it was an April Fools’ joke, but it’s such a fascinating field that many kids are into, so i wonder if i should actually study it. Voynichese major.
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¹ the most frequent word, “daiin” (863 times), appears nearly twice as often as the second one, “ol” (537 times)
i’m going to try to decipher the Voynich manuscript. it follows Zipf’s law,¹ so it must be a language. i’ll do it this wednesday.
when friends talk, they have a purpose: to get along.
they try to avoid ending on bad terms.
i feel this is close to what Grice stated in Logic and Conversation (1967)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cooperative_principle&oldid=1331513790#cite_ref-:1_5-1
• Language influences thought — linguistic relativity
• A dog need not be a “dog” — Saussure’s arbitrariness
• Try to get along with friends — Grice’s cooperative principle
• formal/informal — register
• derived form — marked (base form — unmarked)
English quirks
• ask → aks — metathesis
• Common words are short — Zipf’s law of abbreviation
• /a/ is large; /i/ is tiny — sound symbolism
• Time can’t be “long” — conceptual metaphor
#linguistics
• ask → aks — metathesis
• Common words are short — Zipf’s law of abbreviation
• /a/ is large; /i/ is tiny — sound symbolism
• Time can’t be “long” — conceptual metaphor
#linguistics
Super locked in rn.
Woke up after 9 hours of sleep. i’m going to really focus on my research today.
just read 60 cookbooks. i throw books away after reading 5 pages.
looked for anything written about a salt only pork stew, but found nothing on Kindle Unlimited
looked for anything written about a salt only pork stew, but found nothing on Kindle Unlimited
i have to study minecraft but i’ve been putting it off bc i want to organize my linguistics first