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אַך, מײַן טאָע. זשע סיז עבֿרריתּ? Akh, mayn toes. zhe s'iz ivrit? Oops, my mistake. "Ivrit", then? ון פֿאַר װאָס מײַן פֿראַגע-צײכן יז געגאַנגען די התחלה פֿון דאָס זאַץ?! , :o ױ װאַװױ. Oy vavoy, un far vos mayn frage-tseykhn iz gegangen di haskhole fun dos zats?! :o G-ddammit, and why did my questio...

Giizoogipon ezhi-Texas ishkwaaj giizis. Bi-mayagi-danakamigad.
It also snowed here in Texas last month, which is very strange in our area.

און 'ענער לשון'ז װאָס? לשון-קודש?
Un yener loshn iz vos? Loshn koydesh?
And what language is that? Is it Hebrew?

Maagizhaa maajii-daa-ozhibii'ang gaa-aabita-biboong aanji-bimaadizid wayiiba.

I guess you could get your list of New Year's resolutions started early.

As a native speaker from the US, "elder brother/sister" definitely sounds old fashioned to me. "Older" is the default in my experience.

I've noticed that "lol" -- and especially "LOL" -- is used unironically by older people (grandparents, some stay-at-home moms, etc.), but these days I tend to see younger people use it in an ironic or even mean way. Kind of like when people say something is funny or hilarious but you can tell they'r...

Indoobendam ingaganawaabandaan Nangoog Miigaadwin! Ingikendam anishinaabe-wiinzowin gii-onji-ozhitood o'ow: I'm excited to see Star Wars! I know the Ojibwe name because someone made this: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/fa/5f/4c/fa5f4ce9150409dcf0c751becd0f5332--babel-cover-photos.jpg (Source: https://ww...

I learned the Ojibwe word maaminonendam , which means "s/he thinks about,considers, realizes, notices something", according to the Ojibwe People's Dictionary . Yeah, they have really long words in Ojibwe. It is a polysynthetic language, after all. I learned it partly through participating in the "ni...

Anishinaabemowim. ^_^ Ninanda-gikendaan eyiizh inwewinan.
Ojibwe. ^_^ I'm trying to learn both languages.[The resources are a lot better for learning Ojibwe, but I can't find a word for "resource" or "dictionary", so these brackets'll have to do.]

Ningii-maaminonendam Poland jiimaan aawang....
I thought Poland was a boat....

Isn't it that most languages don't have a separate word for that and instead use something like “to boil” or “to prepare food”? (Or just “to make X” instead of ”to cook X”?) Aha! Sure enough, my dictionary has "to make" (3s) as only three syllables long: goohlvvsga . That makes a lot more sense. Th...

Cherokee seems resistant to borrowing. The book Beginning Cherokee by Holmes & Smith lists these: horse: soquili burden-bearer 'he-carries-away-heavy-things' California: adel'tsuhdlunh where they find money 'money-they-get-from-out-of-there' flag: gadadi place to be taken care of 'this-place-is-trea...

I'm trying to memorize the Cherokee word for cook (v.), and it's just not working. How can you have such a common word be six syllables long?! The combination of the syllables, the vowel length, and the tone (Oklahoma Cherokee has six of them) is what gets me. I'm starting to wonder if there was a s...

I went ahead and saved this thread to the Internet Archive. This is way too good to lose. By the way, I'm curious as to how much you took from real-life String Theory and how much you came up with yourself. This is all fascinating.