two quick bits

[kaberett]

• today's xkcd (official transcript has not yet been filled in but explanxkcd has one): it me.
  
• language fact of the day: I finally (several days after first going "... surely...") got around to looking it up, and seachtain (Irish) is in fact cognate to semaine (French), both being the word for "week". (things that are not cognate: the constructions for "[fruit] juice" in Turkish and Irish. yes the orthography and indeed pronunciation are pretty similar give-or-take diacritics, but no they are not the same.)

Comments

[sylvaine]

Ha, yes! I reblogged that one with a tag that amounted to "oh no it me".

That's so cool! I should really look up that kind of thing more often; there's a few Turkish phrases I'm convinced are cognates to the Polish version.

[flippac]

I find the lack of temporality in your userpic disturbing :-)

[cjwatson]

A nice Irish/French cognate that caught me by surprise early in Duolingo was "seomra" = "chambre"; non-obvious until you realise how similar the pronunciations are.

[kaberett]

Ha! Excellent :-) Thank you for the language fact!

[vass]

Same hat!

[silveradept]

That xkcd sounds remarkably like me, at least for something that isn't going to be profoundly embarrassing.