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Once outlawed, the Irish language is being spoken more in Northern Ireland - The Washington Post

https://archive.ph/2025.12.01-144020/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/01/irish-language-resurgence-belfast-ireland/

#teanga #AnTeanga #language #languages #Gaeilge #Irish #éire #Ireland

Screenshot of newspaper headline:

As more speak Irish in Northern Ireland, some Brits bite their tongues

In Belfast, even in Unionist neighborhoods, Gaeilge, the one-outlawed Irish kanguage, is enjoying a remarkable resurgence with new schools and bilingual signs. — Screenshot of newspaper headline: As more speak Irish in Northern Ireland, some Brits bite their tongues In Belfast, even in Unionist neighborhoods, Gaeilge, the one-outlawed Irish kanguage, is enjoying a remarkable resurgence with new schools and bilingual signs.

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 4 days ago

A Look at Rust from 2012

https://purplesyringa.moe/blog/a-look-at-rust-from-2012/

#HackerNews #Rust #Programming #Language #History #Rust2012 #TechBlog #DeveloperCommunity

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The Vulgar Tongue

@TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us · last week

BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot):

BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785) — Image imitating a page from an old document, text (as in main toot): BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance. A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 4 days ago

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/

#HackerNews #Zig #Asynchronous #Programming #Zig #Language #Tech #News #Developer #Community

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · 5 days ago

Response to Ruby Is Not a Serious Programming Language

https://robbyonrails.com/articles/2025/12/01/why-so-serious/

#HackerNews #Response #to #Ruby #Is #Not #a #Serious #Programming #Language #Ruby #Programming #Language #Hacker #News #Tech #Debate #Software #Development

Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ

@LiamGilmartin@mastodon.ie · 5 days ago

Once outlawed, the Irish language is being spoken more in Northern Ireland - The Washington Post

https://archive.ph/2025.12.01-144020/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/01/irish-language-resurgence-belfast-ireland/

#teanga #AnTeanga #language #languages #Gaeilge #Irish #éire #Ireland

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · last week

Scala

https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala/

#HackerNews #Scala #programming #language #functional #programming #software #development #coding

Hacker News

@h4ckernews@mastodon.social · last week

The original ABC language, Python's predecessor (1991)

https://github.com/gvanrossum/abc-unix

#HackerNews #ABC #Language #Python #Predecessor #Programming #History #1991

The Vulgar Tongue

@TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us · last week

BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

The Japan Times

@thejapantimes@mastodon.social · last week

Aside from the potty talk, a survey on bathroom habits can help us learn how to describe emerging trends in Japanese. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/11/26/language/bathroom-habits-japan-men/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #grammar #jlptn3 #jlptn2 #jlptn1

Megan Lynch (she/her)

@meganL@mas.to · last week

Question for the native English speakers:

To you, what is the difference between 'drapes' and 'curtains'? #Language

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melanyabelta

@melanyabelta@wandering.shop · 2 weeks ago

Oh dear.

#AI #language #linguistics #meme

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using "that's Al" to mean "I don't believe you." Me: we're having dinosaur meat for dinner. Kiddo: that's Al

Second comment from Susan Kaye Quinn: They've lost the 9yos

Third comment from @comraderobot: is it good when your product becomes hip slang for "bullshit" — My 9 year old and his classmates have started using "that's Al" to mean "I don't believe you." Me: we're having dinosaur meat for dinner. Kiddo: that's Al Second comment from Susan Kaye Quinn: They've lost the 9yos Third comment from @comraderobot: is it good when your product becomes hip slang for "bullshit"

Sheril Kirshenbaum

@Sheril@mastodon.social · 2 weeks ago

Evolution doesn’t look how it’s depicted in pop culture. We often picture the famous “March of Progress” illustration where a series of apes stand in line leading to a modern human.

But evolution is not linear. It branches and branches. Divides in some places and recombines in others. #science
Image: @keesey

Evolution is not a linear process. Image: T. Michael Keesey

Coach Pāṇini ®

@paninid@mastodon.world replied · 2 weeks ago

@Sheril the #history of #language (i.e. proto-Indo-European origins of communication) is so, so, messy.