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through pottery we domesticated rocks

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guy currently hurtling toward a migraine at a rate that would impress most astrophysicists: i wonder wgat is happening in my beautiful telephone

real-language-facts

we have invented phonetics 2. no idea what it studies but it strikes fear in the hearts of all

snissel613

I think the fun part about fake Jewish names is that there all so real. Like it’s impossible to come up with a Jewish character who also isn’t just literally a real person from Teaneck who I’m probably related to

misguidedandperplexed

You're safer using names like David Levy and Sarah Cohen. Then you can legitimately say that they're not based on real people, because everyone knows at least five people with those names.

cartoonverisimilitude

Also fake synagogues are easy to do as well : Beth Shalom, Beth El, Beth Israel. You can’t say it was based on a specific congregation because like those names make up like 90% of synagogues.

daughterofstories

Those would be good for Conservative, but I'd go with something like Torat Shalom for Orthodox.

l3gendarycatlover

If I don't remember a man's name at shul my first guess is David. I'm right about half the time.

daughterofstories

I was recently in a show with about fifty frum women, only about four of whom were named Sarah.

We were all pretty surprised by how few that was.

les-eat-bread

wrote an escape room puzzle for my school's hillel once based around fake names. accidentally genarated the name of a guy who did, in fact, attend my school. first and last. not even one of the common ones!

#had to intervene so the participants wouldn't try to figure out how this guy fit into the puzzle #jumblr

taking the word "elites" away from academics until they can agree on what it means. you can't just say "elites".

#academia #linguistics

cant read (relatively) old scholarship in public. If I say "are you stupid" out loud one more time I will get kicked out of the library.

#only a tiny bit exaggerating #linguistics

real-language-facts

How many vowels is too many

1

#linguistics

bookwyrminspiration

nativist theory of language development was never meant to apply to humans. it actually comes from a gnome named chompsky who studied elven language development, but unfortunately during the human assistance program, someone misunderstood

#linguistics #kotlc

real-language-facts

we must get together and create some sort of unsolved mathematical problem but for language

#it already exitsts #and it is called syntax

scramratz

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

real-language-facts

when r they ognna start working on arabic 4

Arabic 4 is dead, it was pitched to Language Production Corporation in '84 but it's been stuck in development hell since around '85.

The main writer for Arabic 4 was busy with other projects and burned out with the Arabic series so he decided to work on Business English instead, and when they finally got him to sit down and write for it, the Language Production Corporation was in bad shape and the language ended up being tossed around from linguist to linguist and was never finished nor released. However, there's two early prototype builds of Arabic 4. They're technically speakable but many words aren't properly implemented yet.

real-language-facts

update: there IS a language called Arabic 4. however it is a 13 year old's language contest entry

#linguistics