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уснуть is such a honk mimimi word i swear

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If aid does not enter to Gaza Strip within the next 48 hours — especially baby formula and flour — then prepare yourselves for the largest mass death crime in history.

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i recently learnt a new word and i'm obsessed

so the rus. word миропонима́ние (miroponimánije) is translated as Weltanschauung in ger. so far so good. these are structurally very similar, but there is nuance.

Weltanschauung, literally world view; more poetically (ig) the way one looks at the world (listen. if you ask me it's giving 'pondering my orb')

миропонимание, literally world understanding; the way one understands the world

the latter may lie somewhere in between ger. Weltanschauung and Weltwissen (lit. world knowledge; a linguistic term). Weltverständnis (world understanding; the literal translation of миропонимание) is certainly a word that exists, but it is, like Weltwissen, very rare.

now, if you look up Weltanschauung in a dictionary, it'll give you multiple rus. translations: мировоззрение (mirovozzrenije; which i LITERALLY just learnt is an actual calque of the german Weltanschauung!!), мироощущение (mirooščuščenije; lit. 'world feeling'; ~ the way one feels the world; attitude/disposition to the world), миропонимание, and миросозерцание (mirosozercanije; lit. contemplation of the world; ~ how one contemplates the world).

so, it seems that russian has a lot more words for how to perceive the world, with the calquing of ger. Weltanschauung being another indicator that there was a need to express that nuance, too.

i'm not a russian native speaker, so i'm curious—which of these words do you use the most?

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HOW sexy is it that Russian голод (gólod; "hunger") is cognate with Sanskrit गृध्र (gṛ́dhra, “desiring greedily”) and why is it 1375927/10

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even more so across languages though, yeah

@quatregats honestly the cognates section is mainly for Connecting The Dots, even within one language. like, actively trying to remember other words that i know with the same root forces me to grow more aware of the connections between words, and that in turn helps me a lot with memorising!

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@quatregats honestly the cognates section is mainly for Connecting The Dots, even within one language. like, actively trying to remember other words that i know with the same root forces me to grow more aware of the connections between words, and that in turn helps me a lot with memorising!

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sooo I heard Some of you are interested in other people's anki setups. 👀 here's mine:

[fields]

1: Target Language: lemma or expression in target language 2: German translation (= native language) 3: Spanish translation (i try not to forget my spanish ;-;) 4: Forms (difficult or irregular conjugations/declination) 5: Example of Use (example sentence) 6: Pronunciation (difficult or irregular pronunciation) 7: Cognates, Word Family 8: Etymology 9: Mnemonic 10: Song (if I associate a word with a specific song) 11: Definition (e.g. I didn't know what a banja was so I added an explanation)

I don't fill All of these fields for every single word. The ones that I use consistently are obviously Target Language and German, and then also Spanish, Example of Use, and Cognates and Word Family.

When I study vocabulary, the backside of the card will only have a few categories on it:

German

Spanish

Mnemonic

Cognates, Word Family

Example of Use

I did alter the order of the categories a bit, I don't remember why tho haha

Anyway, the fields I'd definitely recommend using are, of course, Target Language, [Native or Study Language], Cognates/Word Family, and an Example Sentence!

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my beautiful wives akanye, okanye, ikanye, yekanye and yakanye

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ghazzah has no food. this is the most important thing you can say today. the israeli occupation has gotten away with starving 1.8 million+ ppl for long enough to where tht ppl are dying everyday from it now.

protests are no longer effective. there must be a loud, consistent, and coordinated response to the continued policy of collective punishment. because 85% of Gazzans are malnourished. these people will die if we don’t take real action NOW.

what is also important is to keep assisting palestinians in gaza via donating to their campaign. the $ is still used in various ways whether that be for sourcing scarce medical supplies, water, future evacuation, etc. support @blackeagleplog’s, my dear friend mohammed who’s become his family’s sole provider at 23 years old, campaign here. he’s been severely weakened by hunger & told me today he’s only ate lentils once.

how many times did you eat today?

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remember when they were saying that bisexuals couldn't be butch or femme and we had to be like. deer

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genuine question: what is the difference between ты мне нужен / нужен ты мне

ты мне нужен понятно но я не чувствую разницу

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guy with extensive knowledge of the history of slavic languages but piss-on-the-poor reading comprehension: so you're saying slavs should have never learnt how to count??

по-моему, the slavic languages should have just kept the dual and plural numbers 🚬🚬🚬

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like how fun would it be to say stuff like ушеса

по-моему, the slavic languages should have just kept the dual and plural numbers 🚬🚬🚬

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по-моему, the slavic languages should have just kept the dual and plural numbers 🚬🚬🚬

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Boubin Virgin Forest, Czech Republic

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My personal opinion is that you probably shouldn’t ask a linguist how to learn a language because a linguist is the sort of person who likes studying esoteric grammar points

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collection of memes from my prof's slides be upon ye