#englishlanguage — Public Fediverse posts
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@CindySue I had a book series in my youth called The Superior Person's Book of Words. Great fun reading about all these obscure words, a few of which I already knew. The one that stuck with me the most was rubiginous for a rusty red-brown color.
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@CindySue I had a book series in my youth called The Superior Person's Book of Words. Great fun reading about all these obscure words, a few of which I already knew. The one that stuck with me the most was rubiginous for a rusty red-brown color.
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English word of the day:
torpor 🦥
A state of sluggish inactivity, often mistaken for “careful energy management.”
Example: By 3 p.m., his torpor had matured into a strategic refusal to open another email.
🇫🇷 torpeur
🇪🇸 sopor
🇵🇹 torpor
🇮🇹 torpore -
Master linguist visits town with world’s most ‘perplexing’ accent and finally meets his match
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/perplexing-glaswegian-scottish-dialect-ex1/
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Master linguist visits town with world’s most ‘perplexing’ accent and finally meets his match
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/perplexing-glaswegian-scottish-dialect-ex1/
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English word of the day:
colloquial 💬
Informal, everyday language…the kind grammar books pretend not to overhear.
Example: Her speech was delightfully colloquial; the committee minutes were less delighted.
🇫🇷 familier
🇪🇸 coloquial
🇵🇹 coloquial
🇮🇹 colloquiale -
English word of the day:
élan ✨
A distinctive blend of confidence, energy, and style; especially useful when competence is still en route.
Example: He entered the meeting with great élan and absolutely no agenda.
🇫🇷 élan
🇪🇸 brío
🇵🇹 garbo
🇮🇹 slancio -
English word of the day:
highfalutin 🎩
Pompous, pretentious, and dressed in vocabulary several sizes too large.
Example: He called lunch “a midday culinary symposium”; it was a ham sandwich.
🇫🇷 prétentieux·euse
🇪🇸 rimbombante
🇵🇹 pretensioso/a
🇮🇹 altisonante -
English word of the day:
spindrift 🌊
Sea spray whipped from wave crests by the wind…nature’s complimentary facial, administered without consent.
Example: The spindrift made the coastal walk invigorating, which is tourism-speak for “wet and regrettable.”
🇫🇷 embruns
🇪🇸 espuma de mar;
🇵🇹 espuma de mar; chuá; rociada
🇮🇹 spruzzo; schizzo del mare -
English word of the day:
comely ✨
Attractive in a pleasing, slightly old-fashioned way—as though beauty required references.
Example: He was comely, according to an aunt who also called trousers “slacks.”
🇫🇷 avenant.e
🇪🇸 bonito/a
🇵🇹 formoso/a
🇮🇹 avvenente -
English word of the day:
sultry ☀️
Hot, humid, and mysteriously convinced it looks glamorous.
Example: The evening was sultry; my hair interpreted that as a declaration of war.
🇫🇷 torride
🇪🇸 bochornoso
🇵🇹 abafado
🇮🇹 afoso -
English word of the day:
inveigle 🪄
To win someone over through charm, flattery, or strategic snacks.
Example: She inveigled me onto the committee with “just one quick meeting.”
🇫🇷 amadouer
🇪🇸 engatusar
🇵🇹 engabelar
🇮🇹 irretire -
English word of the day:
inveigle 🪄
To win someone over through charm, flattery, or strategic snacks.
Example: She inveigled me onto the committee with “just one quick meeting.”
