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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
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[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

You think German and French don't borrow words?

[–] cynar@lemmy.world -1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Oh they do, but the weird multi root nature of English, and it's tendency to aggressively ransack other languages for vocabulary tends to give it a little more wiggle room for describing ideas. The cost being it's evil to learn, compared to a lot of languages. Just try reading the poem "The chaos" aloud.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

I speak 7 different european languages and they're all like that.

It's not by chance that "yogurt" is pretty much the same word in just about all languages (different spelling at times, similar sounding), being originally a Turkish word, and similarly for "helicopter" which comes from the Greek, whilst all the ways to say "tea" in the whole wide world pretty much derive from just three root words - tea, cha and chai.

My own native language - Portuguese - seems to have spread around the world for just nautical terms around sailing and pretty much nothing else which kinda makes sense since at one point when Portugal was an empire, that's the technology is developed. (Curiously the word in India for a certain kind of bread - "Pao" - derives from the Portuguese word for bread - "Pão" - probably because the Indian city of Goa was controlled by Portugal for a couple of centuries),

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

it’s tendency to aggressively ransack other languages for vocabulary

I feel like this hasn't happened as much as people think in the last century or so, it's much more the other way around, almost every language now adds a lot of english vocabulary.

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You have a whole smörgåsbord of recent word thefts

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

the word first appeared in English in the later part of the 19th century. By the mid-20th century smorgasbord was being used outside of food-related contexts to refer to something that comprises a mixture or assemblage of different parts.

Source

You got anything more recent?

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 points 15 hours ago

German uses these two words as well, and until 5 minutes ago I didn't even know they were of Swedish origin. And it connects nicely to my original comment in this thread where I said that it's not just english that takes words from other languages and it's not something that makes english particularly special.