Mastodawn

others have already posted & discussed this several hours ago https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-12/precautionary-dam-inspections-after-boorowa-earthquake/106444684, but my take here is on a different track altogether.

'Freight train' earthquakesounding like a "bomb" or "freight train".It was like a freight train coming through the housein strayan state govt railways, certainly nsw's nswgr / ptc / sra, & i believe most if not all other states, we had mainline & branchline passenger services, & goods services, ie, the latter's trains were... goods trains. that was so for over a hundred years, & was still true until at least 1989. over that whole period, it was merely merkans who had freight trains, not us.

sometime over the intervening decades, no doubt as part of the toxic global spread of merkan cultural imperialism since the 90s, & pathetically lazy media, strayans went merkan with our raily lingo just as we also gave up the fight in so many other cultural areas.

these days, i expect, if any old timers were to talk of goods trains, most strayan peeps would not know what was meant.

farque me dead, jfc 🙄🤦‍♀️🤬

#railways #goodstrains #lingo #dialect #culture #fuckmerkanmangling #fuckmerkanculturalimperialism

'Freight train' earthquake triggers precautionary checks at major dams

Two major regional NSW water storages will be inspected today following a magnitude-4.4 earthquake north of Canberra overnight.

Stan Carey Mar 9

Saw this sentence with both the Irish English "give out" and a standardized-English "give out":

"The banks often give out¹ that the rules are too tight and they can’t give out² the money people need."

¹ complain
² issue, distribute

Source and commentary: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/giving-out-irish-style/

#language #dialect #idioms #IrishEnglish #EnglishUsage #phrases

Giving out, Irish style

The phrasal verb give out has several common senses: distribute – ‘she gave out free passes to the gig’ emit – ‘the machine gave out a distinctive hum’ break down, stop work…

Sentence first

#BruceSterling Mar 5

"Jupyter walked so my kludgepile of dockerized task specific react dashboards could run" *Hmm, that was the most Agentic sentence I've yet seen here on Bluesky. #jargon #dialect *There will be more

john.brown_typeface Mar 1

in protest against this language i speak slurr'd 'n cut a drawl

"if you drink, don't drive, do the watermelon crawl"

we say "ain't", "yee haw" and "naw" - so would yew if ya had the gall

no games, a hootenanny's just the way that we ball

#Poetry #HipHop #Linguistics #Dialect #Appalachia #DirtySouth

niccolo Feb 26

Cover of Domenico Mudugno's "Lu Pisce Spada". A song in Sicilian dialect recounting a true story about a male swordfish jumping on a fishing boat that had just fished its pregnant partner to "die with his love". The story even made it into the local news at the time. What a wonderfully poetic song, interpreted by an amazing upcoming italian musician.

#music #jazz #sicily #dialect #live

https://youtu.be/7vINCy5o7Ic?si=PT2vdgq0N7DThfpb

'u pisci spada - Nico Arezzo | Peschereccio Session

YouTube

Joyce Lionarons Feb 15

Well, I've learned that Seamus Heaney used "coolth" in one of his poems, as did Rudyard Kipling and Ezra Pound. Tolkien used it once (not in a book), but was mostly joking, and most of the other modern written usages seem to be at least partly humorous.

It doesn't seem to be a standard word anywhere.

#English
#Dialect
#Words
#Writing

Joyce Lionarons Feb 15

Edit: Thank you to everyone who answered. The word apparently isn't used much (or at all) anywhere.

I recently finished a book in which the author used the word "coolth" as the opposite of "warmth." I did not think "coolth" existed as a word. It doesn't in the dialect of English I speak.

Does it exist as a common word in your variety of English?

If so, where are you from?

#English #Dialect #Words #Writing

harriehq Feb 13

Lyrical / contextual / regional / accuracy question:
If I use the phrase "gone off my/her head" in song lyrics as a person from Kansas, USA, is that going to be incomprehensibly British to my "average" listener (which is zero people, I know that, ok, I just crave CLARITY) or at best seem pretentious and jarringly out of place / context?

Yea, yea, I know. Who cares.
I care about these things.
There's no excuse for sloppiness or ineffability just for the sake of "cleverness."

#songwriting #lyrics #slang #dialect #phrases #gone-off-her-head #writing #regional #language

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betabug... Sascha Welter Feb 9

BTW this is the view outside the café Μπέρδεμα / Berdema. I didn't sketch it, so I give it to you in #photography

The reason it's called Aperathou or Apeiranthos is that the first is the local #dialect and the 2nd the official #greek word. The people there are very proud of their dialect, which is a bit unusual in Greece. The waitress talks "proper" greek to me, but talked dialect with the guests I sketched. ... being Swiss and interested in #language, I can relate to all this.

jendefer Feb 6

Does anyone know of any good actual plays (audio or video) of Dialect? We're gearing up to play it soon ourselves.

#ttrpg #Dialect #StoryGames