🇫🇷 amadouer
🇪🇸 engatusar
🇵🇹 engabelar
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27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers
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27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers
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26 words that have gone nearly ‘extinct’ in the English language
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26 words that have gone nearly ‘extinct’ in the English language
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"Time to Say Goodbye" is an #EnglishLanguage song released by Greek-Swede duo #Antique. It was released as a CD Single with its #Greek version titled "Alli Mia Fora" (One More Time) in 2003 by #BonnierMusic in Scandinavian countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mdHmhI3cs -
"Time to Say Goodbye" is an #EnglishLanguage song released by Greek-Swede duo #Antique. It was released as a CD Single with its #Greek version titled "Alli Mia Fora" (One More Time) in 2003 by #BonnierMusic in Scandinavian countries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3mdHmhI3cs -
Interesting. The Wiktionary Word of the Day today (not a word, but still) is, "At sixes and sevens": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_sixes_and_sevens?utm_source=Mastdon
Which I hadn't heard in a while. But I wonder if that's where 67 comes from? 🤔
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Interesting. The Wiktionary Word of the Day today (not a word, but still) is, "At sixes and sevens": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/at_sixes_and_sevens?utm_source=Mastdon
Which I hadn't heard in a while. But I wonder if that's where 67 comes from? 🤔
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One Word Sunday – Tall
For the “One Word Sunday Challenge” by “Travel with Intent”, participants are asked to submit a photo that relates to the word “Tall”. These ladies, performing on the Venetian Fair in Ludwigsburg / Germany are in fact tall. -
One Word Sunday – Tall
For the “One Word Sunday Challenge” by “Travel with Intent”, participants are asked to submit a photo that relates to the word “Tall”. These ladies, performing on the Venetian Fair in Ludwigsburg / Germany are in fact tall. -
"Summer Samba" (also known as "So Nice" or its original #Portuguese title, "Samba de Verão") is a 1964 #bossaNova and #jazzStandard song by Brazilian composer #MarcosValle with Portuguese lyrics by #PauloSérgioValle and #Englishlanguage lyrics by #NormanGimbel. Marcos Valle's recording was a top 10 hit in Rio de Janeiro that year. In the US, an instrumental recording by #WalterWanderley reached the top 40 on the pop chart and the #EasyListening top 10 in 1966.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDKCeetf0NY -
"Summer Samba" (also known as "So Nice" or its original #Portuguese title, "Samba de Verão") is a 1964 #bossaNova and #jazzStandard song by Brazilian composer #MarcosValle with Portuguese lyrics by #PauloSérgioValle and #Englishlanguage lyrics by #NormanGimbel. Marcos Valle's recording was a top 10 hit in Rio de Janeiro that year. In the US, an instrumental recording by #WalterWanderley reached the top 40 on the pop chart and the #EasyListening top 10 in 1966.
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Couple with unfortunate last name hilariously mourns the baby names they couldn’t use
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/unfortunate-last-name-for-new-baby-ex1/
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Couple with unfortunate last name hilariously mourns the baby names they couldn’t use
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/unfortunate-last-name-for-new-baby-ex1/
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I came across this article. It had a quiz about where you should use a semicolon; I did not do well. (6/10)
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I came across this article. It had a quiz about where you should use a semicolon; I did not do well. (6/10)
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It's "free rein", not "free reign".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign
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It's "free rein", not "free reign".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-free-rein-vs-free-reign
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Hi! I need help.
I'm looking for a native English speaker to help me practice for my interview on Wednesday.
I can't pay now because neither my husband nor I have a job. I had to quit a job where they were crushing my soul. My husband can't work because he's in the final stage of sclerosing glomerulonephritis, a chronic and degenerative kidney disease that requires him to undergo dialysis every four hours.
But I promise on my word of honor that if I get the job, I will pay $150 out of my first paycheck.
If you think you can help me pass my interview, and you're willing to lend a hand... I'm eagerly awaiting your response.#fedihelp #mastohelp #englishlanguage #interview #helpinterview #practice
#teachers #englishstudies #students #englishchannelmigrantcrossings -
Hi! I need help.
I'm looking for a native English speaker to help me practice for my interview on Wednesday.
I can't pay now because neither my husband nor I have a job. I had to quit a job where they were crushing my soul. My husband can't work because he's in the final stage of sclerosing glomerulonephritis, a chronic and degenerative kidney disease that requires him to undergo dialysis every four hours.
But I promise on my word of honor that if I get the job, I will pay $150 out of my first paycheck.
