#linguists — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #linguists, aggregated by home.social.
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Look at these amazing new #Linguists who are graduating from the University of Arizona Department of #Linguistics this spring: Bachelors', Masters', and PhDs
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NativLang has created a new video on the many ways that writing scripts use or don’t use Capitals or Upper Cases.
#Linguists and #Typography nerds will enjoy it!
TIL that Arabic tried then dropped Upper Cases.
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This week's #WeeklyTshirt is in honor of #lexicographers and #linguists who introduced me to "Descriptive not Prescriptive." Meaning #linguistics is not an impartial referee of correctness, but a description of language by real people at a certain time. https://danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/descriptive-not-prescriptive
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This week's #WeeklyTshirt is in honor of #lexicographers and #linguists who introduced me to "Descriptive not Prescriptive." Meaning #linguistics is not an impartial referee of correctness, but a description of language by real people at a certain time. https://danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/descriptive-not-prescriptive
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This week's #WeeklyTshirt is in honor of #lexicographers and #linguists who introduced me to "Descriptive not Prescriptive." Meaning #linguistics is not an impartial referee of correctness, but a description of language by real people at a certain time. https://danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/descriptive-not-prescriptive
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This week's #WeeklyTshirt is in honor of #lexicographers and #linguists who introduced me to "Descriptive not Prescriptive." Meaning #linguistics is not an impartial referee of correctness, but a description of language by real people at a certain time. https://danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/descriptive-not-prescriptive
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This week's #WeeklyTshirt is in honor of #lexicographers and #linguists who introduced me to "Descriptive not Prescriptive." Meaning #linguistics is not an impartial referee of correctness, but a description of language by real people at a certain time. https://danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/descriptive-not-prescriptive
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🎉 BREAKING: Maple Leaf Man uses *gasp* British spelling! 🇨🇦📚 #Linguists clutch pearls as Carney dares to add an extra 'u'—clearly the end is nigh! 🍁😱
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 BREAKING: Maple Leaf Man uses *gasp* British spelling! 🇨🇦📚 #Linguists clutch pearls as Carney dares to add an extra 'u'—clearly the end is nigh! 🍁😱
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 BREAKING: Maple Leaf Man uses *gasp* British spelling! 🇨🇦📚 #Linguists clutch pearls as Carney dares to add an extra 'u'—clearly the end is nigh! 🍁😱
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated -
🎉 BREAKING: Maple Leaf Man uses *gasp* British spelling! 🇨🇦📚 #Linguists clutch pearls as Carney dares to add an extra 'u'—clearly the end is nigh! 🍁😱
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated -
Just created an international linguistics starter package. Includes linguists (all languages) and (English-speaking) linguistic institutions on Mastodon.
If you speak German you might also want to follow the package "Linguistik-Institutionen im DACH-Raum"
In case you are not yet included and would like to be added, let me know! (There are some accounts who commented, that I couldn't add because of their account settings)
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Hey masto #linguists: any idea why I can remember all the lyrics to a German song that I've been listening to a bit lately (my German is VERY rusty), but I get lost trying to remember the lyrics to songs in English and Swedish?
Swedish is my first language, and English is my second. I consider myself close to native-speaker level in both.
Wondering if there's some weird brain-link here that I can tap in to for getting better at remembering things.
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#TIL that ἀδελφός isn't the only Ancient Greek word for "brother."
There was also
βρά.
So when Kids These Days call you "brah," just assume they've been keeping up on their #AncientGreek
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Do #linguists note the word "Boycott" as an interesting curiosity in how we didn't have a word for this concept, then your man Boycott comes along and the word got sucked into not just English, but also every other language. Almost as if the thing couldn't exist properly without the word first being invented.
Are there other examples of words being invented and being so aggressively adopted into many other languages? "Orange" maybe?
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hello #language bubble. in #Germany there is a concept for words called "Teekesselchen", it is for words that are spelled the same, but have more than one meaning to it in one language. Now i just stumbled about the word #inari, which i only know for being a city in northern #finnland. but here in the #fediverse i also learned is is a word for a type of #sushi in #japan. So, #linguists, is there a international version for "teekesselschen"? And what is it called?
