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"Language Engineer" | Slavic/Turkic/Semitic enthusiast by choice, Sin(oxen)ic/Romance/Germanic enjoyer by chance | now dabbling: తెలుగు ไทย Malti

上海, NYC, LA

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Joined April 2014

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

dropped by an Armenian bookstore in the neighborhood and the shopkeeper must've thought I was lost, since he immediately let me know "most of the books here are Armenian-interest" to which I replied այո, գիտեմ, ես մի քիչ հայերեն կարող եմ կարդալ, եւ ուզում եմ ավելի շատ սովորել

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3 months

fyi

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3 months

ah yes, the classic "wow you speak the language so well, you're using fancy words we don't actually even use in real life"

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

wait a second, the origin of English "gun" is also weird as hell... it just comes from the nickname of one specific big gun 😂

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

weird etymology of the day: the Burmese word for "gun" comes from this old-timey German word for "highwayman"

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

"阿凡提 = authentic" is still one of my all-time favorite bits of etymology trivia (made this image for my Instagram three years ago)

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And in China as 阿凡提 (ā fán tí; cognate of ‘effendi’ I think) and a very popular animation series which was the first multi-episode animated film in China.

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

therapist: Maltese Seven-Verb Sentence isn't real, it can't hurt you Maltese Seven-Verb Sentence:

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

I recently came across this century-old book about similarities between Korean and the Dravidian languages, and... there's a lot going on here a thread 🧵

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

weird etymology of the day: the Burmese word for "gun" comes from this old-timey German word for "highwayman"

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

the Hindi says something completely different from the English 😂👻 (at Dishoom in King's Cross, London 🇬🇧)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

common knowledge: Slovene has a dual number obscure knowledge: the dual can be used with a singular subject, when talking to children

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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at first I was like: ha it's so weird how they call movies "skin" in Thai (หนัง/nǎng) but then I thought: wait, Spanish "película" means "little skin" (cf. "piel") and then I realized: English "film" also originally meant "skin" 😵

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

Maltese proverb: "Better to go 'oof' than to go 'ahhh'" 🇲🇹

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

Turkish Japanese 🤝 using "in the shadow of" to mean "thanks to" any other languages have this turn of phrase?

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

here's a thought: what if I just learned Gothic for no reason?

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

more language textbooks should have a section dedicated to being rude in conversation imo 🤬😂 ("Modern Literary Uzbek" by András Bodrogligeti, 2003)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

This one guy is responsible for like 80% of all my knowledge of Amharic, with all the textbooks, grammars and dictionaries he produced.

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

uncanny: "each other" is 𝑒𝑙𝑘𝑎𝑟 in Basque and 𝑒𝑙𝑘𝑎𝑎𝑟 in Dutch 👁️

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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me before studying Maltese: supposedly Maltese is just like Tunisian? me after studying Maltese: wait, I'm getting a lot of Levantine vibes from this... German linguist in 1904: Maltese is basically Syrian guy in the Galilee c. 1901: yessir the Maltese are from Acre

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

> job > disappointment what did they mean by this? 🇵🇱

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

I don't care what the dictionary says, in my mind "wariować" ("to go nuts" in Polish) will always be the denominal of "Wario"

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

if you ever wanted to see Russian transcribed into Telugu script (or vice versa), here you go:

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

birthdays - a Ferenǧi custom that is being recognized more and more 👽

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

the authors of Hippocrene's Beginner's Chechen really know their audience: this is the same sound as in Georgian! that's the same sound as in Arabic! #iykyk

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

at first I was like: cool, this Arabic root means both "awesome" and "awful" (or both "terrific" and "terrible") 😀 but then I was like: it means WHAT in Proto-Semitic?!? 😳

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

found a cool grammar of Classical Armenian written in German - but like why are half of the translations in Greek 😵‍💫

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

23 days

once again thinking about how the modern Georgian word for "to speak" just comes from the Armenian word for "public square"

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

latest obsession: a Qypchaq Turkic language written in Armenian script, from 16th-century western Ukraine 🤯📜 (source: )

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

Armenian surč'/սուրճ is the one outlier on here and... no one really knows where it came from?!

