The juicy part comes in Appendix 1 (by accident, methinks):
“I’m gonna get totally and utterly X-ed.” Constructing drunkenness
#linguistics
British comedian inspires linguistic study of slang synonyms for getting drunk | Ars Technica
This is fun!
#linguistics
@Muse
Fascinating exploration of "intrusive" or "linking" R sound in English. I grew up with friends and family members saying "idea" like "idear" or "window" like "winder". It is interesting to see the how/why/where of it all. #language #linguistics
English actors get this WRONG when they do American accents
(This is a pretty exciting answer to get when you're documenting a language.) (Also, I'm with the native speaker on this one.) #comics #linguistics
Hey everyone, I’m #newhere on this pod, though not on Diaspora, being on my third pod now. Like a number of other people I am a refugee from dapor.net. (Danke für die Zeit dort, Frank!) I’m interested in #baking, #bikes, #chinese, #hamradio, #japanese, #languages, #linguistics, #music and #taiwan. And possibly a few other things...
This past summer we had decided to raise courgettes instead of zucchini and had a much better crop to show for it. Next season, we shall plant aubergines instead of the eggplants that were rather disappointing this time around. Time will tell.
#gardening #linguistics
The book will, therefore, draw a limit to thinking,
or rather — not to thinking, but to the expression of
thoughts ; for, in order to draw a limit to thinking we
should have to be able to think both sides of this limit
(we should therefore have to be able to think what cannot
be thought)#Wittgenstein #TractatusLogico #tractatus #philosophy #language #linguistics #semantics #thought #ideas #book ">.
New insights into the origin of the Indo-European languages | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
#science #linguistics #prehistory
https://www.mpg.de/20666229/0725-evan-origin-of-the-indo-european-languages-150495-x
The evolution of alphabets is pretty fascinating. This ~16 minute video lays the whole thing out very well. There is even a little bonus about one example of the origin of weird English plurals when discussing how we got the letter "V" with its current sound. #linguistics #language #history
THE ALPHABET EXPLAINED: The origin of every letter
The etymology of "antisemitism."
"Anti-" is a word-forming prefix meaning 'in opposition to.'
"Semitic" is a near/mid east Afroasiatic ethno-linguistic people-group.
"-ism" is a word-forming suffix meaning a 'system or practice.'
Whilst there can be any number of meanings for words in the vernacular, etymology shows us the root or literal meaning for words.
"Antisemitism" literally means 'opposition to the system or practice of the Semitic people-group.'
Opposition to any system or practice is perfectly legitimate & doesn't represent any form of moral transgression.
#semitism #antisemitism #etymology #linguistics #language #english #uk #usa #ideologicalcolonialism #truth #abrahamicideologicalcolonialism #socialengineering #manipulation #overtonwindow #control
What’s Your Brain’s Role in Creating Space & Time?
Very interesting piece. As a linguist, it makes me wonder about the implications for language processing. Many linguists agree that the linear order of linguistic strings (i.e, how linguistic input stretches through time) does not correspond to the structural description that our mind produces of language. The latter would be a hierarchical structure. One that runs from top to bottom, rather than linearly, across time. I would love to be able to match this to the insights of the study of time from the point of view of physics and the philosophy of time, as explained in this video. Really interesting stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV9MnAZLmMQ
#Time #Brain #Hippocampus #PlaceCells #Perception #Reality #Philosophy #Neuroscience #Science #Linguistics #language
Having offered a link to my "Words" page, I revisited it after 11 years and found it ...
still fun and with many still-live reference and research tools. But a few links needed updating (after 12 years!)
I found some of my old-favorite pages that are no longer with us, courtesy of the Internet Archives / Wayback Machine & Updated my page. Here's one I enjoyed while immersed in writing, teaching, coaching... I'll try to link my main page reference below, but hoping this will lead write to the somewhat-shrunken but still list lesson:
"How to Write Good" / gooder
#words #writing #language #grammar #linguistics reading #books
[ Words Reference Page: http://fenichel.com/words ]
"Languages with a relatively small number of speakers, like Kochila Tharu, do not have enough digitized material for linguistic communities to thrive -- no Google Translate, no film or television subtitles, no online newspapers. In industry parlance, these languages are 'underserved' and 'underresourced.'"
"This is where StoryWeaver comes in. Founded by the Indian education nonprofit Pratham Books, StoryWeaver currently hosts more than 50,000 open-licensed stories across reading levels in more than 300 languages from around the world."
"Unlike most AI-powered commercial translation tools, interactive neural machine translation prediction technology (INMT) doesn't do away with a human intermediary altogether. Instead, it assists humans with hints in the language they're translating into." "Tools like INMT allow StoryWeaver's cadre of volunteers to generate translations of existing stories quickly."
An AI translation tool can help save dying languages. but at what cost?
So-called "fossil fuels" aren't made from #fossils. If they were, they wouldn't be able to be extracted below the fossil layer & Saturn's moon #Titan wouldn't have vast amounts of #oil inside it.
"Petroleum" is from the ancient #Greek petra + oleum which means rock + oil. Oil, or #petroleum comes from the Earth's geological processes, not fossils. "Fossil fuels" are more accurately called "hydrocarbons."
We've been conned by #BigOil, the #Rockefellers & #marketing agencies in order to create a false #perception of #scarcity to control #population & #economic development via artificial #energy scarcity & #price fixing.
#fossilfuels #hydrocarbons #gasoline #petrol #linguistics #usa #etymology #rockefeller #uk #artificialscarcity #geology #saturn #cartel #conspiracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2022/gen-z-work-slang-quiz/
While I scored "mid", it was not a terrible reach of context for those items in question. What I found more interesting is that from the comments section, it was pointed out that much of this "new" lingo isn't new. It simply became mainstream. I'm noticing this trend of each new generation to distinguish themselves from previous generations, whether or not it is perceived as offensive.
