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Ergative Absolutive @ergative@wandering.shop · 5d ago
Did you know about Pikiwedia? If you don't know about Pikiwedia, you need to learn about Pikewedia. I swear, I'm got to assign something about speech errors and spoonerisms from this. https://pikiwedia.netlify.app/Dog #linguistics
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SecondUniverse
SecondUniverse (she/her/they) @SecondUniverse@autistics.life · 6d ago
Are we doing pronouns wrong? Telling someone your preferred pronouns and having that respected can be validating, but it also gives away a little power. It's giving the gender Nazis an easy way to be mean. What about modifying the first person pronoun? As a nonbinary person I am quite happy "I" is not gendered, but if you want to assert your gender, maybe using "Im/Ir/Ix" (or whatever) might be more useful. Instead of a once-and-done pronoun intro, you use the first person pronoun almost every other sentence. You are not depending on other people to adopt language. Secondly, in addition to wildly gendering "I", why not normalize they/them for everyone. This takes away the linguistic platform for misgendering microagressions. For me, gender has always been unwelcome and problematic. My apologies if I have not captured the nuances of pronoun usage from other perspectives. It is certainly not my intention to cause offence or invalidate any identity. #trans #gender #nonbinary #linguistics
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TarkabarkaHolgy
Zalka Csenge Virág, PhD @TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social · Aug 04, 2026
In Hungarian, the equivalent of "woke up on the wrong side of the bed" (as in, having a grumpy day) is "Peed on nettles" 😄 #Hungary #linguistics
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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr@fediscience.org · Aug 03, 2026
New PhD position in my group on Digital Forensic Linguistics! 🧑‍💻 If you think that's you, please contact me and/or apply! #linguistics #joboffer #phdPosition #phd https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/870a96abc9c1d265d30d96c359a15f0d1c02b97c0
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abadidea @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange · Aug 03, 2026
a concrete example of why Classical Chinese is an unintelligble nightmare when spoken aloud by modern dictionary rules: 何 "why?" (one syllable) 何不 "why not?" (two syllables) 盍 a one-syllable contraction for casually saying "why not?" In ancient pronunciation, roughly: "ha, ha pu, hap." But Modern Mandarin has lost final -p in all words. Which leaves you with...? With Classical "何 why?" and "盍 why not?" being pronounced exactly the same: "hé" This is why modern native speakers hate Classical Chinese in literature class 😂 #classicalchinese #linguistics
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jcrabapple
jcrabapple @jcrabapple@dmv.community · Jul 31, 2026
📜 TIL the Korean alphabet Hangul is the only major writing system invented from scratch for its own language, and its letters are drawings of your mouth. King Sejong the Great finished it in 1443 so common people could read and write. The consonants literally trace the speech organs: ㄱ is the tongue root blocking the throat, ㅁ is lips pressed together, ㅅ is the teeth. The vowels encode sky, earth, and human: a dot, a horizontal line, and a vertical stroke. The scholar class hated it. For 400 years it was treated as a script for women, monks, and commoners, until it went mainstream in the late 1800s. Hangul Day is now a national holiday in South Korea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hangul #linguistics #history #korea
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thepurpleoctopus
ThePurpleOctopus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺🇹🇼 @thepurpleoctopus@lgbtqia.space · Jul 30, 2026
I studied linguistics and communication because I wanted to help people understand each other. 🌸 Now I live in a world that desperately needs translation, empathy, and honest communication... and so many people have simply decided they'd rather hate, mock, belittle, and attack. The fuck, really. Anyway. I'll keep translating. I'll keep communicating. Someone has to. 💜 #Communication #Linguistics #Empathy #Kindness #Solidarity
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multilinguo
Multilinguo @multilinguo@mastodon.social · Jul 28, 2026
OK started as a joke. March 23, 1839: the Boston Morning Post used "o.k." for a deliberately misspelled "oll korrect". 1830s slang comedy. Van Buren's 1840 campaign borrowed it (nickname: Old Kinderhook). Supporters formed "OK Clubs". It stuck. 1844 telegraph made it infrastructure. WWII took it to every continent. Even the languages that tried to keep it out (French, Icelandic) use it. #Etymology #Linguistics
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multilinguo
Multilinguo @multilinguo@mastodon.social · Jul 27, 2026
