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The future tense endings in most Romance languages look suspiciously like the verb meaning 'to have': Italian 'sarANNO' (they'll be) vs. 'hanno' (they have) French 'chanterAI' (I'll sing) vs. 'ai' (I have) Well, that's actually what they are! Learn all about how this future tense originated: 1/

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damn hello games is really branching out with this dlc

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certified meow-chanic

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I don’t care about your sign, name your hotdog.

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The more curious you are, the better you can cope with change.

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The Spanish words 'año' (year) and 'España' (Spain) contain the letter ñ, called eñe. It comes from a double nn. One of the n's was abbreviated as a squiggle on top of the other: ñ. 'Año' comes from Latin 'annum' with nn, but 'España' comes from 'Hispāniam'. My graphic explains how it got its ñ:

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‘Squirrelled,’ as in “squirrelled away,” can be pronounced “SKWERLD.” ‘Squirrelled’ has 11 letters, making it the longest one-syllable word in English.

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The entirety of anti-LGBTQ+ laws in Poland have been abolished 🏳️‍🌈🎉 #lgbtnews #lgbt #queer #lgbtrights blog.atlasnienawisci.pl/index.php/20...

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BEHOLD! YOUR NEW POPE.

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Pyramid, Obelisks, Relics and Monoliths by US artist Steve R Dodd 1/2

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"Excalibur" 🔪✨ My first assignment in Cynthia Sheppard's "Illustrating the Emotional Narrative" class at Smarterartschool!

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In Poland we don't say "I don't care", we say "I jerk off on that" (walę na to) and I think it's beautiful

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#forest #nature

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Featured Screenshot by Rice Exporter #NoMansSky #NMSCordGallery #VirtualPhotography

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JWST detects a possible signature of life on a distant world 🪐 #spacenews #astronomy #science www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Rumpology is the art of reading someone’s future through the lines and crevices of their buttocks.

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#spring #photography

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#spring #photography

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'Tōfu no kado ni atama wo utte shinē' is a Japanese insult that translates as 'Go and hit your head on a corner of tofu and die.'

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'Car', 'to change', 'piece' - English borrowed these words from French, which inherited them from Latin. But they weren't native Latin words. Latin got them from Gaulish, an extinct Celtic language. Gaulish was a great-aunt of Welsh, Irish and Breton. Six common Romance words of Gaulish origin:

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the Sakura season is here 🌸 #krakow #wawel #sakura #spring #photography

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It's my Book Birthday 2.0: The Martian Contingency is now available in the UK via @solarisbooks.bsky.social. Happy reading across the pond! @simonandschuster.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Martia...

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#cat #animals

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#foggylandscape #morningmood

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remm [ɾɛm̥] noun From PG rinnaną "run, flow" + -mô (abstract noun suffix) • time Hín líti remm nirlackið in Boston. 3S [some time].ACC.S spend.3S.PST in Boston.ACC.S "He/she spent some time in Boston" #conlang #wordbuilding

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My mom just used a Canadianism I've somehow never heard before and it's the best phrase ever created

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Quote with your lock screen.

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it felt like I'm on a different world

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I might have just created the most difficult to pronounce word in my conlang beþrýþeð /bəˈθɾ̥øjθəð/ endangered, at risk From beþrýþa "to endanger, threaten", from þrýþ "danger, threat", from PG þrautaz. Cognate with English threat. #conlang #wordbuilding

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'Cheap' is a shortening of 'good cheap', literally meaning "good bargain". 'Cheap', originally a noun, is related to the now obsolete verb 'to cheap' ("to buy"). This is the cognate of German 'kaufen', Swedish 'köpa', Dutch 'kopen' etc. These languages lost their cognate of 'to buy'. Here's more:

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man, when people can't tell the difference between entomology and etymology it bugs me in ways i can't put into words

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wizard pancake says hi

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quoting memes in the wild feels like a social trust fall cuz if the other person doesn't get it, you just sound insane

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I'm getting my ear pierced for the first time today :3

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UNDERTALE is on sale for $1. If you're a bluesky user who hasn't played this game - now is the best time to join the other 99% of people on this website and pick it up. store.steampowered.com/app/391540/U...

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In Polish we call this tree "iwa". Apparently in English it's called "pussy willow". The more you know

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omfg the goulash that I made is the most delicious thing I've had in months

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goulash goulash goulash goulash

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Haven't studied Icelandic for a while, so I visited an Icelandic Discord server to check if I remember anything and I accidentally asked someone "what is wrong with you" instead of "how are you" 😭

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Post a photo you took with no context to add some zen to the timeline.

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In Swedish ‘att glida in på en räkmacka’, literally ‘to slide in on a shrimp sandwich’, refers to someone who didn’t have to work to get where they are.

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glanig [ˈɣlanɪ] - from glan "sky" barjig [ˈbaɮɪ] - from barja "berry" grón [ɣɾʌwn] - from PG grōniz guld [ɣyld] - from PG gulþą "gold" culig [ˈkʰylɪ] - from cul "coal" wít [wejt] - from PG hwītaz #conlang #wordbuilding

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