Sick of you New Yorkers and your weird idioms.
November 3, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Sick of you New Yorkers and your weird idioms.
If you’re speaking, I want to hear your accent. I want to hear your y’all and yinz and regional colloquialisms and idioms. I want to hear your pauses and filler words and silences and the words you choose to put in. I want to hear you, as the human person you are with the unique voice you have!
November 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM
If you’re speaking, I want to hear your accent. I want to hear your y’all and yinz and regional colloquialisms and idioms. I want to hear your pauses and filler words and silences and the words you choose to put in. I want to hear you, as the human person you are with the unique voice you have!
the point about creating new idioms is really compelling
October 30, 2026 at 9:23 PM
the point about creating new idioms is really compelling
Trying to explain a hamburger to a book of idioms: okay so imagine there was a horse,
October 30, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Trying to explain a hamburger to a book of idioms: okay so imagine there was a horse,
They do the same thing w/honor thy mother and father. A LOT of sayings and idioms get clipped bc the rest of it doesn't fit their narrative.
November 1, 2026 at 12:47 PM
They do the same thing w/honor thy mother and father. A LOT of sayings and idioms get clipped bc the rest of it doesn't fit their narrative.
As a Farsi speaker I'm left perplexed by his cow idioms
October 31, 2026 at 8:03 PM
As a Farsi speaker I'm left perplexed by his cow idioms
Translated idioms/what people choose to do with idioms is one of my favorite things
November 2, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Translated idioms/what people choose to do with idioms is one of my favorite things
I sometimes forget that these are not universal idioms 😀
October 31, 2026 at 7:42 PM
I sometimes forget that these are not universal idioms 😀
Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā!
He Kete Kīwaha: A Practical Guide to Māori Idioms
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Also te reo Māori editions of two of Hona's popular earlier books: He Iti te Kupu and Ngā Hapa Reo
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He Kete Kīwaha: A Practical Guide to Māori Idioms
Hona Black oratia.co.nz/product/he-k...
Also te reo Māori editions of two of Hona's popular earlier books: He Iti te Kupu and Ngā Hapa Reo
#oratiabooks #reomāori #pukapuka @etangata.bsky.social @kimtairi.bsky.social
November 2, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Kia hiwa rā, kia hiwa rā!
He Kete Kīwaha: A Practical Guide to Māori Idioms
Hona Black oratia.co.nz/product/he-k...
Also te reo Māori editions of two of Hona's popular earlier books: He Iti te Kupu and Ngā Hapa Reo
#oratiabooks #reomāori #pukapuka @etangata.bsky.social @kimtairi.bsky.social
He Kete Kīwaha: A Practical Guide to Māori Idioms
Hona Black oratia.co.nz/product/he-k...
Also te reo Māori editions of two of Hona's popular earlier books: He Iti te Kupu and Ngā Hapa Reo
#oratiabooks #reomāori #pukapuka @etangata.bsky.social @kimtairi.bsky.social
The unrealistic part isn't a language of untranslatable idioms, it's how this never comes up as a problem with the eighty billion other languages.
October 30, 2026 at 4:06 AM
The unrealistic part isn't a language of untranslatable idioms, it's how this never comes up as a problem with the eighty billion other languages.
German has a smattering of these kinds of opaque idioms; Latin does too; Chinese though has thousands of just Chengyu, and thousands more of other types of opaque idioms
October 31, 2026 at 8:29 PM
German has a smattering of these kinds of opaque idioms; Latin does too; Chinese though has thousands of just Chengyu, and thousands more of other types of opaque idioms
Some vegan-friendly idioms (no animals were harmed in the making of this list)…
- It’s raining hats and clogs
- As dead as a yoyo
- Like a broth to a flame
- Bringing home the apron
- I quit cold tofurky
- So hungry I could eat a horseradish
- Well this has really thrown a cap amongst the smidgeons
- It’s raining hats and clogs
- As dead as a yoyo
- Like a broth to a flame
- Bringing home the apron
- I quit cold tofurky
- So hungry I could eat a horseradish
- Well this has really thrown a cap amongst the smidgeons
November 1, 2026 at 9:34 AM
Some vegan-friendly idioms (no animals were harmed in the making of this list)…
- It’s raining hats and clogs
- As dead as a yoyo
- Like a broth to a flame
- Bringing home the apron
- I quit cold tofurky
- So hungry I could eat a horseradish
- Well this has really thrown a cap amongst the smidgeons
- It’s raining hats and clogs
- As dead as a yoyo
- Like a broth to a flame
- Bringing home the apron
- I quit cold tofurky
- So hungry I could eat a horseradish
- Well this has really thrown a cap amongst the smidgeons
A few questions into today's English Gauntlet, working through spelling, vocabulary, idioms, grammar, and word origins with one life each. @boatmancryptics.co.uk Play today's puzzle here: mindloftdaily.com/english
November 3, 2026 at 11:48 AM
A few questions into today's English Gauntlet, working through spelling, vocabulary, idioms, grammar, and word origins with one life each. @boatmancryptics.co.uk Play today's puzzle here: mindloftdaily.com/english
Follow-up sausage making question. Assuming you don't speak Hungarian (or most other languages), when a translation is finished do you get an overview of where things are changed (idioms?) to better suit the language?
