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[driftlessarearev]

Translation Tuesdays: Colonies of Paradise, by Matthias Goritz @nyjb

A series dedicated to literature in translation whether classic or contemporary. Ranging across the globe and excavating past and present, Colonies of Paradise by Matthias Göritz is a personal journey of self-discovery.

[l-mash3ar]

Moroccan DARIJA (An Arabic Dialect??)

[tanadrin]

Do you like Langfocus or NativLang better?

I'm not familiar with either of these things, sorry.

[slimethought]

Is this a video about Breadtube? Is it a reaction video to Philosophy Tube / Abigail Thorn and her video about coming out as trans? Is it a reaction video to myself? Is there such a thing as objectivity? Is there hope for joy in the wake of postmodernism? Can YouTubers really fill the role of educators? If not, can I still join in the party of making fun of conservative nonsense from Ben Shapiro and PragerU? Please?

Watch to find out! Then tell us because we have no idea.

The Leftist Cooks are Neil Farrell and Sarah Oeffler

I’m on PATREON! Join the community ►►   / theleftistcooks   SUBSCRIBE why not! ►► https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC358... One time payment in my tip jar? ►► https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/neilf...

↓↓↓Vegan Scones with Jam↓↓↓

500g (4 cups) of self raising flour 100g (1/2 cup) coconut oil 100g (1/2 cup) of sugar 200ml (7/8 cup) cashew milk Add 125gms (1 cup) dark chocolate

Bake for 15 - 20 minutes at 180°C (350°F)

Heat 250g (1 1/2 cups) frozen berries 100g sugar (1/2 cup) on a low setting on your hob

↓↓↓ CITATIONS↓↓↓

Rozenblit, L., & Keil, F. (2002). The misunderstood limits of folk science: An illusion of explanatory depth. Cognitive science, 26(5), 521-562.

Fernbach, P. M., Rogers, T., Fox, C. R., & Sloman, S. A. (2013). Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding. Psychological science, 24(6), 939-946.

Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of personality and social psychology, 77(6), 1121.

Drescher, J. (2015). Out of DSM: Depathologizing homosexuality. Behavioral sciences, 5(4), 565-575.

Lindholm, C. (1997). ‘The Swat Pukhtum family as a political training ground’, in R.J. Casstillo (ed.) The Meaning of Madness. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.

Heine, S. J., Kitayama, S., Lehman, D. R., Takata, T., Ide, E., Leung, C., & Matsumoto, H. (2001). Divergent consequences of success and failure in japan and north america: an investigation of self-improving motivations and malleable selves. Journal of personality and social psychology, 81(4), 599.

Park, S. W., Tignor, S. M., Joo, M. J., & Heo, Y. H. (2016). Accuracy and bias in self-perception of performance: Narcissism matters in Korea as well. Korean Social Science Journal, 43(2), 29-43.

↓↓↓ CREATIVE COMMONS RESOURCES↓↓↓

ESO/spaceengine.org/L.Calçada RoyaltyFreeTube

Link to Philosophy Tube / Abigail Thorne's little public statement:    • Coming Out As Trans - A Little Public...   (I'm aware that this isn't actually the coming out video but it was the one she gave express permission to play with and use for making art and spreading positive messages)

↓↓↓ LYRICS↓↓↓ (and highly recommend all of these YouTubers)

Tom Scott, Adam Neely, Lonerbox and Michael Stephens T1J, Folding Ideas, Nerdwriter, Kevin Lieber Legal Eagle, Lindsay Ellis, Jay Foreman, Rowan Ellis David Bennet Piano, Innuendo Studios Every Frame a Painting, Lessons from the Screenplay, Matt Gray, Patrick Willems, We’re in Hell, Khadija Mbowe PBS Eons, Veritasium, Hank Green Animalogic, Numberphile and… John Green It’s Okay to Be Smart, & Today I Found Out Langfocus, Tom Nicholas, Jake Roper (opted out) Thought Slime, Jessica Kellgren Fozzard, Jessie Gender and Cogito, Ordinary Things and Hbomber...man Big Joel, Little Joel, Medium-sized Joel Plenty of others -- (YaadPikni, Verilybitchie, Flavorlab, Paul Morrin, Renegade Cut, Zoe Bee...) but how was I supposed to know? Some of these people might be absolutely full of sh*t And it’s an English-speaking young white guy list Edutaintment isn’t bad Nobody’s a perfect Dad Some of them are really smart And some of them just make Art Some of them created a whole new art form Like Natalie Wynn and Abigail Thorn.

And check out our special guest Matthew Tallon here:   / tallonmatthew   He's the funniest person on the Internet.

