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@internet-linguistics
i cant believe americans on tv really say rock paper scissors like???? its paper scissors rock omg do u irl americans actually say rock paper scissors????
rb this with whether u say paper scissors rock or rock paper scissors
me normally: linguistic differences are so interesting and cool! I love hearing different dialectal variations.
me, reading âpaper, scissors, rockâ with my own two eyeballs: the lord is testing me
i hate when people in movies/tv are reading ancient languages and they translate everything really smoothly and poetically, as if when people who study ancient languages arenât consulting three different commentaries and sobbing profusely when we read
ok so likeâŚ. it says
âcome you all into the deepest cavern, or maybe thatâs fireplace, depends on usage, and having come may you give yourâŚ. treasures? Skin? Pants? I donât know, somethingâŚ. to theâŚ.. about-to-be-adored guy, that one whoâŚ. okay, he either causes earthquakes or sleeps a lot, I think this might be an idiomâŚ.â
âok, sorry that took so long and i hate to disappoint but iâm still not entirely sure what it means, like, it could be something about a religious ceremony or it could be a dick joke. leaning towards dick joke, might be both. knowing the ancients, probably both. this could very well be an ancient dick temple and we should probably leave.â
Funnest part is when you get shit like this:
Why yes that is a text comprised of almost exclusively crocodile hieroglyphs.
We also canât get a coherent translation because the grammar makes absolutely no sense. Participles and Participial statements all the way. Sobek who is Crocodile of Crocodopolis who advances the Crocodile for the CrocodilesâŚ.
The crocodile hieroglyph is also used to write sovereign and an adjective meaning powerâŚso the text is suuuuuuuper confusing.
I canât help but wonder if the crocodile hieroglyph text (which I never knew about, that is AMAZING) is the ancient equivalent of a sestina or another complex poem form. With the crocodile symbol meaning so many different things, and the result being so difficult to translate, it might make more sense as a poem or some other stylistically rigid text.
Either that, or it was the Egyptian equivalent of a student being made to write lines on the chalkboard.
I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain
I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain
I will not take the name of Lord Sobek in vain
I will notâŚâShakes out chiseling handâ Take the name of Lord Sobek in vainâŚ.
Looks like an ancient shitpost to me.
mai nayme is hep and wen i wryt upon the wal so smooth and wite i bless the kynnge commend his akh but then get tyred and carve the croc
Itâs the equivalent of âBuffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.â
this is making me think of that story that was written in order to explain why simplifying Chinese characters to one character per syllable is a really bad idea
english: coconut oil
french: :)
english: oh boy
french: oil of the nut of the coco
IM CRYINGNFN
english: ninety-nine
french: :)
english: oh no
french: four-twenty-ten-nine
english: potato
french: :)
english: oh geez
french: apple of the earth
french: papillon
english: :)
french: donât
english: beurremouche
French: pamplemousse English: :) French: pls no English: raisinfruit
english: squirrel
german: :)
english: oh dear
german: oak croissant
english: helicopter german: :) english: uh oh german: lifting screwdriver
english: toes
spanish: :)
english:Â no donât
spanish : fingers of the feet
english: ladybug
russian: :)
english: oh no
russian: godâs cow
english: shark
maltese: :)
english: pls no
maltese: sea dog
English: leopard
Dutch: :)
English:Â stopÂ
Dutch: lazy horse
English: glove
German: :)
English: what now
German: hand shoe
English:Â fridge Dutch: :) English:Â oh no Dutch:Â cooling closet
English: wombat
Chinese: :)
English: donât
Chinese: pocket bear
Blind people gesture (and why thatâs kind of a big deal)
People who are blind from birth will gesture when they speak. I always like pointing out this fact when I teach classes on gesture, because it gives us an an interesting perspective on how we learn and use gestures. Until now Iâve mostly cited a 1998 paper from Jana Iverson and Susan Goldin-Meadow that analysed the gestures and speech of young blind people. Not only do blind people gesture, but the frequency and types of gestures they use does not appear to differ greatly from how sighted people gesture. If people learn gesture without ever seeing a gesture (and, most likely, never being shown), then there must be something about learning a language that means you get gestures as a bonus.
