I'm looking for a colleague to teach a course on #lexicology for Masters' students (in English) in natural language processing. If you have any idea, please contact me!
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Hype for the Future 85A: Lexical Engineering in Iceland 🇮🇸
Introduction The Icelandic language contains numerous terms for gender identity and expression in numerous distinct types of terms, though these terms are rarely associated with the official language proper. Rather than being associated with the language proper, the Icelandic government actually engineers new terms in an effort to preserve the Old Norse roots of the language. Gender Identity and Expression Iceland has utilized lexical engineering in the Icelandic language to protect the […] -
Hype for the Future 49D: The Galician Language
In Galicia, the regional language is effectively as if a mix of Spanish and Portuguese. However, the overall syntax of the nation is significantly more akin to Portuguese than Spanish, though the orthography of the Galician language has often been criticized within Galicia for being excessively Castilianized. The regional movement of Reintegrationism in the Galician context attempts to dispel the Castilian concerns regarding linguistic syntax by promoting the idea that Galician and the […]https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2025/12/19/hype-for-the-future-49d-the-galician-language/
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Why isn't "intropolate" a word?
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A video about the fake word ‘zzxjoanw’ n., supposedly pronounced /ʃɔː/ or /zɪksdʒɔʊɑn/, allegedly of Māori origin, and possibly meaning 1. drum, 2. fife, or 3. conclusion.
https://youtu.be/8eyjLncW-5E?si=z6bXavD_PUNRlsON
#Zzxjoanw #Lexicography #Lexicology #ObscureWords #Māori #TheMusicalGuide #RupertHughes
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A fascinating assortment of (sometimes obscure) political insults and their origins. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/political-putdowns
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Hogmena
Captain Cook's Monument was busy this morning. Plenty of folk working up an appetite for their Christmas Dinner. Me, I dropped down the slope a bit and played with my pareidolia.
I always believed hogmanay is the name for the New Year celebrations in Scotland, yet it transpires that a related term had found currency south of the border. An excerpt from John Trotter Brockett's ostentatiously titled ...
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Smouts and Smeuses — A Cleveland Lexicon
Odd features of the landscape have always captivated my interest, though more often than not they tend to slip my mind upon returning home, overshadowed by more pressing matters.
One of these curiosities is this kink in the dry-stone wall below Easby Moor. It's almost as if two builders constructing the wall from opposite ends suddenly realised their walls wouldn ...
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For years growing up I thought next door neighbor was “next store” neighbor. After all, these were people we borrowed sugar from. #Lexicology
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The Onion: Store Name Requires All Words Be Pronounced Wrong For Pun To Work https://www.theonion.com/store-name-requires-all-words-be-pronounced-wrong-for-p-1850602203 #religionbelief #microsoftword #lexicology #semantics #ambiguity #lawcrime #wordplay #humour #pun
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Whenever I see a word in an article like “ameliorate” instead of using a simpler word like “improve” I just know the author busted out a thesaurus to exhibit expertise. #Lexicology
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Another (much longer!) list: 203 Most Beautiful Untranslatable Words (The Ultimate List: A-Z): https://www.theintrepidguide.com/untranslatable-words-ultimate-list/. Some of these are quite beautiful, profound, poignant, &/or humorous.
#untranslatable #words #lacuna #lacunae #lexicalgap #lexicology #lexicon #language #foreignlanguage #polyglot #translation #world #international #global #culture #writingcommunity #writing #community #read #readers #reading #readersofmastodon #bookstodon #bookworm #linguistics #learning
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28 Words That Don’t Exist in the English Language: The Power & Beauty of Untranslatable Words | Princely H. Glorious: https://medium.com/swap-language/28-words-that-dont-exist-in-english-you-ll-wish-they-did-e200ef1c3ae2.
#untranslatable #words #lacuna #lacunae #lexicalgap #lexicology #lexicon #language #foreignlanguage #polyglot #translation #world #international #global #culture #writingcommunity #writing #community #writer #author #writersofmastodon #authorsofmastodon #read #readers #reading #readersofmastodon #bookstodon #bookworm #bookwyrm #linguistics #learning
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Those bloody Renaissance scholars, showing off what they'd learned...
#english #language #lexicologyhttps://youtu.be/j07f-cKWRtk (3-min watch)
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In our next #CrossAsiaTalk on March 2 from 6pm @stabi_berlin Oliver Corff will present his research on #Manchu #Lexicology and #Lexicography and what the “edit distance” between two dictionaries can tell about #Qing Manju knowledge and thought. All info here: http://sbb.berlin/9qmtgz
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If an enthusiastic car mechanic uses their mechanic's knowledge and mechanic's toolkit to steal a car, the news will just call that person a "car thief." The other mechanics out there are still probably cool.
If a trained carpenter uses their skills and tools to break into a house and steal stuff, they're just a burglar in the police blotter. Nobody gets suspicious of carpenters in general as a result.
If a professional plumber bashes someone to death with their pipe wrench, they're just a killer in the headlines. No journalist would imply head-bashings as a thing plumbers as a community are known for.
But the instant anyone uses hacker skills or tools in a criminal activity, the news still has such a boner for writing it up as "HACKER DOES HACKER THING THAT HACKERS DO."
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Love this list of words for those elusive feelings we all have once in a while #lexicology #etymology #words #emotions
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Kotaku: The Year In Twitch Pol Himbo King Hasan Piker https://kotaku.com/hasan-piker-andrew-tate-sam-hyde-twitch-porsche-taycan-1849933722 #gaming #tech #kotaku #videogamelivestreaming #hasanpikerhasanpiker #internetbroadcasting #twitchstreamers #jordanpeterson #gavinmcinnes #linguistics #hasanpiker #larryelder #andrewtate #lexicology #anncoulter #joerogan #twitchtv #joebiden #porsche #lengyel #twitch #tiktok #gender #himbo #funko #wade #bae #roe #xqc
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General usage - "They are such dismaths - instead of accepting the incontrovertible truth of the premise, they attacked me."
Adjective:
"Many settler farmers are dismathic, they can't work out that when they chop all the trees down on their ill-gotten properties, it stops the rain coming, then they complain about drought. Then when floods come, there's nothing to stop the topsoil from washing downstream and they complain about the floods." #poetry #writing #lexicology -
Here's the word you need to describe people who disrespect maths and contravene basic logic - "dismaths".
This new word I have birthed encompasses the onomatopoeia of "dismal" and is a more direct way of labelling those who exhibit the behaviour than the more sophisticated "obtuse" with its allusion to wide angles.
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@fncll
Found this yesterday in Laura Cornelius Kellogg's "Our Democracy and the American Indian" (1920):"Leaving out the question of deserts, for the sake of argument, what other way of promoting Indian property is there outside of combination?"
A rare case of "deserts" having a positive connotation. #lexicology