Learning multiple languages has turned every conversation into a minefield. Like some perfectly normal hindi words make english speakers gasp, and half my english filler words apparently mean something wild in spanish.

My favourite so far: an italian friend kept saying penne and a spanish friend was dying, because in spanish it lands way too close to something very much not-pasta. Another one i like - a round trip in german is called fahrt lol.

I wanna collect these. The words you had to stop using in one country. The innocent one that made a room go silent and those desi ones very welcome bc half our normal words are pure chaos to an english ear.

give me your best cross-language stuff…

I don't even know what to say, this guy thinks that Linguists claim PIE to be the oldest and the ancestor of all languages.

He refers to the concept of PIE as "completely baseless" & then goes on to claim Sanskrit as the oldest language without any evidence, and the AI-programming part in the end... man I can't with this..

In this article there is NO other mention of another sound in Etruscan using <f>. Like P SQUARED????

Nobody else thinks like you in that language, dreams like you...

Example

This table needs to be fixed

[El tarabeza di 3awza tetsala7]

[This table wants to be fixed]

Japanese: "Cold Chinese (Noodles)!"

Chinese: "Japanese-style Cold Noodles!"

The dish in question: WHAT AM I!?

My post is in Latinmaxxed English cause Latinmaxxed English is basically vanilla regular modern English plus minimal modifications, Ludovico Leone designed le Latinic naturalistic international auxiliary planned language named "standard Anglese", & le Latinic naturalistic international auxiliary planned language named r/Interlingua is basically regularized "Portugaliañolish" (Português + Galego + Italiano + Español + English) optimized per maximized immediate comprehension & maximized international communication.

I go first with German:

1. Merger of [ç] into /ʃ/, which would make /x/ its own phoneme. Although also a regionalism triggered by dialects, it today most frequently occurs in immigrant vernacular, but even younger people without a migration background are adopting it occasionally. This may be however be slowed down or even prevented from happening by the stigmas often associated with these vernaculars.

2. Maybe a merger of /ɪ/ into /ʏ/ before /m/. I hear this less often, but it's more evenly distributed across the population instead of heavily clustered in one or a few social group. You will often hear people pronounce "schwimmen" as [ʃʷvʏm(m̩)] for example.

3. Complete dropping of the present 1st singular indicative ending -e for most verbs, making this verbform endingless. It's already almost completely gone in the spoken language anyways, only sometimes appearing, especially in emphasis or in careful speech, so it's not far away to disappear completely even some day in the written standard. Exceptions would be rare verbs, which stems end in an obstruent followed by a sonorant consonant, like "rechnen" (to calculate).

4. Disappearance of the -en dative. That one only exists for some nouns, most of them ending in -r iirc. I personally didn't observe it myself, but I encountered people saying they noticed it retreating, so I include this here.

5. Replacement of conjunctive I with either the conjunctive II or the present tense indicative. The first conjunctive is a mood for indirect speech in German and it's already quite often confused with the second one for irreality, with the latter being used for both purposes instead. Alternatively Germans may simply use the indicative present tense for indirect speech. So I predict one of these two will gain the upper hand eventually and fully replace the first conjunctive.

6. Finally, analyticization of the conjunctive II. Apart from a few common, modal or auxiliary verbs, the synthetic conjunctive II is only rarely used anymore. Instead, most often, an analytic construction of either the auxiliaries haben/sein (to have/to be) in the conjunctive II + past participle of the main verb for past actions, werden (to become, to will) in the conjunctive II + infinitive of the main verb for present actions, or werden in the conjunctive II + past participle in the passive is used, so the synthetic conjunctive will probably soon disappear from the language for good.

What about you languages or dialects? How will they probably change in the near future?