Blind people will even gesture when talking to other blind people, and sighted people will gesture when speaking on the phone - so we know that people donât only gesture when they speak to someone who can see their gestures.
Earlier this year a new paper came out that adds to this story. Ĺeyda OĚzçalÄąĹkan, CheĚ Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow looked at the gestures of blind speakers of Turkish and English, to see if the *way* they gestured was different to sighted speakers of those languages. Some of the sighted speakers were blindfolded and others left able to see their conversation partner.
Turkish and English were chosen, because it has already been established that speakers of those languages consistently gesture differently when talking about videos of items moving. English speakers will be more likely to show the manner (e.g. ârollingâ or bouncingâ) and trajectory (e.g. âleft to rightâ, âdownwardsâ) together in one gesture, and Turkish speakers will show these features as two separate gestures. This reflects the fact that English âroll downâ is one verbal clause, while in Turkish the equivalent would be yuvarlanarak iniyor, which translates as two verbs ârolling descendingâ.
Since we know that blind people do gesture, OĚzçalÄąĹkanâs team wanted to figure out if they gestured like other speakers of their language. Did the blind Turkish speakers separate the manner and trajectory of their gestures like their verbs? Did English speakers combine them? Of course, the standard methodology of showing videos wouldnât work with blind participants, so the researchers built three dimensional models of events for people to feel before they discussed them.
The results showed that blind Turkish speakers gesture like their sighted counterparts, and the same for English speakers. All Turkish speakers gestured significantly differently from all English speakers, regardless of sightedness. This means that these particular gestural patterns are something thatâs deeply linked to the grammatical properties of a language, and not something that we learn from looking at other speakers.
References
Jana M. Iverson & Susan Goldin-Meadow. 1998. Why people gesture when they speak. Nature, 396(6708), 228-228.
Ĺeyda OĚzçalÄąĹkan, CheĚ Lucero and Susan Goldin-Meadow. 2016. Is Seeing Gesture Necessary to Gesture Like a Native Speaker? Psychological Science 27(5) 737â747.
Asli Ozyurek & Sotaro Kita. 1999. Expressing manner and path in English and Turkish: Differences in speech, gesture, and conceptualization. In Twenty-first Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 507-512). Erlbaum.
Incredible! I have nothing to add because I had no idea, but may I just say **WOW**!!!
Before you laugh and make fun of someones accent or mistakes when they speak english please take a moment to realize that you can actually learn alot about their language by their mistakes for example When I was I denmark I noticed alot of danes say â I will learn you â instead of saying I will teach you because teach and learn is the same thing in danish Also arabs when they speak english they often say â beeebol â instead of â people â or â bebzi â instead of â Pepsi â because the letter P doesnât exist in the arabic alphabet Theres always something to learn when you stop being an ignorant piece of shit
english: coconut oil
french: :)
english: oh boy
french: oil of the nut of the coco
IM CRYINGNFN
english: ninety-nine
french: :)
english: oh no
french: four-twenty-ten-nine
english: potato
french: :)
english: oh geez
french: apple of the earth
french: papillon
english: :)
french: donât
english: beurremouche
French: pamplemousse English: :) French: pls no English: raisinfruit
english: squirrel
german: :)
english: oh dear
german: oak croissant
for real though, internet english is STAGGERINGLY multi-modal. the problem with communicating via writing is that you lose certain dimensions of spoken conversation, like intonation, facial expression, body language, pauses and fillers etc, but thereâs been so many linguistic innovations to maintain richness in communication, like
emojis/emoticons
use of capslock and purposefully creating/not fixing typos to convey excitement, or likewise not capitalizing anything
use of punctuation (or lack thereof) to indicate /emphasis/ or ~irony~ or apathy
reaction images and memes
use of familiar songs in tumblr text posts or vines etc
variational spellings like you/u or true/tru
bolding, italics, strikethrough, font size, line breaks, etc
(using parentheses to whisper)
tags as commentary, also the body of commonly used/commonly mocked hashtags
like i could go ON and ON about the things that internet language users have created to get around the difficulties of non-verbal communication, like ??? what other dialects can do all that and change that much in 30 years????
