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Germans were really onto something when they invented the word Feierabend
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In light of my ß appreciation post making its round again, can we also talk about how much the cursive ß fucks


Like look at that. This is the gay sex of writing.
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The word bairn (child), which is used in Scots, Northern and Scottish English, is closely related to born and to the verb to bear. These words all come from a root meaning 'to carry'. When a baby is born it's been carried to term. The infant is then carried around. Click the infographic for more.
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in den sauren Apfel beißen
literally: to bite the sour apple
to bite the bullet; to do something unpleasant out of necessity
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all my wizards speak esperanto (to varying degrees)
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schoethe best of: Die Leiden einer Fernbeziehung
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bedaŭrinde mi ja ne estas kontinuinte miajn studojn, ĉu vi eble vidas, el mia gramatiko :^)
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obsessed with the ipod brothers so I made some international versions
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scheissdreck ist das wort des Tages
#auf englisch es bedeutet 'fuck all' oder so#man kann meine grammatik korrigieren. bitte#ich hab noch keinen deutschunterricht mehr. nicht bis herbst '24 wenn ich zur universität gehe
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milk-thistle is an example of a word where the tongue barely moves… basilica is an example of a word where the movement involved is like a seesaw. opium as a word is circular to say. to say a word like violence involves a bit of a forced pause in the mouth where the o connecting the syllables is. etymologists trace the word’s history, poets feel the word’s impact, singers listen to the word’s musicality, linguists tell the word to go this way and that way, and the word is gracious to all in return
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