Notices by Sten (stenhaastrup@eupolicy.social)

@frogglin In the same whimsical vein

#AdventOfBooks Day 14: Imagined Communities by Benedict Anderson #Bookstodon

A book about how artificial the idea of a nation is. The core of the book is the point that we will never have direct contact with even a fraction of those that we feel belong to our national community, so somehow that community feeling must be generated.

I liked his focus on non-European nationalsim, which I knew less about, and which made the distinction between language and national communities much more evident

@jon

Danish has "speeder" = accelerator (in a car) and "butterfly" = bowtie. The first has always puzzled me, the last makes me smile.

Italian gave us "i social" to refer to social media in general, and "lo smart working" for working from home.

A bit of digging revealed that wikipedia has a whole page of examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-anglicism