I wonder if this actually is a feature AAVE picked up from French (since there were many French slaveowners in the Caribbean and American south) or a feature of the African languages black slaves originally spokeâŚ
Where does your tongue stay when youâre not speaking? If youâre an English-speaker, itâs behind the top front teeth. If youâre a Russian-speaker, itâs on the bottom of your mouth, lying flat.
#what #for real
I JUST FREAKING CONSCIOUSLY CHECKED AND TRIED TO MAKE IT LAY FLAT BUT NO, ITâS SERIOUSLY AT THE TOP OF MY MOUTH. I DONâT LIKE THIS
#but why #you canât give info like that and not give a why
for real though, internet english is STAGGERINGLY multi-modal. the problem with communicating via writing is that you lose certain dimensions of spoken conversation, like intonation, facial expression, body language, pauses and fillers etc, but thereâs been so many linguistic innovations to maintain richness in communication, like
emojis/emoticons
use of capslock and purposefully creating/not fixing typos to convey excitement, or likewise not capitalizing anything
use of punctuation (or lack thereof) to indicate /emphasis/ or ~irony~ or apathy
reaction images and memes
use of familiar songs in tumblr text posts or vines etc
variational spellings like you/u or true/tru
bolding, italics, strikethrough, font size, line breaks, etc
(using parentheses to whisper)
tags as commentary, also the body of commonly used/commonly mocked hashtags
like i could go ON and ON about the things that internet language users have created to get around the difficulties of non-verbal communication, like ??? what other dialects can do all that and change that much in 30 years????
when I was studying Greek I would get frustrated and annoyed because often, at the beginning of a sentence or clause â or just scattered haphazardly throughout â there would be three or four âparticlesâ with no specific meaning. the literal translation might be âso thus andâ, but of course you couldnât put that down. they were just placeholder words, colloquial linguistic padding.
now, of course, I realize that I start sentences with âokay but likeâ.
you can sing the praises of the Greeks all you want, but the fact is, Plato wrote with all the elegance and grace of an off-the-cuff tumblr post.
glintglimmergleam
for the linguistics of tumblr
A truly MINDBLOWING lesson on the origin of American Southern accents.
The gif could not be more perfect in describing what just happened.
yay historical linguistics!
So you know what I donât get? Why people repeat words. (x)
Grammar time: itâs called âcontrastive reduplication,â and itâs a form of intensification that is relatively common. Finnish does a very similar thing, and others use near-reduplication (rhyme-based) to intensify, like Hungarian (pici âtinyâ, ici-pici âvery tinyâ).
Even the typologically-distant group of Bantu languages utilize reduplication in a strikingly similar fashion with nouns: Kinande oku-gulu âlegâ, oku-gulu-gulu âa REAL legâ (Downing 2001, includes more with verbal reduplication as well).
I suppose the difficult aspect of English reduplication is not through this particular type, but the fact that it utilizes many other types of reduplication: baby talk (choo-choo, no-no), rhyming (teeny-weeny, super-duper), and the ever-famous âshmâ reduplication: fancy-schmancy (a way of denying the claim that something is fancy).
screams my professor was trying to find an example of reduplication so the next class he came back and said âI FOUND REDUPLICATION IN ENGLISHâ and then he said âMilk milkâ and everyone was just âwhat?â and he said âyou know when you go to a coffee shop and they ask if you want soy milk and you say âno i want milk milkââ and everyone just had this collective sigh of understanding.
