I would never, ever do this btw

If you try to machine-translate Ḏfâri (an Arabic dialect) from German to English, the result might somehow be "Faroese" when the machine ignores/omits the first character.

God, grant me
the serenity to remove the things I cannot revise,
the courage to revise the things I can,
and the wisdom not to scramble my version history.
Amen

In a nutshell, the ANES data shows:
📉 Social media use is shrinking; engagement collapsing
💥 Twitter/X posting has moved ~70 POINTS to the right
🧩 Platforms are splintering
🔊 Fewer people are talking — but those still talking are more politically extreme

Huh. Wiktionary has both. 🤷‍♂️

I have been using English numbers sometimes, but sometimes I am not understood very well. Maybe I need to adopt more of a local English accent.

okay. That's actually helpful to hear. I'll just find another way to switch keyboards (and test my neuroplasticity).

It is definitely showing this (or hiding it) every single time I touch the Option button, even if I max out "Delay until Repeat" in the OS settings.

What have I done

I could change my own shortcut for switching keyboards, but I think I have used it for a decade and I have never had this problem before.

I've already gone through all the OS settings and the application settings, multiple times, and found nothing.

Many web searches say this is called "KeyTips" but that brings up nothing in MS Word.

Microsoft Word menu showing letters on top of the menu items, "H" for Home, "N" for Insert, "JI" for Draw, "G" for Design, etc.

re: shortcut conflict

MS Word is toggling these on-screen keyboard shortcuts when I use the Option button & I cannot find any setting to make them go away.

It is driving me insane because it toggles every time I switch keyboards which is every 0.2 seconds.

Anyone know how to make it stop?

I mean this is my method too. Plus Wikipedia. I don't have pedagogical resources 🤷‍♂️

oh no

34 = choutrish
36 = chhotrish

😔

sheesh!

"beyond taste!" is too on-the-nose

this is funny to me because I don't know how many times I've been out buying something in the UAE or Qatar and the payment system is just not working for whatever reason and I have to just wait.

my impression is that Bengali is worse than this but I haven't yet seen a list that shows the (lack of) compositionality. (I'm sure it exists)

My days of avoiding numbers have finally caught up to me. No longer can I get away with knowing only 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, and 100

I expect the teens to be odd but it goes on and on and on 😢

My family here told me to just say large numbers as "7", "3", instead of seventy-three

Numbers in Bengali How to count in Bengali an Eastern Indo-Aryan language spoken in mainly Bangladesh and northern India.

missed alt text—it was a screenshot of this page which shows Bengali numbers:
www.omniglot.com/language/num...

Have I mentioned that Bengali numbers really woke up and chose chaos?

ek 1 + -aro 10 = egaro 11 👍
char 4 + -aro 10 = chouddo 14 ❓
chhoy 6 + -aro 10 = sholo 16 ⁉️

They go on and on like this.

I think it was dialectal, but I could be wrong. I was one of a few Texans in the course, which was taught in North Dakota. Many people from other areas of the US and Canada claimed they would never form a sentence like that.

Ofc it was all meant to show something general about how languages work!

awesome example of a minced oath. Anyone have any others?

(Of course I grew up with tons of them like "gosh" but I don't think they would be novel to the audience here.)

A "minced oath" is the term for that in English. ("Gosh!")

The main problem with this example was that the hyphenation made me rhyme Romans with Ot-Tomans.

In English, a bunch of neighborhood kids call me "Adam's dad". They shout it when they see me

hope you like fish?

Wife said someone should do a brain scan of rickshaw drivers in Dhaka

Wincing at spending 200BDT on rickshaws because I forgot something (about $1.90 in USD)

These things are always so relative