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  1. "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.
    youtube.com/watch?v=gDKCeetf0NY

  2. RE: toot.cat/@woozle/1163241891915

    Hi, I'm Courtney. I'm not autistic, but I do have ADHD, which does, at times, trigger neurodivulgence.

    Also, I am liking the application of inflectional morphology to DuckDuckGo.

    The existence of DuckDuckGo implies not only the existence of DuckDuckWent (as @woozle demonstrates below), but also of DuckDuckHaveGone and DuckDuckWillHaveBeenGoing.

    It's completely delightful.

    #EnglishLanguage
    #grammar
    #IHeartLanguage
    #ILoveWords
    #ADHD
    #DAVE
    #DopamineAttentionVariabiltyExecutiveDysfunction

  3. "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 #Englishlanguage lyrics by #NormanGimbel; the original Portuguese lyrics are by #PauloSérgioValle, the composer's brother.
    youtube.com/watch?v=VGNwXq6vPoI

  4. Audio Etymologies of the Day

    "Shoot" (to propel) comes from Proto-Indo-European *s-keud-, like this (listen):
    🔈ancientsounds.net/eastern-orig

    The derived form *s-kud-to-s, developed into Persian چست chost “quick”:
    🔈ancientsounds.net/eastern-orig

    The root *keud- also lies behind Bosnian-Croatian-Montenegrin-Serbian kidati, "to tear/break":
    🔈ancientsounds.net/eastern-orig

    @linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Persian #Bosnian #Croatian #Montenegrin #Serbian

  5. Audio Etymologies of the Day

    "Sell" comes from Proto-Indo-European *solh₁-éie- ([soleje] simulated here using French "soleil"!), like this (listen):
    🔈ancientsounds.net/eastern-orig

    The related form *sl̥h₁- or *selh₁-possibly (debatably) developed into the initial [sl] cluster of Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian slati “to send”. If so:

    🔈ancientsounds.net/eastern-orig

    @linguistics #etymology #englishlanguage
    #phonetics #ProtoIndoEuropean #Bosnian #Croatian #Serbian #Montenegrin #Slovenian