a thing I often get sniped into thinking about is the phenomenon of multilingual people leaking information about their native language when speaking in languages they acquired later
e.g. in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5oSy1Cik50, Clem repeatedly refers to oxalic acid as "oxal acid" and my mind immediately went to "is 'oxalic acid' 'Oxalsäure' in German?"
turns out, yep! language is a set of interacting systems and it's fun to think about the hidden implications of it
this has happened to me in reverse. when i was learning the words "viento" and "ventana" in spanish i was like "OHHHHH it's called a WINDOW because the WIND goes through it!"
holy fuck
also me when I learned about cheval and chevalier in high school french and suddenly a lot of words like "cavalry" and "cavalier" made a lot more sense
