Linguist wannabe

Colección de cosas interesantes sobre la lengua y la lingüística. Montevideo, Uruguay.

[linguist-wannabe]

¿Cómo será el español dentro de 100 años?

Las predicciones tiene la mayor app de idiomas para el español del próximo siglo.

¿Cómo será el español dentro de 100 años?

Echamos un vistazo al futuro del español. ¡La bola de cristal ha hablado!

[linguisten]

https://linglink.de/425oxbg #Women in the history of #linguistics—from marginalization to recognition https://blog.oup.com/2023/03/women-in-the-history-of-linguistics-from-marginalization-to-recognition via linguisten.info https://linglink.de/3gQ3iaN March 13, 2023 at 02:54PM

[linguist-wannabe]

Human speech may have a universal transmission rate: 39 bits per second

No matter how quickly you speak, you still share the same amount of information

[deutsch-doodles]

[linguist-wannabe]

I have found my favorite german word.

[procrastinating-polyglot]

I don’t know how I didn’t figure this out but now that I have I don’t know what to do with this information

[polyglotswede]

This is some woke shit wtf

[starlightespresso]

[egberts]

[charlesoberonn]

[alphagodith]

WHY THO

[tayohshadowind]

Here is a theory: how many hours per day is all sunlight out of sight? I’m not talking the second the sun pokes it head up over the horizon until it dips back down. I mean all sunrays are gone? I think it is about 8 hours. The darkness of night lasts about 8 hours. On top of that, the average amount of sleep you should get is 8, probably due to circadian rhythm. Maybe the words were chosen for this reason.

[linguist-wannabe]

I guess this is purely circunstancial, but interesting nevertheless.

[linguist-wannabe]

[linguist-wannabe]

[asking-jude]

Source

[linguist-wannabe]

No means no.

[sic-semper-amicis-deactivated20]

freeze : froze :: sneeze : snoze

[esoanem]

Snooze : snoze :: lose : loze

[sic-semper-amicis-deactivated20]

alternatively, lose : lost :: snooze : snost

[linguisten]

please : plose / plost ? 

[frislander-deactivated20220305]

shake : shook :: fake : fook

[esoanem]

wake : woke :: shake : shoke :: fake : foke

[kephas-rolling]

cake : coke 

or

cake : cade ? 

[frislander-deactivated20220305]

Different direction:

sneak : snuck :: feak : fuck

[kephas-rolling]

I raise you this:

deak : duck 

[linguist-wannabe]

Sign Language Interpreter level: Eminem

[linguist-wannabe]

Where Did 'Jazz,' the Word, Come From? Follow a Trail of Clues, in Deep Dive with Lewis Porter

When it comes to the origin of the word “jazz,” it seems that each person simply believes what she or he wants to.

[did-you-know]

Curiosity is fueled by what you already know. Studies show you’re more likely to be curious of the things you know a little about than you are of something you either know nothing about, or think you know a lot about. Source Source 2

[transliterations]

Linguistics resources

Okay, I’m doing the giveaway, but I thought I might as well do this, too, so here’s a Dropbox folder of most if not all of my current linguistics textbooks / resources in pdf format. I’ll update it as often as I can, but I thought some of you might find it useful - most of them are pretty good for protolinguists or first year linguists or for anyone with a passing interest in linguistics, really. If you have any issues downloading them / if this doesn’t work, let me know.

The books contained within are as follows (alphabetically by surname):

English Grammar by Roger Berry.

First Language Acquisition by Eve Clark.

A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics by David Crystal.

Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality by Kira Hall and Anne Livia.

What Is Sociolinguistics? by Van Herk.

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes.

Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Language by Peter Ladefoged.

How Languages are Learned by Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada.

Language and Identities by Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt.

Introducing Sociolinguistics by Miriam Meyerhoff.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language by Michael Morris.

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker.

English Phonetics and Phonology by Peter Roach.

The Study of Language by George Yule.

[transliterations]

reblogging to add:

Historical Linguistics by Lyle Campbell.

[transliterations]

The Amazonian Languages by R. M. W. Dixon and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald.

[transliterations]

The Handbook of Language and Gender by Janet Holmes and Miriam Meyerhoff.

[transliterations]

A New Literacies Sampler by Michele Knobel and Colin Lankshear.

Reading Japan Cool: Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse by John E. Ingulsrud and Kate Allen.

[linguist-wannabe]

What accent did The Beatles have, anyway? - OxfordWords blog

In 1963, Paul McCartney was leaning hard on American pronunciations but by 1970, he was thoroughly, proudly Liverpudlian. Elyse Graham explores:

“ The odd thing about musical genres is that the features that distinguish them from each other are not musical features alone. Beat, rhythm, meter, ‘color’, instruments: these alone don’t make a song rock, or country, or punk. The accent of the singer also helps to define the musical genre – and singers who don’t have a genre’s favored accent as their native accent will go out of the way, while singing, to change their sound.”

[linguist-wannabe]

My Forgotten Language | DiscoverMagazine.com

How the brain can lose — and reclaim — an abandoned mother tongue.

[scienceisbeauty]

Why and how twitter did change the characters limit, a perfect example of data science at work: data acquisition, data filtering and cleaning, modeling and validation, analysis, conclusions and inference.

Twitter engineering blog: Our Discovery of Cramming

Also interesting the design implementation:

Looking After Number One-forty

For my part, I like the update and think is a improvement, especially when you realize that it is not mandatory to use 240 characters (neither were 140), I think keeping Twitter’s brevity is still a good policy, as suggested in the announcement blogpost:

Tweeting Made Easier

“We – and many of you – were concerned that timelines may fill up with 280 character Tweets, and people with the new limit would always use up the whole space. But that didn’t happen. Only 5% of Tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only 2% were over 190 characters. As a result, your timeline reading experience should not substantially change, you’ll still see about the same amount of Tweets in your timeline.“

[linguist-wannabe]

Si hay más hablantes de español y chino, ¿por qué predomina el inglés en el mundo?

El chino y el español son las lenguas con más hablantes nativos del planeta, pero casi todas las sociedades deben usar el inglés por el auge político y económico de EE.UU.

México (casi 120 millones), Colombia (48,8 millones) y Argentina (43 millones) son los territorios de Latinoamérica con más personas que utilizan el español, que también es la segunda lengua más usada en Twitter y Facebook, según el Instituto Cervantes.

Entonces, ¿por qué predomina el inglés en la cultura colectiva de casi todo el planeta? Ana Valentina Fernández Garay, doctora en Ciencias del Lenguaje por la Universidad René Descartes de París (Francia) y miembro del Instituto de Lingüística de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), considera que se trata de "una buena pregunta" que tiene una respuesta "sencilla".

Imagen ilustrativa / Armin Weigel / www.globallookpress.com

Esta especialista explica que una frase que circula en textos sociolingüísticos indica que "una lengua es un dialecto con un Ejército y una Marina", algo que "nos da la idea de que una lengua prestigiosa es aquella que se impone por la fuerza".