Front PageA linguist from Alabama explains the surprising origin story of the Southern word ‘y’all’
Kaveinthran (no longer here)There are also many AI TTS created by folks at 11 Labs and other open source implementations that support speech to text and text to speech. But I'm looking for traditional formant synthesis implementation. Do we have existing phonemizer or any sort of that that can aid Tamil TTS creation? #tamil #tts #linguist #language #formant (2/2)
Dallman Ross#Linguist Dr. Taylor Jones gets into it. He manages to coalesce many of my thoughts on this in ways I couldn't hope to have done.
6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh22m1QG6i4
6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns
Everybody is arguing about pronouns, and everybody is wrong. In this video I explain 6 reasons why you (yes you!) are probably wrong about pronouns, and give...
27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers
Gareth RobertsYou'd think that, as a #linguist who's lived a decade and a half in the northeastearn US, I'd have learnt before now that Americans use "sleet" for ice pellets (what I grew up calling "hail") rather than partly melted falling snow.
Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1
fairydoctor🗒️ ATTENTION FEDI LINGUISTS
i want to make a youtube playlist of linguistic videos, what videos do you suggest?
bonus points for videos about conlangs
(i will not use youtube search feature, i want humans)
19 nearly-extinct 'fossil words' that only survive hidden inside these specific idioms
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/19-fossil-words-hidden-inside-idioms
Liam O'Mara IV, PhDOn #ThisDayInHistory in 1928, celebrated activist, #linguist, and commentator #NoamChomsky was born. The #AnarchoSyndicalist writer has produced a vast body of work in multiple fields. Revelations about his personal ties to #JeffreyEpstein are now raising uncomfortable questions.
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