#linguise

[pillowenvelopchair]

Writing another linguistics related fic… what is wrong with me

[diablerieholic]

Pin/Pen Merger Poll Time!

[businesstiramisu]

Without looking anything up, I could say that we used to have a lot more “drink/drank/drunk” constructions and it came from German. And then I’d probably segue into a basic history of the English language, but the truth is I have no idea where the -ed verb ending came from. Norman French?

...okay, 10 minutes of research later, looks like -ed is ALSO of Germanic origin and has been present (or etymological antecedents have been present) since Old English. And I’m still not sure if verbs have been “switched” over to the newer regular inflection systems, or it’s mostly old verbs keeping their old conjugations and new words arising under the new system.  OHHH THIS IS THE GERMANIC STRONG VERB VS. WEAK VERB THING!! (and all three examples in the OP are have kept their inflection from Old English)

Although there has been (and continues to be) a general trend of strong verbs taking on weak forms:

However, over time, the weak verbs have become the normal form of verbs in all Germanic languages, with most strong verbs being reassigned to the weak class. For example, in Old English the verb to lock (lūcan) was strong (present tense ic lūce 'I lock', past tense ic lēac 'I locked'), but has now become weak. This transition is ongoing. For example, the English verb to cleave currently exists in both a conservative strong form (past tense I clove) and an innovative weak form (past tense I cleaved).

Of course in an actual conversation with an actual child all that research and explanation would take way too long, but now that I *have* done that research I could say give a short/amusing answer (”blame our germanic roots”) and elaborate more if they seem interested.

The Decatur Daily Review, Illinois, April 8, 1947

[ask-grubquius]

usually in latin (where the term lusus is likely sourced from) "-um" indicates the difference between words like parent (parent. same in eng.) and paternal (parentum), so likely the lusus equivalent would be be something like lusutum!

(~someone really normal about linguisics)

that was. really cool actually thank you

you get a fucked up scholarly grubquius for your answer

[sunscreenstudies]

Iconic Things My Coding Professors Have Said (Part 13)

"i myself graduated from this course in 2020 at the height of corona, so i have a lot of experience in, uh... crying"

Prof1: "How do you evaluate your methods?"   Speaker: "how do we... evalutae our methods?"   Prof2: "they're a company, dave, they don't evaluate shit"

"Is there a laser? Ah, yes, here it is! We need more lasers in this life"

"So, what we're going to do now, is write this plain english example down in maths, do some... magic, and get the answer"

Student: "I was trying to explain how we've reclaimed the word queer"   Prof: "are you trying to be a woke-ist?"

"the church was very cautious of a woman becoming such an influencial figure... not much has changed, huh?"

Prof1: "so, as you can clearly see from the marauders map that i bought specifically for this class-"  Prof2: "you LIAR"   Prof1: "I'm sorry, what?"   Prof2: "you great big fat liar! I know you bought that map for yourself years ago!"

"coming from linguisics i felt that didn't really fit in, but it really helped my self image to do this course and- oh boy this is turning into a ted talk, isn’t it?"

Prof: "You mentioned annotating some truly horrible hate speech. Can you say something about how you maintain your mental health while doing this?"   Speaker: "oh yes, i can say a LOT of things. Number one, funny cat videos"

"so what is the problem with this approach? it's too loco... local! it's too local! although loco isn't exactly wrong..."

Prof: "Do you think that AI will be able to generate movie’s based on requests in our lifetime?"   Student: "no"   Prof: "bet"

"As someone who had a degree in computational pyscholinguistics, which no one reading my resumé understood and a title which my in-laws still can't pronounce-”

"How are you guys doing? How are your projects coming along? Does everyone think they'll get it finished in time?” *silence* “... this excitement and enthusiasm is really blowing me away, guys"

"i asked a lawyer and they say not to do it but they're very... defensive... Literally. LOL!”

Prof1: "We'll only show the top three teams’ scores on the board and the others will get their results by email"   Prof2: "Because they were so bad... i'm kidding! i'm kidding! or am i?”

"we're going to be working on the marauder's map from harry potter, are you all familiar with- wow, okay, you're all looking incredibly digusted that i ever doubted your hp knowledge, so i'm gonna take that as a yes"

Prof1: "can anyone tell me what a pickle is?"   Prof2: "... a vegetable?"   Prof1: "i was clearly asking about it in the context of machine learning, dave"

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8

Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14

[sylwanin-was-right]

My journey for looking up Na'vi adpositions today (W= general wikipedia page, N= Na'vi wikibook):

Learn Na'vi App -> Eywa App -> Na'vi (W) -> Adpositions (N) -> Discourse particles (N) -> Affect (N) -> Register (N) -> Word order (N) -> Topic and Comment (N) -> Transivity (N) -> Morpheme glossary (N)-> Demonstratives (W) -> Pro-form (W) -> Linguisic anaphora (W) -> Endophora (W) -> Exophora (W) -> Linguistic cohesion (W) -> Linguistic coherence (W) -> Presupposition (W) -> Linguistic entailment (W) -> Logical consequence (W) -> Linguistic prescription (W) -> Neologism (W) -> Protologism (W) -> Style guide (W) -> Sign Language (W) -> Indo-Pakistani Sign Language (W) -> Natural language (W) -> Synthetic Language (W) -> Fusional language (W) -> Agglutination (W) - Morpheme glossary (N) -> END.

