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¿Cómo será el español dentro de 100 años?

Las predicciones tiene la mayor app de idiomas para el español del próximo siglo.

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https://linglink.de/425oxbg #Women in the history of #linguistics—from marginalization to recognition https://blog.oup.com/2023/03/women-in-the-history-of-linguistics-from-marginalization-to-recognition via linguisten.info https://linglink.de/3gQ3iaN March 13, 2023 at 02:54PM

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I have found my favorite german word.

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I guess this is purely circunstancial, but interesting nevertheless.

I don’t know how I didn’t figure this out but now that I have I don’t know what to do with this information

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No means no.

Source

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freeze : froze :: sneeze : snoze

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Sign Language Interpreter level: Eminem

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Curiosity is fueled by what you already know. Studies show you’re more likely to be curious of the things you know a little about than you are of something you either know nothing about, or think you know a lot about. Source Source 2

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Okay, I’m doing the giveaway, but I thought I might as well do this, too, so here’s a Dropbox folder of most if not all of my current linguistics textbooks / resources in pdf format. I’ll update it as often as I can, but I thought some of you might find it useful - most of them are pretty good for protolinguists or first year linguists or for anyone with a passing interest in linguistics, really. If you have any issues downloading them / if this doesn’t work, let me know.

The books contained within are as follows (alphabetically by surname):

English Grammar by Roger Berry.

First Language Acquisition by Eve Clark.

A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics by David Crystal.

Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality by Kira Hall and Anne Livia.

What Is Sociolinguistics? by Van Herk.

An Introduction to Sociolinguistics by Janet Holmes.

Vowels and Consonants: An Introduction to the Sounds of Language by Peter Ladefoged.

How Languages are Learned by Patsy Lightbown and Nina Spada.

Language and Identities by Carmen Llamas and Dominic Watt.

Introducing Sociolinguistics by Miriam Meyerhoff.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language by Michael Morris.

The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker.

English Phonetics and Phonology by Peter Roach.

The Study of Language by George Yule.

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“ The odd thing about musical genres is that the features that distinguish them from each other are not musical features alone. Beat, rhythm, meter, ‘color’, instruments: these alone don’t make a song rock, or country, or punk. The accent of the singer also helps to define the musical genre – and singers who don’t have a genre’s favored accent as their native accent will go out of the way, while singing, to change their sound.”

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Why and how twitter did change the characters limit, a perfect example of data science at work: data acquisition, data filtering and cleaning, modeling and validation, analysis, conclusions and inference.

Twitter engineering blog: Our Discovery of Cramming

Also interesting the design implementation:

Looking After Number One-forty

For my part, I like the update and think is a improvement, especially when you realize that it is not mandatory to use 240 characters (neither were 140), I think keeping Twitter’s brevity is still a good policy, as suggested in the announcement blogpost:

Tweeting Made Easier

“We – and many of you – were concerned that timelines may fill up with 280 character Tweets, and people with the new limit would always use up the whole space. But that didn’t happen. Only 5% of Tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only 2% were over 190 characters. As a result, your timeline reading experience should not substantially change, you’ll still see about the same amount of Tweets in your timeline.“

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México (casi 120 millones), Colombia (48,8 millones) y Argentina (43 millones) son los territorios de Latinoamérica con más personas que utilizan el español, que también es la segunda lengua más usada en Twitter y Facebook, según el Instituto Cervantes.

Entonces, ¿por qué predomina el inglés en la cultura colectiva de casi todo el planeta? Ana Valentina Fern��ndez Garay, doctora en Ciencias del Lenguaje por la Universidad René Descartes de París (Francia) y miembro del Instituto de Lingüística de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), considera que se trata de "una buena pregunta" que tiene una respuesta "sencilla".

Imagen ilustrativa / Armin Weigel / www.globallookpress.com

Esta especialista explica que una frase que circula en textos sociolingüísticos indica que "una lengua es un dialecto con un Ejército y una Marina", algo que "nos da la idea de que una lengua prestigiosa es aquella que se impone por la fuerza".