#linguistics
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
apramattaih: sanskritdictionary.org/apramattaih https://sanskritdictionary.org/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#065be1d2fe351e16d15ed097b5f369a4 #sanskrit #wotd #linguistics
This video by @DrDavidMiano on #Sumerian origins is a must watch. #language #linguistics
It's funny since there can be a lot of homonyms in Norwegian we have a lot of strange constructions that look like reduplication, but isn't at all
Det er nok nok det. (That's probably enough)
Far får får får (Dad do sheep get sheep:)
Det er det det er (That's what it is)
Kind of funny
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
mam: sanskritdictionary.org/mam https://sanskritdictionary.org/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#139e7802ba8590f252d8866b9f1e278e #sanskrit #wotd #linguistics
Does anyone know of any examples where transliterating someone's name to ASCII creates a linguistic problem, for example where removing an accent from a letter changes the meaning of a word from a name to an insult?
Workshop to honor Dan Everett starts now. Check out webpage for zoom link:
https://tedlab.mit.edu/everett_festschrift_2023.html
The surprisingly connected origins of "pride" and "represent".
#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #represent #pridemonth
abhitapati: sanskritdictionary.org/abhitapati https://sanskritdictionary.org/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#09416eb8c36eab6443aa59ed54f12bbf #sanskrit #wotd #linguistics
Nächste Woche spricht Wolf Peter Klein (Würzburg) zum Thema
"Leitfäden für geschlechtergerechte Sprache als Beispiel für ambitionierte Sprachbetrachtung. Eine linguistische Einordnung"
13.06.23, 18:00
NSG 420 @UniLeipzig
Stream: ogy.de/SPIGL23V1
Ok, let's make a #linguistics poll for #programmer community.
How do *you* call the program combining object files into an executable?
Listening to another of the Australian crime thrillers starring Aaron Fork (actually Falk). Mystified to hear that, “This piece of land had never been a symmetry.”
What? How can land be “a symmetry”? Some Australian expression?
Continued on. Turns out someone is unexpectedly buried there.
A CEMETERY. This piece of land had never been a CEMETERY.
The 4th part of 'Models of Computation' has just been published on @medium. This part focuses on 'Deduction'. Similar to my last blog on 'Inference', it took me several hours to write it. Thank you so much for your attention in advance!
https://medium.com/@alirezadehbozorgi83/models-of-computation-deduction-4c10f48ff051
#cognition #computation #deduction #logic #linguistics #ai #psychology #cognitivescience #blog #medium #published
Somewhat devastating end to a book review of a yet another linguistics handbook, The Cambridge Handbook of #Chinese #Linguistics": "The minority of valuable contributions resemble a party of respectable out-of-towners looking for dinner who have wandered by mistake into a dive."
https://linguistlist.org/issues/34/1786/
The next talk in our series "Diversity in #linguistics" will be given by Lena Völkening.
The talk will be in German, and it is on the topic of "“Mit natürlichem Sprachwandel hat Gendersprache nicht das Geringste zu tun”? Inwiefern sich die Sprache beim #Gendern anders wandelt, als sie es normalerweise tut".
Join us on 14 June 2023 at 6pm CET via Zoom!
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".
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
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.
P2 - I also speak #Japanese and lived in #tokyo for a year. My first degree was #linguistics with Japanese.
First degree earned in 2015 at #Newcastle University, still finishing my current mental health nursing degree at #Sunderland after taking a year off due to a bereavement and mental health issues. Possibly #neurodiverse ? I need to get on my GP to get a diagnosis at age 30 though and I'm a bit afraid to do that!
I'm privileged to announce that I've just published the 3rd part of my blog on 'Computational Theories of Cognition: Models of Causal Inference' on @medium. I did my best cover as much as possible. Comments are highly welcome!
#cognitivescience #linguistics #computation #knowledgegraphs #reasoning #datascience #ai #blog #medium
Did you know that #Appalachian English is a valid, interesting #dialect?
