#Linguistics #student sharing bite-sized articles that I find interesting as a way to #learn. Run by @AChVoice #language #culture #sociolinguistics #education
Singapore
Joined August 2022
- Tweets535
- Following51
- Followers20
- Likes27
"The knowledge of #fishermen here encompasses not only the species they target..but the #marine #environment in general..all captured in intricate detail in #ScottishGaelic #words & phrases": theconversation.com/how-scot… via @_TCglobal
#LanguageDocumentation #linguist #Scotland
"“Nobody else has that #knowledge,” said 1 Uist #fisherman ..A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these #fishing grounds is also encoded within the #Gaelic #language.": theconversation.com/how-scot… via @_TCglobal
#linguistics #ScottishGaelic #MarineLife #fishing
"Most of [these #languages] have never dominated a country or filled a bookshelf. They live in fishing villages, mountain valleys, river deltas & city apartments where #grandparents speak one #language & #grandchildren answer in another": qz.com/dying-languages#15-la… via @qz #linguist
"When the last fluent speakers die, what vanishes is not just a set of #words. It is a #system for organizing #knowledge — about plants, weather, kinship, navigation & memory — built over centuries & encoded in #grammar itself.": qz.com/dying-languages#15-la… via @qz
#linguistics
"you know #English, #Latin, and #Greek grammar, for instance, you will have a clearer idea of what it would mean to learn #Sanskrit #grammar than if you had never studied any grammar": thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/p… via @mitpress
#knowledge #philosophy #linguistics #language #learning
“#GenZ’s pref for #lowercase #letters is a small, deliberate rejection of traditional norms, signalling a more casual tone..resembles a ‘stream of consciousness’ rather than a polished, edited message, enhancing..sense of #authenticity": creativebloq.com/design/font… via @CreativeBloq
""Our awareness of #accents begins almost as soon as we arrive on the planet. “By about a year old, #babies have already figured out the #sounds that are prevalent in the #languages around them,” Fridland says.": theguardian.com/science/2026… via @guardian #SpeechDevelopment
"“We learn to recognize other people as being like us through the way that they sound,” Fridland says. It happens early: studies suggest small #children, when choosing #friends, favor those who share their #accent.": theguardian.com/science/2026… via @guardian #accents #linguistics
“The patients’ hippocampal neurons encoded specific semantic & #grammatical features of spoken words. They were tuned to the detailed architecture of #speech. Some fired [sent signals] for #nouns; some..for #verbs..”: scientificamerican.com/artic… via @sciam #psycholinguistics
"The Klingon #Language Institute publishes a quarterly journal. Fans hold weddings in #Klingon. Someone translated Hamlet into Klingon. You can find it on #Duolingo now.": go2tutors.com/fictional-lang… via @Go2Tutors
#LanguageLearning #linguistics
"Whatever #process you use to #write your book, the encouragement I want to leave you with is this: Write your #book. Don’t let a process, or lack of process, stop you.": jennyliskllc.com/blog/index-…
#WritersLife #WritingTips
"[#Linguists] decide on word order, develop case systems, create verb conjugations & establish phonetic rules. The resulting #languages function like natural languages, just without centuries of evolution behind them.": go2tutors.com/fictional-lang… via @Go2Tutors #FictionalLanguages
"The goal goes beyond recording #sounds. Researchers want enough context for #ArtificialIntelligence to spot patterns that could resemble words, grammar, or even #syntax.": earth.com/news/whale-communi… via @EarthDotCom #Whales #communication
"In your #memoir, you are working with scenes and transitions. Each of these components relies on very different principles. If you use either component in the wrong way, your #book will not work.": janefriedman.com/why-your-me… by @JaneFriedman #WritingTips #WritingCommunity #writer
"Sources for the #dictionary will range from Julius Caesar’s account of his conquest of parts of northern Europe to ancient memorial stones. It will include #words from about 325BC up to AD500.": theguardian.com/science/2025… via @guardian
#linguistics #Celtic #language
3 Established Agents Actively Seeking Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, Kidlit, Memoirs, Fantasy & more: publishedtodeath.blogspot.co… via @EricaVerrillo
#publishing #NonFiction #PublishingAgents #WritingCommunity #writers
"1st, there is far more #diversity among the world’s #languages than previously believed. 2nd, differences are often related to the patterns of #culture & #environment in which languages are traditionally spoken": theconversation.com/impossib… via @_TCglobal #linguistics
"He's poured a metaphorical can of #Australian beer over the novel by converting #Tolstoy's prose into a lingo that wouldn't sound out of place in the popular #Aussie sitcom Kath & Kim.": bbc.com/news/articles/cx2lkj… via @BBCWorld #BooksToRead #WarAndPeace
"it’s time for #students to enter the drafting phase for their major #ResearchPaper tasks of the semester. Thus, let’s talk about #heading levels & how they work in #APA Style papers.": apastyle.apa.org/blog/6-teac… via @APA_Style #researcher
"same challenge goes for #accents..invalidates nonstandard accents & solidifies the #accent prestige scale — a sad outcome for what I think r beautiful, powerful markers of #identity that deserve to be preserved": dailycal.org/lifestyle/gramm… via @dailycal #linguistics #AI