#Foreign words

[pointless-letters]

REASONS WHY BRITAIN IS TOTALLY RUINED THESE DAYS, NUMBER 18,421: “Foreign words sounding all foreign and strange.”

#Daily Mail #Because of course it is #Foreign words #IKEA #Skoda #Hyundai #UNPRONOUNCEABLE #Really? #Is it really? #Nissan #If it ever changes #I’ll get rid of it #I will #Don’t test me #I will torch my own car to own the libs #Why today stinks #Britain #RUINED FOREVER

[writerystuff]

HOMOPHONE WOE, PART 473

"...just enough to peak your interest ..."

This writer doesn't read enough. But, on the bright side, at least they don't pronounce it to rhyme with "brick," the way so many people pronounce "clique."

#writers #writing #words #homophones #pronunciation #foreign words #read more

[thewitchesbrewletter]

Using or avoiding foreign words

Terms from Latin or French [F] – Meaning or alternative term

Reference – Oxford Guide to Plain English (Fifth Edition) by Martin Cutts

#plain english lexicon #books & libraries #basics #words #tumblr polls #poll #language poll #foreign words #latin and french phrase #english grammar #english #learning #polls #language #book references #spelling #english language #vocab #vocabulary #writing #language learning #latin and french terms #terms

[jaygie]

#japanese words #japanese #foreign words #foreign languages #autumn vibes #autumn #autumn foliage

[morebedsidebooks]

Foreign Words by Vassilis Alexakis

Why am I writing this all down? When I was learning French, I wrote down in a notebook everything I heard in the cafes, in the subway, even at the homes of people who invited me to dinner, like a reporter or secretary. Writing allows you to make physical contact with language, to touch it.

  Foreign Words by Vassilis Alexakis is the story of a bilingual author who after the passing of his father and inability to express it returns to an old fascination with Africa. Specifically, the Central African Republic and learning its primary language Sango.

Bearing a bit in common with his protagonist, Greek author Alexakis while living in France wrote his first novel in French later too writing in his mother tongue of Greek and translating. So, it’s not surprising many linguistic observations and a bit of a language lesson are gracefully incorporated into this text. Coming together to form a most emotive novel on how language can shape the world, ourselves and connections. Further the acute ramifications of shifts and loss be it around a person, language, culture, country, or colonisation.

I picked up this award-winning book years ago, after my own father’s death. Yet, it was during a different period where I seemed to be having trouble over language myself that I most appreciated it. Multilingualism has become greater a fact of the present. Too in a world where many languages are endangered, one would hope that “Is it necessary to choose? Languages are not inclined to fight one another. They are open to dialogue.”

  Foreign Words by Vassilis Alexakis is available in English translated by Alyson Waters, in print from Autumn Hill Books

#french literature #vassilis alexakis #foreign words #les mots étrangers #francophone50 #cw:death of parent #cw: grief colonisation infidelity

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Giovanni Pontiero, from "The Foreign Legion: Stories and Chronicles,"

#lit #clarice lispector #prose #writings #words #prose in translation #the foreign legion: stories #p

[asoftepiloguemylove]

Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? / @/oceaii (tumblr) / Liv Ullmann Changing / The Elektra Complex / Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman from "Meditation on the Threshold: A Bilingual Anthology of Poetry / unknown / @/violentcherries (tumblr) / @/nutnoce (tumblr) / Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea / unknown

i. Joan Tierney Why Are You Haunted? [ "This haunting is architectural. It is not about you. It is about where you are. There are bones in the foundation. This house is a graveyard. This house is a corpse. You are inside the corpse. That makes you the maggot." ]

ii. @/oceaii (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a deer. The deer looks forwards in the first panel and turns back to face the audience in the second panel. "Turn and face / the person you've become." ]

iii. Liv Ullmann Changing [ "I will never forget the loneliness I knew as a child. For a period in my life I hid behind a mask. Did not want to acknowledge any longing. / Now it is a part of me-something I can share. / Both the loneliness and the longing." ]