"Eventually" is a false friend. In English: ultimately, in the end. In French (éventuellement), German (eventuell), Spanish (eventualmente), Portuguese (eventualmente), Italian (eventualmente): possibly. All from Latin "eventualis" ("relating to an outcome"). English narrowed to "ultimate outcome". Every other major European language kept the original "possible" sense. Same Latin root. English took the outlier path. #Etymology #FalseFriend #linguistics
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aspensmonster
Preston Maness ☭ @aspensmonster@tenforward.social · Jul 25, 2026
Replying to @wikidata@wikis.world
@wikidata@wikis.world Cool tool! However, I find myself confused on the hyphenation tasks. I thought that hyphenation and syllabification were two different things. I thought that hyphenation was a typography concern and syllabification was related to phonology. But the hyphenation task references this hyphenation property: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5279 which defines hyphenation as "positions where a word can be hyphenated" and yet, in the "also known as" column, includes the term "syllabification". Which is it? For example, the word "Japanology". For hyphenation, I would leave "ology" as a phonological suffix, and the only hyphen would be between "Japan" and "ology". "Japan‧ology". I've always heard that hyphenation is more a matter of taste than a strict set of rules. But for syllabification, I would want the number of syllables to equal the number of vowel sounds (five). So syllabification would look something like "Ja‧pan‧ol‧o‧gy". Though frankly, it seems that there are a whole bunch of rules for syllabification that I either was never taught in school or have thoroughly forgot. Dropping some linguistics-related tags below to see if I can nerd-snipe anybody into providing more authoritative and/or helpful commentary. #english #grammar #syntax #morphology #phonology #linguistics
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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines @n_dimension@infosec.exchange · Jul 26, 2026
This looks less like a notation system and more like an attempt to build a #semantic operating system; a language where statements are stored, compared, transformed and reasoned about as geometric structures rather than strings of words. If such a system worked, logical equivalence would become a graph isomorphism problem, inference would be graph rewriting, contradiction would be incompatible topology, and translation between natural languages would involve rendering the same underlying semantic graph into different #linguistics forms. #Caret linguistic analysis primer
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NickEast_IndieWriter
Nick East (Indie Writer) @NickEast_IndieWriter@mastodon.art · Jul 24, 2026

Puntastic! I see your use now punctuation 😂

Puntastic! I see your use now punctuation 😂 @linguistics@fedigroups.social @humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @writingcommunity@fedigroups.social #LinguisticMemes #Meme #Linguistics #Punctuation #Puns #Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
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Scientific American @scientific_american@robot.villas · Jul 23, 2026
Humans may have spoken 10 times as many languages 2,000 years ago https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-may-have-spoken-10-times-as-many-languages-2-000-years-ago/ #Linguistics #History #Anthropology
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🧙🏽Muirén🦉 @muiren@sfba.social · Jul 20, 2026
WP 'Colonizing' Code-Switching #sunnmcheaux #BlackFedi #Language #Linguistics #Culture #CulturalTechnology #AmericanApartheid #WhiteSupremacy #Patriarchy #Christofascism #Ethnostate https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W6TXB4kyUOc
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michelleful
Dr. Michelle Fullwood @michelleful@scicomm.xyz · May 24, 2026
I've been making a linguistics puzzle game where you decipher a language (which happens to be German) using shared etymology, shared cultural knowledge and pattern matching. It's called German Is A̶w̶f̶u̶l̶ Easy and the first five levels are up! No German knowledge necessary, and feedback is very welcome. https://michellefullwood.com/languages/german/is-easy/ #etymology #linguistics #puzzles #LearnGerman
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Tatjana Scheffler @tschfflr@fediscience.org · Jul 17, 2026
Replying to on fediscience.org
These traditional emoticons created from standard punctuation characters, letters and numbers have been largely crowded out by colorful #emojis in the last 15 years. Emojis started being supported by Japanese mobile communication platforms (phones) in the 80s/90s, but became widespread world-wide only when they were introduced into the international Unicode standard in 2010 - and subsequently supported by all kinds of technology providers and software. So the 2010s is when "it all got out of control" @Kuchenschwarte@fnordon.de 😅 #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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