French dares to ask the question: what if a language lost all its finals but then completely failed to develop compensatory tone?
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Been seeing this linguistic tic more and more in the past decade or so: the use of a sort of grandiose "you" instead of "I" in this context. I first noticed it in interviews in sports and financial reporting, but I'm now seeing it everywhere. Even Bernie Sanders. #linguistics #sociolinguistics
Sometimes I find gestures as a method of communication fascinating. We're so used to verbal communication as the norm, but sometimes we switch to gestures because they're more succinct or something.
These thoughts brought on by my partner saying "sometimes Hollywood doesn't let directors really exercise their creative freedom outside the 3 act structure, and thats why Thor is so" *poses like a Greek statue"
#language #linguistics #communication #verbal #nonverbal #gestures
Dorothy Edgington has revised her SEP-entry on Indicative Conditionals, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conditionals/
plato.stanford.eduIndicative Conditionals (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
An exploration of the ways our tongues—and our pride—twist around foreign words, and what that says about how we want to be seen.#food #linguistics #language #taco #section-Articles
There’s No Right Way to Say ‘Taco’
There’s No Right Way to Say ‘Taco’
Atlas Obscura · There’s No Right Way to Say ‘Taco’
The sound of "baby crying" in German!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps
We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?
'AI may soon be able to decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise'
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ML #MachineLearning #LLM #language #linguistics #translation #animals
The Guardian · We’re close to translating animal languages – what happens then?
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That's a good recommendation, thanks!
Related to this topic, this book is also highly recommended:
“Symbol Theory” by Norbert Elias.
Symbol theory proposes an empirical interdisciplinary science that combines insights from evolutionary biology with those from #linguistics and the #sociology of human knowledge development. Elias highlights the special significance of the social use of symbols as a means of communication and orientation.
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Reminds me of the localization efforts on Mozilla's Firefox OS several years ago.
"Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, led the translation of Firefox into Fulah, which is spoken by 20m people from Senegal to Nigeria. “Crash” became hookii (a cow falling over but not dying); “timeout” became a honaama (your fish has got away). “Aspect ratio” became jeendondiral, a rebuke from elders when a fishing net is wrongly woven."
"In Mandarin Chinese, World Wide Web is commonly translated via a phono-semantic matching to wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), which satisfies www and literally means "10,000-dimensional net", a translation that reflects the design concept and proliferation of the World Wide Web."
en.wikipedia.orgWorld Wide Web - Wikipedia
I'm looking for an editorial published in a speech science journal that was mentioned to me in passing as an example of an early-ish attempt to popularise #OpenScience in #linguistics or at least in #phonetics. Does that ring any bells? 
I've mentioned it before but my all time favourite eggcorn has to be this one: "Youthamism"
eggcorns.lascribe.netThe Eggcorn Database » youthamism
Join me in an hour in Faerie once again as we continue working on the morphological changes in the Sylvan dialects. https://youtube.com/live/4BM1n-lXye4?feature=share Also, we have a new poll on the Patreon that will be important down the road. https://www.patreon.com/posts/poll-elvish-130272523 #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg
The ABCD Family Tree
Posted on 11/12/2018 by Ryan Starkey https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/
https://www.alojapan.com/1286879/how-japanese-introductions-literally-translate-to-english-is-a-wild-linguistics-lesson/ How Japanese introductions literally translate to English is a wild linguistics lesson #EnglishLanguage #EnglishTranslation #Japan #JapanNews #Japanese #JapaneseLanguage #JapaneseNews #Languages #learning #LearningLanguages #linguistics #LiteralTranslations #news #tanslations Is it just me or has the world become increasingly silent? Don’t get me wrong, we’re certainly bombarded by things fighting for our attention—ads, content distributed by…
Interested to know what people think about these phrases:
• "you can't just ____"
• "you just can't ____"
as in for instance, "you can't just show up, you need to call ahead"
am watching CAFÉ METROPOLE (1937) and the boss tells his young scoundrel to “make love to her nose for the next 10 days”.
fantastic example of how a phrase changed meaning decades after it became popular vernacular.
sometime in the 1960s, 1970s, it went from romancing to fornicating.
The programme for LxGr2025
(Edge Hill University, UK) is now available. Registration is free!
This is a virtual Symposium.
#CorpusLinguistics #Linguistics #grammar
https://sites.edgehill.ac.uk/lxgr/
Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr)Symposium: Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr)The Symposium on Corpus Approaches to Lexicogrammar (LxGr) explores the interaction of lexis and grammar via corpus techniques.
Continuant sur ma lancée de « qui a le vocabulaire le plus diversifié », je me suis amusé à vérifier si oui ou non il est vrai que Trump a le lexique le plus pauvre de tous les présidents US.
