Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
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And people who don't read make fun of you for it. (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Using a Latin alphabet. Using Germanic pronunciation. Borrowing words from Spanish. Stealing words from French. Changing accent to avoid sounding Gaelic.

I have always loved the analogy that English isn't a language, it's three bilingual children stacked on top of each other wearing a trenchcoat and arguing about bologna.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I have heard it analogized that English is a language that follows other languages into dark alleys to beat them up and steal their words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

All languages do, English is just a title holder