Yesterday someone asked if one could do something like this, here is my version, in case you missed it !
Here is the list of all the softwares in this picture :
- Friendica
- GNUSocial / Mastodon
- Vernissage
- Wordpress / Writefreely / Pixelfed
- Loops
- Jlai.lu (French lemmy instance) / Lemmy (with the lemmy.world logo because it’s more colorful than the plain lemmy logo)
Feel free to share it anywhere you want :)
If you have any idea for other meme of this type for the Fediverse, please send me a DM and I might make a nice graph like this for you !
And this is the moment I realized that German “tja” (“well”) probably comes from French “tiens” even though I’ve had five years of French in school.
My understanding is french is the most Germanic of the romance languages, so I’d guess it came to them both from an older Germanic language
I don’t think so. French “tiens” is a form of the verb “tenir” (“hold”). German “tja” is pronounced almost exactly the same and is only used as an interjection with a similar meaning but doesn’t have any related forms that I could think of.
Especially the southern German dialects have quite a few words that originated as loan words from French so it’s at least plausible. Could of course just be a coincidence as well. Languages are full of those.
Yeah. Definitely might be a false cognate (if even that). Always look up etymologies if they interest you! Because so many that people repeat aren’t true. I was just speculating and hoped that was obvious, but maybe it wasn’t to everyone.
Unlikely as many Germanic languages have it, with similar meanings. It’s a variant of “ja”, yes. Add a bit of laconicy and you can make “Well.” a sentence in itself.