I learned more about language in 3 hours than any amount of time in school. Irayo ma Wikipedia 💀.

[1800theeyes]

#linguisics

I actually really like the thing when you're starting to get the hang of a new language, enough to understand and say simple sentences but you gotta get creative to get more complex thoughts across, like a puzzle. I remember a time in the restortation school when a classmate who wasn't natively finnish but did her best anyway dropped something and sighed, telling me "every day is monday this week. I have had four mondays this week." And I understood.

I don't think I speak much of spanish anymore, but in the nursing school training period I did there, I did manage to get by with making weird Tarzan sentences. I got a nosebleed at some point and startled another nurse. Not knowing the words for "nosebleed", "humidity", or "stress", I managed to string together: "This is ok. It is hot, it is cold, I have a bad day, I am sad, I have blood. This is normal for me." And she understood.

And sometimes you just say things weird, but it's better than not saying it. One time, I was stuck in a narrow hallway behind someone walking really slowly with a walker, and he apologised for being in the way. I was not in any hurry, but didn't know the spanish word for "hurry", but I did know enough words to try to circumvent it by borrowing the english "I have all the time in the world."

The man burst into one of those cackling old man laughters that they do when something in this world still manages to surprise them. He had to be somewhere between 70 and a 100 years old, and I guess if there was one thing he wasn't expecting to hear today, it would be a random blond vaguely baltic-looking fuck casually announce that he is the sole keeper and master of the very concept of time.

[aslfan]

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[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 59: Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Theory of Mind

Let's say I show you and our friend Gavagai a box of chocolates, and then Gav leaves the room, and I show you that the box actually contains coloured pencils. (Big letdown, sorry.) When Gav comes back in the room a minute later, and we've closed the box again, what are they going to think is in the box?

In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic about Theory of Mind -- our ability to keep track of what other people are thinking, even when it's different from what we know ourselves. We talk about the highly important role of gossip in the development of language, reframing how we introduce people to something they haven't heard of yet, and ways of synchronizing mental states across groups of people, from conferences to movie voiceovers.

Click here for a link to this episode in your podcast player of choice or read the transcript here

Announcements:

This month’s bonus episode is about some of the linguistically interesting fiction we've been reading lately! We talk about the challenges of communicating with sentient plants (from the plant's perspective) in Semiosis by Sue Burke, communicating with aliens by putting babies in pods (look, it was the 1980s) in Suzette Haden Elgin's classic Native Tongue, communicating with humans on a sailing ship using a sorta 19th century proto-internet in Courtney Milan's The Devil Comes Courting, and taking advantage of the difficulty of translation in communicating poetry across cultures in A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine.

Join us on Patreon to listen to this and 53 other bonus episodes. You’ll also get access to the Lingthusiasm Discord server where you can discuss your favourite linguistically interesting fiction with other language nerds!

Here are links mentioned in this episode:

Wikipedia entry for Theory of Mind

Wikipedia entry for the Sally-Anne Theory of Mind test

Various Theory of Mind tests you can do with children

Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs?

Theory of Mind in ravens

Theory of Mind in chimps

Wikipedia entry for Dunbar’s number

Evidentiality in Yolmo - Lingthusiasm Episode 32: You heard about it but I was there - Evidentiality

Definitions and Examples of Psychological Verbs

xkcd Lucky 10,000 comic

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Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production manager is Liz McCullough, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.

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[sleepyyghostt]

so what im seeing here is that etymologically, to morb on someone would mean to cause them disease. and morbius would mean “made of disease”, from the latin “morbus” translating to disease, illness, ailment etc. 

[dasstanzy]

I think that a lot of old slang came back really quick after the war. It's not too much of a stretch that kids would want to emulate the AVATAR. Aang, who has the trust and endorsement of basically everyone except that cabbage merchant. He'd be not only a celebrity, but something of a cultural enigma, being a child/teenager from a hundred years ago.

Plus kids are smart, they'd make the connection that the Gaang is the reason that their parents never have to worry about them getting drafted, or that everyone in their village sleeps a little easier, knowing a midnight raid is no longer a danger.

What I'm saying is that there are kids running around speaking like the equivalent of prohibition gangsters, because that's how the Avatar talks, so it must be cool, right? Their parents are baffled as to why suddenly all the kids are talking like their own parents, and the grandparents are enjoying the chaos. Maybe some of them are even relishing a little nostalgic glimpse back at themselves before the world went to hell, or before they were old enough to understand that the world was at war.

[conlangery]

George brings on Christophe and Joey to talk about their experience at the Eighth Language Creation Conference. We also have clips from interviews Joey made at the conference. Shownotes | Facebook | Twitter | Patreon

[learninglinguist]

source

[zhouszishu]

You have beautiful eyes.

[drjacquescoulardeau]

Târgoviște, Romania, The Limits of Science https://jacquescoulardeau.medium.com/t%C3%A2rgovi%C8%99te-romania-the-limits-of-science-a2df7cf424c3

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2021, IFIASA-MCDSARE

[international-super-cry]

Im going through the lingblr tag and literally all the posts I’m finding are posts that should not be tagged as lingblr but as langblr instead

Im just a nerdy linguistics hoe who just wants to read about phonology and morphemes n shit not find 8 german vocab lists all talking about the seasons and food please tag your vocab lists and language learning posts as langblr aka languages tumblr not as lingblr aka linguistics tumblr

Thank you