/ɹeɪ/

Linguistics! ✨🌈🌤️

[Ola Wikander @OlaWikander]

Why did the Proto-Indo-Europeans avoid prepositions?

We asked them, and they declined.

[airco @airco_ki]

crunchyroll’s pivot to machine translation lauded by people with poor enough reading comprehension to think pandora was *inside* the box

[💖💫🐰🌸🐰💫💖 // WORKING ON COMMS @BUNKlNS]

She's actually the best thing ever

[Prehistorica (Christian M.) @Prehistorica_CM]

The Cabriéres Biota is an amazing new Ordovician-age lagerstätte, just discovered from the rocks of France, which I did art for.

One of the highlights is an eoconchariid lobopodian, a group known for their plated sclerites, previously thought extinct by the end of the Cambrian.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

If you’re having a bad day. Here’s a bat eating a banana.

[Gabriel N. U. @SerpenIllus]

Dimetrodon for Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

[Ben Sprung 🇺🇦 @bgsprung]

mind blown by a YouTube comment of all things

[Bo Sredni Vashtar @mondegreentea]

@matt_boot_ https://t.co/OUgkzSGhTI

[Oliver Darkshire 🌈 @deathbybadger]

inspired by real events please enjoy this one page RPG called "I do not want a mastodon" in which you are given a mastodon you do not want by well meaning people who do not understand that you do not want a mastodon

[Maarten Kossmann @ait_kisou]

Linguists: very specific lexicalisation suggests high cultural salience

French:
vermiller “to root (forage by digging) (by pigs, boars, some birds)
vermillonner “to root (by badgers)”

https://t.co/K3Wmf7znQ9

[/ɹeɪ/ @r17d2]

@Fordsmender yes, do it

[/ɹeɪ/ @r17d2]

@samopriya The person in question seems to be saying that sex based gender must always refer to biological sex when even in English it refers to actual or perceived gender identity, which seems almost paternalistic given this is a common feature cross linguistically. Idk, not an academic so

[/ɹeɪ/ @r17d2]

@samopriya Minor correction: Wikipedia implies that kare only became gendered at all recently, in the 1920s perhaps. Also, I'm not sure it's fair to assume that other cultures have/had binary-centric grammatical gender like English: "he" was only non-neutral because of society.

[EverydayPhonology @PhonologyDaily]

Sanzhi Dargwa really doesn't like vowels being in contact and goes to great lengths to avoid that. It uses 3 common processes to break vocalic clusters;
🔘Vowel deletion
🔘Glide insertion
🔘Glottal insertion

Here are explanations and a few examples ⬇️

[Homeopathic Warfare @jeeger]

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} for the win. Woe is you if you're trying to use CJK, that's what #XeTeX is for though.

[Amanda @amandahys7]

Took a pic of the cat lookin out the window and accidentally turned him into some sort of god.

[Zeke Fordsmender @Fordsmender]

In the Nhanda language (Pama-Nyungan, Blevins 2001:53) the word for ‘yesterday’ is derived from ‘cloud’.