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Name for the bird Wren in European languages

LSA recently sided with a Czech linguist who scammed the Lakota nation and exploited their endangered language data. He told them they would own all the Lakota language learning materials he planned on creating with their data. He was lying. He copyrighted their data. Now, if they want to access their own language, they have to pay him for it.

So now there's a huge conflict. And the LSA is giving a huge platform to this Czech scammer while sidelining every dissenter. LSA wants to move on from the Lakota conflict with no one noticing what they did.

So, like a good little lackey, the ADS comes up with the most outrageous possible word of the year. -Ussy was actually most popular around 2017 and it's in decline now. It's not a relevant word to 2022, but it doesn't matter. ADS needed a viral word of the year so everyone would post about that instead of the LSA dumpster fire.

LAST MAY the Standing Rock Sioux banned the founders of LLC "lakota language consortium" lets have a moment of silence for the irony that their acronym is the same as "Limited Liability Corporation"

This video is from 2016 what an absolute piece of shit

oh the places you'll go (when you claim things that aren't yours lol

This is the bottom of their website where they are legit asking for donations uuuuuuugh

good god they have an "understanding the issue page" that doesn't mention who is gaining from the project, doesn't talk much about the people mostly about the language and teaching the language . it's all about the language and the subtext does seem to be like...."we'd like to keep the language alive for the low price of $9999999999 give today! "

"Identifying gaps in curriculum"

naturally I navigate to fidn out how much this costs and from their page "Since 2004, LLC has been serving learners’ needs by providing educational materials that improve Lakota instruction in schools and assist individuals in their study of the language. As a nonprofit, LLC’s primary goal is to develop and distribute products that support effective language use. We offer professionally developed resources including picture books, textbooks, DVDs, audio series, classroom posters, coloring books, teacher’s guides, and more."

lol nothing about donating these products unconditionally to the lakota youth or anything?

unless natives are doing more than giving info to this guy so he can steal it..... looks a lot like they are reviving a language to engage non-natives to buy their books. because there are a lot of children's books

The right to publish and make choices should be granted to the tribe. This article points out that learners are not the problem it's the people compiling the information and charging for it.

a very long-lived NYC charity gave the LLC a GRANT ON TOP OF ALL THIS to teach!!! a mother wanted her children to learn but it shouldn't require her to go against the people she wants to get closer to!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FROM THE ARTICLE BELOW "

To help fill this linguistic gap, The New York Community Trust, the state’s oldest public charity, awarded nonprofit The Language Conservancy a $44,000 grant in late April to teach the Lakota language, via the Marcia Ashman Fund for Children. (The New York Community Trust is a funder of THE CITY, which we disclose per our ethics policy, but donors have no influence over our editorial decisions.)

Members and sponsors make THE CITY possible.

Through the NYCT grant, six young Native Americans from the city would intern with the Language Conservancy for two months in its Indiana offices. The funding also goes toward bringing Native American language instructors to New York City to teach Lakota locally on weekends.

But who should teach the language and how is a heated debate topic at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation spanning North and South Dakota, a headquarters for the nation’s shrinking Lakota-speaking populations.

On May 3, the Tribal Council of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe passed a resolution specifically banning The Language Conservancy and The Lakota Language Consortium — two partnering nonprofits that strive to preserve Native languages — from operating on its reservation, citing concerns with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the groups’ teaching style."

This is probably your best source of info on how to give directly to these tribes: standingrock.org

don't forget the pipeline problem hasn't just gone away or anything!!!!

The closest word we have in English for ‘wet but with air’ would be ‘aerated’, which is the past principle of the verb ‘aerate’. As a multi syllable Latin derived word, aerated wouldn’t feel equivalent to wet even if you just used it as an adjective in a sentence- so to have something that feels like ‘wet’ I looked for a monosyllabic air-related word with a German root.

the way live streamers and kids imitating them use "chat" is, straightforwardly and unambiguously, as a noun. calling this use case a "pronoun" is a misunderstanding of what a pronoun is, how exactly the word "chat" is being used, or both.

while the term "fourth person" is used for analyzing some languages, in english grammar the idea of a fourth grammatical person is absolute nonsense. there is no hypothetical meaning that "fourth person" could have for english that wouldn't be better described as something else.