November 3, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Follow-up sausage making question. Assuming you don't speak Hungarian (or most other languages), when a translation is finished do you get an overview of where things are changed (idioms?) to better suit the language?
In my work as a cartoonist I use Google for 2 very specific things: reference photos for drawing stuff and looking up phrases & idioms to confirm common usage. AI makes both of those noticeably worse
October 29, 2026 at 5:54 PM
In my work as a cartoonist I use Google for 2 very specific things: reference photos for drawing stuff and looking up phrases & idioms to confirm common usage. AI makes both of those noticeably worse
Yeah, I'm sure the Feds are actively datamining for such fire idioms like "POSOTUS"...
October 29, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Yeah, I'm sure the Feds are actively datamining for such fire idioms like "POSOTUS"...
Me, confused by idioms:
"Ratfuck" is crude but "screwing the pooch" is okay?
"Ratfuck" is crude but "screwing the pooch" is okay?
November 1, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Me, confused by idioms:
"Ratfuck" is crude but "screwing the pooch" is okay?
"Ratfuck" is crude but "screwing the pooch" is okay?
This will 100% be used to remove idioms and English variants with roots in Black and Asian cultures.
Imagine a world without “bruh”. Or where “Inshallah” is replaced.
Only benefit would be to stop skinny blonde white women saying “Namaste” after their yoga practise.
Imagine a world without “bruh”. Or where “Inshallah” is replaced.
Only benefit would be to stop skinny blonde white women saying “Namaste” after their yoga practise.
November 2, 2026 at 6:18 PM
This will 100% be used to remove idioms and English variants with roots in Black and Asian cultures.
Imagine a world without “bruh”. Or where “Inshallah” is replaced.
Only benefit would be to stop skinny blonde white women saying “Namaste” after their yoga practise.
Imagine a world without “bruh”. Or where “Inshallah” is replaced.
Only benefit would be to stop skinny blonde white women saying “Namaste” after their yoga practise.
My qualm with "Darmok" is not that it isn't linguistically realistic but rather that it undermines the entire concept of the Universal Translator
If the UT can't handle idioms then it also shouldn't be able to handle nouns
If the UT can't handle idioms then it also shouldn't be able to handle nouns
It's all Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra. Always has been.
October 31, 2026 at 8:15 AM
My qualm with "Darmok" is not that it isn't linguistically realistic but rather that it undermines the entire concept of the Universal Translator
If the UT can't handle idioms then it also shouldn't be able to handle nouns
If the UT can't handle idioms then it also shouldn't be able to handle nouns
Made the game, still missed two 😅
Idiomy No. 3
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 5/7
Up to scratch
Seven idioms hiding in today's hive. Can you beat me?
samey.uk/idiomy #sameyuk
#wquers
#puzzles
Idiomy No. 3
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 5/7
Up to scratch
Seven idioms hiding in today's hive. Can you beat me?
samey.uk/idiomy #sameyuk
#wquers
#puzzles
Idiomy: tap words, make idioms
A daily honeycomb of words. Tap them together to make idioms.
samey.uk
October 31, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Made the game, still missed two 😅
Idiomy No. 3
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 5/7
Up to scratch
Seven idioms hiding in today's hive. Can you beat me?
samey.uk/idiomy #sameyuk
#wquers
#puzzles
Idiomy No. 3
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ 5/7
Up to scratch
Seven idioms hiding in today's hive. Can you beat me?
samey.uk/idiomy #sameyuk
#wquers
#puzzles
für jede Zeichenfolge im Lateinischen Alphabet existiert ein Idiom des Rätoromanischen, sodass die Zeichenfolge korrektes Rätoromanisch dieses Idioms ist
October 31, 2026 at 11:04 AM
für jede Zeichenfolge im Lateinischen Alphabet existiert ein Idiom des Rätoromanischen, sodass die Zeichenfolge korrektes Rätoromanisch dieses Idioms ist
A few years ago, I was trying to bribe my niece, who was 10 or 11 at the time, to do something for me. She got tongue twisted and accidentally combined two idioms: "butter me up" and "sweet talk". She was like, "Stop trying to buttersweet me." And I haven't stopped saying that ever since. 🤣
November 2, 2026 at 4:58 PM
A few years ago, I was trying to bribe my niece, who was 10 or 11 at the time, to do something for me. She got tongue twisted and accidentally combined two idioms: "butter me up" and "sweet talk". She was like, "Stop trying to buttersweet me." And I haven't stopped saying that ever since. 🤣
My cousin used to mix up his idioms.
He used to say:
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
He used to say:
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
October 31, 2026 at 4:08 AM
My cousin used to mix up his idioms.
He used to say:
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
He used to say:
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Several questions into today's English Gauntlet run, working through spelling, vocabulary, idioms, grammar, and word origins with one life each. @bewilderingly.bsky.social Play today's puzzle here: mindloftdaily.com/english
November 3, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Several questions into today's English Gauntlet run, working through spelling, vocabulary, idioms, grammar, and word origins with one life each. @bewilderingly.bsky.social Play today's puzzle here: mindloftdaily.com/english
She has a bunch of Southern idioms from kin who came up from Kentucky to build Fords.
October 28, 2026 at 10:28 PM
She has a bunch of Southern idioms from kin who came up from Kentucky to build Fords.