I prefer eleventyleven

Just learn both! But ich_iel has a lot more going on, so prioritise German.

Or cutting off the electorate’s to nose to spite its face

лишишь

Wait until you see them in cursive…

Fun fact: the s was added to island in the 16th century as a mistake because grammarians added an s to isle to make it look more like the Latin insula, even though there was no s sound in either island or isle.

So in Slavonic linguistics, there’s a sound change known as the Slavic liquid metathesis, which is what gives us South Slavic forms like grad (town) as in Belgrad, as opposed to East Slavic forms, like gorod, as in Belgorod.

The reconstructed ancestor of gorod and grad is *gord (in historical linguistics, an asterisk indicates a reconstructed form). Due to changes in syllable boundary rules in the Slavic language of the day (roughly 8th/9th century AD), you could no longer have two consonants at the end of a syllable, so *gord had to change. In East Slavic, this was solved by adding an extra vowel to break up the consonant cluster, giving us gorod. In South and West Slavic, this was done by moving the /r/ sound to the onset (start) of the syllable (and the vowel was also changed), giving us grad. The “liquid” part of the name refers to “liquid” sounds, /r/ and /l/, since this particular process applied to them.

It almost looks like this is what’s going on here, although not quite. It would have to be gulgulg > gluglug to count as liquid metathesis, but the l and u switched around, which is good enough for me. Plus there’s the pun with liquid and water.

Hopefully that at least somewhat explains the joke. I don’t know if it’s very clear.

Slavic liquid metathesis moment

I miss the good old days of surreal memes. Meme man and orang fighting against each other across an arbitrary and unpredictable universe, questioning the fabric of reality, surreality and irreality, all while striving to avoid eternal yamnation.

Does this mean Russia has to ban the Bible for having a rainbow in it?

Cyrillic has л from λ and п from π

Nice! Another fat л for putin

I’m English and I don’t either. It’s a pretty obvious hangover of British imperial pretensions.

The term British Isles is, of course, disputed by the Irish.

6 months up front

“I was just following orders”

Typical Jerry, just trying to get Tom in trouble

Yes, because it’s still propagating an idea, just not a bad one

Even my constituency looks like it will be flipping! Nice.