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Is this from Dzongkha or Ladakhi? Since the plosive + r combination usually produces a retroflex consonant (affricate in Lhasa Tibetan, stop in Dzongkha) I take it this was loaned via an Indo-Aryan language.
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Is this from Dzongkha or Ladakhi? Since the plosive + r combination usually produces a retroflex consonant (affricate in Lhasa Tibetan, stop in Dzongkha) I take it this was loaned via an Indo-Aryan language.
Literally the “hitchhiking to Berlin” scene from EuroTrip.
a man with a beard and a hat is sitting in the back of a truck .
Alt: Scene from the comedy EuroTrip (2004) where a truck driver tells the hitchhiking protagonists that he’s going nowhere near Berlin because of his legal issues, but they get on anyway due to only understanding the word “Berlin” out of his rant.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Literally the “hitchhiking to Berlin” scene from EuroTrip.
It wasn’t until I first came across “paraula” that I made the connection between “palabra” and “parole”. And I’m pretty sure I didn’t connect the dots to “parabola” until it was pointed out to me directly.
January 8, 2026 at 6:58 PM
It wasn’t until I first came across “paraula” that I made the connection between “palabra” and “parole”. And I’m pretty sure I didn’t connect the dots to “parabola” until it was pointed out to me directly.
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Never have I been more glad that no project gets picked up at KyoAni unless a director is proactive about wanting to make it. Which, duh, they would with Ruridragon. Jump adaptations are sucking the air out of the room, but at least this is a vacuum-sealed studio that won't sap talent from elsewhere
December 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Never have I been more glad that no project gets picked up at KyoAni unless a director is proactive about wanting to make it. Which, duh, they would with Ruridragon. Jump adaptations are sucking the air out of the room, but at least this is a vacuum-sealed studio that won't sap talent from elsewhere
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UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
December 25, 2025 at 3:43 AM
UPDATE: We may see the first time English is displaced as the most popular language among Bluesky posters as soon as Americans head to sleep tonight.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
Japanese users were close to achieving that feat at 7 am Eastern Time, and their activity is increasing at an exponential pace. This is remarkable.
I occasionally wonder how actual pan-slavists react when it’s pointed out to them that one mr. Jughashvili came closest to realizing their political goals..
December 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I occasionally wonder how actual pan-slavists react when it’s pointed out to them that one mr. Jughashvili came closest to realizing their political goals..
Reminds me of the Russian conspiracy theory that “(Moscow mayor) Sobyanin’s real surname is Kanalgeruch”, which still gets unironically included in lists of “real names of the Russian elite”, even though the person who admitted to having invented it said that its implausibility was part of the joke.
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reminds me of the Russian conspiracy theory that “(Moscow mayor) Sobyanin’s real surname is Kanalgeruch”, which still gets unironically included in lists of “real names of the Russian elite”, even though the person who admitted to having invented it said that its implausibility was part of the joke.
I guess there’s still a possibility that it’s based on the Russian *pronunciation* with no regard for the spelling, which in turn would make me wonder at what point the spelling with an i became “set in stone”
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
I guess there’s still a possibility that it’s based on the Russian *pronunciation* with no regard for the spelling, which in turn would make me wonder at what point the spelling with an i became “set in stone”
The spelling has always puzzled me because if it’s based on Ukrainian then it wouldn’t have an o, as the -oy stressed ending in adjectives is a clear Ru vs Ukrainian/Belarusian isogloss, but if it’s based on Russian then the other vowel should be e instead of i.
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The spelling has always puzzled me because if it’s based on Ukrainian then it wouldn’t have an o, as the -oy stressed ending in adjectives is a clear Ru vs Ukrainian/Belarusian isogloss, but if it’s based on Russian then the other vowel should be e instead of i.
And here I thought that Ernst Neizvestny’s name was an artistic pseudonym à la Demyan Bedny (“the poor”) or Ivan Bezdomny (“the homeless”).
To be fair, the latter is a fictional character loosely based on the former, I couldn’t actually think of another real example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_N...
To be fair, the latter is a fictional character loosely based on the former, I couldn’t actually think of another real example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_N...
Ernst Neizvestny - Wikipedia
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November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
And here I thought that Ernst Neizvestny’s name was an artistic pseudonym à la Demyan Bedny (“the poor”) or Ivan Bezdomny (“the homeless”).
To be fair, the latter is a fictional character loosely based on the former, I couldn’t actually think of another real example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_N...
To be fair, the latter is a fictional character loosely based on the former, I couldn’t actually think of another real example
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_N...