Language change Georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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Language change Georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted
man you really just do whatever you wanted if you where emperor huh
Ↄ or ↃC/X (antisigma) to replace BS [bz] and PS [ps], much as X stood in for CS [ks] and GS [ɡz]. The shape of this letter is disputed, however, since no inscription bearing it has been found. Franz Bücheler identified it with the variant Roman numeral Ↄ, but 20th-century philologists, working from copies of Priscian's books, believe it to instead resemble two linked Cs (Ↄ+Ϲ), which was a preexisting variant of Greek sigma, and easily mistaken for X by later writers.
Ⅎ, a turned F or digamma (digamma inversum) to be used instead of the letter V when denoting the consonantal phoneme [w] or [β]. Thus, it resembles the use of the letter V in modern Latin texts, where the vocalic use of the letter V is represented by its variant U, which has been recognized as a different letter only later.
Ⱶ, a half H, probably had the name /ʉː/ in harmony with other vowels. The value of this letter is unclear, but it may have represented the so-called sonus medius, a short vowel sound, likely [ʉ], but it could have also been [ɨ]. It was used before labial consonants in Latin words such as optumus and optimus. The letter was later used as a variant of [y] in inscriptions for short Greek upsilon (as in Olympicus). It may have disappeared because the sonus medius itself disappeared from spoken language.
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world's first heterosexual language leaves linguists "scared"
So I was thinking about the word "restroom," and how it sounds like it should mean the same thing as "bedroom," but, uh, doesn't. Since people don't like talking about poop, there's a lot of words for that room, and very few of them actually describe what one does there.
Then I spent several hours poking around Wiktionary to compare how different languages euphemise it. This got long.
idont believe in translation its just not possible
i dont like language and i dont believe in it. its just not possible
morality as a grammatical system where “the person shouldn’t have suffered” is a syntactically valid sentence whereas “the person should have suffered” is a syntactically invalid one
Subjunctive and domjunctive mood
*ferdinand de saussure voice* if you think about it, all language is sign language
credit goes to calle börstell for this one
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List of Latin Cases
Nominative: Used when referring to someone by their Christian name
Vocative: Used when referring to someone in speech (as opposed to writing)
Accusative: For public call-outs
Genitive: Used when the noun is something you are wishing for, whether or not in a monkey's paw type scenario
Dative: Used when asking someone out
Ablative: Used when the noun is meant to sublimate to dissipate heat from the outside of a spacecraft during reentry
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The past tense of wind is winded. The past tense of wind is wound. The past tense of wound is wounded.
This has been a test of the emergency language fact system.
yeah i'm into non-con
by which i mean non-configurationality
fuck your syntax
I almost reblogged this post here by mistake, so here it is anyway, but in T’owal! I thought it would be a relatively easy translation but there were actually a couple tricky points. I didn’t have words for “meter” or any of the compass directions, so now I do (“meter” is kotsi, “north” is k’afu). Figuring out how to actually use the word for meter was another thing: the literal translation here is “under 3000 meters of water in the Weddell Sea.”
My usual strategy for proper nouns in T’owal is that names of places get altered a bit to fit T’owal phonotactics, so “Antarctica” becomes “Antátika,” but names of people don’t get changed. I have on occasion respelled names to fit the T’owal romanization but I wasn’t really sure how to approach “Ernest” anyway (Elnest? Anest?) so I just left it alone.
It’d been a while since I last touched T’owal. I had kind of missed it!
ive seen ppl using /gen, but what abt /nom, /voc, /acc, /dat and /abl?
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I made a caseless conlang! Instead it has horbleshooms which is when you designate the function of a noun or adjective with an affix. It's totally different!
@unholystigmatic It's like that bell curve meme sometimes because you can have languages with no distinctions between word classes (with no reference of the primitives of nouns vs verbs)
Check Gil's analysis of Indonesian, for one; you can make a case that there is only one word class, S⁰ which may be modified by S⁰ or the entirely dependent S⁰/S⁰; these are not semantically determined but mostly a purely syntactic phenomenon.
Like, this construction is thus invalid
There's also morphological analysis where there are no syntactic limitations to what can be affixed to the S⁰ words, while S⁰/S⁰ words are very limited in terms of inflection.
Like of course there's a semantic reality to what is a 'verb' but even then that's just a weird criteria because Iroquoian languages, with their 'referential verbs' and Nahuatl where every non-particle expression is a clause—shouldn't really be analyzed as exceptional in linguistic typology.
April 2020 – Fiat Lingua
logan kearsley’s article is a good exploration on verblessness in conlangs and natlangs
They’ve been rebuilding the Tower of Babel, but this time they have a team of linguists on site. Every time God smites the builders and invents a dozen new languages, the linguists have a dozen decently sized translations in about a month and work can start up again.
The linguists have been really into it. They say the new phonemes are fascinating. As for God, I assume that at this point he’s just curious to see how far this goes.
To keep us on out toes, God gives the next group of builders an extra place of articulation called the flongus between the pharynx and the glottis, creating an entire new column of the IPA chart with sounds between sounds that are literally physiologically impossible for non-flongled people to replicate.
Improved symbols for the flongal plosives ("gacks"), flongal trill ("hacks"), flongal fricatives ("groans"), and and the flongal lateral approximant ("moans")
Update: The builders have now simply switched to communicating entirely through a universal sign language like they should've done to start with. No sounds need be spoken, flongal or otherwise. The Tower steadily rises. Be seeing you soon, God, you little bitch.
update: the builders are all speaking different sign languages now