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Paweł Ausir Dembowski

@ausir

Linguist and translator. Languages spoken: PL/EN/ES/LAD/CA/PT/YI/DE (more or less in the order of fluency) ↙️ ↙️ ↙️ Mastodon: @ausir@wandering.shop (English), @ausir@meowr.me (polski) he/him on/jego http://pronouns.page/@ausir

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I'd say Mir is possible too

06.03.2026 14:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

Axel Springer and the academic publisher Springer are different companies

06.03.2026 12:21 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Może za młodu jeszcze nie boksowal

05.03.2026 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I would offer that the issue is not so much polyamory as it is people who write essays about their relationships

05.03.2026 20:15 👍 80 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0

Ktorego serialu?

05.03.2026 20:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I haven’t deleted my old account and just turned it to private exactly because I don’t want to end up being impersonated…

05.03.2026 20:13 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've had it up to here with Czechs making everything diminutive, even 'it'. You'll get taught 'to je ono' for 'that is it', and I'm prepared for 'to je vono' in casual speech, but I've now heard a friend say 'to je vončo'.

05.03.2026 20:11 👍 59 🔁 6 💬 15 📌 2

Remember, no matter what happens here this rock will be fine.

05.03.2026 07:15 👍 63 🔁 19 💬 6 📌 1

Beavatar

05.03.2026 19:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

apparently it's true

05.03.2026 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

yeah, but I mean older images, e.g. I went to @gaghyogi49.bsky.social's profile and wanted to find one of the Star Trek analysis images he did, but it's not showing there at the moment

05.03.2026 19:16 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

are posts with imaged attached disappearing for everyone (especially when you go to someone's profile) or just me?

05.03.2026 19:14 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

from what I heard it's also more politically neutral nowadays than Hindi, as much as that might surprise some people given the colonial legacy

05.03.2026 19:11 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

i'm frankly fucking tired seeing northern americans using argument of their own ignorance; it's fucking shameful to not recognize the most prominent ss symbol of all time.

(and of course platner knew exactly what that meant, no-one unaware would use the word totenkopf.)

05.03.2026 14:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

for previewing fonts we often use the nonsensical "zażółć gęślą jaźń" (yellow the self with a fiddle) because it has all Polish diacritics

05.03.2026 19:00 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

my original draft of my column on Elia Barceló's Natural Consquences has like 1500 words of musing on the belatedness of translation; maybe I need to figure out how to repurpose that for...something...

05.03.2026 14:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

how many contemporary anglophone SFF writers would name SFF published in other languages before 2000 — beyond maybe Borges or a few other literary writers either dabbling in SFF or working in adjacent areas like magical realism — among their major influences, I wonder?

05.03.2026 14:28 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Lem perhaps?

05.03.2026 14:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Translation of children’s book inspires Polish academic to research Welsh swear words Gosia Buzzanca There are many ways into finding oneself inspired language and culture. For an academic researcher from Poland, Joanna Człapa, the inspiration came as she read a Welsh translation of Ro...

Translation of children’s book inspires Polish academic to research #Welsh swear words
nation.cymru/feature/tran...
#xl8 #cymraeg #litsky #langsky

05.03.2026 11:05 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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The Great Giana Sisters - Wikipedia

first one I played was this Mario knockoff for C64
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gre...

04.03.2026 22:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Wabbit (video game) - Wikipedia

Wikipedia's earliest example of a playable female human character is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabbit_...

04.03.2026 22:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

eh, it's happened more than once in the comics too

04.03.2026 22:25 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

probably all the CGI visual effects are still not done

04.03.2026 22:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

easy to stump him by using Polish characters

04.03.2026 22:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager with the Emergency Medical Hologram in the foreground touching a PADD he's holding, and Lieutenant Paris and Ensign Kim in the background, in gold and red hockey uniforms, with ice skates slung over their shoulders and hockey sticks in their hands.

A screenshot from Star Trek: Voyager with the Emergency Medical Hologram in the foreground touching a PADD he's holding, and Lieutenant Paris and Ensign Kim in the background, in gold and red hockey uniforms, with ice skates slung over their shoulders and hockey sticks in their hands.

Alright, since you all won't stop talking about how great it is, I'm starting to watch Heated Rivalry. Definitely not what I was expecting so far.

02.03.2026 03:33 👍 172 🔁 37 💬 0 📌 0
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Wabbit (video game) - Wikipedia

Wikipedia's earliest example of a playable female human character is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabbit_...

04.03.2026 22:16 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

first Metroid (1986) is older than SMB2 (1988).

But Ms. Pac-Man (1982) predates both.

04.03.2026 22:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

unfortunately I am going completely insane, want me to get you anything there

04.03.2026 22:09 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

not a common combo in bakeries but also easily found on various Polish recipe blogs

04.03.2026 22:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Vocaroo | Online voice recorder Vocaroo is a quick and easy way to share voice messages over the interwebs.

voca.ro/18etffRra8eq

04.03.2026 22:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0