#Language
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#Khmer #Cambodia #PhnomPenh #Mnemonics #Language
I do really need to figure out kerning in Khmer script...
There’s nothing worse than people overestimating and boasting about their #language skills 🤢
June is #NationalSoulFoodMonth, and if you’re interested in the origins of Soul Food, we’ve got an endnote that talks about early African American cookbooks: https://youtu.be/QbuABBPej9E #SoulFoodMonth
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #SoulFood #Cookbooks
I like the idea of language as incantatory rather than informative - when we do #opera or #poetry we separate the #words, or render them in a special alarming voice so that we can be reminded of or made to feel their power ... One of the reasons perhaps that I love #code - its a world where words are literally performative...
#art #language #philosophy
As a #language nerd, I don’t know how #misohomo for #homophobia did not already occur to me https://www.instagram.com/reel/CtRvHKvNXZh/?igshid=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==
"I am now, making my living — as an editor, occasional translator, anglophone critic of German literature — in the cracks between the languages, materially reliant on the existence of thousands of Berliners and Berlin-watchers who don’t speak the national tongue." —Alexander Wells for the European Review of Books
https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/beamer-dressman-bodybag/en
#EditorsPicks #Longreads #Language #Globalism #Meaning #Berlin #Germany
Member of the #AcadémieFrançaise complains about #English loan words and the consequences for #French society of the loss of the ancient French word "compersion" (in fact an English word invented in the 1970s)
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=59056
"And it's indeed ironic for a luminary of l'Académie Française to argue, by implication, that the remedy for the French nation's collapse is polyamory."
#compersion #polyamory #language #standards #LanguagePreservation #globalisme
Have you ever wanted to create your own domain-specific query language for your API? Is GraphQL too complex and OData too Microsoft-centric? In this article I talk about Searchlight, a simple and friendly #REST #API #query #language I wrote for #DotNet that's compatible with most major databases. https://medium.com/codex/searchlight-a-domain-specific-language-for-api-design-ad6579d36642
Following the Death of an 8-Year-Old on a Wisconsin Dairy Farm, Officials Look to Bridge Law Enforcement Language Gap
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ProPublica found that a #police investigation into a child’s death was mishandled due to #language barriers.
Now, officials hope to improve how #LawEnforcement interacts with non-English speakers.
Meanwhile, the boy’s family has settled a suit against the farm.
#Wisconsin #Dairy #Farms #Migrants #MigrantWorkers #Immigrants #Children
This video by @DrDavidMiano on #Sumerian origins is a must watch. #language #linguistics
The Japanese have stripped "the" down to one or two of a greater number of tasks that the word normally does in English. We know this process as semantic narrowing. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/06/09/language/za-grammar-notes-properly-handle-japanese/?utm_content=buffere47f4&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #prepositions
Luxembourgish learning: Lesson 19 – talking about your pets https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/language/a/1979376.html #Luxemburg #Lux #learn #language
@CultureDesk @merriamwebster because it's English....? Gerard Noist Trenité has written the aptly named poem "The Chaos" about it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chaos
#language #chaos #poetry
Why do we skip the "c" in "indict" but not in "verdict"? @merriamwebster has the answer.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/pronunciation-of-indict
This is beautiful & I recommend you go read it.
“What remains in translation is incomplete. That’s why the elders have to preserve our language, expressions, and ways of communication. If our language dies, everything dies.”
- Del Águila Miveco
https://atmos.earth/amazon-rainforest-and-bora-people-threatened-by-deforestation/
#UBC designed a #NewFont that allows characters from #Musqueam #Indigenous #language to be typed on computers & match formal institutional #font used on UBC documents/signs.
Most characters in Musqueam language's - #hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ - pronounced HUN-kuh-mee-num - aren't available on English language keyboard.
The new font is also capable of #typesetting the language of the #Syilx, a #FirstNation located in the same area as UBC's #Okanagan campus
It’s #WorldOceansDay – so it’s a good time to learn more about the seas, and efforts to clean them up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kKFrUr9Ffk
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Oceans #Sea
“China has generally been quite effective at rewriting history, in part by co-opting #language.” Just remembering how politicians bend and abuse language in other countries. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/opinion/tiananmen-square-chinese-massacre.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
NEW Deep in Japan podcast "KUKAI THE UNIVERSAL with Professor Steve McCarty" on the life and times of Japan's great saint Kūkai, Esoteric Buddhism, and Zen. I discuss the book in terms of East Asian history, language education, and translation issues including voice. My philosophy is expressed as well, so comments would be much appreciated. Listen at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1903791/13001040
(or find it at Apple, Google, Amazon, Spotify, etc.).