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Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...
One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.
One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.
It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.
Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".
These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.
You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?
#Linguists. Students of language.
You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.
#FFS.
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Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...
One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.
One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.
It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.
Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".
These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.
You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?
#Linguists. Students of language.
You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.
#FFS.
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Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...
One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.
One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.
It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.
Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".
These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.
You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?
#Linguists. Students of language.
You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.
#FFS.
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Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...
One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.
One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.
It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.
Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".
These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.
You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?
#Linguists. Students of language.
You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.
#FFS.
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Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...
One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.
One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.
It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.
Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".
These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.
You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?
#Linguists. Students of language.
You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.
#FFS.
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The German term "Hippen" comes from the Middle High German "hippe" and means "wafer-like pastry". It is probably derived from the Old French "huppe", which refers to the shape or decoration. In English, they are called "tuiles" (French for roof tiles), as their curved shape is reminiscent of tiles. They usually end up on or in dishes to make them even more pretty. You #linguists out there, prove us wrong!
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What I've taken away from last week's news & roundtable #translation #linguists #ai
https://tipap.mataroa.blog/blog/shocking-news-or-not/ -
I'm looking for a transliteration tool for English words to Thai pronunciation, as Thai has a phonetic alphabet.
I'm learning Thai and my MIL wants to learn English so I want to make flashcard/post it's that show
the English word : LIGHT
the Thai pronunciation of LIGHT: ________
The Thai word for LIGHT: แสงสว่าง
The English phonetic of แสงสว่าง: S̄æng s̄ẁāngAny #linguists #polyglots or #translators or #thai speakers that could help me out? Please boost until we find each other. Thanks!
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I'm looking for a transliteration tool for English words to Thai pronunciation, as Thai has a phonetic alphabet.
I'm learning Thai and my MIL wants to learn English so I want to make flashcard/post it's that show
the English word : LIGHT
the Thai pronunciation of LIGHT: ________
The Thai word for LIGHT: แสงสว่าง
The English phonetic of แสงสว่าง: S̄æng s̄ẁāngAny #linguists #polyglots or #translators or #thai speakers that could help me out? Please boost until we find each other. Thanks!
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I'm looking for a transliteration tool for English words to Thai pronunciation, as Thai has a phonetic alphabet.
I'm learning Thai and my MIL wants to learn English so I want to make flashcard/post it's that show
the English word : LIGHT
the Thai pronunciation of LIGHT: ________
The Thai word for LIGHT: แสงสว่าง
The English phonetic of แสงสว่าง: S̄æng s̄ẁāngAny #linguists #polyglots or #translators or #thai speakers that could help me out? Please boost until we find each other. Thanks!
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I'm looking for a transliteration tool for English words to Thai pronunciation, as Thai has a phonetic alphabet.
I'm learning Thai and my MIL wants to learn English so I want to make flashcard/post it's that show
the English word : LIGHT
the Thai pronunciation of LIGHT: ________
The Thai word for LIGHT: แสงสว่าง
The English phonetic of แสงสว่าง: S̄æng s̄ẁāngAny #linguists #polyglots or #translators or #thai speakers that could help me out? Please boost until we find each other. Thanks!
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I'm looking for a transliteration tool for English words to Thai pronunciation, as Thai has a phonetic alphabet.
I'm learning Thai and my MIL wants to learn English so I want to make flashcard/post it's that show
the English word : LIGHT
the Thai pronunciation of LIGHT: ________
The Thai word for LIGHT: แสงสว่าง
The English phonetic of แสงสว่าง: S̄æng s̄ẁāngAny #linguists #polyglots or #translators or #thai speakers that could help me out? Please boost until we find each other. Thanks!
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#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists
Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)
“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...
Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”
https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1
#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?
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#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists
Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)
“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...
Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”
https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1
#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?
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#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists
Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)
“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...
Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”
https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1
#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?
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#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists
Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)
“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...
Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”
https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1
#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?
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#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists
Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)
“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...
Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”
https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1
#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?