Thanks to All My Patrons: Lacey Eberl Unoriginal Junglist Lou Grath Misfit Unicorn Melinda Hristo Kolev Finola Mohan

[skiddo-xy]

jesterdayplays771 under The Turkish Language (REBOOT) by Langfocus

[tsikli]

a little langfocus-style slide i made...

[aprillikesthings]

One of the things I really love about the LangFocus channel is that he includes recordings of native speakers!

His whole thing is nerdy videos about other languages, for an English-speaking audience. They are surprisingly interesting??? He’s just like “hey here’s some cool qualities about this language!”

He also did a fucking GREAT video about AAVE. The whole video is just like “it’s a dialect of English with a consistent grammar and vocabulary that shares qualities with multiple other languages, also some of it is frequently used in casual ‘standard’ English, stop saying it’s ‘Bad English’ because it’s NOT.” And yes he still had recordings of a native speaker.

Also his video on Polish convinced me I do not want to learn Polish lol oh my god

youtubers love to say “i hope i’m pronouncing that correctly” while recording themselves in a video that they upload to the internet, which they have access to

[nj-stone]

Langfocus - Can Chinese Speakers Read Japanese? https://youtu.be/ZWsLahVQj9s?si=EUA146LuecT-5nOP via @YouTube

[kriegsgeist]

I wish LangFocus would do a video on English, or at least an older version of English, like Old or Middle English. I think it'd be interesting.

[kemetic-dreams]

Yoruba (/ˈjɒrʊbə/; Yor. Èdè Yorùbá; Ajami: عِدعِ يوْرُبا) is a language spoken in West Africa, primarily in Southwestern and Central Nigeria. It is spoken by the ethnic Yoruba people. The number of Yoruba speakers is roughly 45 million, plus about 2 million second-language speakers. As a pluricentric language, it is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria and Benin with smaller migrated communities in Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone and The Gambia.

[deuterosapiens]

Salutations! Might I suggest looking into Mark Rosenfelder's Language Construction Kit? There's a print version; however, the website-version provides enough basic information that should easily Kickstart your language (his site also includes documentation of several of his own languages for your perusal).

David J Peterson's Art of Language Invention is another excellent book for the beginning constructor. His YouTube channel also delves into some topics in a slightly more in-depth manner. His is the work you'll usually run across in media if you think of constructed languages, with his contributions including Game of Thrones, Pixar's Elemental, and, my favorite, the recent Dune movies. The guy's awesome, and here, on Tumblr, as well.

On YouTube, there are countless references you might be interested in checking out. Biblaridion's Conlang Showcase videos are really informative, as are Artifaxian's. LangFocus and NativLang are also good channels for information on real-world languages.

Wikipedia can easily be your friend. Doing a little research into languages you are less familiar with can go a long way. You will quickly notice that certain things you take for granted about your own native language fall apart quickly under further investigation. Things you consider a staple of how languages work tend to not be anywhere near as universal as you initially thought.

So, aside from giving you an imperial tonne of homework, my actual advice for getting started: consider every decision you make to be a question. Ask yourself "how do my nouns work? Are they declined for case (basically, are they marked to indicate the nouns syntactic (or other) role in a sentence or clause? If so, how are they marked? If not, what does your language do to distinguish subject from object from indirect object from (&c), if anything at all? Do they have a gender or class distinction? Can they be singular and plural?" This, and that, and so forth.

You can quickly discover that asking yourself simply one question about an aspect of your language will usually yield answers that raise many more questions which you are under no obligation to know all of the answers to.

Regarding terminology, well, this is a simple thing. Disregard it. Don't worry too much about labeling things, especially since languages are full of so many oddities and quirks which easily causes one definition to not really apply to all languages equally. If you want to show-off your language, yes, obviously being somewhat familiar with the lingo and the "standards" (ha!) will make your work easier to understand for others. That said, you can pick up on that stuff later. Finding a good source of introductory information will go a long way.

LINGUISTICS TUMBLR I NEED HELP

And conlangers PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP ME

I'm making a fake language for me world, probably using the phonetic alphabet of Latin plus a few other sounds because I can't for the life of me find an online template I can use

So basically I need help with figuring out just about everything. I have some gods and some ideas for pronouns but that's about it

Apparently, languages are much more complicated than I would have anticipated. Who knew!

There are so many terms and so many steps that I have no idea even exist for I am a lowly highschool student with nothing better to do

[l-mash3ar]

Moroccan DARIJA (An Arabic Dialect??)

[multilingualmarissa]

[voidingintotheshout]

Short video about words in English of Yiddish origin. 

[geekyglot]

I have been loving the langfocus videos in general. Today YT suggest Japanese compared to Korean. Their word order and particle systems are identical! Yes, i am a nerd.

[arbenia]

Langfocus’s video about the Albanian language!