"Historically, the term
Appalachian dialect refers to a
local English variety of
southern Appalachia, also
known as Smoky Mountain
English or Southern Mountain
English in American
#linguistics."
Maybe we should accept it the same way that you're intrigued by Catalan or the differences between Spanish in different countries?
I've just published a blog on @medium. Comments are highly welcome!
#linguistics #algebra #topology #computation #cognition #morphosyntax #ai #blog
#medium
The book on Germanic syntax was too long for you? Well maybe you try my overview article on Generative approaches to #Germanic languages. A draft is ready. Comments are welcome:
https://hpsg.hu-berlin.de/~stefan/Pub/germanic-generative.html
Scientific terminology: "Space", as in space-time continuum, in various languages.
As you will no doubt notice, the Germanic languages other than English use the cognate of English "room".
Please fill in the blanks, those who can - particularly for Sami?
#etymologidag #language #languages #linguistics
Hi @TeamYouTube, not a troubleshooting question, but I was curious on the decision making process of how #Flower by #JISOO of @BLACKPINK is displayed as 'Flower - Jisoo & BLACKPINK' in this playlist.
http://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4fGSI1pDJn5kI81J1fYWK5eZRl1zJ5kM
30 Days of #QueerBooks
Day 2: BABEL-17 by Samuel Delany
Hugo Award winner in 1967 and deserved it. Enthusiastic, energetic, and joyfully imaginative, it takes #linguistics ideas Delany clearly thoight were So Cool and absolutely runs with them.
Captain Rydra Wong is #bisexual, #polyamorous, Asian, autistic, and the greatest and most famous linguist, poet, and codebreaker in the galaxy. And she’s great I love her.
(also all starship pilots are 10-foot-tall furries)
This is really cool: Applied Psycholinguistics released their special issue, "Towards a just and equitable applied psycholinguistics," which is entirely open access.
They asked me to help them guide authors in drafting positionality statements. It was super fun!
#psycholinguistics #psychology #linguistics #OpenScience #research #AcademicChatter
Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Sue's News: A Round-Up of Screw Yous https://jezebel.com/sues-news-a-round-up-of-screw-yous-1850497319 #Jezebel #presidencyofdonaldtrump #englishprofanity #amyconeybarrett #soniasotomayor #interjections #brianlaundrie #gabbypetito #donaldtrump #etymologies #rondesantis #linguistics #kimreynolds #sexualslang #elenakagan #alexandria #leonardleo #chickfila #elonmusk #contents #roberta #casey #words #fuck
you look at this bad boy and tell me it ain't cool af
If there are writers out there who need to brush up on obscure collective nouns, or ones in use from a long, long time ago, I just came across a site that does just that, thanks to one Daniel Myers.
A lot of work has gone into it: the database in PDF form is some 153 pages.
It is over at https://sites.miamioh.edu/meyersde/the-collective-noun-catalog/ if you want to check it out yourself.
(Hashtags follow)
#Writer #WritingCommunity #Linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #EnglishLanguage
It occurred to me late last night that large generative language models make a pretty compelling case that statistical learning *is* sufficient to reproduce all the syntactic and grammatical features of language, contra Chomsky.
(I have no idea if this is still a live debate in #linguistics, but having been in the audience at a public lecture in 2003 where Chomsky denied the existence of Elizabeth Bates, it's pleasing to me.)
I should have known better. I didn't take account of how affricated /tr/ can be, but also that lowered F3 for /r/ fooled me because the formant above it remained so steady throughout, instead of F3 showing a rise out of the /r/. Gramle 157 4/5
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
#phonetics #gramle #linguistics
Happy #DinosaurDay! Our video about the history of paleontology has all sorts of fun dinosaur trivia for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9yNwRBlKtU
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Dinosaur #Fossil #Paleontology
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 surprisingly connected origins of "mow" and "aftermath". #NoMowMay
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Mt8WiTpGvRs
#etymology #WordNerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #mow #aftermath
#NativeAmericans #CherokeeNation #languages #Indigenous #IndigenousCulture #linguistics #apps
'During the May Tribal Council Culture Committee meeting, Cherokee Nation Language Department Executive Director Howard Paden provided updates of several projects happening in the language department. The language department has two language apps in the works.'