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Indo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur
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https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #language #IndoEuropean #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #linguists #historians #archaeologists #phylogenetic #tree #HumanGenomeProject #genetics #cultures #migration #paleogenomics #genotypes #prehistory #ancient #ancienthumans #DNA #prehistoric #populations #genetictree -
Indo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur
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https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #language #IndoEuropean #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #linguists #historians #archaeologists #phylogenetic #tree #HumanGenomeProject #genetics #cultures #migration #paleogenomics #genotypes #prehistory #ancient #ancienthumans #DNA #prehistoric #populations #genetictree -
Indo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur
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https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #language #IndoEuropean #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #linguists #historians #archaeologists #phylogenetic #tree #HumanGenomeProject #genetics #cultures #migration #paleogenomics #genotypes #prehistory #ancient #ancienthumans #DNA #prehistoric #populations #genetictree -
Indo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur
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https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317 <-- shared paper
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #language #IndoEuropean #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #linguists #historians #archaeologists #phylogenetic #tree #HumanGenomeProject #genetics #cultures #migration #paleogenomics #genotypes #prehistory #ancient #ancienthumans #DNA #prehistoric #populations #genetictree -
Indo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur
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https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317 <-- shared paper
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #language #IndoEuropean #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #linguists #historians #archaeologists #phylogenetic #tree #HumanGenomeProject #genetics #cultures #migration #paleogenomics #genotypes #prehistory #ancient #ancienthumans #DNA #prehistoric #populations #genetictree -
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Then register for the upcoming free virtual Webinar! ✨
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MIT study explains why #laws are written in an incomprehensible style
Analysis revealed legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences -- known as "center-embedding." #Linguists have previously found that this #legalese structure can make text much more difficult to understand. "Legalese somehow has developed this tendency to put structures inside other structures, in a way which is not typical of human languages,"
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819 -
Calling all #editors and #linguists! Know anyone who'd be a good fit for this #job? Cambridge University Press & Assessment wants to hire a senior research manager. Candidates must be experienced researchers with a background in #language #education. https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/senior-research-manager-cambridge/5480/description/
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This virtual workshop will discuss: *common issues in handling right-to-left and left-to-right text *tips & strategies for overcoming challenges with existing translation tools and *how Bidi text functionality is implemented & supported across platforms 💻Register Now: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817347089794/WN_xFMxBi7GTq2tCOTY083ckA
#Linguists #Localization #Translators #Unicode #Bidi #Unicode -
#Linguists ! and #Teachers !
Question: If I want to learn another language (written and spoken) and I know (native in) UK English (London to be specific) - then what is the closest European Language (structure wise) to English?
May or may not be relevant, but I can read musical notation (modern staff) and Guitar Tab but don't feel particularly skillful at language acquisition.
Thanks in advance !
#Linguistics #Language #Languages #TeachingLnaguages #LearningLanguage #EuropeanLanguages
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Now wondering if strong (khlang, ខ្លាំង) and afraid (khlac, ខ្លាច) are also #etymologically related to the tiger (khla, ខ្លា). Any #Khmer #linguists on the Fediverse?
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Now wondering if strong (khlang, ខ្លាំង) and afraid (khlac, ខ្លាច) are also #etymologically related to the tiger (khla, ខ្លា). Any #Khmer #linguists on the Fediverse?
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Now wondering if strong (khlang, ខ្លាំង) and afraid (khlac, ខ្លាច) are also #etymologically related to the tiger (khla, ខ្លា). Any #Khmer #linguists on the Fediverse?
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Now wondering if strong (khlang, ខ្លាំង) and afraid (khlac, ខ្លាច) are also #etymologically related to the tiger (khla, ខ្លា). Any #Khmer #linguists on the Fediverse?
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Now wondering if strong (khlang, ខ្លាំង) and afraid (khlac, ខ្លាច) are also #etymologically related to the tiger (khla, ខ្លា). Any #Khmer #linguists on the Fediverse?
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"Do you do?"
"I teach linguistics."
"I see. I'm no linguini, but I play one on TV."
"What?"
