Hello #Mastodon this my #introduction post. As my profile reads I am 56, over the hill, and slowly getting into the final years of my career. I am married with three grown, trouble-free kids (so far). My interests are a #federated place to discover new people and ideas. I enjoy studying #languages such as #French#AuxiliaryLanguages and #Filipino (Ang Pilipino ang asawa ko). I enjoy making sarcastic remarks on people’s postings. Let talk and exchange follows!
The distinctive red garment 🔴 👗 remains a constant motif of this ancient #story, collected by #Perrault and the Brothers #Grimm. Greek authors mentioned in some other old stories Pyrrha "fire" 👶 🔥 , and a man with the name #wolf 🐺
Every week I do my #Taiwanese language homework, panic about how ‘I don’t know these words’, then realize that all the words I don’t know are the Taigi words that originated from Japanese
Also, I have to zoom in to see how to write some traditional characters, coz I’m getting old (and I actually only know how to write simplified)
It’s often claimed that “f*ck,” one of the most offensive words in the English language, is the most versatile word in any modern lexicon. The assumption, however, is that other languages lack such multi-use vocab.
But that isn’t exactly true. After all, just look at the Japanese language. Just look at “yabai!”
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an American computer programmer, adopted the @ symbol for the brand-new “e-mail” to separate the username from the host computer is located at.
Did he invent a new symbol? The answer here: https://mapologies.com/symbols/
So I guess if I understand this podcast I am upper intermediate when it comes to Mandarin? Unfortunately while I understand this podcast quite well, no way can I speak this quickly. It is so weird that my listening skills are soooo much better than my speaking skills 🤣
Today is #Tuesday, literally “Tiw's Day”. Tiw or Týr was the God of war, just like #Greek Hermes' & Roman Mars' day. So yeah, today is basically the day of Mars. Is it also in your language? If only we could have a #Tuesdaywithoutwars
Ostensibly it‘s about #OCaml, but in reality it is just a conversation about properties of #programming#languages and their intended coverage of use-cases.
I were at #FOSDEM to show and discuss #fedora#languages#translation progress, and instead I went to #OFFDEM in which I had a really pleasant time, unfortunately, I were not able to stay on Sunday for personal reasons...
I'll try talking here about these data, until I consolidate this in a more structured way.
I a reminder, my goal is to measure the efficiency of the way we work (translator communities, devs and distribution), to open discussion.
#Lemon balm has a peculiar lemon-mint scent, giving the #plant its common name. Catalans and Arabs, however, disagree on this, for them, it is more #orange-like (tarongina and turunjan respectively).
Dafuq with calling Yang Guo (杨过) "Penance". I don't care if that is what his name means whatever but you dont have to translate Chinese names like that. I can't take this translation of Jin Yong's book seriously omg 💀
Like, there's this character in Mysterious Lotus Casebook called "Duo Bing", can you imagine if you call him "Always Sick"?? Chinese names don't have to be direct translations omg
We're blessed to have so many tools to use to learn #Mandarin free. It has made learning the language so much faster and easier. Here are the apps and courses I'm using to improve my Mandarin.
ICYMI: calling someone “tako” in Japanese goes back to Japan’s Edo era – and, according to one theory, is deeply associated with the era’s feudal hierarchy.
Long and fiery winter night it is ! User:Dragons_Bot is importing frequency lists in 500 more #languages from Unilex into #Lingualibre. Dragons Bot script is running tonight, editing Lili persistently. We then will have common words list for 1001 languages, ready for you to record. At step 3 of the Recording Studio, click "local list", then search List:{your_iso}/Unilex and you are good to go ! If your community's languages aren't there you can let me know below. 🎉 https://lingualibre.org/wiki/Special:RecordWizard
🎉 Finally ! Wikimedia Commons was blocking upload of files & filenames with characters in some minority #languages writing systems.
With today's change those characters and filenames are now accepted on Commons and therefore #Lingualibre. It allows Lingualibre & Wikimedia to support more and smaller languages & cultures.
Doesn't seem much but Lili members have been pushed this issue since 2021.