' in Russian

droga in czech means drug, in polish it means road

záchod in czech means toilet, zachód in polish means 'west'

odchod 'to depart' in Czech means very specifically 'to depart by foot', while in Slovak it has a bit wider meaning, and buses and trains also combine with 'odchod'. To a Czech speaker this gives the funny implication that departing trains grow legs and walk out of the train station

Croatian 'mrdati' = to wiggle, means 'to have sex' in Czech

'Čerstvý, voňavý chléb' is Czech for 'fresh, nicely smelling bread'. In means the opposite in some slavic languages 'stale, stinky bread'. This kind of 'good meaning in one but bad meaning in other' duality happens surprisingly often actually, see also úžas and odporný above

otrok in Czech means 'slave' but in Slovenian and perhaps other South slavic languages it means 'child'. Very funny when combined with bazaar, turns a perfectly fine baby bazar into a slave bazaar

My friend has a fun sentence from Slovenian - "Hitri otroci kuhali jed na Dunaji". Literally none of the words here mean what a Czech thinks they mean. No not even Dunaj. Czechs read it as 'smart slaves were disemboweling poison by the Donau river', original Slovenian meaning is 'fast children were cooking food in Vienna'

Edit: wait one more. "srpanj" in Croatian means July, "srpen" in Czech means August. Listopad in Croatian means 'October', in Czech means 'November'. rujan in Croatian means 'September', říjen in Czech means 'October'. kwiecień in Polish means 'April', kviteń in Ukrainian also means 'April', květen in Czech means 'May'. Months are fucked up.

#slavic languages

redstonedust

the worst part about grief is that it feels like the world should be horrendously earth shatteringly changed, and to an extent it IS but its also the same. to everyone else it's just another tuesday. the world moves on. you have to go grocery shopping.

gael-garcia

Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus by William Carlos Williams

fluentisonus

musée des beaux arts, w.h. auden

#poetry

sclimp

What was your word for "skipping school". This is primarily directed towards british and oirish anglophones but everyone tell me if you're not shy. Ours was dossing / being "on the doss"

skipping school =

dossing

mitching

skiving

bunking off

ditching / cutting class

playing hooky

not anglophone (please lemme know your term!)

anglophone but none of these (what term did you use...)

results

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

#sécher

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vamp-orwave

Reblog this and tell me your language/culture's version of "isn't it?"

For example, in Australia, we use "ay," as in, "This shit's fucked, ay?"

translatingpoststogerman

In German, we have several versions of this, depending on the region:

Source

translatingpoststogerman

True, this isn't a map of Germany as a nation, rather it's a linguistic map of German speaking regions. Linguists don't stop looking at a language just because there's a political border.

#german

thefroglab

before you beat yourself up for not cleaning, ask yourself:

is there a proper place to put the things you're tidying up?

thefroglab

a lot of times i would find myself struggling to finish cleaning things when the real problem was that I didn't actually have a permanent place for things to go once I had actually picked them up.

once I was making sure I had shelves or bins or organization things first, it became a lot easier to actually finish tidying things up since I knew where things were supposed to belong

ghostofbriggiesmalls

Oh.

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