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New beginning

Today I'm starting my journey as a student of linguistics and language technology

Active or Passive?

Punctuation matters

Bring back the Þ

The language that conquered the world

Wingardium Leviosa

I discovered some universal catagories in language

might be useful for conlang construction. ----- The Four Levels of Word Specificity All common words (Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs (and adverbs)) fit into a universally applyable hierarchy based on conceptual specificity. --- Level 1: The highest catagory - Domain Boundless philosophical domain… (edited) read more

The linguistic pokemon

In case you didn't know...

Peak comedy

Today I learned new English word. I love that English has so much definitions for age of a child lol

Does society influence language or language influences society?

Conversation analysis research paper: under construction

Bike

What got you into linguistics?

can anyone confirm

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What is “Karen” Language?

Our galaxy, the Milky Way

English speaking people are so creative. They used the Greek word for the astronomical formation, then translated it into English to name our own local star zoo.

Empathy

The word 'empathy' is 100% a Greek word. However, in the Greek language it has a different quite opposite meaning. εμπάθεια = hostility, malice. (edited)

My name in Arabic

A professional Arabic Calligrapher came to my school to lead a workshop. 1st one is his example of how to write my name. The rest are me trying it myself. Obviously, none of them are perfect. But which do you think looks best? #arabic #linguistics #language (edited)

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Homophrosyne

It means two people feeling or thinking alike. Homer uses the word twice in Odyssey. In the end this is the quality that Odysseus and Penelope share. (No. Homer uses the word elsewhere. The conclusion is credited to the classicists.)

Where is your branch? Where are your roots?

First linguistic tree by Felix Gallet (Paris, ca 1800). An early attempt to apply the theory of evolution in linguistics. 'Le Celte' generates most European languages, while Hebrew, Chinese and Greenlandic derive from a 'langue primitive'. #philosophy #history (edited)

I got it!! 🥳

I finally got it guys I finished my presentation project about English Rhythm and Word Stress. And I kinda understand most of it wml for my presentation tomorrow. I still hate it tho. #english #phonology

Sea that looks like wine

Homer's ONLY reference to colour blue (Od.1.183) made a lot of scholars think that Ancient Greeks were color blind. That's more possible than trying to figure out what did they pour into their wine and it looked like the sea. 🤣 #philosophy #history (edited)

I hate Phonology

Learning word stress pattern more like I'm the one who's stressed here #english #phonology

A linguistic Christmas Carol

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Criticizing everything...

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Hello Everyone in different languages

English: Hello everyone!, French: Salut tout le monde!, Spanish: Hola todos!, German: Hallo… read more

Systemic Functional Linguistics

I got into a headache reading about Halliday’s SFL model in their original textbooks (incl Thompson), then I read the summaried chapters in Cambridge Handbook of SFL and I FINALLY got it. Though I still figuring out how SFL’s gonna fit into my research 🧐

YOU 🫵

English is an impolite language, when you cannot distinguish singular from plural.

Black hole's Godfather

In the early 1960s, physicist Robert H. Dicke reportedly compared the phenomenon of a "gravitationally collapsed object" to the Black Hole of Calcutta, notorious as a prison where people entered but never left alive. In December 1967, a student reportedly suggested the phrase "black hole" at a… (edited) read more

Eth and Thorn

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