Finally got around to reading Greg Bear's (deceased) "Darwin's Radio". Yes it won a pile of awards but the idea of a baby talking right after birth is nonsense. Real world experience to start mapping all those semiotic functions? No. Just no.
From Show notes
“…talking about non-lexical vocalisations with Dr Eleonora Beier and Dr Emily Hofstetter.”
‘Do disfluencies increase with age? Evidence from a sequential corpus study of disfluencies’
Wife just walked out the door saying "cuídate" (take care of yourself) and then popped back in 2 seconds because she had forgot something and said "todavía no te tienes que cuidar"(you don't have to take care of yourself yet)...
I enjoyed the podcast and your conversation on Descript for synchronized text+audio editing.
Reading the very clean transcript including a few ‘disfluencies’ — like ‘um’ — made me think of this ‘About Language’ podcast: http://becauselanguage.com/76-ooo-yum-uh/
TLDR ‘Um’s are helpful markers to signal pauses while thinking. Host Daniel Midgley decided to leave them in transcripts to keep a natural tone. Some #LLM’s pick this up as well.
@jentrification What an amazing--and amazingly rare (?)--opportunity for historical linguistics studies! Usually you can only study these changes across large groups over time and not from a single family's phonetic/phonological changes. I wonder where else there are similar examples. Maybe small Appalachian communities? neat
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
New podcast episode!
We explore metaphors of space and time in Old English, Old Norse, Latin, and Anglo-Norman, and talk about arrows a lot.
http://www.alliterative.net/podcast/2023/05/30/episode-116-a-quiverful-of-time-arrows
#TIL: "weekend verbs". :) #english #linguistics #semantics #typology [from "English verb classes and alternations" by Beth Levin, https://katalogplus.uni-muenster.de/permalink/49HBZ_ULM/1orud0a/alma991044936752906449]
If you're interested in nouning and verbing, and especially if they bug you, try this quiz I wrote for Macmillan Dictionary a few years ago:
https://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/language-quizzes/nounings-and-verbings.html
Discussion here: https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2018/05/16/verbing-and-nouning-are-fine-and-heres-a-quiz/
#language #words #grammar #linguistics #LanguageChange #verbing #nouning #quiz #LanguageHistory
The Scripps National Spelling Bee preliminaries start tomorrow, which got me thinking about this fun interview I did last year with associate pronouncer (yes, that's a real title!), Brian Sietsema.
How Spellers Tackle the Dreaded Schwa (episode 876)
Here's a short clip (~20 seconds): https://youtu.be/9SdQMZfaO98
You can read or listen here (or in your favorite podcast player) https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/how-spellers-tackle-the-dreaded-schwa/transcript
I like that our teacher's slides about Angular translate "stack" (as in "web stack") to "pit" in #Hungarian. (For some weird historical reason the stack data structure is called "verem" in Hungarian, which pretty much means "pit". No idea why they didn't translate it as "kazal", since heap is "halom".)
cc #webdev #linguistics
#Bulgarian word of the day, meaning shelter: подслон (podslon), literally "under (an) elephant" 😂
I made a free online text-to-speech tool as an implementation of Meta's Massively Multilingual Speech (MMS) – Supports 1144 Languages and Dialects!
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.mmstts.com
I’m a very literal thinker, but I did not see this coming. #Pun #PlayOnWords #IPA #Linguistics #InternationalPhoneticAlphabet
A colleague's student is looking for non-native speakers of #English (over 18 and living in the US) to do a #linguistics study: https://swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3X9wsORu1kgBrWS
"This research is looking at the way that speakers of different languages use English differently. We are mostly focused on English speakers’ choices about how to use words in functional categories (such as articles, conjunctions, and prepositions, to name a few)."
