Ritter der fragwürdigen Tafelrunde

@this-is-anti-romani

I’ve been mentioned in this post before, Romanian =/= Romani and while pickpocketing anxiety is fueled by anti-Romani hatred in Romania they are two different groups.

The fact I had no fucking clue which euphemisms were about sex and which ones were about playing banjo

It should be illegal to have a bus stop without a bench I am 1000% serious rn

fun fact about languages: a linguist who was studying aboriginal languages of Australia finally managed to track down a native speaker of the Mbabaram language in the 60s for his research. they talked a bit and he started by asking for the Mbabaram word for basic nouns. They went back and forth before he asked for the word for “dog” The man replied “dog” They had a bit of a “who’s on first” moment before realizing that, by complete coincidence,  Mbabaram and English both have the exact same word for dog.

on a similar note, a traditional Ojibwe greeting is “Nanaboozhoo” so when the French first landed in southern Canada they thought that they were saying “Bonjour!” Which is fucking wild to think about. Imagine crossing the ocean and the first people you meet in months somehow speak French. 

Given that we famously don’t know the origin of the English word “dog”, I have decided to adopt an utterly batshit folk etymology conspiracy theory. As a treat.

For a while I just assumed that the English “potluck”, was derived from Chinook Jargon “potlatch”. Both describe comparable practices of guests contributing resources to a larger community-wide feast. But a little digging quickly reveals no etymological relation; instead of one, I got TWO! interesting linguistic insights into distinct cultures.

re: ‘nanaboozhoo’, it’s also frequently shortened to ‘boozhoo’, increasing the likelihood of it sounding like ‘bonjour.’ also those double ‘o’s are a long ‘o’ sound, not an English ‘oo’ sound like ‘boot’. and the ‘zh’ sounds just like the ‘j’ in ‘bonjour,’ and the French notoriously do not explicitly pronounce the ‘n’ or the ‘r’. so ‘boozhoo’ really sounds a lot like ‘bonjour.’

official linguistics post

#and that's why people who think they can use gen ai 'in a smart controlled way' are kidding themselves #it is a tool but it's being used on you not by you #anti ai

This being marked "mature" is actually disgusting. These are completely neutral portraits that are not sexual or provocative in any way. Trans people existing is not a fucking sexual statement, let alone our trans elders.

Whenever I hear or read the phrase “body count” in relation to women, my brain still automatically thinks ‘murder victims’ instead of ‘number of sexual partners’ because let’s be real, one is a completely valid reason to judge a woman’s morality and one is not.