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We need to talk about Gàidhlig

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This is the way to pronounce "Gaelic"    [ˈkaːlikʲ]: This is the weather forecast in Scots Gaelic : And my face right now: Dafuq did i just watch!!?!???

Treatise on Pymies Various and Varied

Below is a list of commonly accepted variations on the main Pymy forms: Angriepymy (masc. noun): The state of a pugnacious, pissed off pymy Drugpymy (neut. noun): Pymies in altered states Strugpymy (fem. noun): Pymy when faced with a deadline Ambiepymy:  (fem. noun): Pymy who has taken an Ambien and is engaged in an organizational activity (masc. noun, dual only): Archaic dual of "Pymy" Plymguists are constantly seeking additional forms, but as the main corpus of pymlish works has been lost to the sands of time and flow of whiskey, we may never know the full extent of their linguistic innovation.

Rachel at the Beach

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A visualization of my intimate Ft. Lauderdale getaway with Tabitha

Language - Thought

http://psych.stanford.edu/~lera/papers/sci-am-2011.pdf Haven't read this article, but thought it might be interesting. Pymthoughts?

Appalachian English

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Conlangs

Wenedyk Wenedyk (in English: Venedic) is a naturalistic constructed language , created by the Dutch translator Jan van Steenbergen (who also co-created the international auxiliary language Slovianski ). It is used in the fictional Republic of the Two Crowns (based on the Republic of Two Nations ), in the alternate timeline of Ill Bethisad . Officially, Wenedyk is a descendant of Vulgar Latin with a strong Slavic admixture, based on the premise that the Roman Empire incorporated the ancestors of the Poles in their territory. Less officially, it tries to show what Polish would have looked like if it had been a Romance instead of a Slavic language. An alternative Polish term for the language could thus be either polskowłoski, incorporating the term włoski, originally meaning Vlach but now applied in Polish to Italian , or polskoromański, literally "Polish-Romance". On the Internet, it is well-recognized as an example of the altlang genre, much like  Brithenig and Bre...

Is your inner language nerd ready to SMILE?

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EN THEO GEN

Is Angiepymytu's new favorite word. entheogen |enˈthēəˌjen, -jən| noun a chemical substance, typically of plant origin, that is ingested to produce a nonordinary state of consciousness for religious or spiritual purposes. DERIVATIVES entheogenic |enˌthēəˈjenik| adjective ORIGIN 1970s: from Greek, literally ‘becoming divine within’ ; coined by an informal committee studying the inebriants of shamans.

Lavender Linguistics

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Polari Swardspeak Bugpymychasing Moffietaal of the Cape Coloured Community EXAMPLE OF MOFFIETAAL: Varda that Beulah! Vast mitzi. She's a chicken and probably Priscilla and I don't need Jennifer Justice in my life right now.    Translation: Look at that beauty! Very me. He's young and probably a policeman and I don't need trouble with the law in my life at the moment. EXAMPLE OF BUGCHASING:

alteuropäisch

Old European  ( alteuropäisch ) is the term used by Hans Krahe (1964) for the language of the oldest reconstructed stratum of European hydronymy (river names) in Central and Western Europe. The character of these river names is pre-Germanic and pre-Celtic and dated by Krahe to the 2nd millennium BC. German linguist Theo Vennemann has suggested that the language of the old European hydronyms was agglutinative and preindoeuropean, however this stands in contrast to the more generally accepted view that the hydronyms are of Indo-European origin and Theo Vennemann's theory has been criticised as being seriously flawed.