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Silly #poll time:

How do you pronounce "been," as in "How have you been?"

#Language #Linguistics #English

Forgive me editing and resetting things! Argh! This really is Dane's Law!!

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Having discussed "fjärd", here's another landscape feature that's super common around Stockholm but apparently nowhere in the #English-speaking world: "häll". It's an almost horizontal, smooth, slightly convex expanse of gneiss or granite bedrock. It's what's left of a taller outcrop after the inland ice has ground it down. Maybe there's a #Scots word for it?

Clanker wanker.

Slopper.

Unthinker.

Which is your favorite term for somebody who won’t do their work, relies on thieving generative AI to make garbage that another person has to completely fix anyway?

#English word archipelago = Derived from the Italian arcipelago, used as a proper name for the Aegean Sea, itself perhaps a deformation of the Greek Αιγαίον Πέλαγος. Later, usage shifted to refer to the Aegean Islands since the sea has a large number of islands.

Way too complex, detached and weird.

#Swedish word skärgård = Skär (skerry) + gård (yard). Skerry yard.

Much better.
#language

🇮🇳 **A colonial hangover or a linguistic leg-up? India grapples with the enduring appeal of English**

_“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion._

🔗 edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/ind.

CNN · A colonial hangover or a linguistic leg-up? India grapples with the enduring appeal of EnglishBy Rhea Mogul

I think it's set to the default.

The @notibotPR team should change their Language in their mastodon instance from English (the default) to Spanish, so that translators like LibreTranslate will offer a translation link.

My Spanish translation skills suffice for ordering food and comprehending bits of occasional Spanish-language ads on TV. I know some obscenities, but those never help.