Den här Gustaf-strippen har levt i mitt huvud sedan jag först läste den som barn (på svenska: "Ännu ett år, ännu ett knak"). Mitt senaste knak är bröstbenet. Jag visste inte att bröstbenet kunde knaka.

Har föreläst

Skriv "jag väntade" utan att skriva det. Tålamod hade aldrig varit min starka sida. Men jag var också en tidspessimist av rang, så nu hånades här av en låst dörr. Vem fan bokar behandling halv åtta när stället öppnar halv åtta? Det regnade åtminstone inte. Än.

Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right

argh, inte nu igen. intervju med Anthony Beevor: "Historikerna har länge misslyckats när det gäller att förstå ..." Han sa så klart "failed to understand". Men "fail to understand" betyder inte "misslyckas med att förstå". Det betyder "inte förstå". Snälla få in det i skallen. ping @eliderad

Översättningssvenska: Ta en paus från ditt vardagliga liv Svenska: Ta paus från vardagen

Tänkte verkligen "har vi blivit en flyttfirma?" när jag först fick beskedet

Tacka vet jag datorprogram man bara behöver betala för en gång 🙏 Kan också rekommendera PDF-XChange Editor till den som behöver ett bra pdf-program (har dock inte provat dess OCR än)

I can believe the death cults, demons and magic rituals, but not an illegal immigrant from Bosnia in 1990s Spain using pretérito imperfecto de subjuntivo this smoothly (Feria: The Darkest Light on Netflix) #langsky 🐦🐦

The Romans didn’t have a word for ‘volcano’, even after Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE. They just used the generic word “mōns” ‘mountain’ instead. It’s been said that the lack of a word for ‘volcano’ is why the Romans at Pompeii were unaware of the mighty power of Vesuvius.

Översättningssvenska: passiv röst Svenska: passiv diates #xl8 #ovst

När det svenska fotbollsförbundet tog namnet Svenska fotbollförbundet måste det väl varit för att få språkvetare att bry sig om sport?

Har jag några brädspelare i mitt flöde? Hjälp en student! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Piffat upp en klassiker att hänga på kontoret.

Översättningssvenska: Gå ombord och sänk fiendens fartyg Svenska: Borda och sänk fiendens fartyg

Översättningssvenska: USA vill ta ner regimen Svenska: USA vill störta regimen Eller är det nån politisk terminologi som spökar här?

Hoppet är det sista som lämnar kroppen. Vilket är synd, för det innebär att man ödslar massa tid och energi på något som egentligen är kört.

Språkuppropet - Folk vill att man talar så som man gjorde förr. Eller i alla fall så som de tror man sporde i forna dagar. De använda medvetet en i deras mening mer komplex vokabulär för att låta mer bildade än de voro. Af rent miffförstånd bytes s ut mot f på viffa platfer i texten.

Översättningssvenska: Det här innehållet kan köpas separat vid ett senare datum. Svenska: Det här innehållet kan komma att säljas separat i framtiden. (eller "kanske kommer"?)

Engelskspråkiga Bluesky delar de bästa tweetsen så låt oss dela det bästa från svenska Twitter

Always and forever: “correct language” is nonsense and the only coherent argument its fans offer is “it feels nicer to me personally”

You can be a nerd about language in a way that's about curiosity and enthusiasm and drawing connections rather than judging people

What you think of a particular language, dialect, or accent is about your attitude towards the people who use it, not some intrinsic property of the linguistic variety itself All varieties are valid, systematic, worthy of study and respect

There's no such thing as an "untranslatable word" (or alternatively all words are untranslatable, that works too)

If you can raise your child bilingual, you should

All languages are dialects, all dialects are languages The distinction between what gets called a language and what gets called a dialect is not a matter of linguistic distinction but a matter of political power

The notion of "correct" and "incorrect" language stems from classism and racism (and is in many cases still fueled by it). 🐦🐦

Basically everything you were taught about grammar is based on ancient Roman models and approaches (filtered through your elementary teachers) that are about as confusingly wrong as calling whales fish.

"Grammar" is very different for the professionals vs the general public. (And in this case, "general public" actually includes a ton of English teachers, most of the ones I had before university anyway, and even some in university.) www.colingorrie.com/articles/pre...

The rules of a language come from its native speakers, not the other way around, and while native speakers can make mistakes, systematic "errors" mean the model used to describe the language is wrong, not the speaker.

A word's meaning is not found in an intensional definition, but in how that word interacts with the context, including other words in that language

There is no such thing as an "untranslatable word/term", there's just some that are a pain in the arse.

Directly translating removes the original intent of the text and can easily result in mistranslations. Localization by experienced and professional translators and editors results in better translations.

nobody knows what a word is

The dictionary doesn't dictate language; the dictionary reflects language.

knowing two languages doesn't make you a good translator any more than knowing how to turn a stove on makes you a good chef

HOO boy. That no language is better or more expressive than another. Dialect is not the absence of grammar or deficient. Language use is not correlated with intelligence. Language change is the norm, not a reason for panic.

Languages change constantly, and how people are using it now IS the right way to use it (despite what that cranky old guy muttering about “bad grammar” wants you to think)

Translation is more art than science. It's so dependant on tone and context that a "literal" translation will never be good. It's also why machine translation (including using GenAI) is not a good replacement because it can't intuit tone properly.

Translation even of singular words can vary drastically based on context, which is one of many reasons that translating just one word/phrase/sentence can ironically be much harder than an entire scene (so please provide context even for something "really simple")

A word's etymology can shed light on many things, none of which is in the same postcode as what it 'really' means.

Prescriptivism in grammar is middle class insecurity, not linguistic truth.

There’s no such thing as speaking “without an accent”.

“standard,” edited English is not always the best choice

Your mastery of the written word and your ability to tell a story well are in fact two completely separate skills.

This one goes crazy for linguistics, I think almost every gen pop belief about language is wrong in some way. eg that sign language was invented (it wasn’t) and stuff like that.

The fact that different languages often don’t have exactly equivalent words is unremarkable and not an illustration of meaningful differences between their respective cultures.