The whole thing is supposed to take 10-15 minutes, so jump in if you have a little time :)
This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body - https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-ancient-language-has-the-only-grammar-based-entirely-on-the-human-body/ fascinating and melancholy story about unique but dying languages... (v https://thebrowser.com/) #linguistics
Happy #Shavuot! If you’re preparing to celebrate, or just want to know more about the holiday and some of its unexpected connections, you could watch our video about the word “Sabbath”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kB0ShV8IDU
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Language #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #LingComm #Sabbath
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'.
There is a dialect of English spoken in fields like business and project management that uses terms like "action item," "pivot," "user stories," and favoring three letter acronyms. Is there a name for this dialect? Are there any sociolinguistic studies of how it's used? Histories of how it developed?
I'm having a great time researching semantic satiation for a podcast segment that will come out in about a month.
There are some differences in the way it happens for people who are bilingual. I'm still trying to figure out the details, but it's all fascinating!
#linguistics #AmWriting #GrammarGirl #psychology #bilingual #SemanticSatiation
I feel like the infatuation with LLMs and their conflation with AI is a direct reflection of two things:
* linguistic form is endlessly and mysteriously fascinating, even when it's separated from meaning (maybe especially so) and
* most people (incl. tech folx) are completely innocent of the fact that formal patterns are distinct from meaning and intentionality (this is the 'colorless green ideas' problem)*
Just realized I never did a #introduction post, and since I have been getting back into Mastodon I guess it is time I make one.
Hi, I'm Tyler (he/him), and I am a student of #computerscience, #math, and #linguistics. I hope to work in the field of #computationallinguistics. I am very interested in the aforementioned fields as well as #freesoftware, #emacs, #linux (currently using #guix), leftist politics, and film.
Article on the rise of 'mom' and other Americanisms in Irish English (with a few quotes from me): https://archive.ph/sa55d
#language #dialect #linguistics #IrishEnglish #Ireland #Mastodaoine #Americanisms
Another fun fact:
The Hungarian version of "the tables have turned" is "visszanyal a fagyi"
Which literally translates into
"The ice cream licks back"
🍦
Fun fact:
The Hungarian version of "I have absolutely no idea" is "halványlila gőzöm sincs"
Which literally translates into
"I don't even have light purple steam" [about this]
🤷♀️
The word for "forest" in some languages.
"Forest" in English was originally a legal term, denoting (royal) land set aside for hunting, not necessarily with trees on. Apparently, that was also how the Latin word was used in the times of Charlemagne.
Of course, English also uses "woods", and French has "bois", Italian has "selva", etc. But I'm hoping these are the most directly equivalent terms in the various languages.
Is there a technical term for mispronouncing words you've only ever read? Twenty-three year old me saying "Hegemony" in my first graduate seminar would like to know.
Is there a technical term for the inverse of that? Because I recently saw someone use "voracity" instead of "veracity" in writing.
Well apparently it's a good idea to do a #introduction, so let's go for it. I tend to ramble so I'll try to keep it short
Was on different mastodon instance for a while > ended up not liking it > decided rather than moving instances i just wanna start again > am here now.
Hi, I'm Kaitlyn. I'm 16, and reluctantly British. I'm an idiot in training, and on a good day I might even call myself a 'programmer'. Most of the projects i work on are not even close to finished, especially since recently I've spent more time reading blogs about interesting things rather than doing interesting things. But maybe someday I'll get there. Especially once i stop being overwhelmed with college work.
My main interests are #programming, #linguistics, Lord of the Rings, Doctor Who, and sleep.
I also occasionally claim to be a big fan of Celeste and Minecraft, but I've barely had the time for those recently.
