Notices by Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop), page 41

"The word 'friend' is of Germanic origin, and existed in Old English as ‘frēond’ which was the present participle of the verb frēon, ‘to love’. The root of the verb was ‘frī-’ which meant ‘to like, love, or be affectionate to’. We can still see the remnants of this verb every day of the week- Friday or ‘day of Frigg’ is devoted to the Germanic goddess of love Frigg."

The Copy Team etymology series: https://thecopy.team/blog/origin-word-friend-copy-team-etymology-series/

"What ‘love’ means from person to person, let alone from century to century, is one of the most varied in the English language. The word ‘love’ was once ‘*leubh’, a word used by the Proto-Indo-Europeans approximately five thousand years ago to describe care and desire. When ‘love’ was incorporated into Old English as ‘lufu’, it had turned into both a noun to describe, ‘deep affection’ and its offspring verb, ‘to be very fond of’."

The Copy Team Etymology series: https://thecopy.team/blog/origin-word-love-copy-team-etymology-series/

Origin of the Word Black. The word ‘black’ can be traced back five thousand years to the Proto-Indo-European word ‘bhleg’ meaning ‘to burn with black smoke’ or ‘to burn black with smoke’...

Read more from the Copy Team etymology series: https://thecopy.team/blog/origin-word-black-copy-team-etymology-series/

What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.

FOLLOW-UP: It's been a day since I tooted this, and this has been boosted 53 times and favourited 44 times. So I guess there could be enough of interested people for this kind of instance to be viable.

But don't hold your breath yet! I'm working on it, but I'm famously slow to realize things. A polyglot instance will open at some point in the future, but for now I can't give any time frame for this.

Stay tuned!

Who knows a good front end dev? How is it possible that we are having a hard time filling a #job for @greenpeace international 1st #FOSS project? Peeps - please share: https://workfor.greenpeace.org/vacancies/details/front-end-developer/

Please, please, please consider organising off Facebook. Really. It's not snobbery. It's really dangerous to people who use their legal names to use Facebook for organising.

I think I'm ready to begin reading Murray Bookchin. Any suggestions?

Is there yet a Mastodon instance themed around language learning, multilingualism and polyglot people?

I could be interested in opening one, if this niche is not filled yet.

#Mastodon #instance #multilingualism #polyglot #languages

When encountering a technology for the first time that is "horribly flawed", before we (publicly) dump all over the people involved and their efforts, perhaps we can take a moment and consider a historical perspective. They were likely just people doing the best they could to achieve a goal with constraints that are not obvious. Nobody is perfect. No tech will be perfect. It's possible to build on imperfect tech as we can, and work to improve it when we can.

Today's favourite French word: chiffrement
(a synonym for 'encryption', although it's etymologically a bit more like 'encoding')

@jjg I like to have the website pinned to my homescreen using my web browser of choice™. But if you really need an app, I recommend Tusky.

Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky

F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.keylesspalace.tusky/

Amazon Appstore: https://www.amazon.com/Conny-Duck-Tusky-for-Mastodon/dp/B077ZWWX9T

#tusky