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@elilla

Absolutely.

You're analysing this véry phonetically (🧡) which is not how everybody thinks (sorry). Can I interest you in morphology? (eg words that I suspect to be nouns ending in o or a).

@elilla was about to add that it's of course a combination of certain sounds (and lack of others). Nasal in French is more outspoken than in Portuguese and Polish, which have an "ng" residue imo.

Of course I need to add that I know French, and basics of Spanish and Italian. So when I'm hearing people in language guessing mode: "definitely European, not Germanic or Scandinavian, nor Fr-Sp-It, some aspects of Slavic, but also Romance, maybe not Polish or Russian or Ukrainian or Romanian cause I'd recognise those, but how does Croatian sound? Portuguese?"

@elilla voiced palato-alveolar fricatives.

@elilla yes I agree that Portuguese can be mistaken for a Slavic language. (I don't know Portuguese nor a Slavic language.)

@ayo @elk I voted "yes sometimes" because I use tusky on my phone and elk on my laptop. (So not really "*started* using something else").

I'm very happy with elk and I've recommended it. I haven't used it on my phone cause I'm happy with tusky also

Edit to add: apart from the fact that it's prettier than the regular mastodon website, the feature I like the most is very simple: the size of the text box to write a post in.

So no fireworks, I just bookmarked elk instead of mastodon web and it's nice.