Notices by clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de), page 129

The argument against latinization or simplification is "you can't preserve this kind of nuance" and the value of heritage.

The argument against Classical is "look at the kind of nonsense you have to put up with". People who studied European languages may recognize this as "tell me again why I have to learn Latin".

The movement to "write as we speak" won, and whether you use pinyin (early school, input methods, instant messages), Traditional (Taiwan, Hong Kong) or Simplified (Mainland, Singapore) you are writing to some degree either as you speak or as Beijingers speak.

> I don't know what to do about the endless "is Asahi ready to daily drive" posts on Reddit. Every time someone asks that question a bunch of replies range from unqualified "no"s to a laundry list of missing features, which is invariably a different list every time.

Friday brain: "a bunch of reptiles"

social.treehouse.systems/@marc…

Chinese does this to itself all the time. Most words are two-syllable, two-character words. Often when you look up the meaning of the first character it literally means the same thing as the two-character word.

That's because over the course of 2000 years of language evolution, loss of tones and phonemes from Classical Chinese and the addition of new words in the vocabulary, that first syllable has become too ambiguous in the spoken language.

In an analogy, to tie it back to the top:

- do you mean cuddle, the act of physical intimacy, or cudele, the sea creature?
- yeah I meant the cuttle fish
- ok, got you

/via a discussion about the below exchange:

>>>>> The 'cuttle' in 'cuttlefish comes from the Old English word cudele, meaning 'cuttlefish'

>>>> *sets entire english language on fire*

>>> Thereby showing that the phenomenon that gave use gems like “PIN number” and “ATM machine” (also known as the self-demonstrating RAS syndrome, i.e. “redundant acronym syndrome syndrome”) is actually age-old 😀.

>> This is fantastic

> In french, the very innocent word “aujourd’hui’, (=“today”), litterally means “the day of hui”, “hui” being an old word for “today”. It’s just like we’d say : “todayday”

> This becomes hilarious when you think it’s pretty common to say “au jour d’aujourd’hui”, which can be translated by “the day of the day of today.”

> French people really trying hard to live in the present.

tumblr.com/frapoleng/160124188…

The Torpenhow Hill etymology was imitated in the etymology of a city in the Dragaera fantasy novels:

tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said…

"tradition is peer pressure from dead people"

Love it. 😃

The three indictments of the former President, a quick overview of the backgrounds and charges:

usatoday.com/story/graphics/20…