ainaraoftime:

ainaraoftime:

one of my favourite linguistic phenomena/in-jokes is spanish potato chips being “ham-flavored, probably”

y’see because spain and portugal are so close, labels in stuff like food, shampoo, etc often come in portuguese as well as spanish

this brand of chips, Lay’s, displays the flavor in spanish and portuguese, resulting in ham-flavored chips looking like this:

with “jamón” being spanish and “presunto” being portuguese

however, “presunto” is also a spanish adjective, meaning “presumed” (or suspected)

so you have this in-joke going where spanish chips taste like ham, presumably

langernameohnebedeutung:

London ist zugegeben ziemlich smooth mit “Mind The Gap”, aber wir können das Rennen immer noch gewinnen.

Ich schlage also vor wir hängen an jeder U-Bahn-Haltestelle Schilder auf mit:

“Bedenke Den Abgrund.”

Es ist profund, dichterisch, denkerisch, leicht verstörend und wir können von Emo-Teens die sich mit den Schildern fotografieren lassen 3,50 pro Bild verlangen, 10/10 would recommend. Deutsch ist eine schöne Sprache.

shenanigism:

shenanigism:

what did the french trademark lawyer say to her wife

je ™

greed-the-dorkalicious:

anarcho-shindouism:

we were discussing how mandarin is full of puns and the shi poem came up

this is the shi poem

wtf chinese

EDIT: apparently the poem doesn’t make sense when heard but it makes sense when read

CHINESE IS SCARY WTF

polyglot-pal:

worldapprentice:

The only way to start speaking a language is to start speaking it badly

I will reblog this everytime becAUSE IT IS SO TRUE AND WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE . DONT BE AFRAID TO GO OUT THERE AND MAKE MISTAKES BBYS. AN INCORRECT VERB TENSE ISNT THE END OF THE WORLD

useless-swedenfacts:

reasons to learn other languages: you will uncover a whole new world of memes