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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Put my Turkish pronouns as "N/A" bc of my edgy opinions on the existence of Turkish personal pronouns but I just realised it can also just be interpreted as "nominative/accusative", which is, purely by accident, a more sensible way to express that opinion i guess

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Subject-Object-Verb is the most popular word order because "Subject-Verb-Object" sounds stupid

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My subject pronouns are s/he, pronounced [sʰi]

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Fun fact: Turkish loaned both the singular and plural form: 'tacir' and 'tüccar', which both mean "merchant". Both are grammatically singular, so 'tüccar' has a plural form: 'tüccarlar' This happens supprisingly often in Turkish, including with (obsolete) native plural morphemes!

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

They're calling it the worst Turkish word ever

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

To me Metropolitan Turkish sounds like matcha-pilates-in-Bali-before-a-labubu-rave does that make sense Sociolinguistically ofcourse, purely phonetically it'd be Trabzon turkish

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Languages should never have both long vowels and long consonants simultaneously, or else this will happen

Latin: ēssō, dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of ēssus

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

TIL Turkish has a more phonologically licit version of the word "sufi", namely "sofu", now with vowels harmonious in (non-)frontedness and roundedness

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Shout-out to these divas who appear whenever you search a word beginning with <ga>

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Me: "Irish's vocabulary isn't even that anglicised, it's actually pretty conservative compared to other European languages!" Irish:

Irish "bhuel/bhoil", borrowed from English "well" (interjection)

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Thank you Jewish ppl (Turkish loanwords in Ladino)

Turkish "vazgeçmek" : to abandon, forego

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I just realised I sound more native in every language I speak just by not pronouncing /t/ as [tˢ] like the Rotterdammer I am :p Like, my German sounds so insanely German now Obv only works for langs where voiceless stops are aspirated

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Not only does Turkish refer to the Netherlands as "Hollanda", they also call the language "Felemenkçe", which ultimately goes back to Dutch "Vlaming" and essentially means "Flemish" 🙃 "Felemenk" apparently used to also be the name of the Netherlands and is still used to refer to the Low Countries

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

What's an interesting or unique adverb/particle in a language you know (about)? My answer is found below ⬇️

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I just came to the haunting realisation that my dialect of Turkish is just Scouse En. book > [bo̞χ] Tr. bok "shit" > [bo̞χ]

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Everybody has to know that Dutch 'boot' was borrowed from English!!

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Love Turkish for loaning English 'bitter' as /bitter/, pronounced [bi̞ttʰæ̝ɾ̞̊], although it actually means 'dark', as in 'bitter çikolata' (dark chocolate). 'Bitter' in Turkish is 'acı', which also means 'spicy', as well as 'pain' and 'to ache'. The latter is also used with the meaning 'to pity sb'

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Tetun Dili/Prasa being the national language of East Timor instead of Tetun Terik is my Roman empire

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I'm honestly suprised I haven't seen anyone say they don't have any pronouns As in, they only want to be referred to by their name

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I use clomb as the past tense of climb. I could've sworn (sweared??) it was normal... or is it a dutchism?

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

TIL.: A Turkish word for 'menstruation' is the (seemingly) phonotactically abhorrent 'regl' (from French 'règles') Analysis below ⬇️

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Just caught myself saying "mandaag" (maandag + vandaag)

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

İf you really don't think about it, "baarmoeder" is a head-initial compound

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Marathon sign in front of leiden central station in the morning vs. in the evening 🙃

welkom
bonjour
willkommen
accueillir
bienvenido

welkom
welcome
willkommen
bienvenue
bienvenido

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I dislike the current trend in Dutch speakers to say "dat is waar" instead of "dat klopt" for "that's true", because: 1. It sounds weird 2. When people calque the interjection(?) 'true', they just say "waar", which makes them seem confused about some sort of whereabouts. "klopt" already exists!!

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It's fascinating that Dutch preserves the dental fricative in the word 'thuis' (home)! Surely its regular reflex should be 'duis' 🤔🤔🤔

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

My mom just said to our cat in Tutkidh 'neden buurmaŋa hhhh yabdıŋ?' (why did you khhh at your neighbor?), where 'buurmaŋa' is the Dutch word 'buurman' that's been reanalyzed as buurma-n (neighbour-2SG.POSS) with the dative suffix -a. I know this isn't just 'buurman' in the dative because of...

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Movies and tv shows should be subtitled in IPA so that deaf/hard of hearing people can experience all the linguistic nuances of the characters' accents ☝️

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