#enlish language

[ly0nstea]

Gotta start treating english like monolinguistic english speakers treat other languages

Did you know English doesn't have a word for the Irish word 'mar'? Instead they have to say 'is the cause' of or 'because' for short

[japhan2024]

lmao just unironically typed 'harbringers' in stead of harbingers, just non-native speaker things

[portokali]

and on another other note i feel as an esl author i will never master true fluency which is fine ofc. bc being esl is a strength in and of itself. but also oh oh i feel i play on a completely different board than native english speakers

[enby-with-2-hats]

like every couple of months I'm drunk posting.

Love u all, have a great evening and don't fuck up your life <3

[its-a-splendorful-world]

Why is there a D in fridge but not refrigerator? 🤔

Oh, phonetics! A fascinating language study!

It's speculated currently that the enlish word 'fridge' was originally a shortened version of 'refrigerator' starting as simply 'frige' and later morphing into 'fridge' to match the phonetic pronunciation of the word!

Extremely interesting! :D

[n3llieelle]

I didn’t expect for my leon kennedy fic “Giving him head & making him cum more than once” would become so popular in just a couple days, but this makes me happy to say to myself that I have people that love me for my stories and my stories are popular though sometimes enlish isn’t my best. (I wouldn’t say as a language bc I’m english)

[kapitein-oranghien-29]

Once I hooked up with a guy that barely spoke English and it made Language Barriers a kink for me.

The idea of people who don't share a language having intimate sex only relying on basic verbal affirmation and body language is very exciting.

As someone that isn't a traditional enlish speaker I can see the annoyance XP but indeed Amy kind of barrier? Kinda hot...

[kingdom-mcnd]

Tnx reaction: you falling asleep on them.

I am pretty new here so these tings are still not my best. And enlish is not my first language. I am also a baby thx so i don't know alot yet. I finally finished it i'm really sorry i didn't do it before.

TeaHun ->

You where watching a movie together. When he noticed you fell asleep. His heart started to beat faster. You looked adoreble. He would first watch you and touch your face. After he took a few pictures he would remember that the tv was on. So he turned it of. then he let you sleep for a wile. When he had to go he would put you in your bed so you could sleep some more.

KyungJun ->

He would be his shy self as soon as he saw you asleep on his shoulder. He was smiling to himself. But he got really shy. And would be really quiet. And would overall be really happy. Would also blush once you wake up. He would ask you if you slept wel and if you want to sleep more. Would be happy to take a nap with you.

HyunSoo ->

He would think you looked absolutly adorable. I think he would also give you some forhead kisses. Would not let anyone touch you or even come close. He needed to protect your precious sleep. Gives you a teddy bear next time you all go to sleep because he tought it would be cute.

Junhyeok ->

Gets the biggest smile ever on his face. And couldn't stop staring at you. Puts his hoodie on you. He wouldn't let you become cold. After a while would hug you so thight that you would wake up. He would say sorry for a whole day. Definitly would want you to sleep on him again.

Hwi ->

Another shy one. I think he would turn as red as a tomato. Also wouldn't know what to do. He would just sit their. If he needs to stand up would definitly tickle you awake. It would be like ''baby wake up'' and then tickle attack. Has a good laugh about it with you after.

Sungjun ->

Another shy baby. Would definitly take some pictures of you to tease you with them later. Shows his members the pictures. ''isn't she so cute'' Makes it his wallpaper everytime. Expect a lot of cuddels. Would also sleep with you like slowly fall asleep.

[ly0nstea]

Apologies to @sleepycrowhours for stealing the tags but i want to make a point about learning irish (and I think it applies to language learning as a whole) Duolingo (especially the app, the website is better to be fair but not by much) shouldn't be your primary, or even secondary resource for language learning, it should be a supplement, like flash cards because that's basically what duolingo (Esp. the app) is. It's electronic flash cards, it's nice for vocabulary but horrible for learning grammar, it's yes or no, right or wrong, and language is more fluid than that.

In colloquial speak, if you get it more or less right, the speaker will probably get it, (especially with something as minor as séimhiú and urú which is the english equivalent to switching his/her/their, while duolingo will tell you a sentence is a complete bust if you replace gcat with chait with cat which contexually, speakers will fix themselves and probably won't even mention it to you. Not to mention language is fluid, speakers won't talk like a text book, they'll use conjunctions and phrases you dont know, they'll invent words on the fly.

