#languagegames — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #languagegames, aggregated by home.social.
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Is all language metaphor? 🧐
https://philosophics.blog/2026/03/04/when-everything-is-metaphor-nothing-is/?utm_source=masto
I posted this last night. A follower chimed in. His speciality is anthropology.
Philippe Descola’s framework in Beyond Nature and Culture outlines four ontological regimes:
• Naturalism (the modern Western default)
• Animism
• Totemism
• Analogism#philosophy #psychology #anthropology #cognitivescience #cognition #worldview #ontology #grammar #metaphor #Lakoff #Wittgenstein #languagegames #blog #podcast #anthropology
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Artifact drop: Constructivist Lens.
Tap to rewrite your ontology as metaphor. Because “truth” was always a house rule.🔗 https://philosophics.blog/2025/10/31/constructivist-lens-artifact/
#Philosophy #Constructivism #MTG #Satire #CriticalTheory #parody #Postmodernism #Rorty #blog #sociology #psychology #LanguageGames #Philosophics
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CW: Græml 455 result & discussion
#Gramle 455 3/5
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https://nascl.rc.nau.edu/gramle/I keep expecting [æ] to have more separation between F1 & F2.
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CW: Lingule 671 result & discussion
#Lingule #671 "fæðing": 1/6
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https://lingule.xyz/Only one language currently uses the letter "ð", that I know of. English used to have it, and if it were up to me, we'd pick it up again! None of this "th" for two different sounds ‐ go back to using "ð" for "this" and "þ" for "theme"!
#LanguageGames #WritingSystems #Eth #Ðð #Thorn #Þþ #EnglishSpellingReform
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CW: Lingule 671 result & discussion
#Lingule #671 "fæðing": 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆
https://lingule.xyz/Only one language currently uses the letter "ð", that I know of. English used to have it, and if it were up to me, we'd pick it up again! None of this "th" for two different sounds ‐ go back to using "ð" for "this" and "þ" for "theme"!
#LanguageGames #WritingSystems #Eth #Ðð #Thorn #Þþ #EnglishSpellingReform
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CW: Lingule 671 result & discussion
#Lingule #671 "fæðing": 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆
https://lingule.xyz/Only one language currently uses the letter "ð", that I know of. English used to have it, and if it were up to me, we'd pick it up again! None of this "th" for two different sounds ‐ go back to using "ð" for "this" and "þ" for "theme"!
#LanguageGames #WritingSystems #Eth #Ðð #Thorn #Þþ #EnglishSpellingReform
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CW: Lingule 671 result & discussion
#Lingule #671 "fæðing": 1/6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🏆
https://lingule.xyz/Only one language currently uses the letter "ð", that I know of. English used to have it, and if it were up to me, we'd pick it up again! None of this "th" for two different sounds ‐ go back to using "ð" for "this" and "þ" for "theme"!
#LanguageGames #WritingSystems #Eth #Ðð #Thorn #Þþ #EnglishSpellingReform
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Centipede and millipede imply the existence of:
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At my old company I started #thunFursday as a way for designers and other folk to relax and get a little silly creating weird things. Each week we would have a theme and #spoonerisms were encouraged. #LanguageGames, #visualPuns, #visPo #art anything goes, just be respectful of others. And as a theme to kick things off lets try: SPOONERISMS
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At my old company I started #thunFursday as a way for designers and other folk to relax and get a little silly creating weird things. Each week we would have a theme and #spoonerisms were encouraged. #LanguageGames, #visualPuns, #visPo #art anything goes, just be respectful of others. And as a theme to kick things off lets try: SPOONERISMS
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At my old company I started #thunFursday as a way for designers and other folk to relax and get a little silly creating weird things. Each week we would have a theme and #spoonerisms were encouraged. #LanguageGames, #visualPuns, #visPo #art anything goes, just be respectful of others. And as a theme to kick things off lets try: SPOONERISMS
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At my old company I started #thunFursday as a way for designers and other folk to relax and get a little silly creating weird things. Each week we would have a theme and #spoonerisms were encouraged. #LanguageGames, #visualPuns, #visPo #art anything goes, just be respectful of others. And as a theme to kick things off lets try: SPOONERISMS
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At my old company I started #thunFursday as a way for designers and other folk to relax and get a little silly creating weird things. Each week we would have a theme and #spoonerisms were encouraged. #LanguageGames, #visualPuns, #visPo #art anything goes, just be respectful of others. And as a theme to kick things off lets try: SPOONERISMS
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#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion
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#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion
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#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion
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#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion
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#ACGrayling - #WittgensteinsGames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1v127X-Ydc&ab_channel=PhilosophyHub
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #AnalyticPhilosophy #Meaning #Math #Maths #Mathematics #Competition #Logic #Language #MeaningOfLanguage #LanguageGame #LanguageGames #Uncertainty #Silence #Religion
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“Identification of one’s own gods with the gods of other peoples. One convinces oneself that the #Names have the same meaning.” -- Ludwig Wittgenstein