The Official Pronunciation Confirmed by Nike
Nike chairman Phil Knight confirmed the brand should be pronounced 'Nikey' (rhymes with 'spiky'). He responded to fans in 2014 by circling the 'Ni-key' option on their letter.
The company has never endorsed the 'Nike' pronunciation that rhymes with 'bike'. Knight's reply settled the long-running debate for those who asked directly.
**The Charyapada,** a collection of mystical poems and songs rediscovered in royal library of Nepal in 1907, is commonly accepted to have been composed and compiled between 8th and 12th centuries CE by 23 Siddhacharyas (tantric masters) of Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism from the tantric traditions of Odisha, Assam, Bengal and Bihar.
This verse (from [Charyapada Verse 10](https://youtu.be/gTk86O3qiaw?si=ykbh7SaLRB6dXJ9D)), composed by Kānhapāda(Kānhuipā), is a cornerstone of Eastern Indo-Aryan languages. It serves as a "linguistic blueprint", demonstrating the common *Abahatta* (Apabhramsha) roots that evolved into modern Odia, Assamese, Bangla, Maithili, Magahi and other East Indo-Aryan languages.
Especially for Odia and Bangla speakers, the striking resemblance is unmistakable. The syntax and vocabulary have remained remarkably intact for over a thousand years.
Ai isn’t helping presumably because this is bad handwriting. From what I can figure out it’s either Georgian or Armenian, and it likely says something along the lines of “grandfather, I miss and love you.”
I am particularly interested in the text at the bottom which I assume is likely the name of the person who wrote it.
This letter is the only letter in another language in a stack of English letters, so I would appreciate any insight on why that might be.
I bought this cool horn on a board thing at a yard sale and didn't realize til I got home it had whatever this is burnt/carved on the back. At first I thought maybe some type of fancy hebrew but its been confirmed that's not it. Im not sure which way is up so I photographed both angles. Is this an actual language or just random lines that I've been loading my mind over? Google has been useless. Please help before my brain explodes.
This stone was found in Kazakhstan but doesn't look anything like local runes. Very old one.
Could it be Aramaic/Phoenician? Looks middle eastern but doesn't look like Arabic.
As the title says. I put forward a petition to the moderator to limit the recurrent "Speakers of X, Y, and Z, do you understand this person?" posts. While it is interesting to hear how lesser known Romance languages sound, making 24 posts of the same three or four languages within 24 hours is overkill and accidentaly ends up sabotaging other posts and harming the community in the long term.
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Hey hey! So, things escalated a little when I started my journey to learn Oshiwambo and we ended up building our little tool into something more people can also use. Most of the content come from Hai ti! from 2004, and is credited to the authors.
We hope that by sharing this we can help people pick it up, especially those of us living outside Namibia and the broader diaspora interested in the language. We will keep improving the site over time, and would really appreciate the feedback from anyone having the time or interest to use it. We naturally offer the tool for anyone teaching others the language and you can now even create an account to follow your own progress.
https://oshikwanyama.com/ is the address, and it will never cost anything to learn or maintain the language. Thanks for reading!
Joolokeni and Markus
Found this book from 1889 at Half Price Books today! Original leather binding and one of the clasps still attached. Mostly bought because it’s very cool, but I’m curious what it says. Guessing a religious text of some sort?
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Oner: this pronunciation is derived from a
single source word. Can you decipher it?
LUM
Heidi Klum
My partner uses an AI tool in his car through his phone to ask it questions (Gemini). Suddenly it started speaking in this strange voice and when we ask what he just said or play it back, it just shuts down. The AI is set in English so I feel like its gibberish with an accent but it could be a real language? Can someone hear anything in this?
Hello everyone!
My name is Aron, I'm a 17 year old student from Hungary. I've been working on an app for a while that expands your vocabulary without even opening the app! You will get a new rarely used english word every day on your homescreen, lockcreen or both! No ads, No payments and No login. In the app you can practice and keep a daily streak! Its only on android right now but I will make an ios version soon! If you have a bad experience with it please contact me instead of writing a bad review! The apps name is Rarely: Word of the Day Widget
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This is from a shirt that I bought in a thrift store. I can read cyrillic and to me it sounds kind of German? Google translate goes crazy and doesn't really help.
For me swedish has always been the normal. I've grew up with it my whole life and I use it all day every day. It is such a effortless and smooth language for me. English is also very easy for me, I am fluent in it. English sounds no less normal than swrdish to me. But the question remains, how does swedish sound to a non native speaker? I just can't imagine it.
Is there even such a thing as easy grammar? or is it just different grammar? does more rule make it easier? or more rules = less exceptions therefore easier?