#language is fun

[markscherz]

Hello Mark! I found out about the limnonectes genus recently - why are some of them knobheads? What is the purpose of knob?

The structure is called a caruncle, which sounds like a made-up word, but then again, all words are made up. It is made of connective tissue underneath skin full of mucous glands (studied histologically by Lambertz et al. 2014), but its function is unknown. However, because it is only present in males, I have a well-founded suspicion that it is involved in sexual selection one way or another. I would guess that it is either (a) very intimidating for other males, (b) actually helpful in physical contests among males, (c) very attractive to females, or (d) some combination of the above.

#haunted frogs #frogs #fanged frog #Limnonectes #wildlife #animals #nature #the more you know #as a speaker of British English calling these frogs knobheads is hilarious to me #answers by Mark #frogkiing #caruncle #what a word #immediately makes you want to say carbuncle #language is fun

[athenahennah]

The fact that “Chat” is now technically noun is really funny to me

#twitch #chat is this real #language is fun #and super made up

[bylightofdawn]

Does anyone else get haunted by the knowledge that in a few hundred years from now (yes I'm gonna be an optimist and hope there will be humans in a few hundred years) that people are going to look back at our written words and laugh themselves silly over what they find? Sure if our digital age continues at least that might be slightly less awful to read but you know the amount of errors and misspellings we do because we've been taught 'hooked on phonics' and what have you. Which might be serviceable for learning how to read but is complete and utter shit for teaching people to spell?

And since we've frankly gotten lazy and so used to our little pocket computers auto correcting our spelling that if we have to actually write something out then we're fucked. So we know this NOW but imagine what people 500 or 100 years from now are going to think when they find exant writing and immediately lose their shit like we do over middle english? (much less old english) The general populace is pretty much oh, look at those silly, quaint and uneducated people putting their ye and their olde's into everything, etc. And like….completely ignoring the fact it was literally just a handful of languages thrown into a stew pot and left to melt into a bastardized version of SOMETHING. So we look at it and it just looks like a typo riddled hot mess to our modern eye.

Now imagine someone finding our exant modern writing examples and tell me they wouldn't do the same thing. All those desperate attempts at phonetically trying to spell certain words and our utter and miserable failures. Not to mention our SLANG, often completely centralized in certain areas. Philly's infamous Jawn comes to mind right off the top of my head. Or AAVE. I'm clearly speaking from a English speaking American POV but I know other languages and cultures have the same fun flavors and things that make language so endlessly fascinating.

Also imagine someone finding our tumblr blogs with our widdle meow meow and our blorbos, our baby girls and any of a dozen weird tumblr specific vernacular which is kinda it's own weird tumblr ecosystem dialect.

These poor bastards in the future are going to be SO CONFUSED. And at LEAST we have a centuries long record of how the English language has evolved and changed over the years to help guide us. But for dead languages or ones that don't have that rich history of documentation? Lets say some awful global event happens and we lose their history, they're going to be even more confused by our little meow meows because maybe something like the knowledge cats = meow survives because it's so prevelant. But why the fuck are we calling these random characters who have no feline features our little meow meows?

So yeah, that's the shit I think about sometimes. And it haunts me.

Also this entire post was brought to you by my struggling for a good four minutes to try and figure out how to spell buoyancy and the many fucked up and terrible attempts I made desperately trying to get close enough my spellchecker would understand wtf I was trying to type only for it to keep suggesting bouncy?

#el ponders life #instead of writing #language is fun

[redsixwing]

*thumps roof of English* this language can fit so many silly sounds in it

#language is fun #context would help but #english

[oso-de-cocina]

#language is fun #japanese #Literal language is the best #Stolen from facebook #Forgot to add that tag and it looks like tumblr won't let me add it #https://m.facebook.com/reel/3643384482603997/

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

I like Spanish because the closest translation of “yo no puedo poder” is “I lack the ability to Can” and that just doesn’t hit right yknow? Absolute lacking of the ability to do. Nothing specific i just can’t.