You should always be learning from books, movies (Yu Ming is ainm dom or cáca milis for irish aimed at young children, an cailín ciúin for more general cinema), poetry (géibheann, an gnáthrud, etc.), music (Teir abhaile riú, oró sé do bheatha 'bhaile, an dreolín, etc.), tv (all of TG4, they have spongebob), RTE player is available for free online.

Buying an irish enlish dictionary, using focloir and teanglann, and reading grammar books will help, writing irish helps too because it makes you look up words you dont know. I had no idea how to use the subjunctive and imperative before, now i do.

All of the info i wrote about séimhiú's and urú's can be found with google, and all of my words of the day are on focloir and teanglann.

tl;dr, using only duolingo is going to give you more robotic speak that even textbook, your vocab will be kind of weird and hyper-specific (kinda like how only learning in a classroom only teaches you to speak about yourself and your family and nothing else). Read irish, write irish, live irish. Remember, you weren't taught your native tongue formally, 80% of what you learn comes from just picking up and talking to people, family, friends, teachers, and maybe 20% was taught in the first few years of school (and a lot of that is written/spelling anyway not actually communicating)

[asublimehimbo]

enlish is not my first language so sorry if this is hard to readbut have u ever seen the movie repo genetic opera? it’s by the producers of saw so u might like it it’s a crazy wild ride of a movie lol

ooooh thank you for the rec!!! i have not seen it i'll give it a look though. i love a wild ride of a movie!!

sorry it took me so long to answer this ask! i have been. Going thru it. your english is easy to understand have no fears.

[thecharioteerdaily]

Literature Review: Stowe's Use of Dialect

In this literature review I will be analyzing the 1931 article written by Tremaine McDowell titled "The Use of Negro Dialect by Harriet Beecher Stowe". As this article is considerably older than other, more modern interpretations of Stowe's work, it employs the use of racial terminology that cannot be condoned in 2024. However, when quoting citations from this article as well as Uncle Tom's Cabin, I will be quoting them word-for-word, but do not take this as tolerance for the words themselves.

During my reading, one aspect of Stowe's tone of writing was how she portrayed her black slave characters, like Eliza, George, and Tom, with their choice of vocabulary compared to white characters, like Eva and her father, as well as Simon Legree. This is established right away in the story as Tom's family and other slaves on the Shelby plantation in Kentucky speak to one another using colloquial, plain language, such as when the slave Chloe responds to George Shelby saying, "'Mose done, Mas'r George,' said Aunt Chloe, lifting the lid and peeping in -- 'browning beautiful -- a real lovely brown. Ah! let me alone for dat. Missis let Sally try to make some cake, t'other day, jes to larn her, she said. 'Oh, go way, Missis,' said I; 'it really hurts my feelin's, now, to see good vittles spilt dat ar way! Cake ris all to one side - no shape at all; no more than my shoe; go way!" (Stowe, 26). The slave Chloe's dialect is shown when she abruptly cuts words off and combines words in a way that would not have been common among whites, so it makes her character as a slave very apparent from the get go. However, despite this, Stowe does not stay consistent in her usage of this type of language as an indicator for the race of the character speaking, as the reader may assume. Tremaine McDowell states that "... the foundation of the speech of all of Mrs. Stowe's characters is the dialect, not exactly of the New Englanders of fiction as is suggested by Krapp (The Enlish Language in America, I, 262), but the common body of folk-speech which underlies American dialects in all sections of the country" (McDowell, 322). This general indicator of class, rather than race only, does not make identifying characters by their speech any easier, as characters like Tom, Eliza, and George seem to sway very easily between the characteristic southern dialect that Stowe uses for other slaves as well as some choice usage of eloquent verbiage, a typical trait of Stowe's white characters. McDowell states simply that "[d]ue to this constant resemblance between the speech of her white and that of her blacks, Mrs. Stow is often unable to make adequate distinction between the two" (323).

