#language questions

[sirswooshnoodles]

Edit: thank you everyone for your help!

So in a story of mine I have this joke where a sexless deity starts using he/him because another deity called him a dick, as in jerk. (it was very called for but this isn't a lore post, its a linguistics post.)

Then I realized, that to my knowledge, this only works in english. the fantasy world this takes place in technically does not speak enlgish.

So I'm wondering how common gendered insults such as "dick" are in languages other than english. I have done some, and will do some more googling trying to find answers, but so far I have had zero results.

Are gendered insults a thing in other languages? if so, how common are they?

please and thanks

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

[leet911]

Any Thai speakers out there who can tell if we know whether Pam's grandmother is paternal or maternal? Is there a distinction in Thai when naming the kinship relation? If I use the example of Chinese, there are different words to refer to your father's mother versus your mother's mother, so I'm wondering if we have that clue already from the way Pam refers to her grandmother?

[silver-one-dumb-f8ck]

I've had a dumb thought, perhaps the dumbest yet: the night is dark, and when we think of dark (or at least when I do) we think of the color black, soo that leaves me wondering if there are any examples in languages where "black" and "night" have a similar origin or shared ancestry

[theo-tries-to-learn-languages]

would it be helpful for vocab to translate songs and short stories? even using google translate (not for asian languages or languages further from English, but germanic languages)

cause i wanna learn vocab and these flash cards are not working so well😀

[askstevella]

How many languages do you know? - Gina (Taylor’s Verisons)

“Hm. I know English, French, some German and Russian thanks to Nat. And because of me living in New York and being married to a Hispanic woman-”

*appears out of nowhere* “YEAH YOU ARE!”

*he laughs at her sudden appearance* “—I know Spanish too! I knew some Spanish before i met her by the way, i loved in Brooklyn so i had a lot different neighbors coming in and out of places so it resulted in a melting pot of people.”

“Tell me that Spanish words you know, babe. Aside from ‘Mi Amor’! He gets this one from fans a lot.”

“Do i have to?”

“Yes sir.”

“Okay.”

“This is gonna be fun.”

~~~

~~~

“Guapo, yo soy guapo.” *he says dancing and repeating the sentence as it gives him a silly confidence boost*

*she laughs* “He heard that on the street once and asks me what it mean. It means handsome by the way. My answer for anyone who wants to answer, what languages do you know or want to learn someday?”

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Tags: @missstrawbs2001 @purpleprincessonfyre @meiramel @gcthvile @rickb-chaos @gaminggirlsstuff @wizzzardofoz @cherrysft @thechoooooosenone @luna-d-marsh @rooster-84 @sherloquestea and etc

[mayonnaise-sock]

I’m so interested what accents sound like in other languages like i know what a japanese accent sounds like in english, and same for russian, german, french blah blah but i wanna know what it sounds like for say spreaking japanese with a german accent, or a russian one, or the other way round, ik accents are present in any language you speak i’m so curious what the sound like but i can’t find stuff like that yk? Like idk what to look up i’ve tried a few things- but another question is would someone who doesn’t speak the language even notice the accent?

[incognitopolls]

Hypothetical scenario: someone is on Ao3, looking for fanfiction to read. This person only speaks/reads English, and they set the language filter to only show fics written in English.

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[stingrayextraordinaire]

Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.

Last year's collection

[iamthemoonagedaydream]

FRENCH PEOPLE!

I was learning French today at school and Mme Blanc said that in french, no matter how many girls there are in a room as opposed to boys, if there is one boy in that room then you STILL have to refer to the group using masculine pronouns,as it all stems from the patriarchy.

SO.

I would like to request/ask french people if it'd be okay for me to use feminine pronouns to address a group of people, if the majority is women, and masc if the majority is men.

Like would someone look at me and go 'tf has duolingo taught you' or would they be like 'yeah get with the movement' ?

Cuz I don't wanna be apart of no patriarchal enforcement. Oh and do people already do this?

Thank you!

[eternallyamata]

Why is the common order there's few _____ in ___, let alone (bigger place)

For example, there's few people who can do it in europe, let alone the world.

Shouldn't it be the other way around?

[hebrewbyinbal]

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[dykepuffs]

History research time!

When, in the place you live in, did "FAG HAG" have the semantic shift from meaning broadly "A queer woman who would also have sex with queer men, but not with straight ones" to "straight woman who enjoys being around gay men socially"?

Or, did it never have that former meaning in your area? Or does it still have that meaning in your area? Or some other more complicated setup?

Tell me in tags!

[pastacatprod]

Do "horsin around," "monkeyin around," "joshin around," and "fuckin around" all basically mean the same thing?

[saltylangblr]

whenever I see someone use the quote marks „ “ im like aha. german speaker spotted

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Vibes based grading system.

(for @epistemologys, who wanted some post-canon, teacher WWX)