linguistics + language sideblog

my main is @slothfuljeremiah

[protoworld]

gray | 27 | nonbinary (xe/they)

i don't actually support the proto-world theory i just like to clown on it

tags below the cut!

Languages

African languages*

Celtic languages: Irish | Old Irish | Scottish Gaelic | Welsh

Germanic languages: English | Scots | Yiddish

Indigenous languages*: Ainu | Quechua

Indo-Aryan languages: Urdu

Indo-Iranian languages: Kurdish | Pashto

Japonic languages: Japanese

Language isolates: Ainu

Romance languages: French | Italian | Ladino | Romansh | Sardinian | Spanish

Semitic languages: Hebrew

*Not a language family

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Linguists/Translators

Keith Chen

Lera Boroditsky

Sharon Choi

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Miscellaneous

Conjugation

Conlanging: Europanto | Esperanto | Shuxule | Toki Pona

Dialects

Names

Memes

Speech: Accents | Fillers | IPA

Neuroscience: Language acquisition

Syntax: Word order

Technology

Tenses

Translation

Vocab: Collective nouns | Diminutives | Etymology

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Theories

Altaic language family

Linguistic relativity / Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Linguistic determinism

Proto-World theory

* I don't necessarily agree with theories I post about, I just like cataloguing them

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Writing Systems

Abugidas

Alphabets

Scripts: Arabic script | Cuneiform | Devanāgarī | Ogham | Sütterlinschrift

[real-language-facts]

i just jerked off to consonants am i a bad person

you are the only good person this world has left

[real-language-facts]

felt a shift in my great vowel

i am hiring a witch to realign your vowels as we speak

[toskarinfr]

under my despotic regime posting MTL screenshots to compare to a translation for "accuracy" will be considered an act of war similar to firing live rounds and will be treated accordingly

[real-language-facts]

there could be a language out there

[catilinas]

sending him on an etymological journey

[mawofthemagnetar]

Cold take but all languages are beautiful actually. Every single one. Every single human language on earth is a collection of stories interwoven into the very fabric of the words that are spoken.

“Oh but this language sounds scary-“ have you heard a child speak it while pointing at a butterfly?

“Oh but this language sounds silly-“ have you heard someone’s grandma recite a recipe with such practiced ease it comes off as poetry?

“Oh but this language is really weird-“ and yours isn’t? Everyone’s language is weird, dumbass, it came free with your fucking humanity.

Every tongue that is spoken is a work of art. Every language a unique window into the world.

Isn’t it wonderful?

[real-language-facts]

translation is impossoble you cant do it

[aichu-dechu]

[etirabys]

[kata4a]

Ye knowe eek, that in forme of speche is chaunge With-inne a thousand yeer, and wordes tho That hadden prys, now wonder nyce and straunge Us thinketh hem; and yet they spake hem so, And spedde as wel in love as men now do.

chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde c. 1380

[youzicha]

glossary: eek also and even tho at the time prys great value wonder a cause for astonishment nyce stupid spedde succeeded

You know the form of language, too, can change. Within a thousand years, even the words that were most precious then, seem strange and foolish to us; yet they spoke them so and did no worse in love than we now do.

[real-language-facts]

lifetime ban from the boba shop for ordering a kiki tea

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

semantics are the ultimate vessel to objective truth . keep splitting hairs and youll reach the atom !

[revoltinggirl-urethra]

99% of all pedants stop cross referencing definitions right before they construct the infallible observation ‼️‼️‼️

[tanadrin]

would be fun if language acquisition echoed language evolution a la recapitulation theory. kids going through an indo european phase.

[jadagul]

https://xkcd.com/2567/

[tanadrin]

fuuuuuck there really is an xkcd for everything

[bigscaryd]

Quick put an animal book in front of him and ask him what this guy is

[nordenflycht]

there's an xkcd for that also

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

[knight-named-dilan]

[tayalla]

got tricked into majoring in linguistics because they said they had PIE and IPA. thought I was getting dessert and beer, got all these nerdy tables and diagrams instead.

[thestuffedalligator]

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.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

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.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Improved symbols for the flongal plosives ("gacks"), flongal trill ("hacks"), flongal fricatives ("groans"), and and the flongal lateral approximant ("moans")

[inthefallofasparrow]

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.

[koth-harvest-final]

update: the builders are all speaking different sign languages now