COLE. Money. Post the cole: pay down the money.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Happy #FreeComicBookDay! So here’s our video “Marvel” about the history of comics, to celebrate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_V7GSoi314

Hello from Guyana! #HelloWorld #Guyana #language #linguistics

簡素で小さい結婚式をします。 Kanso de chiisai kekkonshiki o shimasu. Our wedding will be simple and small. #Love #Relationships in #Japanese #LearnJapanese #日本語. #Learn a #Language: https://thelanguagegarage.com/relationships-in-japanese/

Questo è il mio anello di fidanzamento. This is my engagement ring. #Love #Relationships in #Italian #italiano. #Learn a #Language: https://thelanguagegarage.com/relationships-in-italian/

The sound of "dull strike" in Polish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Join me in about an hour for Tongues and Runes as we continue working out our sound changes for the four dialects of Sylvan. #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg https://youtube.com/live/yWBPro_zPMs

@conlang

#language : the forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation

- French: langue

- German: die Sprache

- Italian: lingua

- Portuguese: linguagem

- Spanish: lengua

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See previous words @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/past

The sound of "dull strike" in Spanish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Insanity in three Swedish expressions:

* Skogstokig: so crazy that you're running around blindly in the woods.

* Bindgalen: so crazy that you have to be tied up.

* Karltokig: crazy about men.

Swedish expression: haschtomte, "weed gnome", a confused ridiculous stoner.

"Rabelais shows us that, when the production of discourse is automated, it becomes strictly monologic and loses its illocutionary social power. This sort of autonomous language is just like an ambassador: it speaks for us, but it cannot speak as us." - Hannah Katznelson

#illocutionary #LLMs #language #Technology #Renaissance #Rabelais #Erasmus #Automation

Source:
https://aeon.co/essays/who-needs-ai-text-generation-when-theres-erasmus-of-rotterdam

Hello from France! #HelloWorld #France #language #linguistics

BATTNER. An ox: beef being apt to batten or fatten those that eat it. The cove has hushed the battner; i.e. has killed the ox.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Hello from American Samoa! #HelloWorld #AmericanSamoa #language #linguistics

The sound of "eating food" in Polish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

What's the stupidest thing a recent American president has said? From Trump's Marie Antoinette moment on Wednesday to “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is," (Bill Clinton, 1998), Chris Lamb, a professor of journalism at Indiana University breaks down gaffes, flubs and weird claims, in chronological order from Richard Nixon to the present day.

https://flip.it/Ju8Yun

The sound of "biting" in Spanish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hello from Iceland! #HelloWorld #Iceland #language #linguistics

Huyu ni mchumba wangu. This is my fiancé / fiancée. #Love #Relationships in #Swahili #KiSwahili #LearnSwahili. #Learn a #Language: https://thelanguagegarage.com/relationships-in-swahili/