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gordontronamousReal question. Why is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dracula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dracula</a> sometimes protrayed as Yiddish, often for comic effect? IIRC, he'd be from modern day Turkey. Any <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a> want to weigh in?

DSN - Data Science NigeriaAre you a linguist fluent in any of these Nigerian languages: Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Edo, Efik, or Nigerian Pidgin?Do you have a passion for preserving African languages and ensuring they’re not left behind in the digital age?Are you skilled in phonetics, transcription, or language data annotation?If this sounds like you, we’d love to have you on board!Join us at <a href="https://techhub.social/@dsnai" class="u-url mention">@dsnai</a> as we work to preserve and promote African languages through cutting-edge AI-powered projects.Show your interest here: <a href="https://bit.ly/Callforlinguists" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://bit.ly/Callforlinguists</a><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Vacancy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Vacancy</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/datasciencenigeria" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#datasciencenigeria</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AfricanLanguages" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AfricanLanguages</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Linguists</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AIforAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AIforAfrica</a>

JenicaI'm looking for a transliteration tool for English words to Thai pronunciation, as Thai has a phonetic alphabet.I'm learning Thai and my MIL wants to learn English so I want to make flashcard/post it's that show the English word : LIGHT the Thai pronunciation of LIGHT: ________ The Thai word for LIGHT: แสงสว่าง The English phonetic of แสงสว่าง: S̄æng s̄ẁāngAny <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/polyglots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#polyglots</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/translators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#translators</a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/thai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thai</a> speakers that could help me out? Please boost until we find each other. Thanks!

Richard LittauerI have a paper on a case of Latin gender agreement in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ICZN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ICZN</a> in Article 30-34 that I am looking for eyes on before submitting. Any one interested in pre-review feedback?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Latinists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Latinists</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medievalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medievalists</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a> help too!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ornithology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ornithology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taxonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nomenclature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nomenclature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> Really any hashtag if you language, Latin, birds, and Linnaeus

𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/GeoffreyChaucer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GeoffreyChaucer</a> fans, <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/medievalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medievalists</a> , <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/EnglishLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnglishLanguage</a> and <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”<a href="https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1</a><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/WhanThatAprilleDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhanThatAprilleDay</a> 2025 anyone?<a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/medieval" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#medieval</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/classics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#classics</a>

Joshua Maynard :mapleleaf:Hey <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>: if I have a rule like below, what “category” of language is this? What is it? Pretend I know nothing, cause thats exactly the case 😂Rule: Single consonant is normal but double consonant means ʊ at the end.Example: “fun” = /fʌn/ “funn” = /fʌnʊ/ (think German “Sonne”)<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conlang</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldbuilding</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#help</a>

Stuff I foundThis is why you should always have a backup pair of pronouns <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/queer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/humour?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humour</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/jokes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jokes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/queerjokes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#queerjokes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lgbtqia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbtqia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/lgbti?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lgbti</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/transgender?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#transgender</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/nonbinary?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nonbinary</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/theythem?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#theythem</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pronouns?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pronouns</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/language?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/languagejokes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#languagejokes</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/linguists?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/linguistjokes?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistjokes</a>

💧🌏 Greg CocksIndo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur -- <a href="https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european</a> <-- shared technical article -- <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317</a> <-- shared paper -- <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GIS</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spatial</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mapping" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mapping</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#language</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/IndoEuropean" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#IndoEuropean</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spatialanalysis</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#spatiotemporal</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#linguists</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/historians" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#historians</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/archaeologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#archaeologists</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/phylogenetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#phylogenetic</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#tree</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/HumanGenomeProject" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#HumanGenomeProject</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#genetics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/cultures" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#cultures</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/migration" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#migration</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/paleogenomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#paleogenomics</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/genotypes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#genotypes</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/prehistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#prehistory</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ancient</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ancienthumans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ancienthumans</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/DNA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DNA</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/prehistoric" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#prehistoric</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/populations" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#populations</a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/genetictree" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#genetictree</a>

Unicode📢 Happening next Tuesday! Register today 👇Are you a translator or localizer looking for tips and strategies for overcoming right-to-left challenges when using existing translation tools?Then register for the upcoming free virtual Webinar! ✨<a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817347089794/WN_xFMxBi7GTq2tCOTY083ckA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817347089794/WN_xFMxBi7GTq2tCOTY083ckA</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Localization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Localization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Translators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Translators</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬MIT study explains why <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/laws" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laws</a> are written in an incomprehensible style Analysis revealed legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences -- known as "center-embedding." <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguists</a> have previously found that this <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/legalese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#legalese</a> structure can make text much more difficult to understand. "Legalese somehow has developed this tendency to put structures inside other structures, in a way which is not typical of human languages," <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819</a>

Siderea, Sibylla BostoniensisHey, <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>! I was just watching a video about a conlang that mentioned its nouns having two cases, goodness and badness. Are there any real languages that do that? I mean, have good/bad a part of the grammar as noun case? Or otherwise baked into its grammar?

Brian SlettenFor the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truecrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#truecrime</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foundontheinternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#foundontheinternet</a>

Katharine O'Moore-Klopf, ELSCalling all <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/editors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#editors</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>! Know anyone who'd be a good fit for this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#job</a>? Cambridge University Press & Assessment wants to hire a senior research manager. Candidates must be experienced researchers with a background in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#education</a>. <a href="https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/senior-research-manager-cambridge/5480/description/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/senior-research-manager-cambridge/5480/description/</a>

UnicodeThis virtual workshop will discuss: *common issues in handling right-to-left and left-to-right text *tips & strategies for overcoming challenges with existing translation tools and *how Bidi text functionality is implemented & supported across platforms 💻Register Now: <a href="https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817347089794/WN_xFMxBi7GTq2tCOTY083ckA" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9817347089794/WN_xFMxBi7GTq2tCOTY083ckA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguists</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Localization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Localization</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Translators" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Translators</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unicode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bidi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bidi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Unicode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unicode</a>

Henrik SchönemannCalling <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguists</a> dealing with spoken language: Do you have a favourite tool for transcribing an interview while keeping data like dialect, pauses, etc.?

The Data Therapist4yo: you want a sausage dog?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#english</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LangAcq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LangAcq</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overgeneration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overgeneration</a> ? (Help, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>, how do you call this thing here?) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/parenting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#parenting</a>

The Data Therapist<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a> (phonologists): Is it possible that the g in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#English</a> is its own syllable?Bilingual 4yo just chanted: Pe-pa Pig! En-guh-lish! <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Richard LittauerHello <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/birders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#birders</a>, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/taxonomists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taxonomists</a>. I've written a short paper on default gender agreement. I'm planning to submit it to Zootaxa - why not? - and would appreciate comments and thoughts. Anyone up for reading about the ICZN and gendering ungenderable words? <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ohgodthehashtagshaveeatenme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ohgodthehashtagshaveeatenme</a>

Florent MoncombleLooking for help on this one: fellow <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>, what's this phenomenon? How is it that one intuitively and unproblematically interprets the reference of the NP "the first women" as restricted to "the first women [to receive an Oxford degree]"?<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linguistics</a>.

_noelamac_<a href="https://montereybay.social/@chris" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@chris</a> <a href="https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ai6yr</a> Good point.Is anyone even keeping track of all the "unprecedented" events? Does the word still have any weight at all?Perhaps there's a need for a new word which describes an *unprecedented* event but which will most likely pass on its *unprecedented* title to the soon to come next *unprecedented* event. English is a rich language, perhaps it already has it.<a href="https://spore.social/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/english" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#english</a>

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