It is also worth noting that in their article, McDowell begins a comparison of Uncle Tom's Cabin to some of Stowe's other literary works that followed its publication, such as her work Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp(1856). McDowell says that "Mrs. Stowe makes no advance in her recording of negro dialect. Here, as in Uncle Tom's Cabin, slaves have little difficulty with gender or number of pronouns, they usually keep their tenses disentangles, and they even distinguish between shall and will... Such dialect is convincing only to the most uncritical reader" (324).

I think that one takeaway from Stowe's observed use of language as a race and class indicator is that it is inconsistent at times and generally not a great form of representation for slaves of the antebellum days. Stowe's limited experience in the south and with slave life & culture specifically as a white northern woman means that her caricatures are what a lot of white and northern readers will believe to be true, when reality shows us that it's merely for entertainment.

[pernillemagda]

Agree. With the anon. Her german is good. It's pretty impressive, that she is of course fluent in her native language danish, fluent in swedish, nearly fluent in enlish and good in german.

She is so good at languages, but as a Dane, you also have English and German in primary school from when you are respectively 6 and 10 years or so.

[crazyturtletree]

Mare Ditat, Rosa Decorat

An: Hii! This is my first fic. Enlish is not my first language, and Im open to sugestions and everything! ૮ ˶ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ˶ ა I hope you like this! If you just found this fic its a Repcomm AU that focuses on Sargeant Walon Vau and his home planet. And in this Etain lives! She isn't a very major character but she has her role. Disclaimer: I read the books a long time ago, so if something is wrong then sorry! And it will be on AO3 too, I just need to figure out tagging Wordcount: 5275 Reading time (estimate): 7 min Hope you enjoy! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡ Here is the AO3 link: Mare Ditat, Rosa Decorat

Memoria Praeteritorum

It was very light for the night in Kyromut. Mandalores two moons where full, causing many headaches in the household. One person who was especially snappy was Walon Vau. The old man had a spliting headache for two days, and even before that he fellt like shit.

He was sitting in the kitchen while waiting for his tea to finish, Mird laying next to him. Even when he was relatively far from the karyai, he could hear the happy chatter coming from there. After a little time he heard the soft taps of cruthes.

He stud up from the table and went to the cupboard to take down a cup. Vau thought about joining the group, but his headache said differently.

The taps were getting closer when it suddenly stoped. Walon looked at the door and he seen a head full of choppily cut red hair. He smiled.

“Miss Etain. Would you like tea?” He tried to pull his most inviteing smile. “Its Behot tea. Good for an upset stomach.” Walon poured a mug and held it out.

“Sergeant Vau!” Etain smiled and took the tea. “Thank you!” She said politely and sat down facing the window. Vau took place too.

“The moons are beautiful, aren’t they?” Etain pulled up her legs and crossed them. Vau's supprised she could move this freely after her injuries.

“They are. But they cause a killer headache too.” He chuckled. Etain suddenly looked at him and raised an eyebrow. In response Vau raised one too then he shook his head. “ How are your injuries doing?” Walon asked.

“They are fine…” She looked down into the mug.

“You are healing quickly. You Jedi are fascinating in many cases.” Vau tried to give her encuraging words, even when he didn’t really know how to give those.

“Hm. Thank you.” Etain suddenly become very quiet. ‘Maybe i said something offensive? I don’t think I did’ Vau thought. Etain oppened her mouth like she wanted to say something, when Kad ran into the room, Mereel following in his trail.

“Kad!” Mereel called out, smiling. “Don’t run away just like that!” When Mereel arrived at the kitchen he stopped in his track to look at Vau. The sergeant shook hi head and turned away. He did not notice Mereels quirked eyebrows.

The boy ran to his mother and asked to be picked up. Etain tried lifting him up, but a pained expression painted her face. Kad looked into Etains eyes, like knowing that she was in pain

“Don’t worry Kad.” Vau said. “Ba’vodu Mereel will help” Mereel quickly looked away from the older man, and went to put Kad up into the young womans lap.

Vau stood up too. “I have a tea somewhere that is good for tea.” He want to the cupboard and started looking around.

“I don’t think tea will help her” Mereel proclaimed “Mij is in the karyai, I can ask him for painkillers.” The young man turned to Etain

“Tea is fine, thank you.” Etain said while trying to get Kads fingers out of her hair. Mereel looked at her with a questioning stare “I can’t be forever on painkillers. An it’s not that bad.” Etain explained and Vau hummed.

