No More Duolingo Levels

I think it happened a few days or even a few weeks ago, but I noticed to-day that Duolingo seems to have done away with the levels for each language.  All I see on my profile now are my XP totals:

When they introduced the crowns system, I was a bit suspicious that they would get rid of the levels eventually, and now here we are.

The primary purpose of this blog was to keep track of when I levelled up in languages on Duolingo.  Now that that's gone, posts here will probably be few and far between.

Et cetera et cetera

A few times in the last two months, I heard or read "et cetera et cetera."  "Et cetera" is Latin for "and others," but I think people are starting to use it with the intended meaning of "and so on."  If the actual meaning of the Latin is held to, however, "et cetera et cetera" doesn't even make sense (or - at the very least - it's redundant).  As I've written about before, "et... et..." in Latin is the correlative "both... and...," so "et cetera et cetera" isn't "and others and others" (or - as people try to use it - "and so on and so on").  Rather, it means "both others and others."

Duolingo Levels Update

I was looking through my Duolingo levels and comparing them to what I've posted here, and I discovered that I'd unknowingly levelled up in three languages:

Level 20 Norwegian
Level 5 Navajo

Level 5 Hungarian

Level 18 Russian

Level 18 Russian!

Level 14 Danish

Level 14 Danish!

Level 12 Welsh

Level 12 Welsh!

Level 11 Portuguese

Level 11 Portuguese!

Level 4 Hungarian

Level 4 Hungarian!

Level 17 Hebrew

Level 17 Hebrew!

Level 4 Navajo

Level 4 Navajo!

Level 11 Swedish

Level 11 Swedish!

Level 16 Greek

Level 16 Greek!