16 April will get us Tomodachi Life and Valentina de Montblanc — splendid day for gay Catalanophiles (yes, I know I’ve just said the same thing twice)

Fil resum dels noms oficials en català de la sèrie Super Mario fins ara, segons els doblatges dels films: PERSONATGES Mario 🟰 Luigi 🟰 Peach 🟰 Toad(s) 🟰 Rosalina 🢂 Estela Bowser 🟰 Bowser Jr. 🢂 Bowsy Donkey Kong 🟰 Yoshi(s) 🟰 Luma(s) 🟰 R.O.B. 🟰 ... (1/3)

New official Catalan character names from The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (Spoiler warning... I suppose?) I’m a little annoyed that they mostly copied the Castilian names (‘Estela’ for Rosalina does not really work in Catalan), but we’ll respect them 🫡

Aplaudo o esforço para corrigir a toponímia galega. No entanto, detectei um erro flagrante numa das interpretações. «Poio» não é um castelhanismo, teria falta de uma lateral palatal. A forma tradicional galega é claramente «Quírbi». Compare-se com o lugar: «Convento do Uádol Du»

This morning, the county of Segrià (Catalonia) unilaterally declared full independence from Spain With its capital in Lleida, it is an enclave within Spain and the second Catalan-speaking microstate. It is roughly the size of the Faroe Islands and three times larger than Andorra

Are Latin and Ancient Greek truly overrated...? They both go hard as FUCK and, even though everyone’s talking about them, I don’t see many people picking them up as regular languages

Any website, software or graphics/map designer that uses Fira Sans is my friend without introduction

I’m so nostalgic for the new Tomodachi Life and it only came out -21 days ago

I realise I’m asking this from the most European sociolinguistic perspective, but I’m curious to know. Why is it that Hong Kong video games are in Mandarin/SWC, whilst films are entirely in Cantonese? I know that SWC is used in formal contexts, but I feel there’s an inconsistency here.

This is still so funny to me

The way ‘Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream’ handles gender-neutral language in the other languages is... something... Let’s have a look! (New second channel video) www.youtube.com/watch?v=POA_...

Everyone keeps talking about how they are at a very Chinese time in their lives, but why aren’t you at a very Asturleonese time in your life?

The world will not find peace until someone designs cool flags for the official Catalan administrative regions ✨ (The de jure official vegueries, not the infernal Spanish provinces)

Thanks to a change in the schedule, we can imagine for a day what TV3’s Telenotícies would be like if Catalonia were to set its clocks one hour back to the correct time zone :3

One of my favourite words in Catalan is the word for ‘kidney’ (in written standard Catalan: ‘ronyó’ or ‘renyó’). The first vowel of this word can vary greatly even across geographically close dialects, with SIX (!) different phonemic vowels being documented (a, e, i, o, u, ə)

I’m sorry if this is not appropriate, but I literally started reading his work for a project today of all days, and as soon as I started reading it, the man dies?? I found out after refreshing his Wikipedia page and seeing it get updated on the spot?? Oh my god

TV3 news clock, thank you for everything

What language do you think has the best and most perfect orthography?

Few can understand the pain and agony of loving a Nintendo (or not) game and really wanting to see it translated, but knowing that its files are impossible to edit I want Catalan Mario Golf: World Tour 💔

incredible image on wikimedia commons

I recently found this Mongolian-language chat service called Bainu. Users write entirely in the native script (rather than Latin or Cyrillic), more commonly used in Inner Mongolia (🇨🇳) — though 🇲🇳 is reviving it. Just… for my Basque-speaking brain, the name’s a bit unfortunate.

Google Maps recently released an update to its English-language map, forcing several Catalan names to display rare/obsolete Spanish names, ignoring the usual Wikipedia names ('Lérida' and 'Gerona' instead of Lleida and Girona). I assume (and hope) this is a mistake.

Wow, this goes hard

Try to find something more Nintendo than adding support for a new language to a Wii U / Nintendo Switch game from 2017, but the new language in question can only be accessed when playing on the Nintendo Switch 2. You cannot.

4 AM question: Is there a reason no one has come up with a version of Jyutping with diacritics? I think numbers are fine specially for typing but god they're slow to read (at least for me)

I didn't get the cool alert, but everyone else did and I did get all the previous ones in the past, I am going to cry

Thank you Wiktionary

Wikipedia has signed major AI training deals with Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft. Now, regional-language Wikipedia editors are doing double duty: feeding LLMs with credible knowledge while fighting a flood of AI-generated misinformation

One of the worst moments of my life was when I had to do a presentation on the need for a Catalan Republic as the only hope for the survival of the language in a hundred years' time to a class of firm Spanish nationalists (it was a different group) Even the prof was upset god it was so embarrassing

i found this bilibili channel AI dubbing technology connections videos into mandarin and its so goddamn funny @techconnectify.bsky.social

They've made the LanguageTool extension paid and this is my 9/11 It's so good for Catalan... 🫠

I can’t stop laughing at this

As much as I love Transport Heavy and would marry it if I could, the future Catalan Republic better use the beautiful Fira Sans on its road signs I use it in all my documents and the Institute of Cartography uses it on its maps, and only now have I realised this coincidence

It fucking is. Oh, my god. 3dnassos.cat/la-pellicula...

Between the plane pilot in Galiza who was attacked by a tarantula, the Catalan park where ducks keep vanishing, and this Occitan lad who was rushed to A&E with a grenade from the First World War stuck up his arse, I honestly just don’t think there’s any way to top this continent.

If Starlow were to learn Castilian, would it look like this (Request)

What Nintendo is doing with the Portuguese language can only be described as a social experiment

what a lovely da- WOAHHH giant don in the sky

Any statistician willing to team up so we can show that lemurs and Malagasy show unexploited correlations in their geography?

Should I post some of my drawings here from time to time? I've been posting some on my private Twitter account, but I'm afraid to go public because I'm really not good at it (I draw with a mouse) and I really can't take criticism,, I can only draw Miis too (perfect excuse for not drawing hands lol)

Being from Macau must be insane. What do you mean you have the Cantonese ‘茶’ (caa⁴) and the derived Portuguese ‘chá’ at the same time in the same place?

The fact that what made me scream the most during the Nintendo Direct was the addition of road signs should tell you everything you need to know about me as a person

I found a book from the 90s that teaches Cantonese in a rather fun way, but can someone explain to me what the hell is this wacky transcription system?

Happy 113th anniversary of the first official publication of Catalan orthography to those who celebrate

What is the best Catalan word, and why is it “xiuxiuejar”?

I can confidently say that every single second of the 15 years Nintendo took to add a new language has been worth the wait.

Hoxe, en 1974 morría Ned Maddrell, o último falante nativo de manx, o idioma céltico de 🇮🇲 que esmoreceu case completamente durante o século XX pero está a ser recuperado con certo éxito nas últimas décadas. Hoxe hai máis de 2000 falantes como 2ª lingua youtu.be/-286xpqtC7M?...