#lingustics — Public Fediverse posts

Channel News Asia: Meet the people keeping dialects and heritage languages alive in Singapore. “Beyond the buzz over Teochew box-office hit Dear You, some Singaporeans are determined not to let dialects and heritage languages fall out of use – by teaching, documenting and speaking them.”

Oubliette is one of the most satisfying words of them all.

#diction #lexicon #syntax #lingustics #Labyrinth

The number of people who pronounce "camouflage" as "camel-flage" is too damned high.

#lingustics #words #petpeeve #langauge #grammar #pedantry

Every time I see anything Dune related and the name of the planet is pronounced Ar-Ahk-ISS instead of Arra-Kiss it always confuses and annoys me.

Just me ?

#Dune #Fiction #Etymology #Lingustics

The English word cow is related to other Germanic words: Icelandic kýr and Swedish ko. These words are also connected to a surprising group of words across other Indo‑European branches thought to derive from a common Proto‑Indo‑European root, *gʷṓws, for example Irish bó, Latvian govs, and Armenian  կով (kov).

https://mapologies.com/animals/

#map #mapologies #etymology #etymologymap #language #lingusiticmap #languagemap #cartography #mapa #karte #lingustics #languages #learnlanguages #geography

I've always loved the illustrations in the Hobbit

Also, name the edition I'm reading 😁

#bookstodon #tolkien #lingustics

Rice was first cultivated in the Far East as early as 10,000 years ago. From there, rice cultivation gradually spread westward. This movement is mirrored by the journey of the word for rice across languages. In English, the word rice comes from Old French ris, which was borrowed from Old Italian riso. That, in turn, derives from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza).

Source: https://mapologies.com/cereals

#mapologies #map #etymology#etymologymap #languages #cereals #rice #food #lingustics #words #history

June 26th @ 8:30pm EST, “Script Adaptation Gone Wrong” Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/@NeographyAtoZ

#neography #orthography #language #lingustics

Unrelatiert zum Thema: Ist das Englisch in dem Video australisch (meine Vermutung), britisch oder irgendeine obskure US-Varietät?

#Fedihelp

#Lingustics #Language #Linguistik

I don't want to tell that young American man what his name means in our culture, ignorance is bliss perhaps.

So I'll turn it around, whats the funniest sounding British name that is also a body part that you know of?

#UK #Culture #Lingustics

This is such a lie, SR-Research.

#academicChatter
#lingustics
#psycholinguistcs

There's a quote I've never thought to source because it always just seemed to be a thing in the ether - y'know?

“None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”

But apparently this can be traced back to a specific source, and that source is Watchman the original comic by Alan Moore. First published in 1986.

#quote #lingustics #comics #Zeitgeist

#lingustics Here's my swing at a new #academic #textbook for #teaching the use of #Language with #aliens.

In Japanese, R and L make the same sound. Because of this non-native speakers will usually hear the wrong sound. The speaker isn't mixing them up, they're just using a sound mid way between the two. New Mexican Spanish has something similar. Here B and V are the same. When I say bueno, someone who isn't from northern New Mexico hears vueno and when I say verde, they hear bherde. #NewMexico #Japan #Spanish #Japanese #lingustics

Toponymy – The Study Of Place Names
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy <-- wiki page
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponymy_of_England <-- wiki, toponymy of England
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_toponymy <-- wiki, Celtic toponymy
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #geography #placenames #placename #toponymy #propernames #study #history #historicmaps #origin #lingustics

Trump means anal seepage in Klingon
#Trump #AnalSeepage #Klingon #Lingustics

I mean, this is very cool, but… new accents are developing all the time, and part of me wonders whether the only reason this is receiving any attention is here it’s emerging amongst a group of very, very educated people, as opposed to,

- Girls (can’t be taken seriously)
- Young people (always ruining things)
- Working class people (uncultured, uneducated)
- Bilinguals (impure)

When is it innovation and when is it corruption? #lingustics

From: @KathyReid
https://aus.social/@[email protected]al/111154244761282910

This LitHub article on English and the evolution in South Asia is such a treasure trove of references: https://lithub.com/a-distinct-medium-how-english-became-a-south-asian-literary-language/ #lingustics #english #india

'And then I was like...' - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3twHHIdgWI

#Language #Lingustics #English

#Neulateinische Publikation über die (stiefmütterliche) linguistische Forschung zum Neulateinischen (mit einer nützlichen Diskussion des Begriffs des Neulateinischen): Demo, Šime. 2022. „A paradox of the linguistic research of Neo–Latin. Symptoms and causes“. Suvremena lingvistika 48 (93). https://doi.org/10.22210/suvlin.2022.093.01.

@neolatin #Neolatin #lingustics

Time for a re-#introduction:

I am a researcher in #SignLanguage #Lingustics. I work at the #DGSCorpus project at #UniversitätHamburg, creators of the largest discourse corpus of #GermanSignLanguage. My background is in #ComputationalLinguistics (aka #NLP) and currently I focus a lot on #ResearchDataManagement and ethical #OpenScience for sign language data.
I program mostly in #Python and enjoy tinkering with #LaTeX.
I'm a big fan of Terry Pratchett's #Discworld. And of #cats. Cats are nice ❤️

What if I made my own language and started beeping in it? 🥺 What do you think?
#conlang #language #lingustics #WeirdoPride #neurospicy #neurodivergent #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #JoinIn