het Weledelgeleerde Wicht Anne C. A. Baanen @Vierkantor@mastodon.vierkantor.com

I just remembered this sound file where i butcher schratze's name in my local finnish dialect.

Which gave me a cursed idea: for every boost I'll butcher *your* fedi user name too.

It seems that people on fedi are extremely non-representative of the general population, so I've been wondering:
Are you usually wearing

@xmtz oh wow this emoticon is so good: ᓚᘏᗢ
May I steal it for later use?

Today, I dragged @StuartBeveridge to Chorley to see a fantastic bridge.

Because the railway and canal are at such a sharp angle, a normal arch wouldn't stay up. Instead, the stones are hand-carved in curves so that the joins between them are perpendicular to the bridge's weight.

My dad: Did you know that the word with the most consecutive double letters is raccoonnookkeepper?
My dad: By far the most useful thing I have learned from the internet..

all of the blauhaj

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind, and put on a funny hat while a frog played oboe

Remembering seeing the game Watch Dogs for sale on a Russian site and they translated the title as meaning "Look at the Dogs". Recipe for disappointment.

Machine translations suck because they can't tell if "bat" means a baseball bat or a winged mammal.
This thought to you by Redbubble "helpfully" translating stuff for me to German. -_-

@anke my fav example of this was sirens in english becoming iirc sirenas in spanish, which turned an announcement of a town's safety features into

'In case of a tornado, the mermaids will alert you,'