iv. The Elektra Complex [ "If you were to peel the skin of me apart as a fig's, you would finally understand. I am my mother's daughter. From poisoned seeds sprout poisoned fruits." ]

v. Rosario Castellanos Monologue of a Foreign Woman [ "I didn't want / to be the dead star / that uses borrowed light to survive." ]

vi. unknown [ Black and white illustration of two deer. They are both labeled with words. The deer in the background says "just be." The deer in the foreground replies "just being is the hardest part." ]

vii. @/violentcherries (tumblr) [ "the environment you are not thriving in is not yours forever / IT'S OKAY TO LEAVE / ... / IT'S OKAY to abandon the things you used to love" ]

viii. @/nutnoce (tumblr) [ Black and white illustration of a scorpion doing chores. It's tail just barely curls over the front of a clothes line. Various pairs of socks hang from the clothes line. It stands before a bucket with more clothes inside. "I come from the toughest, meanest place you can imagine. / I want to be gentle, I want to die gently, but / It seems that when life gets hard / I have to get harder to match." ]

ix. Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea [ "I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar." ]

x. unknown [ "1. Man is a MORAL animal. / 2. You can get human beings to do anything - IF you can convince them it is moral. / 3. You can convince human beings that anything is moral." ]

#joan tierney #why are you haunted? #liv ullmann #changing #the elektra complex #rosario castellanos #monologue of a foreign woman #meditation on the threshold: a bilingual anthology of poetry #jean paul sartre #nausea #poetry #poem #words #writing #text #web weave #poetry web weave #web weaving #on heartbreak #on self destruction #on anger #on rage #quote #spilled ink #spilled thoughts #dark academia #light academia #spilled poetry #dark academia quote #dark academia poetry

[koshercosplay]

Neil gaiman is a Zionist :(

this is so funny because if you google "neil gaiman zionist" nearly all of the links are to unsourced tumblr posts or responses to a single tweet from 2015 that just acknowledges Israel's existence

I see gaiman has once again committed the heinous crime of Being Jewish When Israel Is In The News

#*gasp* somebody actually checking for sources before succumbing to hearsay and speculation??? #must be a foreign concept to you anon #sorry but like im not just gonna take someone's word for it #ESPECIALLY when 'zionist' gets bandied about to mean 'jew i don't want you to like' #asks #anons #neil gaiman #antisemitism #ALSO like so what??? the post i reblogged is about him dealing with antisemitism #unless you think jews you don't like deserve antisemitism? 🤔 #fascinating #also ive never even given my OWN opinion on this blog #for all you know I'm a zionist lmaooo #i purposefully keep all my own thoughts on the subject far away from this blog #ooooooh scaryyyy a jew who won't tell you if they're a Good One or a Bad One

[m3-mianbo]

#bengali language #bengali #linguisitc #s #words #foreign words #iraq #history #defimitions with srotrierz #*stories

[xceanlynx]

I'm gonna rant because I am TIRED of gringos talking about brazilian politics without having the decency to research about it

No, "brazil banning x/twitter" is NOT THE SAME as the US trying to ban Tiktok. The US want to ban tiktok simply because it's chinese. Y'all can cry about personal data all you want, but in the end of the day it is because Tiktok is not from the US.

Brazil IS NOT BANNING TWITTER. Brazil wants Twitter to get rid of accounts that organized/fomented the attempted coup last year - which is, in fact, a crime. Elon refused to obey the SOVEREIGN DECISION OF BRAZIL, and is threatening to leave brazilian market (good riddance). As y'all can see: No, here in Brazil it is not "freedom of speech" when your speech is a CRIME. Same goes for racism, xenophobia, homophobia and so on. I am truly sorry that the US as a country has brainwashed most of their citizens to believe that freedom of speech is the human right to rule above all else, including human decency.