“You do you…” Mereel accepted. He sat down at the table too

“And you Mereel? Would you like tea?” Vau offered.

“No thanks. Im fine.”

Walon shrugged and pulled out a tea. He put it in front of Etain and sit down in his place. HE petted Mird and pulled out his Kniting. Mereel raised his eyebrows again then looked at Etain. She shrugged and went back playing with Kad. The soldier looked back.

“Mereel. A little advice. If you keep raising your eyebrow to anything I do then they will stay that way”

The young man frowned and turned to Etain and Kad.

Vau heard a Holocall comming in and heard Kal’s voice.

“Fen Shysa, how — help you?” The conversation goes on for a good minute. “—— Vau?” suddenly everything goes silent. Even Kad raises his head. Walon can hear Kals limping steps comming closer. The short man suddenly arrives in the kitchen door. He looks irritated and suprised at the same time.

“It’s the Mand’alor” He gives him the commlink.

Vau stands up and takes the commlink, then tries to walk out, but Kal does not let him. Vau sighes and sits back.

“Vaus here. What can I help you with”

“Sargeant! Are you expecting visitors from Irmenu?” Vau shoots a suprised look. Visitors? From Irmenu? What in the Karkin’ hell…

“Depends…” He hesitates looking around the room. Everybody is silent “Who are they?”

“Two children. They come from the Irmenuan resistance? Heard of it?”

What the hell… Oh Goddes Kola

“No. Never” Vau answered

“Well they heard of you. They have a message from…” Walon hears a young voice “Cordelia?”

Walon suddenly feels dizzy. He can feel somebody staring at him. ‘Not her. Why? Why why why…”

“Vau? Are you here?”

He stedies his voice “Yes.”

“Do you know who that is?”

“Yes.” He sighs. “Do they have money with them?”

The mand’alor mumbles something on the otherside. “They have some Irmenuan Galleons but i don’t think it’s enought

“I will pay tomorow morning. Could you get them somewhere to sleep?

“Yes. Come to Oyu’baat. They will be here.”

“Got it.” Vau stoped the call and stud up in a quick manner. Kal stood in the door, determined not letting him out.

“Care to explain?” Kal asked. It irritaded Vau more than usual.

“No” Vau tried to walk trough Kal.

“You will explain it”

“It’s none of your business” Walon said with so much venom in his voice that it made Etain flinch.

Kal leaned closer “You aren’t leaving this room till you explained yourself.”

Vau leaned down, his golden eyes almost glowing. “Let me out” he ordered.

Kal couldn’t even react that quickly, but he was already moving. like something came over him, something was commanding him. He stared wide eyed

Vau walked out the kitchen seeing Ordo in the hallway. He turned his head back.

“I will explain everything tomorow.” When he looked back all four of them looked very shocked. He smirked to himself. He then turned around and went upstairs.

“Mird!” He called out and the strill was already next to him. They went into Walons room.

He stood in the shower, letting the hot water burn his old scars. He should be happy that Cordelia’s alive. But what are those children doing here? ‘Could they be…’ No, thats dumb. Cordelia was sent into a nunnery ‘But what if…’ No. He did not let his head wander into that direction. They are probably taken in by Cordelia. Or some random children she sent ‘She wouldn’t send anybody…’ He sighed ‘This can’t be good’

He turned of the shower and got dressed. When he walked out Mird was already laying in it’s place. Walon petted it and went to bed.

But sleep did not come for him.

An: I hope you liked it! It's short, but I think its good for first try. Feedback is greatly appreciated

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Anglicanos never translate anything from enlish althought we speak a latin language and have to know how to name at least more than 5 tupac songs

[ebouks]

Den Store Danske Udtaleordbog

Den Store Danske Udtaleordbog

Den Store Danske Udtaleordbog Lars Brink, Jørn Lund, Steffen Heger, Jens Normann Jørgensen Introduction and more in Enlish Categories: Languages – Dictionaries Year: 1991 Publisher: Munksgaard Language: danish Pages: 1663 ISBN 10: 8716066499 ISBN 13: 9788716066497 Series: Munksgaards Ordbøger File: 1264 MB