Another one packaged here for Haiku and (experimental) GTK4, GNOME's Dialect, a small application which quickly translates your thoughts into another language.

Now also running on Haiku (nightly)!.  

https://www.haiku-os.org/

https://apps.gnome.org/en/Dialect/

#HaikuOS #Dialect #GTK4 #GNOME #opensource #software #translation

Stel je voor: iemand biedt je een boterham met pannepisse aan. Klinkt misschien wat apart. Toch gaat het gewoon om iets dat je waarschijnlijk goed kent: peperkoek, of ontbijtkoek.
#dialect

https://ivdnt.org/actueel/woorden-van-de-week/uit-de-streek/pannepisse/

'Swearing remains "one of the least documented parts of regional languages" and could be an important marker of identity'
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-25/swearing-insults-offensive-words-change-over-time/106711220

#slang #dialect #AustralianEnglish #Australia #swearing #linguistics #insults

Death of 'drongo': Are Aussie insults and swearwords dying out?

Classic Australian swearwords and insults are becoming less popular with younger generations. What does losing them mean for our culture?

Artificial intelligence struggles to understand the Mainz dialect

Artificial intelligence struggles to understand the Mainz dialect: New study of #MainzUniversity finds that language models misinterpret words in regional varieties 👉 https://press.uni-mainz.de/artificial-intelligence-struggles-to-understand-the-mainz-dialect/

#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLMs #dialects #ComputationalLinguistics #dialect

@RoseHLacroix @#photography@pixelfed.social @#filmphotography@pixelfed.social @#blackandwhite@pixelfed.social @#Germany@pixelfed.social @#boppard@pixelfed.social @#rheinish@pixelfed.social @#dialect@pixelfed.social @#poetry@pixelfed.social @#gedichte@pixelfed.social Boppard was organised in named neighbourhoods. Bälzer seems to be one. Could also be people from the Pfalz, not that far up the Rhine

@RoseHLacroix @#photography@pixelfed.social @#filmphotography@pixelfed.social @#blackandwhite@pixelfed.social @#Germany@pixelfed.social @#boppard@pixelfed.social @#rheinish@pixelfed.social @#dialect@pixelfed.social @#poetry@pixelfed.social @#gedichte@pixelfed.social

Aamer- Eimer
Saal - Saal
Kla Laterche - Kleine Laterne
Maabaam - Maibaum
Soll levve hoch - soll hochleben

@RoseHLacroix @#photography@pixelfed.social @#filmphotography@pixelfed.social @#blackandwhite@pixelfed.social @#Germany@pixelfed.social @#boppard@pixelfed.social @#rheinish@pixelfed.social @#dialect@pixelfed.social @#poetry@pixelfed.social @#gedichte@pixelfed.social presumably house names in the neighbourhood. People used to be named after the house.
Die ganze Bälzer nachbarschaft
de Aamer,
datt saal,
dat kla leterche
de Maabaam,
on de ganzer Bälzer
Anigkeit
Soll lesse hoch
A bit of poetry on an old house in Boppard. I can't understand this dialect and neither can my translator app but I have attempted a translation in the alt text. Anyone familiar with the dialect please correct me.
📷Pentax K1000
🎞️Adox HR-50
#photography #filmphotography #blackandwhite #Germany #boppard #rheinish #dialect #poetry #gedichte