#syntax trees

[captainswan618]

ever since I started taking syntax I've been dreaming of making trees for the elijah wood wigs questions. today that dream has finally become reality

[annikathewitch]

You know that feeling when a short story you read in English Class gives you an idea for your own sci-fi story...

so obviously you have to write it...

so obviously you have to make a conlang for the aliens (I mean, how else are you gonna give them names?)...

so obviously you then have to make a font for their writing system and mess around with coding to get the software to do the conversion between pronunciation and romanization and your writing system correctly...

so obviously by this point you may as well translate what you've written of the sci-fi story thus far into the language...

so obviously you make a syntax tree for it...

... yeah. Same here.

[doa333]

hello tumblr linguistics i need some help

ive been trying to make syntax trees for more complicated sentences so ive been practicing with quotes and they make me want to cry. Any chance someone can point me in a direction to figure out how to deal with the “which” in the Tolkien quote “i love only that which they defend”? Thanks 😭

[strugglinguist]

Tortured my syntax students a little bit this morning 😂

[frenchiepal]

a couple of moments from the last days <3

[sentence-arborist]

Request: trans rights are human rights

[ID: Syntax tree for the sentence "trans rights are human rights".]

[waitineedaname]

for some reason the intro to phonology and syntax classes for grad students are also the advanced phonology and syntax classes for undergrads, which means the professors are spouting off dense syntactical theory to undergrads who have already taken the intro class with them, meanwhile there's six of us grad students sitting to the side staring at each other like this

[mintjeru]

do you think they have x bar theory in teyvat

open for better quality | no reposts

[bakuliwrites]

Entirely unrelated to anything, but I'm working on a conlang and have been for a number of years, now. As a linguist, I know that it would be good to do syntax trees for it but what if I just, like, didn't??? Because I hate them and they hurt my brain and I simply do not want to make syntax trees???

[lunachats]

<----- girl who once again failed to resist the urge to write a tiny lisp interpreter

[dkniade]

heartcanon for a media you like?

I admit I don’t remember I reblogged that so I read it as headcanon before thinking “what’s a heartcanon”

Definition of a heartcanon by @/prokopez: “I don’t have a particular rationale for why this ought to be the case, I just like to imagine it’s true because it gives me the warm fuzzies”

Or as I might explain it, “a belief about an aspect of a fictional story not of one’s own, typically about one or multiple characters in it, that one holds because they enjoy it, regardless of the amount of evidence or rationale that one would need to support their claim in an argument”

To my knowledge, in Genshin Impact, al-Haitham is a student of the Akademiya’s “Haravatat Darshan”, right…? According to the wiki, Haravatat specializes in semiotics (in real life it’s the study of signs and symbols and their interpretations, I believe) and includes both linguistics and ancient runes studies. Well, in real life, linguistics is the scientific study of language, and semiotics—which includes the study of ancient runes, I’d assume—is a sub-field of linguistics. So I wonder if it’s better to say, “Of the Six Darshans in the Sumeru Akademiya, Haravatat specializes in linguistics, specifically semiotics, and includes disciplines such as ancient runes studies.” Nope, never mind, semiotics is not a branch of linguistics since it includes non-linguistic signs too, which would make sense since Haravatat also does ancient runes. (I must’ve mixed up semiotics and semantics, the branch of linguistics and logic that studies meaning.)

With that being said—

Al-Haitham is jokingly referred to as a god of syntax by uhh Haravatat syntax students of the Sumeru Akademiya

based on the al-Haitham redesign by @/peonycats

[moleshow]

this is a post complaining about vague sentences. okay with that said, get a load of this string of words: “what tools do restorative practices and transformative justice provide, to support our exploration and direct engagement with antiracism?”

WHAT was communicated. and yes that comma is in there that’s not a typo. this is from a flyer for an event. so you would think they might not go the “almost completely abstract” route. and i’m sorry but i am so sick of this sentence. can we get a new one? i feel like i read a different iteration of the same sentence every week.

[coquelicoq]

i've always loved the oxford comma, but reading maupassant is making me appreciate the lack of it for the first time. it adds this really simple ambiguity that doesn't actually affect meaning in any way, just cadence. and i think perhaps this would only work in french and not english, because i'm thinking specifically of when he uses it in the construction "[nom] [adj], [adj] et [adj]". because adjectives come before the noun in english, you would either have to say "[adj] [noun], [adj] and [adj]" or put all the adjectives at the beginning; there isn't a single way to achieve both at once. but the french construction, without the serial comma, allows you to read it either way. again, it doesn't affect meaning - however you read it, all the adjectives are modifying the same noun. it's just a question of where you put the stress in the sentence.

[skaruresonic]

me whenever I realize some incredibly simple RenPy thing that should have been common sense from the onset but which took me a million years to finally get:

"I need the animation to pause a certain amount of time before playing out, but just putting 'pause' in the ATL isn't cutting it. what am I doing wro..."

>>realizes I could use time delay and that's what it's for

>>realizes I've been working with time delay the whole time and have template code to work with, and that I didn't need to Google how to write specialized pause syntax

[honestiyscreechingdeer]

We've been making a conlang for our system. Y'know, just for fun. Wanna see? Too bad here it is.

Behold! The last bit of the minecraft end poem, now with extra Plural Vibes.

Romanization below the cut.

H-etshi'an "etsza'rin senetse'el lene'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsze'i ze'ek senetse'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsya'rin ska'ets senetse'el seje'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsalas'ir tekza'rin tse'el senetse'el-k-tsez'el-n-senetse'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsalas'rin atala'ek-l-tse'el senetse'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsalas'rin erla'ek-l-tse'el senetse'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsalse'ir senetse'el-n-ak'el senetse'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsilza'ir senetse'el-n-ka'el senetse'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsalas'ran s-ska'el senetse'ek" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsalas'ran alse'ets-s-ele'ek senetse'ek" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsalas'rin etsze'ar-l-etsgatsa'ar-l-etsyi'ar tse'ek din-ne'ek senetse'el" din-ne'ek H-etshi'an "etsza'rin tse'ek senetse'el-y-etsza'rin senetse'el lene'el" din-ne'ek.

[cthulu-in-a-ballgown]