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  • In Polish, the word for lemon is cytryna, but the word for citron is cytron

  • Yeah i had a really bad feeling about this post, it's an actual language spoken by actual people who have been historically discriminated against, not just "funny english"

    The reason creoles look like weird english sometimes is because they're the mixture of multiple languages

  • Is it? I tried checking in a dictionary but it didn't list mídheas as a word and "deas" was defined as right/nice/honest, not just "good"

  • I was talking about the one on the right side here

  • What writing system do you have in your name? It's a mix of Shavian and IPA symbols and I'm curious

  • Chuir mi mar fhiacham gu robh Gàidhlig oifigeil a-cheana

    (Sorry if my Gàidhlig is bad)

  • Holy clickbait title

  • I saw someone who put their swapfile on Google drive

    It was incredibly slow and impractical

  • It's Uiua

  • It still makes me uncomfortable how many people see her in a positive light here

  • Bring it back but exclusively for insults and rudeness

    When you're getting annoyed at people you can just start thouing them

  • why

    Jump
  • Yeah, a lot of european languages have a three gender system: masculine, feminine and neuter

    Proto-Indo-European, the language which most European (and some South Asian languages) originate from, had a three gender system

    Even English used to have a three gender system before it disappeared in the Middle English period

    Despite the name, the neuter gender tends to not be used for people, although in some languages (such as Polish) the use of the neuter gender to refer to non-binary people is gaining traction

  • I know that, I'm just referring to it as runic thorn due to the fact that thorn evolved from it

  • I know some, it's such a shame that one of the biggest zig projects suffered this fate, they're also a significant contributor to the zig project

  • I haven't seen runic thorn used with Latin script, but I like the look ngl

  • The more i look into different languages, the more i feel different languages are just as complex as each other, with complexity put in different places

  • Even most Esperanto speakers have abadoned the ideology of Finvenkismo (the belief that Esperanto will become the primary language of the world, overtaking other languages) as it's both unrealistic and has several flaws

    Esperanto is a flawed, Eurocentric language, and we should celebrate linguistic diversity, not treat it as a problem needing to be solved

  • y-up ftw

    It's easier when writing 3d renderers cause the x and y coordinates of the 3d points eventually become the x and y coordinates of the 2d points on screen and it's easier to keep track of

  • Fun fact: if you take the displacement between your current position and the exact place where you were born, and divide it by your age, you can get your average velocity