More multimedia at https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia
or publications on Japan at https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology
#podcast #podcasting #Japan #India #China #Asia #Buddhism #religion #religions #philosophy #history #Tang #Nara #Heian #East Asia #AsianReligions #AsianHistory #language #languages #translation #voice #Sanskrit #Chinese #Japanese #JapaneseBuddhism #Zen
@religion @histodons @linguistics @philosophy
#Tolkien makes *a lot* of knowing winks to philologists in his fiction. In a letter he confesses, for instance, that the dragon Smaug's name is "a low philological jest". It is the past tense form of the old Germanic verb *smugan*, 'to creep, crawl'.
Swedish still has this verb, *att smyga*. And it is the etymological background to the name of a fishing village and resort town on the country's SW coast. Smaug should thus be named SMÖGEN in Swedish translation.
Design, Digested 44 is out! On this issue:
– Ticketmaster: the UX of a true monopoly
– Has design become too dogmatic?
– Should the confirmation button come first or last?
– Design patterns for mental health
– Sabbath mode and assistive technology features
– Language, please
#UX #Design #MentalHealth #Accessibility #Language
https://silviamaggidesign.com/design-digested/design-digested-44/
Luxembourgish learning: Lesson 18 – Internet and computers https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/language/a/1979362.html #Luxemburg #Lux #learn #language
«"The purpose of local gov: 2 provide exemplary service 2 ppl in our community, w/o judgement. The English #language forms important part o identity o majority o our residents. We have ppl in our community who r gay & straight, French-speaking & English-speaking, Christian, Jewish & Muslim. The only way 2 provide municipal service in community like ours: through rspct & tolrnce o differences. #Bill96—like #Bill21 before it—is flawed; we look to making our case in court"»
I just came across a language bot to have natural #conversations in several languages. The difference to the #AI like #chatgpt is that it does not only answers your questions , but as well asks you back and makes you answer its questions. Kind of a #language #immersion possible. #Languagelearning #polyglot https://demo.learnlingo.dev/ you can try it out for free and without opening an account
@RespondCrisis
“Any human who is familiar with any kind of written #language would look at that and say, that looks wrong,” said Wagner, who recommends CBP hire language professionals to review the Haitian Creole text on the app. “It shows they truly don’t care whether anybody understands it.”
I'm feeling a lack of good translations for the Brazilian words «migo», «miga», and «migue» which are short for male friend, female friend, and enby/neuter friend, respectively.
Just to add insult to injury, «miga» sounds a lot like the n-word so I definately cannot use it with people who don't speak Portuguese or Spanish.
The best I can think of is «pal» but that doesn't allow for gender euphoria like their Brazilian counterparts do. Also, «pal» feels a bit less intimate than «migo/miga/migue».
Beaverton: Average number of languages spoken by North Americans falls to 0.7 https://www.thebeaverton.com/2023/06/average-number-of-languages-spoken-by-north-americans-falls-to-0-7/ #satire #canada #commentary #northamerica #Education #language
#BuncombeCounty #affirms #support for #LGBTQ #community; #Asheville #resolution #pending after #delay
#Ashville #CityCouncil member #KimRoney said the #resolution as it stood May 23 was the "most #watereddown #version of the #resolution in #NorthCarolina," lacking #language explicitly in #support of #liveperformance and #drag, and #LGBTQ+ #youths
The surprisingly connected origins of "pride" and "represent".
#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #represent #pridemonth
Een impulsaankoop bij Kooyker. Zelfs het ezelsoor van het enige exemplaar kon me niet weerhouden. Ik geloof inmiddels niet meer dat grammatica (of woordjes stampen) de manier is om een taal te leren, maar Dorren’s vergelijkende verduidelijkende grappig vormgegeven benadering maakt het voor mij toch boeiend om te lezen. #taal #nederlands #frysk #zweeds #noors #portugees #italiaans #language
You can read https://jointhefediverse.net in ten languages. And more are coming!
Care to join us and help #SpreadTheFediverse?
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Luxembourgish learning: Lesson 17 – How to… talk about sports https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/language/a/1979344.html #Luxemburg #Lux #learn #language
From 06 Jun: J. R. R. Tolkien Writes & Speaks in Elvish, a Language He Invented for The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien was undoubtedly a storyteller, but he was even more of a world-builder. One... https://www.openculture.com/2023/06/j-r-r-tolkien-writes-speaks-in-elvish.html #language #literature
English idioms come from just about everywhere — including chickens. @merriamwebster shares seven egg-cellent egg-spressions, from "fly the coop" to "rule the roost," plus how they were hatched.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/idioms-that-come-from-chickens-chicken-phrases
GOOD THINGS ALERT!
The latest #HelloYouPodcast episode is now available and ready for your listening pleasure!
Topics @louisew & I cover include:
-> #Grief (listening back, I'm humbled how Louise kindly & gently afforded me the time & space to continue my explorative journey)
-> #ChatGPT and #Embodied #Language
-> #Creativity and the art of "borrowing" to make something new (thanks to the lovely Behavioral Scientist team for the jump off!)
