In February, I made a little post reaching out to the Langsky community on Bluesky to ask for some ideas I could read up and talk about in a monthly stream series that I have been doing. One of the responses I got was the concept of mirativity, something that I have not really heard … Continue reading I’ve apparently been made aware of this grammatical feature (Mirativity)
Turkish
The breve — Beyond its use in Romanian
Saying that Romanian is a bit like French may be a bit of an understatement. They both share a common ancestor for their languages, being Vulgar Latin, and thus have rather similar words, and for some parts, grammar. But these similarities go a bit further than that. In orthography, both French and Romanian have their … Continue reading The breve — Beyond its use in Romanian
The story of the cedilla
This diacritic we will cover today will bother a lot of font developers who want to make a sans-serif font, basically a typeface that lacks any sort of protruding bits at the end of a stroke. These projecting features are called "serifs", and here, the one bothersome bit is called the cedilla, a diacritic mark … Continue reading The story of the cedilla
The Language Closet 