DoomsdaysCW<p>So, I do like using "whom" when appropriate (and when I remember). How to know when to use "whom" instead of "who"? Just turn the statement around. "Who I adore?" or "Whom I adore?" -- turn it around. "I adore him / her / them," then use "whom"! </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnglishLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FormalLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FormalLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ForgottenGrammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ForgottenGrammar</span></a></p>
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https://www.alojapan.com/1286879/how-japanese-introductions-literally-translate-to-english-is-a-wild-linguistics-lesson/ How Japanese introductions literally translate to English is a wild linguistics lesson #EnglishLanguage #EnglishTranslation #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseNews #Languages #learning #LearningLanguages #linguistics #LiteralTranslations #news #tanslations Is it just me or has the world become increasingly silent? Don’t get me wrong, we’re certainly bombarded by things fighting for our attention—ads, content distributed by…
So, I'm realizing that very often, I don't use personal pronouns in my writing. For example, I just wrote, "Looking forward to posting more videos..." Yes, I know I should write, "I'm looking forward" or "I am looking forward" but I often find myself leaving out "I am". Been doing that for years now. Anyone else? Or is it just me?
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I'd maintain that “who”, “whom” and “whose” certainly DIDN'T lose the initial “W element”. It's still there, as the lips are rounded and the tongue dorsum is raised even before, and while, the [h] is sounded in these words.
Speech doesn't work like alphabetic writing.
A new blog post at Geneanet (a French genealogy website) presents information on Pope Leo XIV's roots from Louisiana, Cuba, and France (his maternal grandparents); last week they did a post on his paternal European grandparents.
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https://en.geneanet.org/genealogyblog/post/2025/05/pope-leos-maternal-roots
Geneanet · Pope Leo’s Maternal RootsLast week, we told you all about Pope Leo XIV’s paternal grandparents. This week, we will focus on his roots from Louisiana, Cuba, and France!
How frequent is vulgar language in online discourse across 20 different English-speaking regions?
Corpus linguistics has the answer. Image and paper by Schweinberger & Burridge, 2025: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946
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@lowqualityfacts Can’t tell if I just learned something… or got misinformed.
Newsflash...
"dos latas de morrones"
does not mean
"two cans of morons."
You're welcome.
Happy #EnglishLanguageDay! For a look back at the origins of this language, here’s our video on looking for the Earliest English Word: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5QxjzaL1Wc
secularism
/noun/
a : Religious skepticism or indifference.
b : The view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education.
via Wordnik
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Wordnik.comsecularism — definition, examples, related words and more at WordnikAll the words
"My Baby You" is a song written and performed by #MarcAnthony, and was released as the fourth single of his first #Englishlanguage album Marc Anthony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3lbmgyp18o
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The earliest that I found with a 30 second Google Books trawl was 1882, in a book by Frank Hugh Foster.
The title of the book?
"The Doctrine of the Transcendent Use of the Principle of Causality in Kant, Herbart and Lotze."
Ah, Kant.
So you can guess why it used "in and of itself". The whole sentence was "Yet it is what it is in and of itself, as every other principle or thing is."
So a double-word score for managing to have "it is what it is" in the sentence as well.
Later on the same page: "Similarly, it is true of the passive power, that it is as passive the same, and not the same with itself."
Philosophers and theologians: giving LLMs a run for their money for nigh on 3 millennia.
And the LLMs are almost certainly trained on this stuff. Frank Hugh Foster is out of copyright. There's a happy thought for the day.
Sometimes I learn something about the English language that makes me irrationally upset.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trapezoid
So in US/CA English, a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides, and a trapezium is a quadrilateral with no parallel sides. But in UK/AU/NZ English, a trapezoid is a quadrilateral with no parallel sides, and a trapezium is a quadrilateral with at least one pair of parallel sides.
How does this even happen? And in the (probably common for somebody, although not me) case that someone needs to discuss quadrilaterals, how are they supposed to make it clear what they're talking about?
Wiktionarytrapezoid - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
#TIL that the two forms of the indefinite article, ‘a’ and ‘an’, which are used depending on whether the succeeding noun starts with a vowel sound, also happens with the definite article, ‘the’, via differing pronunciations.
“the start“ → /ðəstɑɹt/
“the end” → /ðijɛnd/
‘Serving Kant’ no more: Malta’s Eurovision entry faces censorship over ‘C-word’ controversy https://www.byteseu.com/806660/ #EBU #EnglishLanguage #EurovisionSongContest #Languages #Malta #music #PopMusic
Trump to order English as official US language: President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order today designating English as the official language of the United States, a first in the nation’s nearly 250-year history. This order rescinds former President Bill Clinton’s mandate that federally funded agencies provide language assistance to non-English speakers. Going forward, agencies will have… https://creebhills.com/2025/03/trump-to-order-english-as-official-us-language?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Trump #OfficialLanguage #EnglishLanguage #USPolitics #ExecutiveOrder
Ha, ha wer hätte das gedacht?
"Crocodiles do not swim here" vs "Crocodiles! Do NOT swim here!" 
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Whenever you're feeling "feisty" remember it means
: full of spirit or determination
: quarrelsome or aggressive
Why?
It originates from "feist" (1896) — "small aggressive dog" — which originally meant "stink", and earlier "fart".
I am as bewildered as you are.
Germany’s Hanser Verlag to Publish TC Boyle in English for Europe https://www.byteseu.com/691322/ #CarlHanserVerlag #EnglishLanguage #FelicitasVonLovenberg #Germany #PiperVerlag #Rights #translation