Another name for this particular construction is contrastive focus reduplication, and thereâs a famous linguistics paper about it which is commonly known as the Salad Salad Paper. You know, because if you want to make it clear that youâre not talking about pasta salad or potato salad, you might call it âsalad saladâ. The repetition indicates that youâre intending the most prototypical meaning of the word, like green salad or cowâs milk, even though other things can be considered types of salad or milk.Â
My inner linguistics nerd just woke up and it was Christmas morning.
why do black people use you in the wrong context? such is "you ugly" instead of "you're ugly" I know u guys can differentiate, it's a nuisance
you a bitch
Itâs called copula deletion, or zero copula. Many languages and dialects, including Ancient Greek and Russian, delete the copula (the verb to be) when the context is obvious.
So an utterance like âyou a bitchâ in AAVE is not an example of a misused you, but an example of a sentence that deletes the copular verb (are), which is a perfectly valid thing to do in that dialect, just as deleting an /r/ after a vowel is a perfectly valid thing to do in an upper-class British dialect.
Whatâs more, itâs been shown that copula deletion occurs in AAVE exactly in those contexts where copula contraction occurs in so-called âStandard American English.â That is, the basic sentence âYou are greatâ can become âYouâre greatâ in SAE and âYou greatâ in AAVE, but âI know who you areâ cannot become âI know who youâreâ in SAE, and according to reports, neither can you get âI know who youâ in AAVE.
In other words, AAVE is a set of grammatical rules just as complex and systematic as SAE, and the widespread belief that it is not is nothing more than yet another manifestation of deeply internalized racism.
I love linguistics!Â
look I learned something
one of my favorite things is how people talk to themselves in tumblr tags, taking this space designed for metadata classification and using it as a form of parenthetical speech. those grey little tags feel so cozy, a whispered dimension to the flat communication of the net
weâre taking a group of people who have insider knowledge of the English language (or at least a good grasp of it) and placing them in a new, unfamiliar, virtual space. This space introduces visual aids to language in the form of photos and gifs, the ability to comment on someone elseâs text in a reblog and the ability to communicate a lot of information in very few words using hashtags. We also see the creation of tone in a toneless medium. In order to simulate conversational patterns in writing we SHOUT WHEN WEâRE SUPER EXCITED or *psssst whisper when weâre pretending to tell someone a secret while perfectly aware that anyone on the internet can read what weâre saying.* slash the coolest bit tho is that u can like ironically forgo all capitalization and punctuation just write in a weird speech pattern its ok everyone will still understand maybe it even helps read the text more quickly because nothing is interrupting the flow of words In short, this dialect results when people who already share a language are given new tools. The result isnât a butchering of English language but a creative experiment with it. Am I claiming that the Internet as a whole is operating on a level of postmodernism that would make Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon seem like novices? maybe i am maybe im not u punk wut of it like who r u to tell me otherwise
Tia Baheri: âYour Ability to Can Even: A Defense of Internet Linguistics" | The Toast
Totally worth reading the whole article, especially the part on Tumblr and gender.
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Internet linguistics is super fascinating to me.Â
(via mumblingsage)
This whole article is absolutely fascinating. As someone who is older than the average tumblr user, and someone who can be a bit of a grammar freak, it took me a long time to get used to the Tumblrisms, but now I find them incredibly useful.
(via porcupine-girl)
#linguistics#internet dialects#PRESCRIPTIVISTS GO HOME
(via thymey)
âit took me a long time to get used to the Tumblrisms, but now I find them incredibly useful.â Same. All the internet speak that people my age usually malign, I find flexible and expressive and important.Â
Some people especially donât like the term âfeelsâ but I find it really helpful. âFeelsâ are not âemotionsâ. Emotions are specific, partitioned states. Feels are the simultaneous experience of all emotions (including emotions that would usually be framed as neutralizing one another if occurring simultaneouslyâhappy/sadâbut which often amplify each other instead) that are presently occurring as an immediate or on-going reaction to an inciting incident (image, movie, etc.). âAll my feelsâ is a way to express both the totality and the immensity of those emotions being experienced.
