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kot - a regular cat

koshka - a regular female cat

kote (internet slang) - a cute chubby little guy, every single cute cat on the internet

kisa -  a pretty, flirtatious, graceful, cranky and haughty lady

kisunya - an extra pretty, flirtatious, graceful, cranky and haughty lady

kis’ - just a dork, controlled by aliens

kotik - a bit more disney version of a regulat cat

koten’ka - cuddly little fella, will purr and knead you to death 

kotofei - usually a big, old, extra fluffy cat, who knows a lot of bed time stories

kotyandra - fast, thin and slinky, we not sure if it’s even a cat 

koshak - a tough street guy, dogs fear him

kotyara - extra round, exrta big, kind ass fella. 

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New Greenlandic Grammar resource

If you are interested in Greenlandic grammar (or Inuit / Eskimo-Aleut grammar more broadly) then head down to oqa.dk and read “An Introduction to West Greenlandic” by Stian Lybech. It’s free to download!

Stian is an active participant at the Inuit-Yupik-Unangan Discord server, where there is occasional lively discussion on all things Eskimo-Aleut. He is a Dane who has spent a good amount of time in Greenland and who has become fluent in Greenlandic, and has taught other ex-pats the language in evening classes.

His new work is a work-in-progress, and the first available chapters focus on phonology and word-formation. It has a lively, slightly irreverent, but very readable style. 

Please note that it’s not a learners’ grammar as such, but is much more of an attempt to describe the underlying orderliness of the language in a limited number of rules (as done by Per Langgård in some of his grammars such as Forsøg til en forbedret grønlandsk pædagogisk Grammatica), rather than simply setting out in long tabular form the bewildering number of noun and verb endings that are possible in Greenlandic when applying eight noun cases, nine verbal moods, possessive forms and combined subject+object forms (textbooks such as Bjørnum’s Grønlandsk Grammatik set these out at length and show over 1500 separate forms, a daunting sight for a learner). 

Similarly, apparent irregularities in morpheme joining and plural formation can be shown to have a greater level of regularity once a few specific rules are learned.  A lot of these rules become clearer when looking at the historical forms of the words, as either appearing in the older Kleinschmidt orthography or when looking at the other (westward) dialects in the broader Inuit language continuum, which have generally undergone less sound assimilation at morpheme boundaries.

The “walri” (aarfit) would be delighted if you would take a look. 

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درخت با جنگل سخن می گوید علف با صحرا ستاره با کهکشان و من با تو سخن می گویم The tree speaks with the forest The wheat with the field The star with the galaxy And I, speak with you.

Shamlo (via honeyandelixir)

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Today in “semantic shifts do the darndest things”

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Linguistics joke lifted from reddit:

A generativist linguist is telling a non-generativist colleague about a new, cutting-edge paper (which of course hasn’t been published yet, but is being circulated informally only to people who deserve to see it)

The generativist explains the theory: “So in Language A, DP moves to TP before moving to MP, but in Language B, instead, DP moves to AP before moving to TP.”

The colleague asks: “So where does it move in English, then?”

The generativist answers: “Oh, in English nothing moves, of course!”

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So Sino-Tibetan has nearly 500 languages and I didn’t know this until…now? The fuck?

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Mazanderani

Linguistic Diversity Challenge — Regional Edition Post # 4 / 12: Central and West Asia

What is the language known as to linguists, and by the speakers themselves? Mazandarani, Mazanderani, زبان مازندرانی [fa], لغة طبرية [ar], مازرونی زیوون [mzn], Tapuri, Tabri, Tabari, Sari, endonyms:  طبری‎ (Tabari), مازرونی‎ (Mazuroni)

Where is the language spoken? Iran (Province of Mazandaran and parts of the provinces of Alborz, Tehran, Semnan and Golestan), South coast of the Caspian Sea

How many speakers does the language have? 2,340,000 (2016), decreasing. Some monolinguals in rural areas (Ethnologue)

What are some of the languages relatives and is it part of a contact area? Its neighbors are mostly but not exclusively other related Iranian languages, there has been contact with Caucasian and Turkic languages via the Caspian Sea open Mazanderani  expand all  collapse all Indo-European >> Indo-Iranian >> Indo-Aryan >> Iranian >> Central Iranian PBS >> Central Iranian PB >> Northwestern Iranian >> Caspian >> Mazanderani-Shahmirzadi >> Mazanderani

