Fediverse: What's your favorite language to listen to that is NOT one you speak (and why?)

#language #Mastodon #Fediverse

Latest comic on the ever-expanding meaning of the insult "PC"

#language #war #cartoon #comic #humanrights

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I think I’m studying Japanese wrong. Can’t retain any new vocab. Or maybe my brain is broken #language

Demiurge; the artist; demiourgos; δημιουργός, "one who works for the people"; skill-haver; ideas-hewer; δήμιος, "belonging to the people"; collaboration; duty; autonomous creative force; decisive power; act of absolute creation; the decision to make something; the divine act; "demiurge"

#language #art

Meine deutsche Sprachbeschreibung für #oberon gibt es jetzt als LibreOffice-Datei und das Poster hat eine Farbversion bekommen. #coding #programming #language

https://bitnacht.de/post/oberon_poster_in_farbe/

#ClimateChange #framing #power #language @volts.wtf

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#Putin's goal in #Ukraine is #genocide, #ethnofascist erasure of Ukrainian #identity. #Vatniks demur and refer to some other goal or their usual "reverse victim and offender" gaslighting. #Kremlin lies and venom

Today is the birthday of #TarasShevchenko, literary linchpin of Ukrainian #culture and #language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko

This was in #Balakliia, 2022. The billboard is a Shevvhenko poem, of Ukraine's struggle against #imperialism, 2 centuries ago

And still today

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#UkraineWar

Excited for #JCON EUROPE 2026? See Sharat Chander at #JCON2026 in Cologne talking about 'Expand Your #Java Connections'

Java continues to offer a modern #language and platform that addresses #modern application use-cases. But the #heartbeat …

🎟️ http://2026.europe.jcon.one/tickets
Free for #JUG members

As a grammar prescriptivist, I take writing and proper use of words very seriously. I recently saw a post about ending text messages with full stops. Apparently, some think this is a bad idea. No. It's called using punctuation correctly! Perhaps, they should read a few grammars instead of playing their silly video games! The same is true of netspeak, textspeak, corporate spaek, and abbreviating everything. Likewise, I have no use for political correctness. I refuse to use words such as visually-challenged, vertically-challenged, etc. I will say blind (or visually impaired if the person has some vision), short, fat, etc. Unless I'm writing poetry and am seeking flowery words for things, I call them what they are. Neither do I see any difference between saying "a blind person" and "a person who is blind", for example. I also have no time for so-called gender-neutral words, unless they honestly make sense and are actually descriptive, such as firefighter or police officer. But I'm just as likely to say fireman, policeman, waiter, steward, actor, chairman, etc. and change the gender when necessary. I refuse to use the singular they. There are two sexes (gender is for grammar). You're either one or the other. This absolutely doesn't mean that you can't change your sex. If, for example, I meet you as a woman and you change to a man or are a drag king/queen, I will certainly change my use of pronouns when discussing you or talking about you, either permenantly or temporarily, as the case requires. But unless you literally have multiple personalities or are a machine or an inanimate object, you are neither a they nor an it, and you're certainly not some made-up pronoun such as xe. I would never cause harm to those who use such words. I would just consider them to be silly or confused. If the sex is unknown, or if a sentence can apply to both sexes, I use the masculine, simply because it's grammatically correct to do so.

#English #gender #grammar #language #prescriptivism #properEnglish #sex #texting #writing

Hey #Mastodon peeps, #fediverse peeps and everyone inbetween.

Was there going to be a translation option for us stupid #englishspeakers who can't seem to become fluent in any other #language? I thought when i first signed up many moons ago that there was going to be something, but i'm guessing its not part of the Masto/Fedi frame work?

I'm following a lot of #nonenglish speakers and i'd love to be able to skim their posts as they come through rather than trying to bookmark to translate later

‘The Lion King’s Opening Lyrics Translated is Blowing Minds https://www.inbella.com/1520363/the-lion-kings-opening-lyrics-translated-is-blowing-minds/ #Animation #CentralAfricanRepublic #colonialism #Disney #DisneyAnimation #EastAfrica #Entertainment #EntertainmentNews #film #language #LionKing #movie #movies #Multicultural #podcast #podcasts #PopCulture #singing #songs #tiktok #translation #WaltDisney

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In lieu of an actual #introduction, here are some #hashtags I’m interested in reading & posting about, in no particular order of importance
(Part 1)
#chicago #WestLoop is where I live, but have lived/might live in the future #Austin #Toronto #London #California #Rome #Amsterdam

#history #politics #language #poetry #science #astronomy #physics
#art especially #photography but also #painting #sculpture #film #filmHistory

#music #musicHistory #blues #jazz #reggae #BobDylan

Psychology is an administrative vocabulary masquerading as a natural science, and the most damning evidence is that the discipline best equipped to rescue it is quietly declining to speak its language. Thoughts?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/the-zombie-factory?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #psychology #zombies #ethics #blog #substack #writing #critique #news #language #society #culture #power #instrumentation #evidence #podcast #thoughts

Let me teach you some (Serbo-)Croatian (Bosnian, Montenegrin...). Repeat after me:
vrt - garden
prst - finger
crn - black
rt - cape
smrt - death
krv - blood
srp - sickle
brz - quick
zvrk - spinning top
čvrst - firm, sturdy ("č" is pronounced like "ch" in "Charlie")
tvrd - hard
šmrklj - snot, booger ("š" is pronounced like "sh" in "she")

#language #Croatian

Dear everyone.