Following that, âright in the feelsâ is how to express that a secondary inciting incident has occurred which, like one molecule in motion intersecting with another molecule in motion, has effected an impact and a temporary or permanent change in state/velocity/trajectory of the total-state of emotions affecting the speaker and, if the impact is strong enough, may permanently alter the composition of the feels in question.
How damn cool is it to be able to sum up both the initial concept and the experienceâwith a gif (a tiny movie that, like a hologram, contains the whole of the original as well as the subcultural context around that movie and that scene and that character), no less?
(via hedwig-dordt)
we have literally created our own dialogue? language? here on tumblr and i think that is the most amazing thing ever please disregard my shitty editing skills
no listen this is actually really amazing because this is a real thing. i think this counts as a pidgin language. a pidgin language is basically a changed, simplified version of a language. you can change the spellings of words, pronunciation, grammar rules, or even make up new words. i think. iâd have to research it a bit more to be sure but iâm 90% sure this is right. if its not a pidgin language, then its a lingua franca but thats more used for trade and stuff like that. but still a new language. so yes, weâve created our own language. weâve changed the whole sentence structure. we can trail off sentences, say things like âi just cantâ, and use words like ship, OTP, fic, fandom, feels, and ship names and everyone will understand what youâre saying. the part that i love most is how people go âOMGH IM CRIIY NIG SOIOO HARDâ and understand each other. for example âIM LIUA GHMNIGâ. that one was incredibly easy, but if you knew that said âIâm laughingâ, congratulations. You speak a pidgin language. we can even say stuff like âDoes anyone know of a Johnlock fic, at least 20k words, not a WIP, with no OCs, and is Post-Reichenbach? Or just a Destiel PWP would be great.â To someone not on tumblr, that wouldnât make any sense. but you understood, didnât you? One characteristic of a pidgin language is that you have to learn it like a second language. Another characteristic is that it is frequently changing. tumblr goes through many trends with how we talk. if i remember correctly, when i first made an account about two years ago, talking like this wasnât quite as common. also, that thing of suddenly capitalizing your sentence is fairly recent. you know, when people go âthe new epISODE IS TOMORROWâ. Like one of the people up there said, all of this is awesome because how else do you easily show emotion and tone over the internet? weâve even made a whole sense of humour that most people here share in. Thereâs so much more that I could talk about with this, but iâm tired and i may be entirely wrong about everything. but yes. people on the fandom side of tumblr who speak like this are speaking a new language
Some really nice observations here! But tumblr-ese is not a separate language. The language we are all currently using is English. English is also a lingua franca, but that happened before tumblr.
Tumblr-ese is also not a pidgin, which is a simplistic language constructed for easy communication between two other languages. Pidgins are usually very VERY simple, grammatically speaking, and are developed out of necessity. (NOTE: some languages are called pidgins even though they are technically creoles, which is a different thing). Tumblr-ese is primarily English, which is a fully developed language, so we use very nice sophisticated grammar (even if your English teacher would say otherwise).
But tumblr-ese is a sociolect, which is a type of dialect that has nothing to do with geographic area. The internet is a ridiculous breeding ground for social groups, and with social groups comes language styles specific to those groups, henceâŚsociolects! But tumblr has got to be my favorite because everyone here is so expressive.
As I think we all know, tumblr has an enormous focus on âfeelsâ. Normally emotions are downplayed, I might even say repressed, in everyday conversation. (Think about âpolite languageâ - most of it is deference, itâs âoh, Iâm no big deal, donât mind meâ). So while the tumblr-specific grammar IS very interesting, I think the best part is HOW itâs used, which is to convey a part of ourselves that we donât normally convey. Pretty much any observation you might make about tumblr-ese, whether it be the capitaliZATION, or the s p a c i n g, or the run on sentences that sound like blabber idk what im talking about wat is going on!!! - all of this leads to increased emotional communication. Which is very different from professional English.
So yes, tumblr-speak is awesome and magical and very very cool :)
AHHHHHHHHHH GIVE ME MORE.