-> The #Barbie #Movie. Yes, people, we are both quite excited for it... Listen in to find out why!
This is another incredible #podcast #episode. Both Louise & I are enjoying the unfurling nature of these discussions - and we hope that you are too!
All feedback - and boosts :D - gratefully received!
TBPH, I still haven't quite gotten over 4- or 5-year-old me's consternation that "amn't" is — for no apparent reason — considered "incorrect".
Stay out of Indigenous language jurisdiction, First Nations leaders tell Quebec
The Mohawk Council of Kahnawà:ke is telling the Quebec government to support Indigenous Nations in revitalizing their own languages rather than imposing “even more colonial ideologies” on that work.
MCK says a bill to revitalize Indigenous languages is a “band-aid”, with the province impeding on Mohawk rights to govern themselves.
To mark #WorldEnvironmentDay, here’s our video about the word “Tree”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl-WunKwjrY
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Tree
THE ALPHABET EXPLAINED: The origin of every letter
If anyone wants to work on their cursive Chinese writing, you might consult this old 1955 book published in Hong Kong that I found in less than great condition in a flea market here in Singapore. Scanned and posted to internet archive:
鋼筆快寫字彙
https://archive.org/details/gangbi-kuaixie-zihui/mode/1up
#chinese #china #primarysources #language #asianists #internetarchive
Hi! I'm a Dutch guy fresh in my thirties. I love #language and #linguistics. I studied #Latin and #AncientGreek. I play #piano, and have made some attempts to learn how to sing. I enjoy playing #BoardGames, and I also play in three #DungeonsAndDragons groups.
I was diagnosed #autistic around ten years old. Over the last few years, I've discovered some of the many ways autistic people connect through the internet, and I'm looking forward to doing more of that here.
@Cbfoley I've just remembered about those books you recommended by Manchán Magan, so I've bought Thirty Two Words for Field. I had a discount code I had to use anyway. One more book won't hurt, right? 😂📚 #Irish #Bookstodon #Nature #Language
The line about "It’s advantageous for a bad faith movement to make use of language that evokes a strong emotional response from its audience but isn’t bound by pesky little things like definitions" is a beautiful example of what I've been saying: that "woke" in the mouths of the MAGAs is just a snarl word.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-woke-desantis-like-rcna87352
Snarl words: https://www.thoughtco.com/snarl-words-and-purr-words-1692796
https://archive.is/x67TQ#selection-721.0-721.49
This a fascinating article from the Economist (the link is strange because it's an archive to bypass the paywall).
I fully agree with it, and it has become my approach to teaching and using English these days.
TL;DR: No, it doesn't belong to Britain, even less to the US, it belongs to the entire world now.
I need to go back and reread all of Shakespeare again. In the wake of all the crud coming through GPT interfaces, I need to be reminded again and again and again why I fell in love with languages. There's expression for the sake of expression; and then there is language as elevated by Human artists throogh ingenuity. Current crop of #AI interfaces may regurgitate through synthesis. Human writing invents, imagines, evolves #language. Shakespeare is the best example.
Are you rad, a stud-muffin, or grody? With the help of the Oxford English Dictionary and other archival resources, Good Housekeeping rounded up the slang words that defined every year from 1926 to 2022. Which word was most popular the year you were born?
And for some Friday Fun, why not guess when the word "doh" came into favor (you'll have to browse the slideshow to learn the answer)?
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/life/g4252/slang-year-you-were-born/
I was just reading an interview with Jenny Erpenbeck in the Guardian. Listen to this sentence:
"Every state of being contains a story of motion waiting to be told."
Beautiful, don't you think?
#Bookstodon #Language
@doppelgrau Now that begs the question: how many other languages actually have that? And why? Where does it come from?
I mean, yeah, "Kuh" and "Cow"... there is a common root when you hear it.
But "inek" (cow)? But still so many variants? Strange...
Any language researcher wants to chime in?
#Language #LanguageResearch
TIL the word "nostalgia" originally meant severe homesickness and it was considered a disease. The meaning of a "longing for the past" was not recorded until the 1920s.
Apparently there is no definitive answer to why some languages are written left to right and some right to left, but one explanation says this has to do with the medium used for writing.
"Ancient Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic were chiseled into stones in ancient days.[...] Writing from right to left on a piece of paper would cause the ink to smudge because most individuals are right-handed."
Apparently it’s #NationalOliveDay? Well, if you want to learn a bit about the etymology and historical importance of olive oil, we cover that in, surprisingly, our video on “Linoleum”! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy5fkezJx7A
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Olive #Linoleum
The word "constitutive," how do you pronounce it?
I realized just now that I add an extra syllable in there and I'm not sure why or where I learned it.
I've been pronouncing it "con-STITCH-oo-uh-tive."