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󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 “Coffee” in different lingue.maps

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

is this anything

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

ok ok I fixed it (but also Maryam might be from Egyptian mr, "love")

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

dropped by a bookstore in Paris' Quartier asiatique and they had some amazing books, like a textbook for the Tai Lue language of Xishuangbanna, Yunnan 🤯

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

28 days

today's lesson: Lebanese people love meetings

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

amazed that Arabic "ward" (rose) and Persian "gul" are cognates (Proto-Iranian *wardah).... what sort of crazy sound changes produced the Persian form? 🌹

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

*there should be a footnote on "Mario" noting likely folk-etymological influence from Aramaic "Maryam"

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

Amharic Marathi 🤝 forming the word for "week" from the word for "eight" 8️⃣ for some reason ሳምንት/sammənt & ስምንት/səmmənt आठवडा/āṭhavḍā & आठ/āṭh

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

20 days

racking my brains trying to figure out what Arabic word Maltese xmara ("river") is related to, only to learn that it's actually from Sicilian (I remember encountering this fl -> sh sound change in Neapolitan too, e.g. "flower" is sciore, "river" is sciume)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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I honestly never bothered to remember the order of all the western(/Babylonian/Hindu) zodiac signs before... until I learned the Thai month names 👀

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

never forget: "Wojak" is a Polish word

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just built a fully automated Wojak meme generator in Glif in 5 min: Claude 3.5 block generates the meme as JSON ComfyUI block uses a Wojak Lora to generate a fitting image JSON extractor + Canvas Block ties it all together input "AI entrepreneur" 💀

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

forgot to take this slide out before doing my presentation on Amharic today 😂

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

making my slides for the Polyglot Gathering 🇨🇿

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

anyway I got this trilingual (Eastern/Western Armenian + English) children's book as a souvenir

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

it seems that the "Adha" (sacrifice) in Eid al-Adha is related to Ethiopic ፀሓይ (sun)... 🌞🤔 interesting semantic shift, if so

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

amazing things are happening here (the mass conversion of wiktionary entries into anki cards)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

"yahaan bhoot rahte hain" — ghosts live here

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

14 days

welppp, here we go again

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

19 days

the thing about dabbling in Telugu, Thai and Indonesian at the same time is that I can just feel Sanskrit lurking around the corner... 🫣 #langtwt

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

1 month

very intrigued by this theory that English "heaven" and German "Himmel" etc. are related to the Slavic word for "stone" (Russian камень, Polish kamień, Serbo-Croatian kamen) ☄️🪨

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

spotted some old Ge'ez manuscripts at the British Library 👌

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

5 months

interesting Maltese idiom: "sea of oil" = a calm sea 🌊

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

this is how Akkadian would look like to me as a Sumerian reader btw

@gwoyeuromatzyh

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this is how japanese looks like to me as a chinese reader btw

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

6 months

👀 grammatical descriptions of Ugaritic, Phoenician, Ancient Hebrew, Old Aramaic, and Ancient North and South Arabian all in one book??? yes please (also Old Persian and Greek, maybe for later)

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3 months

@Dealtrade_Group southern Europe vs northern Europe

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5 months

if you'd asked me before today what I thought "examen" meant in Latin, I would have been so wrong 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

showing up to the next language meetup like

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

I feel like I'm about to enter my red-and-white languages era 🔴⚪️ Turkish 🇹🇷 Japanese 🇯🇵 Polish 🇵🇱 Indonesian 🇮🇩 Maltese 🇲🇹 (maybe Georgian 🇬🇪 as a treat later on?) all languages I've studied before and would like to level-up somewhat #langtwt

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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oof, this Telugu vocab is definitely going to trip me up one day - veyyi means both "turn on (a light)" and "close (a door)", and tiyyi means both "turn off (a light)" and "open (a door)"?? 😵 (1/2)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

Twitter the past 24 hours:

