#englishlanguage — Public Fediverse posts
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"I before E, except after C" is an ancient proverb known to many in society. It was never scientific, with a deficiency of evidence, and not efficient at explaining English spelling. I can't in good conscience recommend it any more than other fallacies.
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Added this standard. Listening to Play It Cool by Münchener Freiheit. Has that infectious pop hook. See how to play it. Read more:
https://chordyes.com/chord/munchener-freiheit-play-it-cool
#guitarstar #guitaridol #german #malevocalist #englishlanguage #80s #synth
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All of us who speak colloquial English have totally missed our chance to make "bear my beer" a thing.
I mean, if you wanted the holder of your beer to provide entertainment as well, you could even say, "Bear bare my beer."
And if said beerholder is of the ursine variety, you'd be blessed by the language deities to be able to command: "Bare bear, bear my beer!"
We could all stand to be a bit more creative with our words.
#ILoveLanguage
#EnglishLanguage
#colloquialisms
#bears
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Brain blippedy-blerps this fine evening:
I love em-dashes and I love the word “actually”, but these days I use both a lot more carefully. In the pre-AI era I’d throw them around a fair bit, before they were so horribly overused.
Kind of related but not really: the French word « actuellement » doesn’t actually mean “actually”.
I wonder which words are being chronically overused by AI in other languages?
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"My Baby You" is a song written and performed by #MarcAnthony, and was released as the fourth single of his first #Englishlanguage album #MarcAnthony.
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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
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#Latin
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"Bad Boy" is a song by the American band #MiamiSoundMachine, led by Cuban-American singer #GloriaEstefan, and released as the second single from their second #EnglishLanguage album, and ninth overall, #PrimitiveLove (1985). The song enjoyed much success following up on the band's mainstream breakthrough single, "Conga". It also was featured in and opened the film #ThreeMenAndABaby.
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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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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:
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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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.
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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. -
"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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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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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/
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27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers
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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
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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
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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
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How frequent is vulgar language in online discourse across 20 different English-speaking regions?
Corpus linguistics has the answer. Image and paper by Schweinberger & Burridge, 2025: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946
#swearing #profanity #language #linguistics #CorpusLinguistics #research #EnglishLanguage #vulgarity
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In other news, #Australia's national broadcaster openly making a joke of the #UkraineRussia conflict.
One comedian on ABC labelling a spokesperson for Ukraine "Borat" due to his lack of command of the #englishLanguage.
This aligns with our thesis that theWest deliberately stoked this conflict, exporting people with poor ideologies to #Ukraine to both die, and to fuel our #weaponsIndustry and #militarism.