That "uh" in there is the extra syllable I add. When I say it it sounds like the ending of intuitive. Perhaps this combined with the emphasis in "constituent" is why I do it.
But alas, it seems that I have just been wrong about it. "CON-sti-too-tive" just seems strange to me
So…I was researching the coin shortage in Cameroon. En route I stumbled upon a BBC article written in pidgin. I really had no idea that media outlets were formally publishing in pidgin. Did you? Has anyone seen this before?
For those new to pidgin, it’s a conglomerate version of two languages to help facilitate communication.
The article:
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/cmmllr4j1qdo
More on pidgin:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
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https://jointhefediverse.net is now available in nine languages.
Huge thanks to all the amazing volunteers!
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Getting more and more annoyed by the use of the word 'autonomy' in relationship to AI-systems.
Letting a system run *unsupervised* ≠ a system running *autonomously*.
Yes, *unsupervised* sounds reckless and a lot less sexy. That's precisely what needs to be communicated!
#AI #autonomy #autonomous #unsupervised #language #communication
I've seen "solution" verbed quite a bit, as in "Let's solution that", but until today I don't remember seeing its complement, the nouning of "solve": "What are the solves?"
Rule 1 of verbing and nouning: It's nearly always older than you think. OED's first citation for "solve" as a noun? 1780.
Huge thanks to @frank for the Dutch translation of https://jointhefediverse.net!
And I'm excited about all the ongoing work! https://github.com/jointhefediverse-net/jointhefediverse.net/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+sort%3Aupdated-desc+label%3Atranslation
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Jonty Hurwitz is a South African artist, engineer, and entrepreneur, whose sculptures use both oblique (perspective) and catoptric (mirror) anamorphosis.
In online talks, he explains that these three-dimensional sculptures could only have come into being with the advent of powerful computers: each involves billions of calculations using an algorithm derived from the mathematical constant π.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonty_Hurwitz#Anamorphic_sculpture
photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anamorphic_sculpture_by_Jonty_Hurwitz.jpeg
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Rows of copper pennies are displayed to illustrate their changing appearance as they age: from shiny new copper, through progressively duller and darker colors, to the sporting patches of of blue that develop over time.
The patina forming naturally on copper and bronze - sometimes called verdigris - usually consists of varying mixtures of copper chlorides, sulfides, sulfates and carbonates.
"Your fence is sitting on me" (continued)
Ever since I saw it, I've always really liked that phrase, because as well as just being a snappy answer (to "you're sitting on the fence", usually not a compliment), it's metaphorically spot-on about the existence of the fence! Who said there was even supposed to _be_ a fence there? Not me!
https://jointhefediverse.net is now available in Arabic, French, Russian, and Slovak.
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Things that make me go hmmm.... https://blog.duolingo.com/pronounce-spanish-b-v/
I don't like disagreeing with experts, but the advice here of "just pronouncing" every v as a b despite people not being able hear the difference is terrible for my spelling memory.
In their English example "there" and "their"; I pronounce these words differently to aid with my spelling. No one notices anyway. So it's just for my own use. But recommending homophonic conformity seems incorrect.
Thoughts?
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The word for 'cheese' in some languages. Some languages have a more nuanced vocabulary - soft cheeses or things like cottage cheese may have a different word.
One of several cases where Finnic loaned a Germanic word a long time ago and preserves a "fossilized" form, preserving the initial j.
Scandinavian 'ost' is related to English 'juice'. Slavic 'syr' etc. is related to English 'sour'.
Note that the training data heavily relies on the Bible and its translations. Lots of bias there.
Meta unveils open-source #AI models it says can identify 4,000+ spoken languages and produce speech for 1,000+ languages, an increase of 40x and 10x respectively.
#Arrival is just one of the best films ever!
If you've seen it already, watch it again - but this time with #LLMs in mind. It gives a whole new dimension to the film. 🙃
#LLM #Movies #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Language #Communication
“As designers, we’re not just creating products. We’re creating a language, a dialogue with users that transcends the screen. A conversation that starts with a user’s first click and evolves with every interaction.” — Dylan Field
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#Design #Language #ProductDesign #UxDesign #IxDesign #UiDesign #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #Communication #Interaction #User #Quote
My range of emotions involving #coding this week have ranged from "I never want to do anything else for a living again other than #code" to "I never want to see another line of #SQL or any other #language again in my life.."
...of course it may have to do with the fact I've been working heavily in #legacy #ASPClassic code that is too big to replace easily this week..🤢
..I think I'm gonna take a break and code on my #python #framework and #fediverse app to get some mojo back this #Saturday
I collected my toots about learning languages in a blog post (and polished them a bit). Now you can enjoy them together and get a break from whatever you need a break from. Enjoy!
https://marthacrimson.com/to-all-the-languages-i-loved-and-lost/