If you post in more than one language, please remember to set the language of your post correctly. It's the only way the language translator on the official mobile app works properly.

Many thanks.

Please consider boosting to raise awareness of this issue.

#fediverse #mastodon #language #posting #settings #translation #mobile

The word “fascinate” entered English in the 1590s, meaning “to bewitch or enchant.”

It derives from the French fasciner (14th century) and Latin fascinatus, the past participle of fascinare, “to bewitch, enchant, or fascinate.”

Latin fascinare stems from fascinum (or fascinus), denoting “a charm, enchantment, spell, or witchcraft,” often linked to a phallus-shaped amulet used in ancient Rome to ward off the evil eye.

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#etymology #language

i'm watching/listening to the Finland-Slovakia bronze hockey final, and this is my first time hearing a play-by-play commentary by innu commentators

cree and inuktitut phonemes blended in together with québecoise french expressions is absolutely beautiful to listen to. i'm guessing these speakers are from eastern Nunavut or northern Québec

tune in to the innu feed here:
https://gem.cbc.ca/innu-hockey-slovakia-vs-finland-mens-bronze-medal-game-31406?autoplay=1

*this* is why i love living in canada. for all of our problems, we do something right every once in a while

#canada #innu #language #quebec

Super Fun für Sprach-Nerds, Weird Fiction-Fans und alle, die gerne neue Sachen lernen: Diese Geschichte wird jeden Absatz 100 Jahre älter (& gruseliger), am Schluss sind wir um 1.000 sprachlich angelangt. Bis wann könnt Ihr verstehen, was da steht? Danach erklärt ein Sprachhistoriker die Veränderungen, die ihr da rückwärts mitgemacht habt.

#linguistics #historyoflanguage #language #literature #learning

https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english

TIL the term “bizlebrities”

#business #celebrity #neologism #language

Today I got asked to not use LLMs to write my messages in the work chat. The interesting thing is, I’ve never done that ever in my entire life.

The way I write has been shaped by years of deliberate learning of the language (several languages; this, in fact, helped), of the craft of writing a good text, and of optimizing for being understood, which I like, over a lively back-and-fort over text, which I dislike.

In fact, I have been praised for my written communication style: structured, succinct, just enough information, so the reader wouldn’t have to ask twice.

I know my dashes and that “I’ll be there, 9–10am” and “I’ll be there, 9—10am” are two very different bits of information. Punctuation and grammar, yo.

That LLM output is at times similar to how I write is not a bad thing, but it’s an unfortunate coincidence: many people auto-trained to detect and distrust the text that looks generated by a language model.

I guess I’ll start dumbing it down or some shit idk lol (but srs)

#language
#writing
#llm

Any recommendations for #NativeAmerican #SciFi in the sense of like characters speaking #Navajo or #Lakota on a #space ship? #Bookstodon #Books #Literature #Dystopia #Escapism #Linguistics #Language

Writing is the evil twin of thinking.

Writing tests whether your thinking can survive contact with language.

#writing #thinking #language #sensemaking

Ah german, the only people on mastodon i cannot stand.

As entitled as US people, force their language nobody but them talk, and are mad when you tell them to answer english post in english.

And dare to say use translate when THEY are the one that answer in their language instead of hiting the "translate" button.

"Rule for thy but not for me"

#german #mastodon #language #translation

Okay, let me do a better #introduction now that there's a bajillion more people here. I'm a former hacker, worked in #infosec, still into #programming and #electronics, currently more interested in #nature, both being in it and studying it.

#philosophy #pragmatism #science #physics #chemistry #biology #geography #astronomy #mathematics #algebra #geometry #analysis #politics #anarchism #economics #socialism #language #english #svenska #português #deutsch #hacking #foss #gnu #linux #gnome #c

“Whether [#English] or the French will decline as fast as the #Roman did, is a question that would perhaps admit more debate than it is worth.”

- Jonathan Swift, A Proposal for correcting, improving and ascertaining the English Tongue

#language #meaning https://celt.ucc.ie/published/E700001-017/text001.html?utm_source=perplexity