Dr. Linguo

daily posts about #linguistics #language #academia & #LaTeX https://mastodon.social/@DrLinguo

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Source: https://twitter.com/philosophymttrs/status/1299625351266603009?s=21

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Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

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we just wanted to learn languages and linguistics was like that …

[Series: Nerdy Semantics]

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The type of “in”

Series: Nerdy Semantics

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“Reference and the semantics of the iota operator in singular”

[Series: Nerdy Semantics]

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What is the meaning of “sleep”? … semanticians be like …

[Series: Nerdy Semantics]

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you had just started to understand set theory …. and suddenly …

[Series: Nerdy Semantics]

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Source: itsbobbyfinn

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Bock — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/2xFxXNx

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Irregular paradigms

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Spanish and what makes it the coolest.

(My answer after watching the vid: I don’t know, but interesting video!)

Series: x Sprache — schwere Sprache

thx @ppasdeprobleme

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Usted, você & vostè

Spanish ‘usted’ and Portuguese ‘você’, words meaning “you”, don’t look much alike, but they have the same origin: Latin ‘vostram + mercēdem’, literally “your mercy”.

Click my new graphic to learn all about their fascinating history – in which no Arabic was involved, contrary to a persistent myth.

If you like my graphics, please consider subscribing to my Patreon. 😊

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Probly haplogy

Probably is often pronounced /probly/. The syllable ba is deleted because it’s followed by another syllable starting with a b. This is called haplology – or haplogy if you will.

Some people have an issue with /probly/, but what they don’t know is that their beloved form probably is the result of haplology too: in Middle English, it was probablely: probable + ly. The part le was lost because it was followed by ly.

Haplology can be found in all ages and places. My new infographic shows cases from English, Latin, French, Greek, German, and Portuguese.

Haplology is a so-called sporadic sound change. In the short article on my Patreon (470 words, tier 1), you'll learn all about the difference between sporadic sound changes such as haplology, and regular sound changes.

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Bach-Peters paradox