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

tqdm - truly the greatest name for a Python library ever 👌🐍

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

unsettling: apparently in contemporary spoken Slovene unstressed vowels get dropped all over the place 🫠🇸🇮 govoriti -> govort novo mesto -> now mest velikega -> velizga (!!)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

1 month

shocking: Slavists think a word is originally Slavic but Germanists think it's Germanic (Russian долг, Polish dług, Serbo-Croatian dug etc.)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

5 months

perfect, the same plural form can mean both "dictionaries" and "misfortunes" 😆

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

okay I'm going to need to finally decide what order to tackle these books in, doing more than one at a time is a bit much #langtwt 🇯🇵🇵🇱🇹🇷🇮🇳

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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"carbon dioxide" in Telugu: boggupulusu vāyuvu 😎 "carbon monoxide" in Telugu: kārban monāksayd 😅 (and yes I ended up blazing through the second half of this textbook in a week, now that I've got a hang of reading the script)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

the singular form means "lots of money", and the plural form means "a little money", perfect

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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𝐶𝑒 𝑛'𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑎𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑙𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒 ("This is not a joke") 😆 Assimil's "Le tamoul sans peine" acknowledging that 𝘃𝗮 means "go" in French but "come" in Tamil 😵‍💫

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

welp, I had no plans to learn Kannada soon (and I really ought to get a bit better at Telugu first) but this textbook just looks so good....

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

tempted to casually throw in a "mir däucht" (methinks) in my next German conversation lol (source: Novalis, 𝐻𝑦𝑚𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑁𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

classic, like how in Palestinian Arabic they went from "mā ..." (like in Syria/Lebanon) to "mā ...-š" (like in Egypt) to just "...-š" ("-š" being related to "šī", thing)

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Did you know ‘not’ was Old English for ‘nothing’ (𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘩𝘵)? What happened was, people started using it for emphasis: “I’m not scared of them (at all)” might be 𝘕𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘶 𝘪𝘤 𝘩𝘦𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘪𝘩𝘵, “I’m not scared of them nothing.” Then they used it more and more

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@RBO_Aessruv yep, Ludwig = Louis = Luís = Luigi = Lajos = Clovis = Hlōdowik

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An Amharic Conversation Book

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

once again, a language I thought I'd completely forgotten is all coming back after just a bit of review 🙌🥭

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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I feel like I'm about to enter my red-and-white languages era 🔴⚪️ Turkish 🇹🇷 Japanese 🇯🇵 Polish 🇵🇱 Indonesian 🇮🇩 Maltese 🇲🇹 (maybe Georgian 🇬🇪 as a treat later on?) all languages I've studied before and would like to level-up somewhat #langtwt

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

dictionaries are great because you can discover random things like how the Amharic for "poetry" and "fight/match" come from the same verb root 🥊

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

Japanese textbook specifically for Onomatopoeia gotta know the difference between "nikoniko", "niyaniya", "kusukusu" and "geragera" laughter 😆😜😅🤣

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

a truly unhinged attempt was made to Latinize the Russian ОТКРОЙТЕ ВАШ ЖАКЕТ ПОЖАЛУЙСТА on the last line here 😭💀 #MOXARYNTA (seen at the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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If I wanted to start a crackpot theory that Georgian is a Sinitic language, I'd start with these three words: სამი/sami ("three") sounds like 三 (Cantonese saam) თავი/tavi ("head") sounds like 头/頭 (Cantonese tau) წინ/c̣in ("front") sounds like 前 (Cantonese cin)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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interesting to see that the Tigrinya for "Little Prince" contains the word ወራሲ/werasi ("inheritor, heir") the root w-r-s ("inherit") is cognate Arabic w-r-θ and Hebrew y-r-š

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Bereket | በረኸት

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ኣረፋይነ [ʾĀrāfāynā] Tigrinya and Amharic male name originally from a corrupted Amharic combined name. The name is compiled from two words: አረፈ[ʾārāfā] and አይኔ[ʾāyne], meaning "my eye has rested."

