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The Vulgar TongueBONE PICKER. A footman.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

Vzvzvz!The sound of "hushing" in Greek! <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onomatopoeia</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

Heliographfinally ai use i can get behind <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-is-talking-to-dolphins-using-pixel-phones-and-ai-and-the-video-is-delightful" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-is-talking-to-dolphins-using-pixel-phones-and-ai-and-the-video-is-delightful</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/dolphin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dolphin</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Vzvzvz!The sound of "wet strike" in French! <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onomatopoeia</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

CBC IndigenousStudents in Ulukhaktok, N.W.T., building app to preserve Inuinnaqtun language David Leitch, a teacher at the local school, said parents and students wanted to do more with the Inuinnaqtun language, and together they came up with the idea to create a simple translation app.  <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Ulukhaktok" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ulukhaktok</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.hongkongers.net/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ulukhaktok-inuinnaqtun-language-app-1.7506772?cmp=rss" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/ulukhaktok-inuinnaqtun-language-app-1.7506772?cmp=rss</a>

Catherine Schmidt<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freedom</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resist</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/resistance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#resistance</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/stevemiller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stevemiller</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fascism</a> “…The first part of controlling the language is inverting the meaning: whatever the government does is good, because by definition the its victims are the "criminals" and the "terrorists." The second part is deterring the press, or anyone else, from challenging the perversion by associating anyone who objects with crime and terror. This was the role Stephen Miller played..”<a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/state-terror?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/state-terror?r=ymxmu&utm_medium=ios</a>

joe•iuculano :mastodon:To the gaggle of Quebecers that won't vote for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/MarkCarney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarkCarney</a> because, according to them, he doesn't speak French well: Would you have voted for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AdolfHitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdolfHitler</a> if he spoke <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#French</a> well?Would you have voted for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DonaldTrump</a> if he spoke French well?Get your fucking priorities straight: vote for <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Carney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Carney</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Quebec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quebec</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Hitler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hitler</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a>

Piggleston PecanpantsMedia and the public need to stop referring to the El Salvador site as a prison and start correctly referring to it as a concentration camp. When people are rounded up and imprisoned without due process, they're in a concentration camp. Soft or incorrect language is helping fuel these illegal actions. It's masking the governments actions. Call things what they are. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fascism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Flipboard Culture DeskMostly you expect food items to be named something delicious-sounding — and not something that your kids would come up with if they were playing a game about a swamp. So what's with the new chocolate bar, the Hormbles Chormbles? Jaya Saxena of <a href="https://flipboard.com/@Eater" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Eater</a> attempts to understand this product intended to "disrupt the candy industry." Just for fun and because we're nosy, tell us in the comments what you think a Hormbles Chormbles sounds like it would be.<a href="https://flip.it/SLXdAZ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/SLXdAZ</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Food</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FoodCulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FoodCulture</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Lifestyle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lifestyle</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Chocolate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chocolate</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Candy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Candy</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Words</a>

Vzvzvz!The sound of "belching" in Japanese! <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onomatopoeia</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

NonilexThe control of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> is necessary to undermine a legal or constitutional order. Our rule of <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> begins w/notions such as the people & their rights. If politicians shift the framework to "criminals" & "terrorism," then they are shifting the purpose of the state.In the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UnitedStates</a>, we are governed by a <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Constitution</a>. Basic to the Constitution is <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/HabeasCorpus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HabeasCorpus</a>, the notion that the government cannot seize your body without a legal justification for doing so.<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a>

NonilexYesterday in the White House, the Salvadoran president showed the way, referring to <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/KilmarAbregoGarcia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#KilmarAbregoGarcia</a> as a "terrorist" without any basis whatsoever. The Americans treated him as a criminal, even though he was charged with no crime.The first part of controlling the <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> is inverting the meaning: whatever the government does is good, because by definition…its victims are the "criminals" & the "terrorists."<a href="https://masto.ai/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyranny</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#authoritarianism</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/autocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autocracy</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictatorship</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TimothySnyder</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®The word <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/tyrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tyrant</a> is from <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Latin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Latin</a> tyrannus, meaning “lord, master, monarch, despot,” and ultimately from the Greek τύραννος (tyrannos), which meant “monarch, ruler of a polis” or “absolute ruler unlimited by law or <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#constitution</a>”.The Greek term possibly has origins from the Lydian tûran, meaning “lord”, referred to someone who seized power without <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/legal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legal</a> right, not necessarily ruling cruelly. <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/meaning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#meaning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LawFedi</a>

i686-powered liaI am always adamant to stress that the tired stereotypes about the German <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> having long hyperspecific words is nonsense and that it's just misunderstood compound words.I mean, imagine writing "compoundwordusage" instead of "compound word usage". That's how <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#German</a> works, we just don't use the spaces.I usually stress that nobody uses those ultra-long made-up words that people cite as curiousities.Until I stumbled upon this...<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/Halbgeviertstrichzwischenpunktuationsl%C3%B6sungen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Halbgeviertstrichzwischenpunktuationslösungen</a>

hyperrealI'm fascinated by the various ways German speakers pronounce R.I don't think it's mentioned in this video, but there is this way that German speakers pronounce words beginning with the letter R that I find pleasing to my ears. Like this one German guy on a Podcast I listen to, his surname is Reuschling, and he pronounces it as if there was an H in front of the R, like "Hreuschling". At least that's what it sounds like to me. I could be mishearing it.By the way, I cannot roll my Rs if my life depended on it. I might be able to do it eventually after a lot of practice. It was always a major self-conscious point when I took Spanish classes and had to speak out loud.<a href="https://youtu.be/mRKvpqOEbvU?si=IFJKGoRYi96IELDY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/mRKvpqOEbvU?si=IFJKGoRYi96IELDY</a><a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://tilde.zone/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#German</a>

The Vulgar TongueAUTEM CACKLETUB. A conventicle or meeting-house for dissenters. CANT.A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)-- <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/dictionaries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dictionaries</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#history</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/society" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#society</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/slang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slang</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a>

Hebrew by InbalYou might know it’s not a regular week in Israel… but do you know what it’s called?Take a guess in the comments 👇⬇️ Not sure? Comment THIS WEEK and I’ll send you a video lesson that explains it all — and teaches you the Hebrew you need to talk about it too! <a href="https://babka.social/tags/jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jewish</a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/popquiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#popquiz</a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/passover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#passover</a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/testyourself" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#testyourself</a>

Vzvzvz!The sound of "laughter" in Vietnamese! <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onomatopoeia</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

Michael BurkhardtI have studied four different (non-English) languages at various points but I never got proficient at any. Some are more fun and some are more useful. I’d really like to lean into one. Should I favor the fun or the useful? <a href="https://social.lol/tags/LanguageStudy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageStudy</a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ForeignLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeignLanguage</a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a>

Vzvzvz!The sound of "stuttering" in Malay! <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onomatopoeia</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#maps</a>

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