Paweł Ausir Dembowski
@ausir.bsky.social
Linguist and translator.
Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency)
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Mastodon: @[email protected] (English), @[email protected] (polski)
he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency)
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Mastodon: @[email protected] (English), @[email protected] (polski)
he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir
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me replying with "define 'language' and 'speak'" probably doesn't help
December 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
me replying with "define 'language' and 'speak'" probably doesn't help
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What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
November 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What’s the worst question someone can ask after you tell them your profession? For linguists, it’s definitely “how many languages do you speak?”, but I’m curious what else is happening to the rest of y’all out there?!
December 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I love this. And except for the posts recommending books by historian Guido Ruggiero, I think 100% of these are from threads discussing Francesco Gonzaga!
@adapalmer.bsky.social has swears! They've used 48 profanities in their last 2,158 posts.
🥇 "porn" (9 times)
🥈 "guido" (4 times)
🥉 "fart" (4 times)
🥇 "porn" (9 times)
🥈 "guido" (4 times)
🥉 "fart" (4 times)
November 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
I love this. And except for the posts recommending books by historian Guido Ruggiero, I think 100% of these are from threads discussing Francesco Gonzaga!
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Fuck aye
December 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Fuck aye
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Russia pounds Ukraine with missiles, hitting civilian infrastructure and killing dozens of civilians, and this is the BBC headline when Ukraine strikes a legitimate military target in response:
November 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Russia pounds Ukraine with missiles, hitting civilian infrastructure and killing dozens of civilians, and this is the BBC headline when Ukraine strikes a legitimate military target in response:
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Have i not been saying this for the last few years? It’s like the governments of the EU & UK don’t even pay attention to my posts. 😅
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Have i not been saying this for the last few years? It’s like the governments of the EU & UK don’t even pay attention to my posts. 😅
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I am reading Noyekh Mishkowsky's delightful account of his trip to the Yokohama seaside in ~1920. He likes:
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
November 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I am reading Noyekh Mishkowsky's delightful account of his trip to the Yokohama seaside in ~1920. He likes:
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
- sake ("a kind of shnapps made from rice")
- bento ("only 10 sen for the whole thing!")
- green tea ("they don't give you sugar, but it wasn't bad, except the water was a little bitter").
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@tomash.eu podejrzewa za to, że to przez to że tłumacze mają tendencje do wrzucania i szerowania treści w różnych językach częściej niż inni użytkownicy i przez to intelektronicznym moderatorom przypominają konta służące do spamowania i oszustw
November 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
@tomash.eu podejrzewa za to, że to przez to że tłumacze mają tendencje do wrzucania i szerowania treści w różnych językach częściej niż inni użytkownicy i przez to intelektronicznym moderatorom przypominają konta służące do spamowania i oszustw
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but I'm not very musical and I only ever really listen to stuff I already know because it's a song that's in a movie or show or game I like, or I otherwise associate with something else than just music – and I wouldn't care about the same thing otherwise; it's probably an autism thing
November 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
but I'm not very musical and I only ever really listen to stuff I already know because it's a song that's in a movie or show or game I like, or I otherwise associate with something else than just music – and I wouldn't care about the same thing otherwise; it's probably an autism thing
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My Facebook account was suspended for no reason, welp
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My Facebook account was suspended for no reason, welp
My Facebook account was suspended for no reason, welp
November 29, 2025 at 6:30 PM
My Facebook account was suspended for no reason, welp
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even the first use in *Polish* as a verb ("googlować") I can find is from 2001!
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
even the first use in *Polish* as a verb ("googlować") I can find is from 2001!
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first example I've found of someone *wondering when* Google was first used as a verb is from April 2002
groups.google.com/g/alt.usage....
groups.google.com/g/alt.usage....
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
first example I've found of someone *wondering when* Google was first used as a verb is from April 2002
groups.google.com/g/alt.usage....
groups.google.com/g/alt.usage....
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"Nobody said it IRL before that either, really."
a lot of people used it online before that, though; you can still google plenty of Usenet examples of "google" as a verb predating Buffy via Google Groups
a lot of people used it online before that, though; you can still google plenty of Usenet examples of "google" as a verb predating Buffy via Google Groups
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
"Nobody said it IRL before that either, really."
a lot of people used it online before that, though; you can still google plenty of Usenet examples of "google" as a verb predating Buffy via Google Groups
a lot of people used it online before that, though; you can still google plenty of Usenet examples of "google" as a verb predating Buffy via Google Groups
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If the gameplay is updated, it’s not a bloody remaster
November 26, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If the gameplay is updated, it’s not a bloody remaster
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Hockett, like Swadesh, made his list largely based on vibes. Are we surprised it doesn't fully hold up?
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Hockett, like Swadesh, made his list largely based on vibes. Are we surprised it doesn't fully hold up?
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I think I recognise some of the names in this!
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
A 65-year-old linguistics framework challenged by modern research
In a re-evaluation of Hockett's foundational features that have long dominated linguistic theory—concepts like "arbitrariness," "duality of patterning," and "displacement"—an international team of lin...
phys.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I think I recognise some of the names in this!
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
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Will there ever be an English edition of this book?
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
Best Related Work
The only one not actually published fully in English yet, I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze (And Say My Glory Was I Had Such Friends) is a collection of letters exchanged between Ursula Le Guin and Stanisław Lem.
It does include some letters reproduced in English.
The only one not actually published fully in English yet, I mów, że moja chwała z przyjaciół się bierze (And Say My Glory Was I Had Such Friends) is a collection of letters exchanged between Ursula Le Guin and Stanisław Lem.
It does include some letters reproduced in English.
November 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Will there ever be an English edition of this book?
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
#booksky #xl8 #leguin #ursulakleguin #lem
(asking @ursulakleguin.com @suchmayer.bsky.social )
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Happy World Linguistics Day from Wrocław, Poland!
Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)
Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!
November 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Happy World Linguistics Day from Wrocław, Poland!
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I think my attempts 👇 are futile, but this is something that annoys me professionally and personally
Mr. Levy, you and I both belong to an ethnicity whose names get used against us, where jokes about the worst of us are weaponized against us all... maybe cut it out?
November 26, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I think my attempts 👇 are futile, but this is something that annoys me professionally and personally
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Haha, Slavic name so funny.
Please let's not do the "making fun of an ethnic name" thing
November 26, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Haha, Slavic name so funny.
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I'm taking this headline literally and assuming that all EU states must recognise gay marriage in an explicitly Poland-rebuking way.
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I'm taking this headline literally and assuming that all EU states must recognise gay marriage in an explicitly Poland-rebuking way.
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."
"By the power vested in me to piss off those damn Poles, I now pronounce you wife and wife."