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Nick. 18.5 years. Pennsylvania.

Linguistics major nerdfighter.
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I'm involved with Not Where But When Productions, Deconstructed Construction, and Don't Sweat It.

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May 28th
17:42 ET
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khairete-ailourion:

casuallysteverogers:

randomly-zebras:

Have you ever really thought about now and know

Like the letter k changes the sound of o how does that even work wtf

Did someone say historical linguistics? No? Too bad!

Now is a descendant of the Old English word nū, while know comes froms the O.E. cnāwan. The former developed into now, nou, and nu in Middle English, and the latter became knowen. As a side note, there are frequently multiple spellings for Middle English words because the orthography wasn’t yet standardized to a West Midlands pronunciation yet.

Later still, there was this epic set of sound changes that would be retroactively named The Great Vowel Shift. So named because it was happening for about five centuries, from the 1400s to the 1900s.

The Great Vowel Shift is responsible for turning the /u:/ sound of now, nou, and nu into the /aʊ/ that we’re familiar with today. Through the centuries, the /ɔu/ of knowen changed into the /əʊ/ and /oʊ/ of British and American English, respectively.

Reblogging again because Alex just explained all of this in the most awesome of manners.

#linguistics      #i thought it wouldn't be cool to ruin the joke      #but this post becomes so much better because information and linguistics      #i apologize to the world for not sharing this information      #even if that enabled someone else to do it much better      #it was my duty to do so and i failed     
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wonkypop: IPA sampler: the finished piece! I need to find a delightfully tacky frame to mount it in…

wonkypop:

IPA sampler: the finished piece! I need to find a delightfully tacky frame to mount it in…

#linguistics      #embroidery      #i must make this      #or some sort of ipa embroidery      #i must     
May 25th
12:20 ET
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neriede:

MinutePhysics did a MinuteLinguistics.

#linguistics      #things i knew but in a nice format that i liked     
09:49 ET
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wonkypop: Work in progress: IPA sampler.

wonkypop:

Work in progress: IPA sampler.

#linguistics      #embroidery      #after my blorgon it is decided      #i must do ipa      #or else      #i just can't not when every time i see one of these i get all 'i wanna do thiiiiiiiiiiiis'     
May 24th
22:45 ET
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maxmovinghands: fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo: [Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [SOMEONE GETS ALL SMUG ABOUT TEXT SPEAK BEING BAD ENGLISH] ” Bottom text: “ [GUSH OVER THE SOCIO-LINGUISTIC IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGING MODES OF COMMUNICATION IN NEW MEDIA] ”] omg a fyema submission that doesn’t make me rage & i can actually relate to!!!

maxmovinghands:

fyeahenglishmajorarmadillo:

[Picture: Background — a six piece pie style colour split, alternating black and grey. Foreground — a picture of an armadillo. Top text: “ [SOMEONE GETS ALL SMUG ABOUT TEXT SPEAK BEING BAD ENGLISH] ” Bottom text: “ [GUSH OVER THE SOCIO-LINGUISTIC IMPLICATIONS OF CHANGING MODES OF COMMUNICATION IN NEW MEDIA] ”]

omg a fyema submission that doesn’t make me rage & i can actually relate to!!!

#linguistics      #submission     
22:35 ET
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eurosong: Linguistic Diversity at the ESC Here’s a graph showing the language family of each of the songs that managed to get through to the final. If it was a substantially mixed song, I gave half a point to each of the principal languages. Germanic, 16 full songs, 4 parts of songs. this year, is sadly all English ever since the glorious När jag blundar got eliminated in SF1. By far the biggest category.Slavic - 3 full songs. I love the Slavs for sticking by their languages - and we’ve got the delights of listening to Macedonian, Serbian and Bosnian in the finals. Romance - 1 full song, 3 parts of songs. We have Pastora Soler to thank for, shockingly, the only finalist with a song entirely in a Romance language. That’s sad, really! We hear some Spanish in Romania’s entry, some French in, surprise, France’s, and a little bit of Italian in the sublime L’Amore è Femmina. Uralic - 1 full song, 1 part of a song. Thanks to the pleasant Estonian entry, and parts of the Babushki’s song being in Udmurt, this is the best year for Uralic languages in the final in years. Albanian - 1 song. Yes, Albanian is on its own, with no one else in its language family branch. It has its own branch of Indo-European. And one frighteningly-voiced Albanian lady has ensured that it gets on this pie chart. Not a brilliant year for linguistic diversity in the finals, with only 23% of songs entirely in a non-English language, but better than the 12% of last year! 

eurosong:

Linguistic Diversity at the ESC


Here’s a graph showing the language family of each of the songs that managed to get through to the final. If it was a substantially mixed song, I gave half a point to each of the principal languages.

Germanic, 16 full songs, 4 parts of songs. this year, is sadly all English ever since the glorious När jag blundar got eliminated in SF1. By far the biggest category.

Slavic - 3 full songs. I love the Slavs for sticking by their languages - and we’ve got the delights of listening to Macedonian, Serbian and Bosnian in the finals.


Romance - 1 full song, 3 parts of songs. We have Pastora Soler to thank for, shockingly, the only finalist with a song entirely in a Romance language. That’s sad, really! We hear some Spanish in Romania’s entry, some French in, surprise, France’s, and a little bit of Italian in the sublime L’Amore è Femmina.


Uralic - 1 full song, 1 part of a song. Thanks to the pleasant Estonian entry, and parts of the Babushki’s song being in Udmurt, this is the best year for Uralic languages in the final in years.


Albanian - 1 song. Yes, Albanian is on its own, with no one else in its language family branch. It has its own branch of Indo-European. And one frighteningly-voiced Albanian lady has ensured that it gets on this pie chart.


Not a brilliant year for linguistic diversity in the finals, with only 23% of songs entirely in a non-English language, but better than the 12% of last year! 

#linguistics      #eurovision     
10:18 ET
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Linguistics ≠ Translation ≠ Interpretation ≠ Linguistics

ieithoedd:

  • Linguistics—the scientific study of language
  • Translation—the field of changing the language of a written text
  • Interpretation—the field of changing the language of spoken (or signed) word
#linguistics      #pay attention     
May 22nd
14:23 ET
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You know what’s cool?

liemaster-coyote:

That human beings can usually tell what language someone is speaking, even if we don’t know the language itself.

I think that’s pretty neat.

#linguistics      #this     
May 21st
00:02 ET
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lingcod: oh goodness, this. I felt I should share it with you all. From Adventures in Linguistics!

lingcod:

oh goodness, this. I felt I should share it with you all.

From Adventures in Linguistics!

#linguistics     
May 18th
22:08 ET
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lesserjoke: GPOY

lesserjoke:

GPOY

#linguistics