Daniel OhanianMay 24

Discount code: Manoukian20

https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/purist-pursuits

"Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the #Ottoman Empire fashioned a new #language called Western #Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-changing ideology that undergirded all phases of the language's formation: #linguistic #purism. … Her work charts a new course in the study of language in the Ottoman Empire."
@histodons

Purist Pursuits | Stanford University Press

Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early-twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-changing ideology that undergirded all phases of the language's formation: linguistic purism. Constituting the primary preoccupation of the Ottoman Armenian intelligentsia, linguistic purism dictated that Armenians needed to abandon Turkish loanwords and fundamentally alter the way they wrote and spoke.

Stanford University Press
GVogelerMay 19
Are you an early career scholar (#PhD no more than five years ago) engaged with #multilingualism, #migration & processes of #cultural and #linguistic #exchange? Apply for the Hammer-Purgstall-Award from #UniGraz by June 30, 2026! https://multilingualism.uni-graz.at/de/unsere-forschung/zeiten/hammer-purgstall-preis/#c758160 Or Or nominate somebody for the life-time-achievement award #hammerpurgstallaward
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Abdullah AliMay 14

#nurotypical: “toe the line”
#neurodivergent: “tow the line”
neurotypical: hey, that’s #malapropism!
neurodivergent: actually, the correct term is #eggcorn, which—
neurotypical: just finish your damn meal
neurodivergent: bone apple tea 🧌

Best practice: the last line has to be delivered with a completely deadpan face.

— #linguistic #autism 101

Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CETApr 7

Neue Form des Entgenderns just dropped:

Bei mir auf der Arbeit scheint es neuerding die Regel zu sein, dass man bei Begriffen, die entgendert werden müssten, ins Englische wechselt …

#linguistic #geschlechtergerechteSprache #entgendern

Glyn MoodyMar 14
#Drones: The #linguistic history - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73019 "There's flying, making a buzzing noise, defending the nest or attacking invaders, flying in swarms, not doing regular or creative work, …"
MartinMar 1
Pro poner in vostre calendario! Incontro virtual de interlingua celle 7 martio https://youtube.com/shorts/KJ4e67SM57M?si=ROUSv6-U7tPlHTOY #interlingua #conlang #auxlang #langnews #Newslang #linguistic #linguistica
Salute! Iste sabbato 7 martio 2026, nos incontra nos via Zoom. Si tu vole, veni: www.interlingua.com

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Show threadKaveinthran (no longer here)Mar 1
@Tamasg @mckensie Maybe I am too naive, but in a perfect world, we should already get going an #openSource #linguistic project to document phonemes for every language on earth in human readable and also computer readable language. That extensible library then can be adapted to any TTS we are building. Our worry will be then in tuning the voice and way of emphasizing certain words and phrases.
ThriftstoreBarbieFeb 26

Yall #plants #language and #history peoples

I need to flesh out a list of plants that have historically been called "nard" or "spikenard"

So far I have:
Spanish lavender
Valerian, various species
Aralia racemosa
Nardostachys jatamansi

#horticulture #linguistic #botany #translation #hebrew #bible #herbalism

N-gated Hacker NewsFeb 25
Another day, another techno-babble manifesto about #AI #sovereignty 🤖🇮🇳, because nothing says #independence like insisting on #outdated #hardware and linguistically-challenged models. Who wouldn't want a brand new, shiny black box to proudly ignore 22 languages simultaneously? 🎉
https://pop.rdi.sh/sovereignty-in-a-system-prompt/ #Techno #Babble #Linguistic #Challenges #HackerNews #ngated
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