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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 9h

First bsky post with one basquillion likes

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 13h

Greek scientists can NOT be going "évrika!" dawg 😭

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Unfunny posts department called, apparently I'm their chair now?

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Dozener shiists believe that a dozen imams were appointed to be the spiritual and political heirs of the prophet Muhammad

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's like saying that English has conjugated nouns/verbs in sentences such as "The mother's sick". The Turkish morphology is syntactically identical to a regular copular sentence

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Note the <y> in 'kuruydu'. This is a remnant of when the clitic was still a full copular verb; 'imek' (past tense: idi), which is now obsolete. (kuru idi > kuruydu) In my dialect, the vowel is still visible in all forms: aç-dı open-PST 'he opened' aç=ıdı hungry=COP.PST 'he was hungry'

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The intonation is also different, where açtí is 'he opened' and 'áçtı' is 'he was hungry'. Turkish words are generally stressed on the last syllable so that's pretty damning You also can't use all tam marking on nouns; *kuruyur or whatever doesn't exist (habitual suffix -Ar/-Ur)

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One of my pet peeves is when ppl say that Turkish "can turn any noun/adj into a verb" There's different morphology going on, namely an encliticised copula: aç-tı / aç=tı open-PST / hungry=COP.PST 'He opened' / 'he was hungry' BUT: kuru-du dry-PST 'It dried' kuru=ydu dry=COP.PST 'It was dry'

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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-Verb-Object" is to "Subject-Object-Verb" what "Live-Love-Laugh" is to "Live-Laugh-Love"

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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 · 03/10/2026

Beginning his response by stressing how much other, well known people love his book really rubbed me the wrong way

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

This but the pieces are all the different allographs of the letters that have to be in the correct order

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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 · 25/09/2026

A once major language that is the sole representative of it's branch which is now extinct along with the branch?

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

Don't need leg day if you've got legs for days

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

Diachronically speaking, yes!

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

More Arabic examples: şey - thing eşya - tool cüz - component ecza - drug ebeveyn - parent (dual in Arabic)

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

If you think it's weird that the plural of man is a religious title, you should know that 'erenler' has also been used to address a single person among dervishes, so it's a thing 🤷‍♂️

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

Natively there's 'oğlan' (boy) which used to be the plural of 'oğul' (son) And...my name! 'eren' (given name, sth like 'pious one') used to be the plural of 'er' (man). You'll notice that these two words use the same -An suffix. Nowadays all plurals are formed with -lAr.

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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

(which is more or less my dialect, so I'm not racist or whatever)

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

For the record this is not what I think of metropolitan Dutch, which is more like Kandy Muse if she were a drugged up scouser

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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 · 19/09/2026

He kinda ate with that ngl

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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

/oCu/ is a very common Turkish vowel pattern, although /uCu/ also would've been licit, likely pointing to "sofu" being derived directly from "sofi", which is also less steps

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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

Doesn't rule out wasian :p

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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 · 31/08/2026

İf it's clear and yella, you got juice there fella! İf it's tangy and brown you're in cider town!

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Het draait vgm meer om de taalcultuur dan de taal zelf. Nederlandstaligen accepteren een beknopt bericht gewoon vaker dan de gemiddelde Engelstalige

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Vind ik verassend hoor, "nakken" kom ik best vaak tegen, Rotterdammer zijnde ten minste. Ik associeer 't wel wat meer met jongerentaal, hoewel ik niet weet hoeveel invloed dat heeft 🤷‍♂️

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Am I crazy for thinking he sounds like a Turk or Persian speaking French?? Maybe the rhotic and aspiration? Especially 0:26~0:30-ish

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

(also, the non-anglo vocabulary that an caighdéan recommends is hardly what ppl actually use tbh)

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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

İs this what it's like for Slavs seeing Slavic loanwords in Yiddish

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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 · 15/08/2026

That was exactly the example I was thinking of!

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Tho ig that's what makes it "naturally occurring" Esperanto

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Meh. Often the meanings of derivations are unpredictable and the suffixes themselves have finicky semantics ("see" + causative = "watch", instead of "show"). Also, often when a word could be derived, it's instead just loaned from Sanskrit or Arabic. It distinguishes /Vi/ from /Vj/, both spelled <Vi>

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

ɻɛt͡ɕɹɑ́ˑfɫɪ̈siːz

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Erenguy @erenguy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I've heard opera singers know IPA

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

In case you were wondering, I used to associate my "wet t" with aspiration, which is why I don't make this mistake in, say, Indonesian

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

My Dutch will obviously keep repping the [tˢ] pronunciation!

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