Is the language written? If it is, with what script? Persian script, at least since the 15th century

What is the language like grammatically? Mazanderani is an inflected and genderless language. It is SOV, but in some tenses it may be SVO, depending on dialects however.  The Gilaki and Mazandarani languages (but not other Iranian languages) share certain typological features with Caucasian languages (specifically South Caucasian languages), reflecting the history, ethnic identity, and close relatedness to the Caucasus region and Peoples of the Caucasus of the Mazandarani people. Like other modern Iranian languages there is no distinction between the dative and accusative cases, and the nominative in the sentence takes almost no indicators but with word order (depending on dialects it may end in a/o/e). Since Mazanderani lacks articles, there is no inflection for nouns in the sentence (no modifications for nouns). For definition, nouns are added with e at end (me dətere meaning The daughter of mine while me dəter means my daughter). The indefinite article for single nouns is a-tā with tā for determination of number (a-tā kijā meaning a girl). There are some remnants from old Mazanderani that female nouns in nominative were ending with a and male nouns in nominative were ending with e (as in jənā meaning the woman and mərdē meaning the man) grammatical gender still exists in other present-day close languages such as Semnani, Sangesari and Zazaki. [Wikipedia]

What is the language like phonologically? I’d say it sounds typical for a language of the region; I am bad at describing that. Listen: 

What made you choose the language? It is one of the many languages of Iran that Don Stilo had been working on when he was at MPI EVA in Leipzig while I was there, too. I don’t know, i just loved listening to this language and its neighbors. I don’t understand a word and it’s completely unprofessional, but I just love their sound. 

Resources:

https://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_mzn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazanderani_language

http://www.language-archives.org/language/mzn

https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mzn

https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/maza1291

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ah yes, my favourite foreign language feel, “I know what all of those words mean individually but not together like that”

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I’m upset because I want to change the world but the world is too big and people are too mean

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Armenian Alphabet Monument, Byurakan (2005)

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Expressing Yourself in Persian! 🗣 PS: 🙏 Learn Persian with the best FREE online resources, just click here: https://www.persianpod101.com/?src=social_special_infograph_expressing_yourself_081319

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College Tip #2: Check Your Room for Bedbugs

This will probably be a very short one, but it's important.

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This is something that no one thinks of, but it is very possible to have bedbugs in your dorm room. Bedbugs can survive for months without food, so they can survive over the summer.

BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, check the crevices in your mattress and your bed frame, and check corners in the room and dressers. If you see any brownish red and flat bugs, it is a bed bug, and you need to alert the RA's and/or the front desk. They can bug bomb the room, but they may be able to put you in another room if you want.

My first day sleeping in the dorms, I didn't think to check my mattress, and I woke up with 25-26 bites all up and down my legs and arms. Over the next few days, while I was sleeping on my roommate's floor, it itched more and more and two spots got severely inflamed, and I had to go to the doctor. I was diagnosed with cellulitis from me constantly scratching it. Cellulitis is a skin infection that, left untreated, can be *deadly*. I got my antibiotics and we were put into a different room for a few days while they bug bombed the room.

Moral of the story: better safe than sorry. Check everywhere, and don't blame any on the school. Chances are they don't even know about it. Someone can easily bring them from home and cause the room to become infested. And take it from me, it's not fun.

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Linguistics joke lifted from reddit:

A generativist linguist is telling a non-generativist colleague about a new, cutting-edge paper (which of course hasn’t been published yet, but is being circulated informally only to people who deserve to see it)

The generativist explains the theory: “So in Language A, DP moves to TP before moving to MP, but in Language B, instead, DP moves to AP before moving to TP.”

The colleague asks: “So where does it move in English, then?”

The generativist answers: “Oh, in English nothing moves, of course!”

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watching Tiananmen 2.0 play out 30 years on it’s interesting how globalisation and the internet has changed everything and changed nothing.

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Don’t go stand where there’s a crowd, Do not linger where there is a dispute. They will bring evil upon you in the dispute, Then you will be made their witness, They will bring you to bolster a case not your own. 

Ancient Sumerian wisdom literature on why you should avoid the Discourse at all costs.

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hi hello alert so that classic tumblr flowing jungle river post is now cited in a real book like an actual paper book and it’s called because internet and it’s all about the evolution of internet language and how TUMBLR DID THE THING and you can get it here