How many words do Eskimos actually have for snow?
http://mentalfloss.com/article/33693/how-many-words-do-eskimos-really-have-snow Actually, Eskimos (also known as Inuit) don’t have a very large amount of words for snow. They actually have a rather normal amount of words for snow compared to world languages. Inuit languages are agglutinative so “words” are just combinations of different elements, but the number of elements relating to snow is similar to […]
What Phantom of the Opera sounds like after being put through Google Translate
I love Google Translate. It is great for a quick and dirty translate if you don’t quite know how to say something and want to check what Google Translate will output. That said though, the outputs from it can be hilarious sometimes. So here is what happens when you put the lyrics of The Phantom […]
What happens when you put Christmas songs through Google Translate?
I love round trip translations 😀 What are those you ask? It’s what happens when you translate something into another language using Google Translate, then take that result and translate it into yet another language. You keep going for as many languages as you want until you finally translate back into English, and hilarity ensues […]
A Game of Thrones trailer in Japanese
I love the sound of Japanese. It is a syllable timed language which means all the syllables are pronounced with the same timing. Italian is another syllable timed language. English, on the other hand, is a stress timed language which means stress syllables come at regularly spaced intervals. As for the trailer though, hearing Japanese […]
Did German almost become the official language of the USA?
http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.asp While there was a recommendation that laws be printed in German and English, it never came up for a vote. There are a lot of languages spoken in America. Spanish is the largest language after English. But there are plenty other languages as well, including German which is spoken by descendants of German immigrants. […]
Understand the most efficient word in German: da
https://www.thegermanz.com/one-efficient-words-german-da/ There are some words that are overachievers. They just want to do all the work. They have so many meanings and can be used in so many different contexts. “Da” is one of those words in German. It can be used to point something out and to contrast one thing to another as well […]
