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Seeing people rush to install French language learning apps in response to Trump’s French-bashing makes my heart happy. Donald Trump a incité des personnes à apprendre le français et à améliorer leurs compétences linguistiques. Hourra !
Racing against time—the challenge of preserving languages before they vanish In this interview, linguist Natsuko Nakagawa discusses her work with the minority and endangered languages of Japan, including the Tohoku dialects in the north …
just dropping in to mention that the words for "boy/child" and "servant" are very often the same or etymologically connected in a wide range of indo-european languages (e.g., latin "puer" means child, boy, slave, and also implies sexual av…
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #303: Eschew Obfuscation! . . #eschewobfuscation #princeton #linguistics #language #science #what #wtf #nasa #ignobel #ignobelprize #ignobelaward #ignobelprizewinners #strangebuttrue #webcomic #comics #uselessfac…
Black(berry) nightshade (Solanum nigrum) #Cymraeg: codwarth du/caled; cysg(i)adur; gedawrach; gedorwrach; llysiau'r moch, melys a chwerw; mochlys duon/grawnddu. #Kernewek: moghles du #Liverpool #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday / bob dyd…
#accent in the press last week with a write up featuring @robdrummond.bsky.social and Amanda Cole. Generic Northern (supralocalisation?) and a brief history of accent variation in the corridors of power #linguistics. Incidentally Hansard i…
That moment when I teach Swedish online for German students and need to clarify that SV stund is not DE Stunde. SV lån is not DE Lohn. SV snabel is not DE Schnabel. SV igel is not DE Igel. SV ordinär is not DE ordinär. Want more exampl…
oh my god do you guys remember the fun we had with the Kagi translator when it came out a few months back (dunno its current state) but you could write *anything* in the “target language” field like “guy falling out of zeppelin” or “Sam Al…
Two years ago, we blogged about the "ambivalent relationship" that space opera often has with the reality of linguistic diversity. The Republic of Memory is one of the best examples of the opposite: a work that engages deeply with linguis…
To clarify, my country's constitution only recognizes Polish as an official language, but constitution is not all that is. We have given status to certain minority and regional languages through acts of law (to Greek recently), and we can …
Looking for articles (for undergrads) that provide an overview of all of the following topics: (a) kinship/address terms in linguistics (b) conversational structure (c) speech acts (d) multilingualism and code-switching/mixing (e) language…
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