What I see online is obviously far right people talking shit about it, but my God if I see another goddamn liberal talk about my country the same patronizing way I am seeing right now, I might as well talk shit about yours too. The difference being that I do not see my country as the paragon of perfection and center of the world, contrary to some if not most US citizens

Fuck you to anyone who gets bothered by any english mistake I made. Got mad? LEARN PORTUGUESE THEN

#brazil #twitter #obligatory disclaimer: gringo in portuguese is NOT a bad word (it only means foreigner) #obligatory disclaimer 2: if you are a nice american that does their research and listen to local people - this post is not about you

[purble-gaymer]

simple thoughts on meta knight and gender euphoria

#kirby #meta knight #king dedede #bandana waddle dee #misc knights #rhyn's art #he’s so gender #i wanted to keep this concise but if i were to go into more depth with it #when i look in the mirror on any average day wearing any old outfit #i see myself. technically #i know that i'm there. i know it's me #but it feels so foreign and unfamiliar #and then other days i have the right sweater or the right combination of clothes #and i see myself. definitely #those moments make me so much happier #because sometimes i catch my reflection really quickly and have to do a double take when i realize i recognize the person staring back #in those moments i feel like everyone who looks at me sees the same person i do #regardless of whether or not they know anything about me #hope this is all comprehensive. i'm not very good at putting this into words

[unbidden-yidden]

I know this is asking people to like, have basic empathy and therefore asking way too much, but I'd just really love if before you [general] comment anything on the current Israel/Palestine situation, you considered how you would react if the roles were reversed.

If, for example, Israeli extremists raped and butchered their way through Gaza (or the West Bank) killing 1200 Palestinian men, women, and children who had been peacefully hanging out observing a religious holiday or sleeping, and especially if they had caught the whole damn thing on film and broadcasted it and celebrated it as if this was some huge win for Jews instead of the biggest chillul Hashem possible - just think about how people would have reacted. And what if they hadn't? What if the entire Western left, up to and including the United fucking Nations had denied the sexual violence and torture? Y'all would be pretty rightfully livid, no?

And let's be honest about how the global Jewish community would react if 23,000 Jews were killed for literally any reason whatsoever. Even if they were all adult male soldiers in active combat, never mind if they were non-combatants or children? We'd shit bricks. It would not feel neutral or not targeted, no matter how objectively true that might be. As it is, every Jew I know is one degree or less of separation from someone directly affected by the October 7th attacks and that's a with a maximum of 1500 casualties and hostages involved. Can you imagine if it were 23,000? We would all be sitting shiva, with no one to answer amen during Kaddish. The reality is that killing a large amount of people from a small minority that has been persecuted throughout its history cannot be a neutral act.

Anyway please I'm begging people to reverse the roles for four seconds to re-humanize the people on the "other" side. Because the truth is that there is no "other side" - there's just the everyday people who want to live in safety, dignity, freedom and justice with their families and friends. And then there's the small minority of very powerful groups and individuals who actively benefit from the conflict continuing. And the faster that those of us who aren't Israeli or Palestinian realize this, the sooner we will be able to effectively support the people on the ground seeking lasting solutions that benefit the majority of the population.

#this is primarily directed at other foreigners who don't live in Israel or Palestine and still have a lot to say about it #i/p #המצב #everyone behave on this post please and thank you #don't be the reason I have to lock reblogs #I actually initially started with reblogs locked but then realized that if this is the post that gets me canceled? oh well #idfc #I have been screaming these words in my mind for weeks now and I can't get past how frustrated I am with the lack of empathy #so #here it is

[thewitchesbrewletter]

#english #learning #words #english grammar #books and libraries #basics #foreign words #plain english lexicon #plainer alternatives #words often confused #book references #tumblr polls #language poll #poll

[jaygie]

#animals #nature #foreign words #foreign languages #friendship #cats #dogs #birds #deer #snail #frog #rabbit #cute animals

[languageboutique]

#english in madrid #english #english language #learning languages #learning english #english as a second language #english as a foreign language #english words #motivation #inspiration #positivity #positive thinking #learning styles

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, tr. by Giovanni Pontiero, from "The Foreign Legion: Stories and Chronicles,"

#lit #clarice lispector #prose #quotes #words #the foreign legion; stories and chronicles #writings #selections #p