#(the linguist)

[linguistwho]

Phonetic Gallifreyan Weekend - Sentence 90:

"Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened" - Terry Pratchett, Moving Pictures

[victusinveritas]

[the-last-teabender]

A little something for Linguistics Tumblr.

So the Crunchyroll newsroom isn't a "room" so much as a Slack channel. We have news writers all over the US, in Australia, and in Japan. This means we have something akin to 'round-the-clock coverage, but it also means that our schedules respective to each other are skewed. For example, when the East Coast contingent is starting their day, the Japan contingent is shutting down for the evening.

Because of that, we started experimenting with greetings that could apply when Party A was coming in for the morning and Party B was leaving for the night. One person came up with "konbarning": a combination of "good morning" and "konban wa" ("good evening" in Japanese). It stuck.

Over the following months, "konbarning" got shortened to "barning" and other permutations. Now, a year or some later, this is how we announce our arrival:

[kwekstra]

Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:

• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.

• Baby Gronk was mentioned.

• We discussed the Rizzler.

• “Cunty” was nominated.

• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.

• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”

• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.

• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”

[max1461]

I'm gonna reblog with some videos of people speaking various American Indian/indigenous American languages, because I think most people don't even know what they sound like. Not to be judgement of that—just, you know, I think people who want to be informed should know what they sound like!

[freshwaterbear]

visit the wiki page for wave (audience) for more fun facts!

[yeehawpim]

when your grammar accidentally transfers

[unhonestlymirror]

[dndspellgifs]

look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,

If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.

Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.

What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.

Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.

Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.

[linguistwho]

Here's my take on "The sharpness of the tongue defeats the sharpness of the warrior"

With stylization to resemble how the original is engraved onto the new Sonic.

I also found it interesting how the original is read from the outside in, so I tried one with that technique.

I really like it, honestly, and I might have to try using it for other projects in the future.

[victusinveritas]

The sea is filled with jerks.

[littlemizzlinguistics]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"

[prokopetz]

The funny thing about Dr. Robotnik being called Dr. Robotnik in the English localisation is that "Robotnik" is a real surname, but the localisers apparently had no idea – they just took the English word "robot" and stuck a vaguely Russian-sounding suffix on it because it was the Cold War and "vaguely Russian" was shorthand for "evil" in American popular culture. Dudes tried to lazily come up with a name that evokes "evil robot guy" and accidentally made him Polish.

[thequeendomhq]

THE LINGUIST ~

NAME. UTP AGE & BIRTH DATE. UTP SPECIES. High Elvhen FACTION. UTP OCCUPATION. UTP

Student of Dalathor, attendant to Dirthamen’s Sanctum, it’s here that you grew at the knee of the scholars and sages. Relics of the past that had been broken from the Sundering litter the sanctum, hewn with dust, studied to death and then left as a fixture. The rupturing of the veil had destroyed so much, and for the elvhen so much of your histories were bound by the delicate threads that were left tattered and torn. If you could not find the answers within these walls, then perhaps you could find them elsewhere. There were two sides of the veil, so now you wandered amidst mortals, pouring over languages dead to everyone but you, listening to the scholars who spoke a tongue that you could converse with easily. These tools long thought broken might have uses still, shifted with modernity, retuned for better use, but you couldn’t do it alone, and you couldn’t do it without error. Taking things apart and putting them back together, if it wouldn’t work one way then you’d have to resolve to try another. Elvhen were long lived, but, child of Avalon, how many years have you been away from home?

CONNECTS

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NOTES

ABILITY: Omnilingualism: The ability to speak any language, written or spoken, after hearing it or seeing it once.

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