If you think you can help me pass my interview, and you're willing to lend a hand... I'm eagerly awaiting your response.#fedihelp #mastohelp #englishlanguage #interview #helpinterview #practice
#teachers #englishstudies #students #englishchannelmigrantcrossings -
"Ladies & gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. If you look out the right side of the aircraft you will notice flight 195 challenging us to a race. I've turned the fasten your seat belt sign back on because shit is about to get real."
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"Ladies & gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. If you look out the right side of the aircraft you will notice flight 195 challenging us to a race. I've turned the fasten your seat belt sign back on because shit is about to get real."
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GETTING DRUNK IN ENGLISH
1. Sober — трезвый
2. Tipsy = buzzed — немного пьяный, поддатый
3. Drunk = pissed (British) — пьяный
4. Get wasted = dead = hammered — в стельку, мертвецки пьян, вдрызг
5. I've got a buzz going — Я собираюсь продолжить веселье
6. You look a state — ты выглядишь ужасно (British)
7. I've got a hangover = I'm hungover (British) — У меня похмелье
8. I'm hanging — у меня отходняк
9. You got blackout (drunk) — Ты был в отключке
10. You're double fisting = You're double parked — У тебя два стакана с алкоголем (ПРИВЕТСТВУЮ любой альтернативный перевод этой фразы)
11. I'm going out for (a quick) one — Я пойду пропущу стаканчик
12. to day drink — пить днём
13. to go drinking — пойти выпить
14. Designated driver (DD) — трезвый водитель (в компании друзей, будет развозить всех)
15. to make a toast to something = drink to smth — выпить за что–то -
A reptile dysfunction…
-- PLEASE DON'T EAT ME, ALLIGATOR!
-- ALLIGATOR?! I'M A CROCODILE YOU STUPID FROG!
-- FROG?! I'M A TOAD YOU BUFFOON!
-- PLEASE, YOU TWO, STOP FIGHTING!
-- SORRY, MR. TURTLE.
-- TURTLE?! I'M A TORTOISE YOU FUCKIN' IDIOTS!
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A reptile dysfunction…
-- PLEASE DON'T EAT ME, ALLIGATOR!
-- ALLIGATOR?! I'M A CROCODILE YOU STUPID FROG!
-- FROG?! I'M A TOAD YOU BUFFOON!
-- PLEASE, YOU TWO, STOP FIGHTING!
-- SORRY, MR. TURTLE.
-- TURTLE?! I'M A TORTOISE YOU FUCKIN' IDIOTS!
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Wreck Tile Dysfunction
-- For the last time - You need to call s doctor for that.
-- No - WRECKED TILE! WRECKED TILE! I HAVE A Wrecked Tile Problem!
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English Insults
Spanish Insults
saying anything in Russian
Casually ordering food in German
English Insults from an Indian
French Insülts
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Cop: You’re driving on the wrong side of the road.
Driver: Sorry, I’m English.
Cop: (shouting) IT'S THE WRONG SOID OF THE ROADE YE WAS DROIVIN DOWN, INNIT?
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"Words Get in the Way" is a song written by #GloriaEstefan and released as the third single from her band, #MiamiSoundMachine, on their second #EnglishLanguage album, and ninth overall, #PrimitiveLove. The song is a #ballad and became the highest-charting song from the album in the United States.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZcC5i1d9UI -
Today's word is "debate." It refers to a formal discussion on a particular topic where opposing arguments are presented. For example, many students participate in a debate competition to sharpen their critical thinking skills. 🇬🇧 Let’s explore how different perspectives can lead to better understanding! #EnglishLanguage #WordOfTheDay #Vocabulary #Learning #Education #LanguageLovers #ESL #Communication
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One Word Sunday – Swirl
For the “One Word Sunday Challenge” by “Travel with Intent”, for this Sunday the word "Swirl" should be the subject of a picture, a photo a story etc. The lightpainting artist was Olaf Schieche and I took the picture with an exposure time of 820 seconds. -
@leonardof that wouldn't work for japanese because I need the kanjis to understand the nuances 😭😭😭
