Hello from Peru! #HelloWorld #Peru #language #linguistics

The sound of "bee buzzing" in Swedish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Dutch proverb proclaims
that showers in March predict;
Summer will come soon

'Maartse buien, (March showers)
die beduien, (foretell)
dat de zomer aan komt kruien (Summer is coming)

#dailyhaikuprompt
#SpringRain
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#SmallPoems
#writing
#linguistics

@dailyhaikuprompt

The sound of "falling strike" in Croatian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

In their new article published in Cadernos de Linguística, Brayna Cardoso and Kethellen Lima report on the use of adapted RPGs as a pedagogical approach to assist children with language delays.

https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N3.ID741

The Hundred-Page Language Models Book by Andriy Burkov is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $50.00; get it for $20.00 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/sh/iJMtu0nu #Ai #Gpt #NeuralNetworks #DeepLearning #DataScience #ComputerScience #Linguistics

Hello from Italy! #HelloWorld #Italy #language #linguistics

#TIL that the word "transmogrify" has been around since the 1600s. And here I always thought Bill Watterson invented it just for #CalvinAndHobbes.

#transmogrification
#etymology
#EtymologyNerd
#EtymologyForever
#language
#linguistics

The sound of "heart beating" in Hungarian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

I bring you the most important paper ever contributed to the especially crackpot-prone field of Minoan studies. A paper that will defeat Reviewer 2 once and for all. A paper that I definitely didn't write based on ideas I had while direly ill with a flu.

academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/128559713/The_Utterly_Unhinged_Elamo_Minoan_Hypothesis_April_Fools_

clean direct pdf: https://0xabad1dea.github.io/bin/Utterly-Unhinged-Elamo-Minoan-Hypothesis.pdf

Why #Cantonese is Closer to Ancient Chinese than #Mandarin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTpLcTigixs nicely done (v Language Log) #linguistics

Hello from Uganda! #HelloWorld #Uganda #language #linguistics

If you don’t feel like pulling a prank for #AprilFoolsDay yourself, maybe you’d enjoy learning about some historical pranks and how they connect, surprisingly, to the Tom Collins cocktail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OylCDk2Fcog

The sound of "baby crying" in English!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Translating software apps. Interesting points by @rennerocha on a meaningful way to contribute to open source application projects, even if you are not a software developer.

And a niche area of #linguistics that may deserve more attention.

https://rennerocha.com/posts/things-i-learned-from-translating-free-software-projects/

#linguistics #language @languagelovers

Researchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticity

https://aussie.zone/post/19003403

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

Dieser Wortgigant ist nur einer einer ganzen Reihe von sogenannten *Komposita*, also zusammengesetzten Wörtern für die das Deutsche sowohl berühmt als auch berüchtigt ist. Der Duden veröffentlicht eine Hitlist der längsten Wörter, die tatsächlich verwendet werden, Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung gewinnt diesen Wettbewerb.
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#uniinnsbruck #uibk #philkultuibk #sprawiuibk #sprawi #linguistics

The sound of "kiss" in Chinese!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hello from Bouvet Island! #HelloWorld #BouvetIsland #language #linguistics

Wow! We hit 90 abstract submissions for our conference LILG2!

Huge thanks to everyone who submitted - we are now diving into the review process and cannot wait to see the amazing presentations that will come out of this. Stay tuned!