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"If Əmerikin Iŋgliš wəz ə laŋgwij rīsintlī Latinaizd bai mišinerīz"
08.03.2026 20:37
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From r/linguisticshumor:
"If Əmerikin Iŋgliš wəz ə laŋgwij rīsintlī Latinaizd bai mišinerīz"
Top Artists
1. Ayreon — 42
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If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
Churning, Forging, Noodling, Spelunking, Deciphering, Cooking, Wandering, Considering, Brewing, Pontificating, Herding, Calculating, Working, Inferring, Computing, Puttering, Accomplishing, Crafting, Smooshing, Actioning, Manifesting, Contemplating.
4/4
Actualizing, Jiving, Thinking, Enchanting, Mustering, Germinating, Concocting, Spinning, Reticulating, Channelling, Effecting, Incubating, Percolating, Stewing, Honking, Conjuring, Unravelling, Hustling, Determining, Schlepping, Shucking, Finagling, Pondering, Clauding, Processing, Whirring...
3/4
Combobulating, Doing, Creating, Musing, Wizarding, Frolicking, Crunching, Cogitating, Baking, Synthesizing, Discombobulating, Elucidating, Unfurling, Tinkering, Philosophising, Perusing, Forming, Deliberating, Ideating, Scheming, Simmering, Divining, Shimmying, Imagining, Sussing, Wibbling...
2/4
Here's a comprehensive list of the processing words displayed by Claude Code CLI while it works on your requests: 🧵
Flibbertigibbeting, Puzzling, Wrangling, Envisioning, Generating, Marinating, Ruminating, Cerebrating, Coalescing, Mulling, Booping, Hatching, Vibing, Meandering, Moseying...
1/4
I’m very stoked to hear the new @puscifermusic.bsky.social album soon and see them live in Chicago in April. 🤘
Therapists: Turkic programming languages aren't real, they can't hurt you.
Turkic programming language:
In a world where our identities are shaped by warped relationships to ideologies, brands, commerce, trends, and fashion – we are all Waluigi's."
He is not his own man. His existence is the triumph of capitol over creativity; he has no reason to exist beyond adding a simulacrum of novelty to a declining commodity. He is the committee designed end point of a franchise alienated from ideas of play.
Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing.
The same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others.
"Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi.🧵
obsequious adjective an obsequious manservant welcomed them. SERVILE, ingratiating, unctuous,
when the word that you don’t know is desribed by three more words you don’t know
A Gagauz folk song:
Oğlan oğlan kalk gidelim. Granitza'nın boyunda koyun güdelim. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban. Oğlanın evi sarı samandan. Ona yaklaşamıcam tozdan dumandan. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban. Oğlan oğlan, boynuma dolan. Şu elinlen saçından bana yap yorgan. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban.
I love that /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ kind of rhyme for those who have undergone the cot–caught merger, such as Californian Zack de la Rocha
In Taiwanese, @ is "little mouse" (小老鼠 (xiǎo lǎoshǔ). It's "dog" (собака/sobaka) in Russian, "strudel" (שְׁטְרוּדֶל/shtrúdel) in Hebrew, "monkey's tail" (apestaart) in Dutch, "duckling" (παπάκι/papaki) in Greek, and "snail" escargot in French. The @ sign is a mirror of history going back 1000's of years.
Of, street view koymamışlar trafoya ._. maps.app.goo.gl/Lqd2bVe38erk...
Tamam geliyorum. İş güç sahibi de oldum şimdi bilet alıp gezebilen bir insana dönüştüm. Gelip kan veririm sonra da ayak başparmaklarımızla iki buçuk tane falan çiğ köfte yaparız.
Ben. :3
This is the evilest thing I've read for a long time.
This is very cool. Thanks for sharing.
We need a Star Trek episode about how the invention of the universal translator caused people to stop valuing actually learning languages, while they fatally overestimated the UT's accuracy and the resulting misunderstandings led to a massive war that tore the quadrant apart
Channeling my best David Attenborough to introduce one of the many wonderful items in our #Treasured exhibition, currently running until 26 October in the ST Lee Gallery of the Weston Library in #Oxford. Come visit to see this manuscript and more!
📚 New read: Algospeak is the study of language evolution through content moderation algorithms. Great for anyone tinkering with linguistics & data. Re: lexical innovation through algorithmic rules, phonemic substitution patterns, and corpora analysis of viral propagation via a sociolinguistic lens.
“kaçıncı” is a turkish word that doesn’t correlate to a word in english. i propose a new word “whichnth” (pronounced which-unth) for it. so instead of saying “how many times has this happened abi ya!” you say “whichnth is this abi ya!”. (“abi ya” is just an exclamation for frustration)
Helvetica, the most famous and undisputed king of typefaces, has most IPA characters? Since when???