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

tempted to dabble in Slovene for a bit now - the one remaining national-level Slavic language that I haven't really tried at all yet 👀🇸🇮

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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apologies for incessant slovenepoasting but like colloquial Slovene has a definite article "ta"?? (only used wih adjectives apparently) no one ever talks about this?? what happened to "Bulgarian and Macedonian are the only Slavic languages to have definite articles"????

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

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me: what do the abbreviations mean?! the authors: "The abbreviations are the usual." 😭

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

first time wearing the new shirt to a language meetup (got to speak a lot of Russian and just a little bit of French and Spanish this time)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

Telugu phrase of the day: waccī rāni bhāsa/వచ్చీ రాని భాష ("coming/not-coming language") - language you don't know very well

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

5 months

I was today years old when I learned that the Jews of Kaifeng 開封 used PERSIAN in their liturgy 🤯 for example the text I underlined on the cover says (roughly) "dīdand dūstān(-i) xudāy dar tanwār(?) hā-i dušmanān īšān and īšān amsīdagān(?) abar lab-i daryā" in Hebrew script,

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

Korean and Japanese maybe 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 came from Dravidian but evolved in opposite directions... 🤔🤔

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

Semitic cognates of the day: Ge'ez ደብር/däbr - mountain ⛰️ Hebrew מדבר/midbar - desert 🏜️ (weekend road-trip to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park 🛣️)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

the Arabic word for "popcorn" 🍿 comes from the Persian word for "pressure"? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 [citation needed]

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

remembering how I won the "Interslavic learning challenge" at last year's Polyglot Gathering by just making stuff up on the fly (a.k.a. speaking Polish but with Serbian pronunciation) 😅

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Emilia 🇮🇹🇫🇷

4 months

we definitely need MORE interslavic learners/speakers on langtwt, то так красивы jезык 🫡я сама бых хотєла на нjим честєjе молвити (и бꙋдꙋ!)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

amazed to learn that Slovene regularly binds pronouns with prepositions into single units, like Irish or a Semitic language 👀 (I know Czech does this a little bit too, but mostly only in fixed expressions)

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

and of course, this is from 1905, so we need a bit of phrenology as well...

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

7 years

Samsung what are you doing

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

28 days

Elon's slav/slave etymology tweet is driving people crazy, but anyway another wild etymology fact involving these words is that Italian "ciao" comes from "sclavus" too

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

going to London next week and Paris the week after, so it's obviously time for some ✨𝕬𝖓𝖌𝖑𝖔-𝕹𝖔𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓✨ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇫🇷 (full book free online: )

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

today I learned: the hands of a clock are "scorpions" 🦂🕰️

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

dumb mnemonics I used when I first started learning Korean: 어제/ŏje sounds kind of like Portuguese ℎ𝑜𝑗𝑒 ("today"), but it means "yesterday" 언제/ŏnje sounds kind of like Portuguese 𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒 ("where"), but it means "when" 😵‍💫

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

21 days

niiice I just discovered two Maltese-language websites with tons of articles about various aspects of Maltese folklore and history 🙌 these'll be super useful for the next couple months

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

still reading Dune Messiah in German, pleased to note that the fictional word "Mentat" is declined as a weak noun with -en in the genitive, just like Soldat or Automat

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

3 months

of course, both are derived from Hebrew "el" and Persian "kar", implying that they are the Work of God

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

2 months

managed to work my way through a full text in this Amharic Cultural Reader with the help of a dictionary and the side-by-side translation 🙌😵‍💫 #langtwt maybe now's a good time to pause my Amharic learning for a bit... this'll be the book I use to get back into it in a few months

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

4 months

made it to lesson 50 (out of 85) of Assimil's L'Armenien Sans Peine, where they finally stop including the transliteration for Armenian text - which was mostly just distracting because it was using a custom French-based system

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Kevin Fei Sun 孙愷文

6 months

I might be stopping by Paris🇫🇷 after Prague🇨🇿 in May, obviously that means it's time to learn some Algerian Arabic🇩🇿

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