I think it's been long enough; Brazilian Portuguese is ready for the introduction 'ł' just like in Polish. Don't 'Brasił', 'Bołsonaro', 'gerał' or 'universał' look good ?

For Halloween, Wiktionary introduced me to the rather rare French word "lupeux", meaning "lycanthropic" or "suffering from lupus" (though now obsolete)

I wrote this blog piece (in French) about text on flags; Why is it so rare ? When is it accepted ? Why is the Arabic script accepted but not Latin ? Some historical facts about European influence on Arabic vexillology & the role of islam on calligraphy medium.com/@Pierre.Labain…

Phonotactics should mean tactical phonology. If I'm lost in the woods at night what sounds should I make? What about if the apocalypse comes?

Teaching IPA vowel descriptions this week and made this to illustrate tongue frontness #phonetics

Watching French journalists avoid at all costs pronouncing Przewodów (the Polish village where the Ukrainian missile crashed) on live TV is quite entertaining For reference, in IPA we get [pʂɛˈvɔduf] and it'd be approximated as pché-vo-douf in French. Not too complicated

Tamazigh-knowing people, a question: In French, the word "teh" refers to a "joint/blunt/spliff" and is said to come from taɣma "thigh, butt". Any idea how the semantic change took place ?