#Duolingo be like:

Translate the following sentence, applying what you have learned so far, to North Whatevrish:

> "I want to go to school."

Choose the right option:
(A) Sumoni ringna li fight!
(B) Undertaile?
(C) Me vanten to goe to skool.
(D) Vater plees.

... wow you're so smart! you sure are an expert in North Whatevrish! It's surely not because you recognised obvious cognates, sentence length or could eliminate all but one immediately!

Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html

https://youtu.be/8gSAkUOElsg?si=z1xKDfA0bVpuuIIK

#teaching #kids #languages: Learn #Esperanto first: Tim Morley at TEDxGranta

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.

— Eric Raymond

"Gigil" and other Tagalog words added to Oxford dictionary.

#Philippines #Asian #Tagalog #Dictionary #Languages #Gigil

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/630377/gigil-videoke-added-to-oxford-dictionary

I recently pass 30 days of consistently using #Duolingo to study a language. Personally, I've found that consistently studying a language, even just for 3 - 5 minutes daily, is more effective than studying for a long time, but rarely. Thoughts? #languages #language #learning

How to learn a language like a baby / The Conversation

Prima di tutto ascoltare e abituarsi alla musica della lingua. Scrivere verrà più in là.

[A new study] ... confirms that the relevant native-language acquisition mechanism remains intact in the adult brain.

https://theconversation.com/how-to-learn-a-language-like-a-baby-250551

Why Is Welsh Spoken in Some Parts of Argentina?

By Michael Nordine

https://dailypassport.com/why-welsh-spoken-argentina/

Welsh is sometimes known as the language of heaven (Iaith y nefoedd)

Introducing Koto: the #artisanal needleless haystack of #programming languages! Because what #Rust truly lacks is yet another "lightweight" #scripting language that nobody asked for, complete with a "playground" that sounds like it was designed for toddlers.
https://koto.dev/ #Koto #Languages #Lightweight #HackerNews #ngated

You Need Subtyping

https://blog.polybdenum.com/2025/03/26/why-you-need-subtyping.html

So funny...

I was out alone, waiting for the bus. An SUV stopped in front of me and the rear passenger window opened. 2 elderly Chinita ladies waved and asked me, in #English, how to get to the mall. I answered in English, thinking that they're foreign.

Then in #Tagalog they asked their driver, "O, naintindihan mo?"

Lola, ba't mo ko ini-inglesan? Di naman ako maarte manamit. Lokal po ako. Pareho lang tayo. ! #Philippines #languages #Filipino #Chinoy #Pinoy

A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.

— Alan J. Perlis

你的狗/猫叫什么名字？ Nǐ de gǒu / māo jiào shén me míng zi? What’s your dog’s/cat’s name? #Chinese #Mandarin for #Animals. #LearnChinese #中文 #languages. #Learn more: https://thelanguagegarage.com/animals-in-chinese/

Ah, the elusive art of #coding in a language nobody uses . Behold, a #GitHub menu masquerading as a source code masterpiece, where the magic of #AI and #automation is overshadowed by the utter obscurity of Rivulet's fan club (population: 1) . Enjoy navigating your way through coding's finest #hidden gem that no one's heard of!
https://github.com/rottytooth/Rivulet #obscure #languages #gems #HackerNews #ngated

I have a whole bunch of marine puns in a different language that I doubt more than 1 other person at work would understand.

In Taiwanese / Hokkien,

‘Hae’ means shrimp
‘Heh’ means fish

So since I was a child my cousins and I have always been saying shrimp shrimp shrimp or fish fish fish for ‘hehehehe’ laughing

It was meant to be