Luftmensch @lapis@polyglot.city

https://open.spotify.com/album/7IH5LBdqxJNvMgpBYA23xy?si=9_DohBVITuWK61rFxDfFUQ

これ聴いてる。おすすめ😎

Tengo un Fairphone desde hace 4 años. Pensaba que lo guardara 10 años pero hoy mi opinión es diferente.

Las piezas de recambio que necesito ya no están vendidas más. Y creo que 500 € es demasiado dinero para comprar un teléfono. Personalmente, no puedo pagar más de 200 €.

@Buckythesheep

Staying home and need something to do? How about learning a new language!

There'll be a #LanguageJam again on 27th-29th March. The idea is to study a new language as much as possible in one weekend.

Register now, and you'll get your randomly assigned language in good time for you to grab some study material.

http://languagejam.net/

#LanguageLearning

The Japanese calligrapher who keeps a forgotten female ancient script alive

https://lite.cnn.com/en/article/h_0da3c67a0975e6de2f3e5831f9c5f058

Is ”cis enby” just shitposting, or does it actually mean intersex? 🤔

An interesting study on English-#Japanese learners dictionaries and problems relating to gender and sexuality:

https://euralex.org/publications/problems-with-the-description-of-words-relating-to-gender-and-sexuality-in-english-japanese-learnersdictionaries/

Hi. I'm new here. I'm Otorongo.

Watashi ha Otorongo deus.

I'm a native spanish speaker and this is my account for my english side (and maybe other sides as well :-]). I've was studyng english in an institute until the intermediate level, then i left. I'm noticed that i am forgetting English so i think its a good idea to use the fedi to keep it fresh and healthy.
If I'm wrong about something, please correct me.

Jaa ne ヽ(・∀・)ﾉ

*lazily clicking through wikipedia* well i dont know about any of this "gay" stuff... personally, i always thought that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a poem that is very dear to my heart, deals with themes of Temptation and testing, Hunting and seduction, Nature and chivalry, Games, Times and seasons, and Emotion and narrative empathy. Just my personal opinion!

ahhh, just another day being a 19th century medeivalist, spreading the idea that the european middle ages were a civilised time when men were men and women were women, and they all acted according to the same highly civilised rules... now to take a look at my evidence for these claims... HEY WHAT THE! WHERE DID IT GO?

and plus, if Sir Gawain and the Green Knight isnt about men being gay, you probably think its about uhh "courtly love" and the fucking uhh "chivalric code", things that definitely actually existed, right? like, it wasnt just made up by 19th and early 20th century historians to create a false image of a monolythic middle ages that served their heterosexist and white supremacist ideology? BZT WRONGO

specifically, with regards to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: "how dare you call the kisses gay? men kissed each other as a sign of friendship all the time?" Fact check: True. You know what else is tru? if they WERE trying to fuck, they would ALSO kiss each other. ALSO there are medieval theologians who do condemn men kissing, its almost like people in the european middle ages didnt all think the exact same thing, BITCH

#SignLanguage question!

Are there any sign languages that don't use pointing by fingers to denote persons and personal pronouns, or is pointing a universal feature?

How is this done in cultures where politeness and honorability are highly valued?

Is there a division between different (macro)regions and their sign languages in this regard?

Dear people who want to register an account on #PolyglotCity. Please remember to write a few words on why you want an account here. It's meant to show that you're a genuine human and that you've read the instance description (i.e. you want to be on *this* thematic instance).

If you leave the field empty or just write something that shows that you have nothing to do with languages, I won't accept your registration.

I hate it when websites use 'letters' to mean 'Latin letters', don't do this please