FaintdreamsEvery time I see anything Dune related and the name of the planet is pronounced Ar-Ahk-ISS instead of Arra-Kiss it always confuses and annoys me.
Just me ?
bookandswordblogSomeone managed to get a whole web magazine of slop linking to other web magazines of slop onto the UBC Linguistics domain! They took it down after I notified them. https://projects.linguistics.ubc.ca/ #lingustics #ButlerianJihad #spam
MapologiesThe English word cow is related to other Germanic words: Icelandic kýr and Swedish ko. These words are also connected to a surprising group of words across other Indo‑European branches thought to derive from a common Proto‑Indo‑European root, *gʷṓws, for example Irish bó, Latvian govs, and Armenian կով (kov).
https://mapologies.com/animals/
#map #mapologies #etymology #etymologymap #language #lingusiticmap #languagemap #cartography #mapa #karte #lingustics #languages #learnlanguages #geography
HenryCanada does the whole thing where it has two official languages, which is cool & all but like
learning two languages seems like a mess, so what if we invented a new language that's so easy any citizen can learn it that we use for public announcements
toki pona is cool in that I can speak a language pretty intermediately after ~3-4 months of learning, but it's obviously not geared towards talking about political issues.
if this happens, we just change the problem from politicians being required to spend several years of their lives language learning to every single person who wants to engage with the government having to spend several months. I'm not sure how much better this idea is, and (as stated on the content warning) I have not fully developed this thought yet.
To be clear to Esperantists: Your language is too difficult for this use case go away
(like it'd be cool if everyone learned Esperanto, but what a time commitment that would be, eh?)
#canada #capol #politics #language #lingustics #tokipona #toki_pona #esperanto #conlangs #constructedlangauge #conlang
learning two languages seems like a mess, so what if we invented a new language that's so easy any citizen can learn it that we use for public announcements
toki pona is cool in that I can speak a language pretty intermediately after ~3-4 months of learning, but it's obviously not geared towards talking about political issues.
if this happens, we just change the problem from politicians being required to spend several years of their lives language learning to every single person who wants to engage with the government having to spend several months. I'm not sure how much better this idea is, and (as stated on the content warning) I have not fully developed this thought yet.
To be clear to Esperantists: Your language is too difficult for this use case go away
(like it'd be cool if everyone learned Esperanto, but what a time commitment that would be, eh?)
#canada #capol #politics #language #lingustics #tokipona #toki_pona #esperanto #conlangs #constructedlangauge #conlang
Cam CookI've always loved the illustrations in the Hobbit
Also, name the edition I'm reading 😁
Rice was first cultivated in the Far East as early as 10,000 years ago. From there, rice cultivation gradually spread westward. This movement is mirrored by the journey of the word for rice across languages. In English, the word rice comes from Old French ris, which was borrowed from Old Italian riso. That, in turn, derives from Byzantine Greek ὄρυζα (óruza).
Source: https://mapologies.com/cereals
#mapologies #map #etymology#etymologymap #languages #cereals #rice #food #lingustics #words #history
C. BuckJune 26th @ 8:30pm EST, “Script Adaptation Gone Wrong” Livestream
https://www.youtube.com/@NeographyAtoZ
bewitchedmindUnrelatiert zum Thema: Ist das Englisch in dem Video australisch (meine Vermutung), britisch oder irgendeine obskure US-Varietät?
Terry BoonHow easily can you tell if text such as a hotel review is by a human or AI? You can test your skill in this survey run by Lancaster University: https://lancasteruni.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3WrOLkOBfzUo8DA
Tried after fascinating talk on the subject by forensic linguist Professor Claire Hardaker (@drclaireh) at CYBERUK 2025 last week.
(There's an audio edition for spotting AI-generated speech too at https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/news/bot-or-not-audio-edition-can-you-tell-whos-talking)
ebel aurorawe say “i am dysphoric about X” when a body part doesn't fit (e.g. “i am dysphoric about my voice”).
what's the opposite? when something makes you feel really good? “euphoric”? “i am euphoric about my X”? 🤔 🤔 🤔