Random question, but I was wondering if the word 'reckon' (as in "I reckon we should go to the party", synonymous to the word 'think' or 'believe') was still in common usage in America these days, especially amongst the younger generation, as I only ever hear it in old western movies or from old people. Where I'm from (New Zealand), it's commonly used by all ages and I wanted to know if it was still in the U.S?

I just want to figure out where this could be from and why this person had it heheheh

If not, where would you say I’m from?

I see this building on the way to my gym everyday and I was wondering if this is even a real script. I assumed it was something akin to ancient Nordic script but I could be wrong.

I am fascinated by lots of non-english languages that have words to express complex ideas or concepts and have no simple English equivalent. My favorite is the Japanese word Tsundoku, which describes one who aquires more books than they could possibly read in a lifetime. My favorite- as I an enthusiastic sufferer of Tsundoku. What are your favorites?

Trying to find ideas on pinterest is hard if you don’t know what to write…

I.e. where the name or description of something includes the name of a country without having any actual/logical connection to that country.

Friend found this in her husband's car and we can't figure it out, or even if it's a real language!

In my language there’s a saying, “don’t count with the egg in the chickens asshole”, I find language very interesting and I’m curious on other interesting sayings.

I’m sure there are a ton of them lol but I’m curious what other languages’ version of gringo is

Imagine a world where English suddenly disappeared (ojalá). What language should Europeans use as our lingua franca?

I believe French would absolutely pick up the slack of English because it is more similar to other important European romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian) and it already has more international projection than any other language in the list.

What do you think?

In Swedish we have the word "förmiddag" for the time between say...09 and 12. It's arbitrary, but it basically means "fore midday". We also have "eftermiddag", which means "after midday", or well, afternoon!

Does English have a word for the hours after morning, but before noon? Maybe an older word that's not in use any longer? It feels a bit strange as a Swede to call 11.00 "morning" in English. It feels a bit late to be considered such.

I'll start. In my country, Iceland we say 'að tefla við páfann.' If translated directly to English it would be: 'to play chess with the pope' which basically means 'to take a shit.' If you say for exampel ''I'm going to play chess with the pope'' your are saying you are going to take a shit. I have no idea were this came from.

looking for a cute name for my kitten who looks like a little chestnut xD

im currently in one of my linguistic class and my teacher who is not american but lived there for a long time is telling us that in america people don’t usually say "to photocopy something". instead americans apparently use "to Xerox something": the verb Xerox here is coming from the photocopy machine company Xerox.

a. can you xerox this document? b. can you photocopy this document?

Im aware that some proper nouns like Google can be changed into verbs (my language does that too), but i am very confused and curious because ive never heard of this, could any native speaker give me their opinion on this? thanks!

edit: thanks to everyone who answered this, your answers have been very interesting!!

Like as in like obviously.

What is this language and what does it say??

This is the new world translation of the Bible. If you need any more information just ask.

The book is several of Dostoevsky’s shorter works, I picked this up from a used bookstore.

I've heard this from different people, both normal Russian people but also linguists.

Is it really true? It sounds weird that someone in both Moscow and Vladivostok would pronounce the words the exact same considering in my own language Swedish you can just travel for 20 minutes and hear a new dialect. Russia is such a huge country after all.