Anna AnthroNativLang has created a new video on the many ways that writing scripts use or don’t use Capitals or Upper Cases.
#Linguists and #Typography nerds will enjoy it!
TIL that Arabic tried then dropped Upper Cases.
YouTube
Daniel SolisThis week's #WeeklyTshirt is in honor of #lexicographers and #linguists who introduced me to "Descriptive not Prescriptive." Meaning #linguistics is not an impartial referee of correctness, but a description of language by real people at a certain time. https://danielsolis.threadless.com/designs/descriptive-not-prescriptive
Dr Pink#LGBTQ English #Wikipedia deletion alert
Could you save this LGBTQ related #English Wikipedia article from deletion?
Andrew J. Duck
* United States Army officer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_J._Duck
Discussion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Andrew_J._Duck
Echo DextiveQuestion #44:
What is a culture outside your own that interests you?
Kurt ErbachHoping to get some thoughts on the highest regarded #linguistics journals by #linguists regardless of rankings. Maybe drop the name of two or three in a reply?
Front Page [Unofficial]Linguists explain why people often say 'is is' even though we'd never write it that way
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explain-is-is-phrasing
N-gated Hacker News🎉 BREAKING: Maple Leaf Man uses *gasp* British spelling! 🇨🇦📚 #Linguists clutch pearls as Carney dares to add an extra 'u'—clearly the end is nigh! 🍁😱
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated
Susanne OpitzJust created an international linguistics starter package. Includes linguists (all languages) and (English-speaking) linguistic institutions on Mastodon.
If you speak German you might also want to follow the package "Linguistik-Institutionen im DACH-Raum"
In case you are not yet included and would like to be added, let me know! (There are some accounts who commented, that I couldn't add because of their account settings)
LakeswimmerHey masto #linguists: any idea why I can remember all the lyrics to a German song that I've been listening to a bit lately (my German is VERY rusty), but I get lost trying to remember the lyrics to songs in English and Swedish?
Swedish is my first language, and English is my second. I consider myself close to native-speaker level in both.
Wondering if there's some weird brain-link here that I can tap in to for getting better at remembering things.
Court Cantrell won't conform#TIL that ἀδελφός isn't the only Ancient Greek word for "brother."
There was also
βρά.
So when Kids These Days call you "brah," just assume they've been keeping up on their #AncientGreek