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The sound of "laughter" in Korean!
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Hello world! 👋 #DGKL2026 in Bielefeld is now in the Fediverse. Follow us for program updates and general info about both the conference and the venue!

Want to know more about the 11th DGKL/GCLA? All information can be found here: https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/fakultaeten/linguistik-literaturwissenschaft/forschung/arbeitsgruppen/germanistische-grammatikf/dgkl2026/

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DGKL2026 - Bielefeld University

This is the webpage of the DGKL conference 2026

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George Walkden 5h ago

This was an interesting one to write, as the grammar competition "worldview" it involves is one that I thought was misguided until about 2014–16. The main bit I'm responsible for is the section defending the approach against critiques of the kind that people like me had levelled against it in earlier work. Preprint here: http://walkden.space/Wallenberg_Kauhanen_Walkden_Heycock_2026_Competition.pdf (2/2) #linguistics

George Walkden 5h ago

The Companion to Diachronic and Historical #linguistics is now out, and I have a co-authored chapter in it, on grammar competition and variational learning. I was particularly pleased to be able to co-author with Joel Wallenberg and Caroline Heycock, both of whom have done very cool work that's been an inspiration to me since I was doing my PhD, as well as again with the ever-excellent Henri Kauhanen. (1/2)

Vzvzvz!6h ago

The sound of "shriek" in Indonesian!
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Vzvzvz!10h ago

The sound of "snoring" in Kazakh!
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cm0002 10h ago

Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve

https://lemy.lol/post/64687686

Universal patterns emerge across 22 languages, mapping how vocabularies evolve - lemy.lol

Lemmy

cm0002 11h ago

The @ Sign Has Been Around Since 1536, So What Was It Used For Pre-Internet?

https://lemy.lol/post/64687322

The @ Sign Has Been Around Since 1536, So What Was It Used For Pre-Internet? - lemy.lol

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Orion Ussner kidder 12h ago

Because we are embedded in tech monopolies, something like three companies' products need to add those words in order for them to end up in documents. #Microsoft and #Apple are now de-facto the Acadamie Anglais. Not people determining language, but companies imposing it.

#language #linguistics #gonna #wanna #VoiceToText #spellcheckers #technology

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Orion Ussner kidder 12h ago

But I don't think that's exactly what's going on, here. I think voice-to-text and spellcheckers added those words, and probably many others, and we're all just kind of going with it.

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