Alena SoloHello there! Discover Dewdrop Lex., your ESL dictionary of nature's aesthetic gems. Today's sparkle: pristine – untouched, sparkling purity! 🌊✨
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Discover Dewdrop Lex., your ESL dictionary of nature's aesthetic gems—like dewdrop or verdant haze. Dive into PDFs revealing their fleeting elegance, one word at a time!
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Dennis Bours🌿 As nature fades, so do the words we use to describe it. Languages worldwide are losing biodiversity-related terms, threatening cultural identity and ecological awareness. Saving nature means saving language too. 📚🌎
🔗 https://grist.org/language/nature-word-language-disappear-culture/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
#LanguageLoss #NatureWords #CulturalHeritage
🔗 https://grist.org/language/nature-word-language-disappear-culture/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Autoposting
#LanguageLoss #NatureWords #CulturalHeritage
Stan CareyFun newt fact, or rather "newt" fact:
"A newt" used to be "an ewte", but the "n" jumped across thanks to rebracketing (misdivision, reanalysis, etc.)*
The word's Old English etymon, "eft", now refers more narrowly to the juvenile terrestrial stage of certain newts.
* See also: adder, apron, nickname, umpire…
Dr Manu SaundersGreat project preserving #Irish words all about the sea. Indigenous languages have such beautiful nuanced vocabulary for natural systems to represent fine-scale conditions and unique experiences #naturewords #linguistics #ecosystemservices #ocean https://hakaimagazine.com/article-short/to-speak-of-the-sea-in-irish/
