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Linguistics for the language learner: #English #Korean #Spanish #Chinese #French #German #Japanese #Portuguese #Italian #한자 #Phonetics

[jen hay @jbhay]

I'm looking for linguistically interesting book recommendations for a 16 year old who's obsessed with conlangs and who likes fiction with rich world-building. Any leads??

[Amelia olsson @Ameliaolsson_]

What’s the best platform to create an open-access online resource on Indological linguistics?

Think Iranica, but less wider scope, dealing only with linguistics, not history or culture, at least not immediately, and obviously not funded.

We were thinking a Wiki format.

[Carpe Idiom @CarpeIdiom]

Left: "Starbucks Coffee" written in Dongba script.
Right: the Dongba script on a road sign (small script under the Chinese characters) (2/n)
#langtwt #minoritylanguages

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Join us as we learn #Ghanongga #Ganoqa https://t.co/uJAjmBNbPt

[Sameer | 8.5 hrs sleep enjoyer  @dxrsam_0]

How Hindi तिनका ｢tinkā｣ “(piece of) straw” and English ‘thorn’ are connected.

Or, the story of PIE *tr̥-nós.
(perhaps from the root of Greek στερεός "firm, solid", German starr "rigid")

Illustration inspired by the creations of @yvanspijk.

[Nonsensei @TylerPaulUtt1]

all i wanna know is, how are we spelling /ʒʊʒ/ ?

zhoozh?
zhuzh?
juge?

[·𐑒𐑱𐑛𐑧𐑯 @Cayden_Cline]

Thought I would send out a fact checking APB to my lang peeps as Wiktionary has failed me. Can anybody confirm that “city” translates into Igbo as “obodo mepere emepe”? I only ask cuz it seems kinda long and Yoruba a neighboring language has “ìlú” for “city” and yeah 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Youssef Tamer @laryngeus]

Spanish and Portuguese rápido, Italian rapido, French rapide (whence English rapid), etc. are actually all learnèd borrowings form the very famous Latin 'rapidus'. The inherited words are actually quite interesting and many don't know they exist :
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How we feel celebrating the end of another great language learning session! 🎉

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LanGo team mindmeld during our spring break week. 🫶 We’re working on creating lots of fun and useful language learning materials for our students this year, including two big book projects and two intrepid trip guides. We can’t wait to share them with you!

[Dr Danny Bate @DannyBate4]

'Soothe' means 'to calm, to relieve' in English today, but its meaning has changed a bit over time.

It once could mean 'to flatter, to agree', and originally 'to prove to be true'.

Its root is the Old English word sōþ, which means 'true' – also present still in 'soothsayer'.

[Stephen Hopkins @phil_lol_ogist]

This is why the next stage in English's evolution was called "the great fowl shift"

[Dr. Alexander Zapryagaev・萌覺博士・Miǒgacu @JPRidgeway]

Comparison of 里.

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@ingles_con_eio The vowels differ too:
“this” like KIT
“these” like FLEECE