#linguitics

[quoting-my-linguistics-lecturers]

favorite word?

...is it too live-laugh-love of me to say 'nheulu'? /n̥eili/ (or /n̥eɨlɨ/ if you're gog)

it's 'teulu' (welsh for family) with the nasal mutation (found after a first person possessive), it's like a short way to say 'my family' without actually saying 'my'. You see it a lot in song lyrics with 'nghariad' to mean '(my) love'

[greatmarta]

Northuldran naming conventions

Considering that the Northuldrans are based on the Sami people, the Northuldran characters should have Sami names. They obviously do not. Why is that?

The simplest explanation would be – this particular aspect of the Sami culture was not included in the adaptation.

Another possibility is that the Northuldrans do, in fact, have indigenous names, but only use those amongst themselves, giving the outsiders commonly accepted equivalents, which are easier to pronounce/remember.

Going even further than that – If we operate under the assumption that Arendelle is a Scandinavian state, their Native language is some sort of Scandinavian, and all the characters’ names have been adapted for the benefit of the English-speaking audience, the English dubbing of the movie may not be entirely correct when it comes to pronunciation of names.

Therefore, the Sami equivalents of the Northuldran names could be:

Iduna – Iiddá, Iinná (or she was named after the goddess Iðunn, in which case “Iduna” may have simply been the Northuldran version of Iðunn to begin with)

Honeymaren – Hánna Máren (or she started off as Máren and the “Honey” part was added later in life as a title, something like “Máren the Honey”)

Ryder – Ráidner

Yelana – Heleainná

(This is a crazy idea, but at hopefully it will entertain you ^_^)    

[sitelenjelo]

Sup y’all! I saw a post about a character writing in circular gallifreyan and I was like “hey! That sounds like a Cool Time™️” so I, having only watched maybe one episode or so of Doctor Who, decided to learn it. It took way too long on a shitty drawing app on my phone, but this says “I like honey mustard!”

[johariswindow]

Sensationalism

Is a tactic used to illicit public interest, shock, excitement, and or engagement through dramatic or exaggerated stories or language. Sometimes at the expense of accuracy, relevancy, & credibility.

[marauding-bagel]

Linguistics side of tumblr save me

One of my professors mentioned that there is a test where they give you a document written in a fake language and a few translations. The exam is to take those translation and break down the fake language’s morphology in order to translate the document to English.

What is this called and is there an online one I can do for free? (Google won’t reveal its secrets to me)

[quoting-my-linguistics-lecturers]

I have some quotes that my lecturer has said directly to specific students, but incase my peers don't want me sharing those for some reason I'll just share a few directly said to me

"Sorry, I didn't realise you did syntax trees for breakfast. Why don't you add a prepositional phrase?" - my tutor after realising I'd finished the basic syntax tree in the time it had taken him to walk a few steps over to me

"You don't use dark Ls? What accent is that?" - in response to me failing to say 'milk' with a velarised 'l' (In higher registers I sometimes use them)

"[My name] would you please come up and say /spaɪ/ into the microphone?" - pretty self-explanatory really

"Oh, IP, very fancy!" - in response to seeing me write 'IP' at the top of my syntax tree

[quoting-my-linguistics-lecturers]

"I am being straight-jacketed by society!"

- My linguistics lecturer, with much anguish in his voice

[retrocompmx]

Un día como hoy (7 de diciembre) en la computación y lingüistica

El 7 de diciembre de 1928 nace el científico cognitivo, historiador, filósofo y lingüista estadunidense Noam Chomsky, llamado el “Padre de la Lingüística”, cocreador de la jerarquía Chomsky, la Teoría Gramática Universal y el Teorema Chomsky-Schützenberger. La primera enseñada en los cursos fundamentales de informática puesto que brinda una visión de los diversos tipos de lenguajes formales, previos a la programación. Su Teorema ha contribuido enormemente al campo de la AI y los sistemas inteligentes #retrocomputingmx #NoamChomsky #AI