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#linguistics

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Katja Politt

Warum sagt die Ansage in Aufzügen manchmal "Türe öffnet" und manchmal "Tür öffnet"? Und ist "Das Mädchen lacht mit ihrer Mutter" oder "mit seiner Mutter" richtig? 🤔 Im neuen #DGfS macht Schule-Video erklärt Julia Hübner ihre Forschung und deren Schulbezug:
youtu.be/Drw-gxdZUyA

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#Linguistik#linguistics
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Lianna

Just to be clear, I am against so-called "AI" for several reasons.

- Generative 'art' #AI plagiarism and workers' rights issues.
- Redundancy and daily re-training of startups and corpos trying to one-up each other leading to extreme energy costs.
- Pretending an #LLM is an information retrieval system, hold knowledge, intelligence or anything else that it's decidedly not, leading to actual harm and misinformation through hallucinations.

But #LLMs do have valid use cases!

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Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈

I was just recalling a conversation in recent years. Not sure when. It involves something like an #eggcorn, but with several different acronyms as sources. Perhaps an eggcornym?

I was somewhere, maybe a mechanic, where I had to receive a receipt or other paperwork that was several pages. The guy behind the counter apologized for using a paperclip, saying, “My stapler is AOL.”

Apparently he was conflating AWOL (absent without leave) & SOL (shit outta luck) to produce AOL (America Online). I had the idea he was grasping for the right phrase, trying to come up with AWOL. The premise behind an eggcorn is that it makes sense of an utterance whose origins are not known to the speaker. Instead, he might have realized the error & corrected it if he listened to a recording or something. So this might be a little different thing.

Still funny.

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Longreads

"One of Wiltschko’s favorite examples is the Canadian eh?  'If I tell you you have a new dog, I’m usually not telling you stuff you don’t know, so it’s weird for me to tell you,' she says. But 'You have a new dog, eh?' eliminates the weirdness by flagging the statement as news to the speaker, not the listener." —Bob Holmes for @KnowableMag

knowablemagazine.org/content/a

Knowable Magazine | Annual ReviewsHuh? The valuable role of interjectionsUtterances like um, wow and mm-hmm aren’t garbage — they keep conversations flowing
#Language#Linguistics
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Alliterative/Endless Knot

Happy #EarthDay! To celebrate, here’s our video about the Food Web, and how it’s a better model for ecosystems than the food chain. We made it for our friend the @RvingNaturalist’s channel, and she has a lot more videos there about nature and ecology that you should check out! youtu.be/OxKvcA4NpaQ

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#Etymology#Video#WordNerd
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Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋

📖 **“Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” by Laura Spinney**

Peter Gordon

“_The “Proto” in the title Laura Spinney’s new book is a reference to “Proto-Indo-European” (PIE), the language from which modern tongues as diverse as Hindi, Greek, English, Russian and Armenian derive; this was perhaps deemed not quite fascinating enough, so the book was given a subtitle presumably more in tune with the contemporary zeitgeist._”

🔗 asianreviewofbooks.com/proto-h.

#BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Ancient #Languages #Linguistics @bookstodon @linguistics

asianreviewofbooks.com · “Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global” by Laura SpinneyFew subjects have progressed as rapidly in recent years as the study of prehistory and ancient history. The ability to decode the human genome has upended everything. In retrospect, archaeologists …
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Ergative Absolutive

A propos of a highly enthusiastic tumblr post I saw today, rejoicing in the appearance of a very large shark as a 'SHORK!', I'm struck by how diminutive ablaut in English seems to run counter to universalish tendencies of sound symbolism. [o] is not typically a diminutivizing vowel, yet:

borb
shork
smol

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Lianna

@NickEast_IndieWriter Yeah, misplacing the "fuckin"-inserts feels odd.

Absolu-fuckin'-tely.
Phi-fuckin'-ladelphia.

Same with all of the #GenZ -ussy constructs. In #linguistics, we call them pussy blends:

cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2018/Dow

You can say "bussy" blending "boy" and "pussy", but not *"boyussy".

You can say "Nonbinussy" blending "nonbinary" and "pussy", but not *"Nonbinarussy" (evidenced by users like @Nonbinussy existing, but none called @Nonbinarussy.)

This is genuinely my field of study.

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Hamartiogonic

How to cope with English spelling

sopuli.xyz/post/25636891

sopuli.xyzHow to cope with English spelling - SopuliCrossposted from https://sopuli.xyz/post/25634723 [https://sopuli.xyz/post/25634723] ----- I wonder how native English speakers do it, but here’s how I approach this problem. My trick involves using a consistent spelling system for encoding a random letter sequence into a sound which I can memorize. When writing, you just pull those auditory memories, decode the sounds back to the original alphabet salad, and you’re done! Needlessly complicated, but that’s a common theme in English anyway, so it should fit right in. To make this method work, you need a consistent spelling system, so you could make one up or modify one previously invented for another language. Basically anything more consistent than English should do, so it’s a pretty low bar to clear. Here are some example words to test this idea with: - carburetor - carburettor - carburetter Pronounce those letter sequences using that alternate spelling system. It won’t sound like English, but it’s consistent and that’s all we care about at this stage. The end of each word could sound like this: - [retor] - [retːor] - [reter] In my system, each letter corresponds to a specific sound like e=[e], a=[ɑ] etc. I’ve been thinking of including the Italian c=[tʃ], but you could use other languages too. Feel free to mix and match, as long as you make it consistent. The idea is that it’s easier to memorize sounds rather than whimsical letter sequences. Once you have those funny sounds in your head, it’s easy to use that same consistent spelling system to convert the sound back to letters. Once you know that trick, it suddenly becomes a lot easier to spell common words like “island”, “salmon”, “subtle”, or “wednesday. For example “cache” could be stored as [tʃatʃe] in my head. Still haven’t settled on a good way to store the letter c, so I’m open to suggestions.
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