The journey continued: after posting about this on my personal Facebook page, a Swedish friend from my online global writing group offered that 'rotabagge' is actually a dialect word used in the western part of Sweden. Where she's from, kålrot is the word used for Swedish turnip.❤
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Famous Medieval Words and Their Surprising Origins champ.ly/sM76wM0o via @medievalists.bsky.social #LanguageIsCool #EtymologyNerd
Guys. Available means able to avail. The only time I think I've seen avail used in a positive sense and not "to no avail."
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Every time I watch the excellent #Villeneuve film #ARRIVAL, I'm struck dumb anew. 1st time: 🤯 at the idea of divorcing of language from sound & time. Today, it a comment from my partner: "Choice is only choice if you presuppose that time is linear." #LanguageIsCool #TimeisMeaningless