#chaoticbuggybitchboy #spanish #language is fun

[latinthusiast]

reading a reddit thread asking english speakers about hard-to-pronounce words and someone mentioned the sentence "I edited it" so now I'm repeating "edited it" to myself in sheer glee at the sounds

#linguistics #language is fun #please i am begging you to try this at home

[hatkuu]

its okay, at least your not from England like me. We have so much slang like petrol station or chapel hat pegs or snogging or crisps, etc that everyone else makes fun of

me personally i LOVE english slang!!! a lot of europeans visit my area (horse studs are very popular for euros to work at temporarily, idk why but they're always lovely) innit???? love it. SHAG???? I LOVE IT

#hatkuuasks #language is fun #DW ANON I WOULD NEVER MAKE FUN OF YOU FOR BEING A POM #omg omg. brexit. #i love the word brexir

[koravelliumavast]

I figured out why releasers doesn’t feel right to me. It doesn’t fit with the naming trend of all the other orders of having a noun followed by a verb.

#this of course does not apply to the Elsecallers but Jasnah gets a pass. #language is fun #stormlight archive #knights radiant

[aglaerucoieriel]

Does Cody’s name derive from the Mando’a word Kote (glory)?????

#star wars #tcw cody #the clone wars #the clones #mando’a #language is fun #commander cody #I mean Rex means King so I wouldn’t put it past him

[chronicsymptomsyndrome]

#just curious #audhd things #neurodiversity #adhd autistic #audhd #autistic community #adhd community #audhd brain #audhd creature #neurodivergence #language #written language #language poll #language is fun #language is weird #language is beautiful #words are weird #adhd diagnosis #autism diagnosis #neurodivergent community #autistic adhd #comorbidities #comorbid conditions #random polls #tumblr polls #silly poll #tumblr poll #stupid polls #autistic poll #adhd poll

[katriniac]

Hello. I'm Pure Noble.

Introduce yourself! 😊

#even though I'm mostly French and Danish my first and middle names have Greek and Germain origins #language is weird #language is fun

[picavecalyx]

languages is a wacky thing for silva. she can automatically talk perfectly in a language if she's talking to a pokemon. it's as if something sort of possess her brain and then suddenly she just...knows it. the second she turns to talk to a human though; that knowledge disappears. if she talks in it long enough to pokemon, she will pick up most things and that will transfer over when she's talking to people, but for the most part that takes...a long time. especially considering she was speaking perfect kalosian talking to the talonflames and pokemon in snowbelle, but when she was adopted and asked to repeat or show how much she knew the language, she just sort of stared...it took her a significant amount of time to learn kalosian, and even now she sort of struggles with it when talking to people. over her time traveling, she's learned to sort of listen to pokemon and try to repeat what they are saying to speak to others and that has definitely helped with communicating, but she does still have some issues with it. she's essentially fluent in every language...until she's not. the exception to this is speaking ultra script to xerosic. but this is the same reason as to why she can talk to pokemon perfectly. given ultra beasts come from ultra human, it essentially works the same. but it's only really when she's talking to him...she can finaggle her way through phrases presently, but she wouldn't be able to hold a conversation with someone who just knows the script as opposed to if she was just talking to an ultra human speaking it.

#study ;; beneath a piteous smile #verse ;; pokemon ;; beyond destructing and falling petals #language is fun #THE POKESPEAK ABILITY THAT SILVA HAS IS WACKY AND FUN AND CONFUSING AS FUCK

[thatlesbeanjew]

Okay so adding on to my Latinx Darlin headcanon because another thought has procured itself.

We know that Darlin’ calls Sam ‘cowboy’, right? Might I raise to you, them also calling him ‘caballero’.

While a closer, more direct Spanish translation of cowboy would be vaquero, caballero is (and hits) a bit different. Here’s where the fun part comes in.

I think they would call him caballero in place of vaquero because un caballero is a knight or a gentleman. It can also be used to describe someone’s personality as gentlemanly and courteous. Is Dr. Samuel Collins not a southern gentleman? Is he not full of that classic southern charm?

#redacted asmr #redactedasmr #redacted darlin #redacted sam #yeehaw vamp #redacted headcanons #latinx darlin’ lives rent free #español #language is fun #if this is what i do with my degree i am 100% okay with that #Caballero is pronounced kah-bah-yeh-roh #Vaquero is pronounced vah-keh-roh

[kaynes-secret-blog]

I know objects in english must be referred with it pronouns but that feels like

So disrespectful

My beautiful bed is no it! She's a beautiful warm bed

My cellphone is no it, he's my lovely baby

#language is fun

[oso-de-cocina]

How languages steal words from each other

#Language is fun #Tom Scott