جان (Can)
johnrichardsson.bsky.social
جان (Can)
@johnrichardsson.bsky.social
Language Guy (Family Guy)
23 he him 🇺🇸🇹🇷

I do things like language and linguistics, lots of love for living languages alongside languages less living.
Salom!  Men hozir o‘zbek tilida gaplashaman.

Men juda band edim. Men hozir boshqaruv lavozimidaman. Juda charchagan.

Mayli, ko'rishguncha!

(LANGUAGE DAY 4/365: UZBEK 🇺🇿)
July 25, 2023 at 8:48 PM
سلام من جان، من الان دارم فارسی حرف میزنم. چطوری؟ خوبی؟

بیشتر فارسی بلد نیستم😅

خداحافظ! -جان

(LANGUAGE DAY 3/365: FARSI)
July 25, 2023 at 12:45 AM
Ups! Ich habe vergessen zu posten. Ich werde diese Posten fortsetzen. Kennen Sie ein bisschen Deutsch oder viel? Kein?

(LANGUAGE DAY 2/365: GERMAN 🇩🇪)
July 23, 2023 at 7:57 PM
Salam. Men Bluesky'de köp dillerde neşir etmek isleýärin. Men şu gün Türkmen dilinde ýazýaryn! Siziň haýsyňyz bu dilde gürleýär? Kimdir biri?

Belki, dostum Vijaý bilýär. Ol köp akylly rjngnf

(LANGUAGE DAY 1/365: TÜRKMEN 🇹🇲)
July 20, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Q: Is it a coup?

A: Yes it is, even if it's in NATO's favour.

Putin jargon aside, they're trying to seize power and that's pretty apparent.
June 24, 2023 at 3:49 PM
Kavanaugh: "it is not the judiciary's role to rewrite and update this 155-year-old treaty"

No one wanted you to. They were asking for FUCKING WATER.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna83584
June 24, 2023 at 12:06 PM
It's illegal to be cis on Twitter now, happy pride folks 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️
June 22, 2023 at 12:46 AM
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/linguists-have-identified-a-new-english-dialect-thats-emerging-in-south-florida/

Hmm, but is this also true for South Texas, another densely populated, isolated, majority-Hispanic area? This is a great finding but limiting it to Miami seems short-sighted
A New English Dialect Is Emerging in South Florida, Linguists Say
www.scientificamerican.com
June 17, 2023 at 5:27 PM
So this basically country is a melting pot until it means white kids have to work harder.
June 17, 2023 at 5:20 PM
Love to see people working so hard to keep Kurds visible, from all nations.

https://restofworld.org/2023/google-translate-sorani-kurdish-volunteers/
The mission to preserve Sorani Kurdish by getting it onto Google Translate
A community came together to ensure its language would be represented in the digital world.
restofworld.org
June 9, 2023 at 5:01 PM
Dear NYT: don't try to bag a bogeyman, tackle the real problem at hand: climate change.
June 8, 2023 at 12:54 PM