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πͺπΊ How many languages do you speak? Languages give us different ways to express ideas, feelings and experiences, while helping us connect with people and cultures across Europe. Today, we celebrate Europeβs linguistic diversity and its 2β¦
Hereβs some shitty etymology
Koji Fox's advice for aspiring localizers: "Even knowing these challenges: know and arm yourself with the right skills. Study creative writing, writing in general, including English so that you are proficient in the target language."
Genuinely how would AI even help with any of this like "linguistic diversity" brother AI will contribute in killing language diversity because it can't speak unpopular languages for shit and it already speaks so unnaturally in popular langβ¦
celebrating lesser-known regional languages throughout the month of lenga d'Γ²c-tober
The same word (*wurΓ°iz in Proto-Germanic, distantly related to German βwerdenβ) becomes: 1) a goddess responsible for fate in Old Norse (UrΓ°r), 2) the vaguely personal notion of fate or luck in Old English (wyrd), 3) a word for describing β¦
βChina is not doing imperialismβ βMom why are a lot of Chinese language learning apps all in Mandarinβ
#Repost @sunnmcheaux ββ Chris Rock Ain't "Ghetto" Famous - C**nin' VS. Kowtowing #weoutchea #education #ghetto #fame #linguistics sunnmcheaux.com weoutcheamerch.com
Pleased to report that I made an Oregon Trail reference in class today (sociolinguistics, we're talking about the Westward expansion of English in the 19th-20th centuries) and they all got it! Apparently they're still playing that game in β¦
This is where psycholinguists get their novel shapes to learn how people learn new labels. #psycholinguistics #linguistics
Iβve been on the road home today (not there yet!) and had to make a short detour to Sequoyahβs Birthplace Museum. What a treasure! Picked up a few books of course. αααα― α€αα α’ α€αͺα α ααααͺα
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