Anyways- ugh, i meant to keep this short... Well there goes that idea. DMs are always open to nice people, uhh... the end?
This has been going around on Twitter, but I neglected my community here :) I'm sorry about this :)
Tomorrow at noon EST, I will give a #talk on the #accessibility of #language #learning and #linguistics in general for #screenReader users as part of the a11yTalks event. This will be a public event with no need to register so if this is something any of you are interested in, here's the link :) https://a11ytalks.com/posts/2023-MAY/ #speaker #a11y
I never made an #introduction post so here goes!
I’m Daniel! I’m a gay cisgender male, and I use he/him/his. I’m finishing up a bachelor’s degree, with two majors in #asianstudies and #japanese #linguistics! In the fall, I will start working on my master’s degree in Japanese studies! In my spare time, I make music with #synths and #DJ! I also enjoy #anime and #videogames (JRPGs typically) ~ 💖✨
Spot the difference!
The University of Nebraska changed its mascot to remove the ‘OK’ hand gesture – now used widely by white supremacists.
A linguist explains how the sign entered ‘the purgatory of meaning’
https://theconversation.com/a-tweak-to-the-university-of-nebraskas-logo-shows-how-the-once-benign-ok-sign-has-entered-a-purgatory-of-meaning-204251
What's better than a Bee week with one X? A Bee week with two! On this week's episode of T&B: our take on last week's puzzles, the best examples of LEITMOTIFs, and why compound words are confounding. Listen at https://bit.ly/S3E13_XX or wherever you get your #podcasts. #NYTSpellingbee #nytsb #spellingbee #hivemind #nytgames #nytwordplay #wordplay #wordnerds #compoundwords #linguistics #leitmotif #opera
" 'Doodly-squat' might seem like a mild topic for Strong Language, but there's a lot going on under the surface of that frivolous-sounding word."
@bgzimmer on the origins of a scatological euphemism: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/04/29/your-gal-aint-doodly-squat/
#language #slang #lyrics #euphemisms #linguistics #AAVE #BillyEmerson #BoDiddley
In many languages, the word for "bear" is descriptive because people were superstitious about saying the actual name. Translations:
Welsh: honey-pig
Irish: the good calf
Lithuanian: the licker
Russian: one who leads to honey
Germanic: the brown one
https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikispeedia/wpcd/wp/b/Bear.htm
I really feel the need to differentiate the words we use for cargo bikes of the types/styles/sizes mostly used for business and industry, and those often used by regular people to carry children and groceries in their daily lives.
We have a ton of different words, yet AFAIK we all mix them up and use them interchangeably for all the wildly different bicycles like these…
At least that's how we do it in Norway. If there's a distinction in English, please tell!
Unlocking the ‘Rosetta Stone’ of a Dying Language
A member of Canada’s Mohawk community devised a new method to teach an Indigenous language on the brink of extinction.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/22/world/canada/indigenous-languages-mohawk-canada.html
Have you heard the "positive" "or anything," that's kind of a substitute for "and stuff"? For example, "As kids, we would play Monopoly, Scrabble, or anything."
If so, I'd love to hear where you live or where you heard it. I'm wondering if it's regional, age-related, or something else.
Thanks! h/t @jsit
A couple years ago on a podcast, I heard somebody (young and I think from California) use the "positive 'or anything,'" as in:
"When we were kids we would play Monopoly, Scrabble, or anything."
It kind of means "and stuff" or "etc."
If you have experience with this, please let me know!
An interesting article about the rapid rise of the Ukrainian language in areas of Ukraine where Russian used to dominate.
JTG necesita a alguien que haga corpus analisis de estos dialectos (Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, y Caribe) para hacer glosarios y otros materiales. Yo he trabajado con ellos y pagan bien. https://jobs.jtg-inc.com/x/detail/a29egmnr0p0o #Linguistics #Jobs @linguistics #Corpus