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@kidnamedpronoun
Intro
The account feels a tad too empty so I am going to post something about myself since this is a social media.
I'm Bright, at the time of this post I am 19 and I'm a university student in France (though I am not French).
I speak English, Russian, French, German, Arabic, and a tad bit of Portuguese.
I'm studying linguistics and am mainly interested in pronouns, writing systems, Arabic calligraphy, and other subjects the autism chooses for me.
That is all, welcome to the page.
what do you think of ?
I don't think
therefore you aint?
therefore I ain't
THERE'S MORE OF THEM????
The more pins in the pinterest board, the less words in the document.
whyis this tweet my dead wife
I'm in favour of people getting weird with pronouns, but nobody gets grammatically weird enough with pronouns. You can mess around with the declensions if you want. Yeah, my pronouns are 'she/she'. That's right, I don't have an accusative form. I refuse to be an object, direct or otherwise.
so I've thought of a new way to apply she/they
My pronouns are they/them. Ergative
We know that verbs are words that describe a mental or physical action, a state of being, or an occurrence. We also understand that they rel
I was actually referring to ergative case marking rather than ergative verbs, related but different concepts. Ergative case marking refers to a pattern found in some languages where one form (called the ergative) is used for the subject of a transitive verb and another form (called the absolutive) for the subject of an intransitive verb or object of a transitive verb. So, it would be like:
Them runs
I see them
They see me
uh oh
"etymologynerd" is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something. the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact, but there's also a serious problem with the linguistics.
in a video shared on may 16, adam aleksic begins by saying: "i think we have to accept the fact that the 'r-word' [retard/retarded] is permanently coming back and it's functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people."
this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points.
this word never went away. what we're seeing now is an attempt at re-normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term.
we actually don't have to "accept" its return to mainstream use. for decades, disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term. the harm has not disappeared, and neither will this advocacy and its impacts.
now i'm just mad. how tf does it NOT refer to disabled people? the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person, group, etc. the assertion that the r-word has changed meanings is categorically false. at most, its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative, but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference.
he goes on to refer to the "euphemism treadmill," another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative. to quote: "...once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage, it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead."
which... what? what the fuck is he talking about? the words he uses as examples – idiot, imbecile, and moron – are definitely still offensive, if perhaps less impactful. "just becomes colloquial instead" is a nonsense phrase. are offensive words not colloquial? the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is "nice," which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term.
he ends by saying, "it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r-word right now are going to get old and die out, while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from." again, fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time. it rests on the assumption that we're all going to start or re-start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms, which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words. you think i'm just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad??
the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long-term semantic change.
tl;dr etymologynerd is wrong, we do NOT "have to accept that the 'r-word' is coming back," and we all need to read more crip linguistics.
Still not what I want
What is it that you desire?
Actually this is a lie and all linguists flirt (platonically or otherwise) by drawing and interacting with complicated-looking diagrams in front of people who don't understand them.
official linguistics post
I pray that the origin of my username gets published one day. The world needs me vague research about abnormal pronominal reference in US Midland English. This is what the field needs.
It’s been accepted. We now pray copyediting doesn’t take as long as revisions.
Despite the insanely low implementability of this, i think a logographic system would be perfectly adapted to sign languages. Both systems are built on iconicity, both are functionally recreations of images with varying levels of abstraction. Alphabet approaches really don’t work for a system with a non-generizable “phonology” or morphology.
james and the giant pronoun
[one single bloodcurdling agonized scream] ok time to lock in
People make fun of the French Academy when Quebec does the exact same thing, is much more successful, and is all the better for it.
People are going to talk how they're going to talk, but official and technical literature should, in fact, make some effort to find a proper equivalent instead of using a loanword.
The average French person does not actually know what "streaming" or "podcast" is.
The (fake) screenshot going around is actually a very good example too. No one who isn't terminally online knows what Omorashi and Ahegao mean.
I have one question, and one question only: Why should they? Is there an issue with loanwords?
(Also the average french person does in fact know what streaming and podcasts are (or at least the people that need to know what they are))
I’ve actually decided that my question is rhetorical and i’m not going to wait for the prescriptivist argument to crumble, because your own post is enough to prove that. Within your post alone, written in a standard English register, I have counted 17 instances of words that have most likely been integrated into English originally as loanwords, ranging from « they » to « person » and « people » .
English did not die because of loanwords, French won’t either. In fact, I don’t think loanwords are an actual vehicle of language death at all.
People make fun of the French Academy when Quebec does the exact same thing, is much more successful, and is all the better for it.
People are going to talk how they're going to talk, but official and technical literature should, in fact, make some effort to find a proper equivalent instead of using a loanword.
The average French person does not actually know what "streaming" or "podcast" is.
The (fake) screenshot going around is actually a very good example too. No one who isn't terminally online knows what Omorashi and Ahegao mean.
I have one question, and one question only: Why should they? Is there an issue with loanwords?
(Also the average french person does in fact know what streaming and podcasts are (or at least the people that need to know what they are))
My personal opinion is that you probably shouldn’t ask a linguist how to learn a language because a linguist is the sort of person who likes studying esoteric grammar points
official linguistics post
james and the giant pronoun
I wanna know why learning is locked behind so many pay walls. Like, I get needing to pay teachers and stuff, I'm all for that. My issue is that in order to learn another language, you've got to pay for classes or app subscriptions and do different things just to get a usable level of understanding about another language.
Like, I'm trying to learn ASL (American Sign Language), it's great to know, it's useful when encountering other ASL users, and it's fun. However, I've only been able to get the most basic of basics down because I'm broke and don't have the money to spend on these different learning things. The next best offer I've had was a college course to learn it, and it was full when I applied. The best part is that ASL is one of the most accessible languages to learn because it doesn't rely on syntax and actually speaking like spoken languages do. If you learn the signs and how to use them, you'll be pretty well off, but that doesn't work with spoken languages.
I'm honestly just ranting a bit, but it's because I care. I'm currently in University to study this stuff and it's just jaw dropping how limited the access to it is. Which is making it harder for me to construct my own languages. Oh well.
Start up some convo about language, it's cool.
Very real. It does suck but from what I know it comes down to there not being enough initiative to fund free education (shocker).
Also about ASL stuff, as someone learning LSF, I gotta say the amount of resources for ASL up to an intermediate level is actually astounding. I feel like there is a high chance you already know of him but from what i’ve seen Bill Vicars on youtube seems to have some of the most in-depth educational content on the topic of ASL, all for free.
Also small linguistics nitpick: To say that ASL or any sign language doesn’t rely on syntax is a bit silly. In the same measure you can get an operational level of English or any language without mastering syntax, you can do the same with any language, spoken or signed. Sign languages are full-fledged languages with syntax and grammar rules that differ from spoken languages uniquely and significantly. If you just learn the vocabulary without the grammar you’ll be doing Signed English, not ASL.
As just a general closing remark: It does suck how language learning is behind paywalls, but I think that there are amazing resources out there for learning languages which are often better than classes you might find or apps you might subscribe to, all for free. You just have to know where to look and how to use them.
