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"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

"Tonight do not miss Space 1999 with Martin Baby Stroller, Barbara Bath, and Barry Walrus."

I jest but French is my mother tongue, and my English when Space: 1999 was first broadcast was very iffy.

So Landau registered as the French word landau, which means baby stroller. Bain registered as the French word bain, which means bath. Morse registered as the French word morse, which means walrus.

#Space1999 #FrenchLanguage #EnglishLanguage #BabyCarriage #bath #walrus

"My Baby You" is a song written and performed by #MarcAnthony, and was released as the fourth single of his first #Englishlanguage album #MarcAnthony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnh0yU5ef4U

Therefore, I submit the following as a synonym for "to totter":

TO TORKLE.

Example sentence: Courtney got up in the middle of the night and torkled blearily to the bathroom.

This actually happened last night, which is what brought on this wild language ride first thing this morning. You're welcome. 😁💜✌️🤘🖖

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#language
#etymology
#linguistics
#GermanLanguage
#EnglishLanguage
#Latin
#ILoveLanguage

27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/english-words-that-are-hardest-to-properly-enunciate-even-for-native-speakers-ex1/

Linguist clearly demonstrates how ‘thinking is walking’ in English and it’s just so cool

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1/

"My Baby You" is a song written and performed by #MarcAnthony, and was released as the fourth single of his first #Englishlanguage album Marc Anthony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RizBylS2I2k

27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/english-words-that-are-the-hardest-to-properly-enunciate-even-for-native-speakers-ex1

Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1

19 nearly-extinct 'fossil words' that only survive hidden inside these specific idioms

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/19-fossil-words-hidden-inside-idioms

I just read RFC 2119 which defines those uppercase words (MUST, SHOULD) that are used in Internet standards. The interesting thing about translating these, at least when translating to German, is this: must = muss (like in "this is a law you must follow") but "must not" ≠ "muss nicht". What is a prohibition in English turns into a lax "you don't need to do this, this doesn't have to happen" in German when both words are translated literally.

#EnglishLanguage #GermanLanguage

Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking

#UnitedStates presidency has removed #Spanish-language version of its website, as it did in 2017 under first Trump term. Though #English is primary language of US govt, the country has no official national language, and Spanish is second-most-spoken. https://apnews.com/article/trump-white-house-spanish-language-website-62224890c5b05c8ce0878358ba4a5266

#officiallanguage #languagepolitics #geography @geography #EnglishLanguage #SpanishLanguage #hispanoablante #LatinAmerica

I decided to improve my Spanish, yes.

But I'm doing it on Hard Mode.

The custom flashcards that I create are English-Spanish. Oftentimes, it would be so much easier to have them be French-Spanish.

Those who know French and Spanish will tell you that the two are much closer together than English is to either of them.

#SpanishLanguage #EnglishLanguage #FrenchLanguage #flashcards #HardMode

Hello English-speaking #filmfans and cineasts in the #fediverse. I could need some #mastohelp.

Is there something like a widely accepted and known abbreviation for the expression "original version/track with (English) subtitles" in #English? (I am thinking about a similar short form, like the German #OmU for "Original mit Untertiteln").

Asking for a friend. ;) All hints are greatly appreciated. Thank you!

#cinema #filmfestival #englishlanguage #abbreviations

"Why is The Great Vowel Shift also called the Great Vowel Movement?"

"Oh, that's because English took a huge dump on its own pronunciation."

#GreatVowelShift #GreatVowelMovement #EnglishLanguage #dump #pronounciation #BowelMovement

The lesson from the Diane Abbott furore: neither false equivalence nor hierarchies of victimhood help us | Marcus Ryder | The Guardian
#HierarchiesOfVictimhood
#HierarchyOfVictimhood
#HierarchyOfHate
#HierarchiesOfHate
#EnglishLanguage
#RaceIsASocialConstruct
#HierarchyOfPrejudice
#HierarchiesOfPrejudice
#FalseEquivalence
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/24/diane-abbott-letter

There is a word in the #EnglishLanguage. If you don't use it regularly today, you risk becoming not only #irrelevant and #notVeryUseful but, you also risk being a #fool. Worse still, you may even be one of them.

Can you guess what the word is? Spoiler: it's in the below paragraph.

Open a lime trailer corporatist jam fine.

Did you guess #theWord?