This was an argument about the pronunciation of the German word “Zehn” (pronounced [tseːn], for the record)

Inspired by yesterday's Hungarian ty/gy discussion

See also ȵ and ȴ

The Vowel Tesseract is a 4-way distinction between frontedness, height, roundedness, and centralization, cause I couldn’t think of a better feature to put as the w-axis.
Also I realize this kinda looks like AI but I swear it’s not 🙏

Some time ago there was a thread something like "what innocent word or phrase in one language can mean something inappropriate in other language?" and today I, when I heard the one-word sentence in the public transport, realized there is one between Czech and English.
It goes like this:
One Czech speaker: (says something)
Another Czech speaker: "fakt?"
In informal Czech you can have one-word sentences, where rest of the words are inferred from context, in this case the word "fakt" means "fact" in English and the sentence is short for "is it (that what you said) a fact?" - native English speaker will probably say "really?" "is it?" "isn't it?" or something like that.
So the frequent phrase which means "really?" can dangerously sound like the past tense of the f-word, unfortunately.

lūnam > /laʊn/

vītam > /vaɪt/

sōlem > /suːl/

nāsum > /neɪz/

This is official information btw

Edit: Palatal Implosive should be blue

The symbolization /kʲ/ here only refers to the phoneme /k/ beinɡ palatalised, historically shown as ⟨кь⟩. There are no sources that proves the phone [kʲ] was ever used by Bulgarian.

Like, /ɟ/ beinɡ written as gy makes so much sense but

/c/ as ty? My Greek mind cannot comprehend this. /c/ will forever be κι

I like pointing and making points and pointing towards points that help me make my point. I also like things with points, such as literature and polearms. Pointing is also a convenient way to convey a point. Pointed things especially make for good pointing at points relevant to the point.

Sometimes it is evident that people not translating a word is just because they're lazy to look into the language and culture then making the culture seem like more than it is, is just an excuse to hide their laziness.

Sanskrit vocabulary is extensively used in daily speech of many South Asian languages and some words used in Hinduism/ Buddhism are just regular words to us. First example is someone said duhkha cannot be translated bc it means more than just suffering; excuse me in Bangla/ Hindi dukh just means mental suffering/ anguish, like no the word isn't immediately more profound just bc it's used in Buddhism.

Second word I have had this experience with is dharma. Sure it means something specific in religious contexts but it is also used as a regular word in casual speech, where it just means religion but some people really like telling me "nooo, Buddhism and Hinduism are philosophical they are not monotheistic or dogmatic like Christianity/ Islam". No, in Bangla/ Hindi it's hindu dharm, bouddha dharm, krisht dharm, islam dharm, Judaism I've heard yehudi dharma in Bangla.