latin: words like ‘yes’ and ‘no’ aren’t important. memorize these 3000 different ways to talk about killing people though because you will use them
greek: hello naughty students it’s participle time
egyptian: ancient pictionary
french: pronouncing every letter is for chumps
german: let’s combine every other word together to create the U L T I M A T E F R A N K E N W O R D

solnishka1927:

nucleic-asshole:

notanoveltyaccountok:

somewhatgreatexpectations:

naked-mahariel:

zeplerfer:

weeping-wandrian:

why the fuck does english have a word for

but not for “the day after tomorrow”

???

Because you’re not looking hard enough! 😉

Overmorrow = the day after tomorrow

Ereyesterday = the day before yesterday

Example: I defenestrated my brother ereyesterday. I shall defenestrate my sister overmorrow! Because I hate my family and also windows.

english has some of the best examples of stupidly specific words, tbh

Rhotacism (n): excessive use of the letter “R”

Lingible (adj): meant to be licked

Whipjack (n): a beggar, specifically one who is pretending to have been shipwrecked

Yerd (v): to beat with an object with a stick

Roddikin (n): the fourth stomach of a cow or a deer

Balbriggan (n): a type of fine cotton, most often used in underwear

and my personal favorite

Cornobble (v): to slap or beat another person with a fish

This makes the English nerd in me extremely happy.

Who even made these words I’m going to cornobble them

My dick is lingible

there is a dictionary that has all of these stupidly specific and obscure words and a whole lot more. It’s absolutely beautiful.

germannn:

Haha, thanks for sharing! I admit that I had to read your sentence twice to understand it.

@ learners of the German language:

What we have here, my friends, is a relative clause within a relative clause. 

die, die die, die die Tugend nicht achten, achten 

= those who respect those who do not respect virtue 

achten wir nicht 

= we do not respect

Here’s the translation of each “die”: 

• die (1) = those
• die (2) = who
• die (3) = those
• die (4) = who
• die (5) = the (article of “Tugend”)

The subject of this sentence (wir) is placed after the wonderful relative clause mess. In German, it’s possible to change the common subject – verb – object order into an object – verb – subject order. 

SVO: Wir respektieren XY nicht. = We don’t respect XY. 

OVS: XY respektieren wir nicht. = XY we don’t respect. 

(XY = die, die die, die die Tugend nicht achten, achten) 

I apologize on behalf of my native language! 

It gets even more exciting when such a sentence includes a verb with a separable prefix.  The prefix often COMPLETELY changes the meaning of the verb, and if it’s conjugated it just about always winds up at the end of the sentence, NO MATTER WHERE THE ROOT VERB IS (and it’s usually near the front).  And especially in formal written German, sentences can be nearly a paragraph long.  

This led to problems when I (a non-native German speaker) attempted to translate the work contract of a friend of mine who had been recently hired by a company in Munich, but spoke no German. “What?  This sentence makes no sense!  How do these words even REMOTELY go together?  What the hell is going on here? … ‘zu.’ OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE.” *retranslates verb, goes back to the beginning of the sentence and starts again*

I told him once I was done that he was lucky I was doing it for free out of love, because if i had been charging him, I might have decided to charge per word separating the root verb from the separable prefix. XD

spanishskulduggery:

Upsetting grammar: “It is imperative that you use the indicative” is actually subjunctive

tunefulcandour:

hungarian:

bon jovi? mauvais jovi? c’est un mystère

#ehhhh comme ci comme ca jovi