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today i learned that the finnish word for ‘hazardous waste’ is ongelmajäte, which can also translate as ‘problematic garbage’ and my roommate and i immediately agreed this is a word that belongs on tumblr.
Your fave is ongelmajäte
in german it’s Sondermüll which means special trash and that too belongs on tumblr
One man’s ongelmajäte is another man’s sondermüll.
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Urdu Language
؎ ہزاروں خواہشیں ایسی کہ ہر خواہش پہ دم نکلے
“Thousands of desires, each one so intense that it could take my life.”
– Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869)
the german word for villain, Bösewicht, is so great. like not only are you evil, you're also some sort of gnome about it
my favorite prefix in german is "er-", meaning "to death" <3
trinken -> to drink | ertrinken -> to drown
schießen -> to shoot | erschießen -> to shoot to death
würgen -> to choke | erwürgen -> to choke someone to death
stechen -> to sting | erstechen -> to stab to death
etc etc :]
*stechen -> to stab (as well, not just sting)
schlagen -> to hit | erschlagen -> slay (also: overwhelm)
drücken -> to press | erdrücken -> to crush
etc.
Completive transitive "er-" my beloved! It has a less productive counterpart in non-lethal transitive "an-".
anschießen -> to shoot non-fatally
anfahren -> to hit (but not run over) with a vehicle
hängen -> to hang | erhängen -> to hang until dead
frieren -> to feel cold, to freeze | erfrieren -> to freeze to death
English spelling isn't that hard to understand as long as you also understand French orthography, Dutch orthography, the Great Vowel Shift, the Latin language, the history of the printing press, and the etymology of every word introduced to English in the last 600 years
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How to say "grape" in Romance and Germanic languages in Europe
From Latin ūva (“grape”):
uva (Spanish/Castilian)
uva (Asturian)
uva (Italian)
uva (Portuguese)
uga/uba (Aragonese)
uva (Galician)
uva (Judaeo-Spanish)
uva (Piedmontese)
uga (Lombard)
iva (Romansch)
úa (Sardinian)
ùa/ova (Venetian)
auã (Aromanian)
From Latin racēmus ("cluster or bunch of grapes"):
raisin (French)
racina (Sicilian)
raïm (Catalan)
rasim (Occitan)
resim (Franco-Provençal)
roésin (Picard)
roejhén (Walloon)
Unknown origin:
strugure (Romanian)
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From Old French grape (cluster of fruit or flowers, bunch of grapes"):
grape (English
grape (Scots)
Literally "wine-berry":
Wiitrybel (Alemannic German)
Weinba/Weinbeer (Upper/Southern German)
vínber (Icelandic)
From Proto-West Germanic *þrūbō ("cluster" or "grape"):
Traube (German)
drue (Danish)
druva (Swedish)
drue (Norwegian)
druif/wijndruif (Dutch)
druif (Afrikaans)
troyb (Yiddish)
Druve/Druuv (Low German)
drúf (West Frisian)
Drauf (Luxembourgish)
German Vocabulary: Drawing
der Bleistift (pl. die Bleistifte) – [lead] pencil der Drehbleistift – mechanical pencil der Farbstift – coloured pencil der Filzstift – felt-tip pen die Feder – [nibbed] pen die Kreide – chalk das Papier – paper der Radierer – eraser der Spitzer – pencil sharpener die Tusche – India ink die Zeichenkohle – charcoal
die Abstufung – gradation, shading das Aktzeichnen – figure drawing; life drawing der Fluchtpunkt – vanishing point das Glanzlicht – highlight der Kontrast – contrast die Kreuzschraffur – cross-hatching die Linie – line die Perspektive – perspective die Proportion – proportion der Punkt (pl. die Punkte) – dot die Schraffur – hatching die Skizze – sketch die Strichzeichnung – line drawing die Studie – study die Zeichnung – drawing
radieren – to erase schattieren – to shade schraffieren – to hatch; to shade skizzieren – to sketch zeichnen – to draw
gebogen – curved gerade – straight grafisch – graphic grob – rough schattiert – shaded stilistisch – stylistic zickzack – zigzag
The German language has quite a few animalistic verbs:
fuchsen ("to fox") = to annoy
hechten ("to pike") = to dive
reihern ("to heron") = to puke
dackeln ("to dachshund") = to walk slowly
aalen ("to eel") = to bask
vögeln ("to bird") = to have sex
einigeln ("to hedgehog in") = to curl up
hamstern ("to hamster") = to hoard
schlängeln ("to snake") = to wriggle
stieren ("to bull") = to goggle
unken ("to toad") = to gripe, augur doom
tigern ("to tiger") - to walk tigerishly
I thought this was less common that I believed, but it's apparently a thing so: If you have been raised or chosen to consume media only in English, and think your native language(s) aren't as good, it's never too late to change that attitude. Listen and sing to music in your language, do it proudly, from the heart. Read books from your country. Watch movies and series from where you are from. Write posts in your language, don't be afraid of showing off your dialect. And try to learn about media from other countries that aren't the US. You will find something enjoyable, promise.
English has many great things about it, and like it or not, it has taken the place of a global lingua franca -indeed I'm writing this post in English so I can reach a larger audience, in a way- but we should not let it replace global culture. So many languages are endangered, and so are their cultures. Don't lose a part of yourself just because English is "cooler". Don't subscribe to a monodiet of English-speaking media, don't let the world be a monoculture. Don't let artists from your place in life, who don't have the global reach of Hollywood or Silicon Valley, be unheard. Speak your language. Con orgullo, chamigo, con acento y todo.
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As a Swede I love the mutual intelligibility I have with Norwegians and every 7th word a Dane says
This linguistic problem is only going to continue getting worse unless we fuck it in the ass now.
I’m feeling kinda evil and want to create a pan-Germanic anti-Esperanto. Just take the most annoying and difficult features from each Germanic language and create a super complicated and frustrating language, taking in each case the vocab that is the most false-friend-y or else has a totally different etymology than the word each neighbour language uses.
It will have the 2 different conditional moods, the complicated comma and capitalization rules of German; the random pronunciation and the 10 different meanings for each word of English; the 98453 vowel sounds of Danish, the grave accent and weird use of definite adjective/noun forms of Swedish; the general grammatical complexity of Icelandic; the random Hebrew imports of Yiddish (also to piss of the Nazis who might want to use it); it will definitely have ð, þ, ö, ä, ü, å, ø and ß. Having ø and ö is especially fun since they’re basically the same letter, it will be completely random where you have to use ø and where ö, but if you mix it up you’ll call someone’s mom a rabid chipmunk.
I love the way Swedish massacres French words (enquête -> enkät, wonderful! sauce -> sås, great!) and makes everyone wince, I delight in the way Swiss German makes you use certain verbs twice if they accompany other verbs. My language will have all of those features. Capital letters will be written in Old German Kurrentschrift, lower case letters in Anglosaxon runes.
The International Phonetic Alphabet consonants found in English, with keywords and relevant parts of the mouth highlighted and colour-coded. (Source.)
Pronouncing each of these in sequence is a very strange and amusing physical sensation, and I highly recommend it.
haha look it’s where those noises live in your dang FACE, TRY IT
Very helpful actually
Happy Birthday!
Today is the birthday of Ivar Aasen—go construct a folke-maal for your native language and related dialects to celebrate.
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German language in the world.
I’m going to sit on Torpenhow Hill, drinking my chai tea and reading a biology book about Eurasian brown bears (Ursus arctos arctos).
Don’t forget some naan bread.
So you can read your book about bear bear bears on hill hill hill hill with your bread bread and tea tea.
