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Tamás Deme :
my favorite in hungarian is that we have 2 words for home, depending on if you’re there at the moment or not.
2026-04-02 10:47:40
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Naty 🇧🇷🦄🍉 :
when i say i love linguistics this is what i mean, LOVE this!!!
2026-04-02 16:58:41
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Shauni :
commenting to stay on linguistics tiktok
2026-04-05 11:37:37
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Leonor Esteves :
In portuguese and other romance languages, a lot of the times we'll answer a "yes question" without saying "yes", only repeating the verb used in the question. If someone asks me "Did you run today?", i'll probably just answer "ran". And i think thats cute :)
2026-04-10 22:41:32
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p :
In german saying "my friend" is instantly understood as "romantic partner", you always have to worm yourself through wording like "one of my friends" or "a friend i have"
2026-04-05 14:19:49
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Oxy :
As an ESL teacher I love to find similarities between languages more than differences. For example the word insurance derives from “sure” in many languages but in Russian from the word “fear”
2026-04-03 20:10:10
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TOBIAS :
Language is so fascinating !!
2026-04-11 04:24:32
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Vivibee01 :
In my language (Finnish) there’s no gendered he/she. There’s only one word «hän», although we tend to even replace that by something less formal. We also have quite inventive verbs, so you can often differentiate between the manner or style of doing something (like jump, jumping repeatedly, or jumping around merrily have all different ending to the base verb « jump »)
2026-05-27 20:09:38
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alexa :
in spanish we have to words for "i love you": "te quiero" and "te amo", (te quiero is chill, te amo is big), so when you have a partner is a big deal saying "te amo", like "i love you" in english, but you have the extra "te quiero" step before
2026-04-05 23:05:44
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cph_kiwi 🇳🇿🇩🇰 :
In Danish, there is just one word for boyfriend or girlfriend - kæreste. It translates to dearest and is genderless.
2026-04-11 05:34:58
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Lady Soteria :
I like this one. I speak Yoruba and when we apologise, we can not be insincere. How you say "sorry" when you are apologising is completely different from how you say it when you think you have no direct responsibility for what they are going through. 'Pele' is 'sorry' if I feel sorry for you objectively. 'Ma binu' is 'sorry' but it means I am apologising.
2026-04-17 21:56:10
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woodlandwizard :
Czech has seperate plural forms. You use one form if it's 2-4 objects and another, when you have 5 or more
2026-04-03 04:30:15
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m :
in german you’re not just “going” somewhere, the verb you use forces you to reveal //how// you plan to get there (walking, driving, etc)
2026-04-13 02:25:35
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Dariia Milinchuk :
my fav about mandarin is that you cant just answer "no" at all as there isnr a word "no". you always have to ad the verb from the question like dont want, dont use, dont like, didnt go etc
2026-05-28 08:58:25
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Kubra :
turkish is the best language for Gossip because of the language structure. There's literally a tense for storytelling and for the things we heard. Instead of saying I heard that She was getting married. We simply say evleneceklerMİŞ, which makes the language super fun and open for gossip 😁😅
2026-04-21 06:45:30
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Mel :
In Quechua, to say "we" you have to choose if you are including the person you're talking to in that "we" or not. Also, there's something similar to your example in Turkish: you choose the past tense depending on whether you have seen or lived what you're talking about or if you haven't
2026-04-04 02:19:27
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Fumnanya🙂↔️♥️ :
In Igbo, the word love translates to Ihunanya (ifunanya in my dialect) which transliterates to - "to see with the eyes" which is so poetic to me because being loved is being seen, understood and considered.
2026-05-01 02:11:55
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Dorian (they/them) 📚🇨🇦🍉 :
I love language! It’s so fascinating
2026-04-01 22:14:17
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lauren_g 🏳️🌈🪩🌿🌍 :
I love thinking about the impact of language has on society and vice versa, so thank you for sharing this fascinating
2026-04-05 09:43:32
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nekomancer451 :
Several indigenous languages in Brazil also have this "evidentiality" as you mentioned about Turkish, including Asuriní, Sabanê (in which its use is obligatory), and Tuyuca, have grammatical requirement to state how you know something, whether you saw it yourself or just heard about it.
2026-04-13 17:32:50
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pandaflics :
Linguistics are crazy to think about tbh
2026-04-06 01:21:14
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Sundae Caramelo :
As a portuguese speaker I found very interesting the fact that we can have a hidden subject. You can say a sentence without doing the subject because the conjugation of the verb that comes after giver away the subject, so it can be hidden. For example, "I love books", you could just say "Love books" and people would understand you are talking about YOUR preferences, because of the way the verb changes depending on the subject. I know some other languages have this "feature" too and that some sentences in English can be said without the subject in informal contexts (Such as "Love ya"), but it can't be done with much verbs, whereas in Portuguese it's very, very common and can be done with almost every verb. At least as far as I'm concerned, the French language, for example, can't have a hidden subject
2026-04-12 20:52:15
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Toma :
in Hungarian we have a specific tense for expressing doing things lightly. For instance "jàtszok" means I play, while "jàtszogatok" means I play but not so intensely. it works for almost every verb.
2026-04-26 21:47:18
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Melika🇮🇷🇬🇪🍉 :
in farsi, aunt and uncle use different term depending on if they are from mother or father side Khale=Mother's sister Aame=Father's sister Dayi=Mother's brother Aamo=Father's brother and then 8 terms for the counsins depending on their genders and how they are related to you for example (Pesar aame) means Son of my father's sister
2026-04-02 12:27:38
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iara :
evidentiality is such a cool grammatical feature
2026-04-02 01:52:49
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