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oh my godddd why are we still teaching the sapir-whorf hypothesis without a massive caveat of "this has been largely discredited and only some forms of 'soft' linguistic relativism are accepted now"
Anniversaries of the Day
dravolve (adj) [ˈdrævɑlv]
dragons evolving [ˈdrægənz ɪˈvɑlvɪŋ]
A new dravolve album is coming!
Word, added: 31/12/2021 by @xpedition-dragons
Happy 3rd anniversary!
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radinactive (adj) [ˈreɪdɪˈnæktɪv]
inactive Radioactive song [ɪˈnæktɪv ˌreɪdioʊˈæktɪv sɔŋ]
This all time song is really radinactive.
Word, added: 31/12/2021 by @xpedition-dragons
Happy 3rd anniversary!
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The October 2023 Issue of Speculative Grammarian
The editors and publishers of Speculative Grammarian are pleased to announce that another issue of our esteemed journal is now available. This issue offers many excellent articles, including some, uh, timely musings on large language models from our Editor-in-Chief, a wind-breaking... no, wait... breath-taking introduction to the explosively burgeoning field of Flatu-linguistics, and a happy little diversion for you at your next academic conference: a conference-themed treasure hunt!—along with the usual collection of letters from our readers, breaking news, limericks and other poetry, serendipitous fieldwork, linguistickish puzzles, and more...
“The easiest language to learn is the language you’re surrounded by”
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My younger daughter still has difficulty with fricatives
She holds up a finger to her lips and says "ffff, kitty it tweeping."
Or
"Khhhh, kitty ik kweeping."
Okay, I had a dream in Kalispel Salish* last night, which I guess is a signal I need to talk about it.
It all started when I found this webpage of the Kalispel Tribe which has both written and recordings of spoken Kalispel**.
And dudes, Kalispel is a coooool language.
The following is my armchair-linguist’s commentary on the glorious process of working through the assignments of Student Workbook 1 (pdf)
Read on
What I learned:
ʔa is swallowed
x̣ is a hiss in the back of the throat like the ch in Scottish “loch”
a tough-looking consonant cluster like sč̓l might be made easier by moving the first phoneme to the previous word like WORD-s č̓l (and perhaps clusters at the end of a word can be moved to the beginning of the next word?)***
č̓ is like the ch in “cheese” but more forceful.
xʷ is like x̣ but with rounded lips.
ʔa x̣est means “hello”
sč̓luxʷ means “evening”
ʔe means “likewise” so ʔe x̣est sč̓luxʷ means “good evening to you, too”
Questions
What does ʔa mean? Does it contrast with ʔe? If ʔe means “likewise” does ʔa mean “anti-likewise”? If so, is ʔa generally swallowed if it doesn’t contradict previous statements? In a statement like, “No, it’s good morning,” should I expect ʔa to be pronounced?
Will there will be more sandhi, splitting up consonant clusters across word-boundaries? I bet so!
Tune in next time for lesson 2: Numbers and Age!
*the only word I remember is “sikskɫ” which supposedly meant “hanishte” (“speaking” in Japanese? What is wrong with me??)
**Wikipedia calls the language Salish-Spokane-Kalispel, but the workbook calls it just “Kalispel,” a convention I’ll adopt too.
***English does this too, as in “tasks and jobs” being pronounced “task sand jobs.” In general, this is called sandhi and French is famous for something similar: “liason“
Being a linguist means starting random language courses on Tuesday night.
Hey everyone! So I’m doing a research project for my Language and Culture class and I’m doing some data collection involving slang in the “lesbian” community (lesbian is in quotes because gender is complicated). So if you:
-identify as any gender other than male
-experience attraction to female identifying people
-speak English as a first language
Message me any slang/lingo that you associate with the lesbian/wlw community. It can be sexual or not, just any words you associate with the community! Thanks so much!
