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Polyglot in Training

@sobremesadora

Hi there! I'm Ellie from the United States. My first language is English, I'm almost fluent in Spanish (after almost 15 years of studying it in school) and I'm working on Portuguese, Russian, French, and German. Smatterings of Hungarian, Dutch, or Romanian may appear from time to time. PLEASE drop me a line if I make a linguistic mistake in one of my posts or you just think I'm cool (FYI: Yo soy).
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Could you explain how to use conque? I've seen it before, as in "¿Conque era eso lo que querían?" but I'm not sure how to build a sentence with it.

The expression conque is the equivalent of English’s “so” or “so that” or “thus” / “ergo”.

It’s a contracted form of con que “with that” / “provided that”… and is also a contracted from of con tal de que “in the event of”.

You would use it the same as así que which is also “so that”:

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POLYGLOT OF THE WEEK

Audrey Hepburn

  • Growing up bilingual, she spoke English and Dutch, she also mastered Italian, French and Spanish.
  • She learnt English in England while studying for most of her childhood, and she learnt Dutch later on while living in Holland.

#144

A conlang in which all of the words are created by saying the first commercial product related to it that comes to mind with a mouth full of marbles.

Ex1: “Maple Syrup” would be “Lwergk’bahn” (Log Cabin)

Ex2: “Cat” would be “Klittiritter.” (Kitty Litter)

EN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JrB7Ygu6zk

I will not do a Midsummer Nights Dream every fucking summer because it has the word “summer” right in the title.

I will not make Richard III about Nazis, because it’s been done to death, despite being rather economical.

I will not make any of the regency plays about…

Omgyes

It is a frequently cited fact that English has two sets of words for farm animals and their corresponding meats. The living animals are expressed with words of Germanic origin—calf (German ‘Kalb’), swine (G. ‘Schwein’), and ox (G. ‘Ochse’)—because the servants who guarded them were the conquered Anglo-Saxons. The names of the meats are of Romance origin—veal (French ‘veau’), pork (F. ‘porc’) and beef (F. ‘boeuf’)—because those who enjoyed them were the conquering Norman masters.

Kató Lomb (via foreignerongermansoil)

srsly though I went to whole foods today to buy a bottle of rose water (it was like 4.81 or something) and it so fucking much cheaper to do that and mix it with water than to buy the like 6 dollar tiny ass lush rose water face toner.

I wish I knew about this sooner tbh