Post #1394715
2026-04-05 17:21 UTC
4/ ... the good lady answered that she couldn’t speak French. And the merchant was angry because he couldn’t speak French either, but he wanted to have eggs and she didn’t understand him. And then, at last, another person said that he wanted to have eyren; then the good lady said that she understood him well.
Oh, what should one write nowadays: egges or eyren? It’s certainly hard to please everyone because of diversity and change of language.)
Replies (5)
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@swoonie@mastodon.ie 2026-04-05 17:36
@yvanspijk (Never would I have believed that the word “diversity” was already in use - exactly with today’s meaning! - more than half a millennium ago. 😍)
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@violanders@mastodon.nu 2026-04-05 17:42
@yvanspijk When did meat stop meaning food in general?
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@das_g@chaos.social 2026-04-05 21:08
@yvanspijk «shouldn’t» should probably be «couldn't» here.
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@wiert@mastodon.social 2026-04-06 12:10
@yvanspijk Cool thread. Did you ever consider posting the infographics as SVG? It would be way more inclusive, especially as it would make content far easier to reach from the indexable web.
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@Lucseleventje@toot.community 2026-04-09 15:21
@yvanspijk Hilarisch. En dan heb je het nog niet eens gehad over dat maffe dubbele meervoud in het Nederlands ;)