even if "chat" was being used as a pronoun, the people it's referring to aren't hypothetical. streamers using "chat" to talk to and about their audience are referring to real people. this only makes sense as a thing to say when talking about the very niche case of people in real life pretending to be talking to/about a chat that isn't actually there, which brings me to:

even when "chat" is being used to refer to a hypothetical audience that doesn't actually exist, that doesn't make it a different grammatical concept from referring to a person that actually is there. grammar doesn't care if you're talking about real people or not.

none of this has literally anything to do with "breaking the fourth wall". breaking the fourth wall is a more complicated concept than just "talking to the audience". it means drawing attention to the fictional nature of a performance, which doesn't make sense as a concept when something isn't a work of fiction.

Christmas in European languages.

I will try to update this post with every new addition to hopefully make a comprehensive list of Tumblr regional communities

The list so far:

Europe

• Czech

#česky, #hezky česky - general Czech language posts, frequently featuring user-written poetry, art, sometimes politics and current events, warning: often contains vent posts

#čumblr - Czech but frequently used by Slovaks as well, primarily memes and fandom things, shipping, art, cultural things, frequently overlaps with #česky

#obrození, #obrozujeme - memes and fandoms as well but with more emphasis of maintaining and developing Czech culture, is a mostly humorous parody/self-proclaimed continuation of the Czech National Revival of the 1800s, overlaps with #čumblr and #česky

• Slovak

#slovensky - general Slovak language posts

#slumblr, #sumblr - Slovak, general posts, memes, fandom and culture things, sometimes overlaps with #čumblr

• Polish

#polska, #polish - Polish, general posts, art, politics and current events

#polblr, #polishposting, #polskie rzeczy - Polish, more humorous general posts and memes, often overlap with the above

• Ukrainian

#ukraine - general Ukrainian posts, often in English

#укртумбочка - mostly used by artists

• General Slavic

#slav, #slavic, #slavposting, #slavic stuff - mixed Slavic, usually cultural things, memes, art and photography, sometimes politics, sometimes visited by other East Europeans

• Irish

#gaeilge - Irish, general posting but especially cultural things and memes, often features posts for language learning

• Welsh

#cymraeg - general Welsh posting, memes

• Romanian

#romanian - general Romanian tag

#romanisme, #vlandom - Romanian, mostly memes and humor

• Hungarian

#magyar, #hungarian, #tumbli - Hungarian language, mostly quotes

• Finnish

#suomitumblr, #suomitumppu, #suomipaskaa, #suomeksi, other variations beginning with suomi - general (shit)posting

any and all swear words such as #perkele, #vittu, #saatana, #helvetti and #paska - shitposts, overlap with above

• Dutch

#dutch, #the netherlands, #netherlands, #holland, #nederland, #nederlands - general Dutch posts

#nedermemes, #dutchcore - memes, shitposting

• German

#deutsch, #german stuff - general German posting

#BundesTag - memes and humor

blogs like @official-deutschebahn, @official-german-medienlandschaft and other official-deutsche- blogs, "because THE joke of German tumblr is to act like an overly bureucratic public institution"

• French

#upthebaguette, #french side of tumblr - general French posting but especially memes, comics, art

Nice and Rude

When a Splitian married a Zagrebian, a petty linguistic misunderstanding nearly became the cause of a serious incident. The wedding was in Zagreb, so the groom's parents and sister arrived from Dalmatia. And, the problems already started on the street, in front of the bride's parents' house: standing in front of the entrance, the groom's father said that the house was smišna. And that was already odd. But, when they entered, the groom's sister noticed the bride's wedding dress, and exclaimed that the dress was much smišna. This is when the shocked stares started. And when the groom's mother said that the bride herself (whom she met that day for the first time) was smišna, the hosts were roused and it seemed like a quarrel was about to break out. The day was saved by the bride herself, who was the most collected there, as she explained to her folks that the guests actually wanted to praise the house, the dress and the bride herself. Because, when Dalmatians call something smišno, it means that it's charming, attractive and that they like it.

Linguistic families in the South Caucasus.

Fairy in different European languages

The word for ‘shrew’ in European languages.