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Simon Roy Hughes 🧌🎶That ain't working That's the way you do it Bound to a tripalium till half-past three 🎶<a href="https://beige.party/tags/travailler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#travailler</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a>

mnl mnl mnl mnl mnlFellow multilingual people, how strongly do you:1) “think” in a certain language 2) use a different thinking language 3) feel that you have different thoughts based on the language you think in 4) how related is the language you speak to the way you think ?Also people who are in the field (cognitive neuroscience? Linguistics?), what’s some good current material on the topic?I know it’s a lot of weird questions that are probably impossible to answer.FWIW I can’t really pinpoint if I think in a certain language. I do think my personality changes a bit or rather, I feel like my personality changes (for example the cliche of the rude French person with a proclivity for sexualized language). Certain things are easier to express in a certain language and thus influence the recursive thinking-speaking/writing loop (ever tried to explain something technical in French, or do Deleuze style poetic rambling in English?), but it feels like an externality.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/neuroscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#neuroscience</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a>

Martin SchäferUnusual but nice: extensive and informative review of a book written in German over at <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/linguistList" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistList</a>, with, even nicer, the book being published by <a href="https://openbiblio.social/@langscipress" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@langscipress</a> : <a href="https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/2280/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/2280/</a> <a href="https://digitalcourage.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Dan QI've found only two heterophonic homonyms if non-English languages (and they're... arguable), and I'd be fascinated in hear if there are any others. I found:1. <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/French" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#French</a> couvent ("convent" or "to sit/brood on", although the latter is archaic) 2. <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/Portugese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Portugese</a> pelo ("hair" or "to peel", although my Portugese-speaking friend says she'd still spell the former "pêlo" despite the push to reform the language's <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/diacritics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#diacritics</a>)<a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Dan QFor the last day or so I've become somewhat obsessed with heterophonic homonyms: words that are spelled the same but have different meanings AND pronunciations!The <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> is full of them -1. Lead (/liːd/ | /lɛd/): can you lead me to the lead pipes? 2. Read (/ɹɛd/ | /ɹiːd/): I read a great book and I will read it again! 3. Tear (/tɛr/ | /tɪr/): she tears off some paper to wipe her tears away. 4. Wind (/waɪnd/ | /wɪnd/): don’t forget to wind your watch before you wind your horn. 5. Live (/laɪv/ | /lɪv/): I’d like to see that band live if only I could live near where they play. 6. Bass (/beɪs/ | /bæs/): I play my bass for the bass in the lake. 7. Bow (/baʊ/ | /boʊ/): take a bow before you notch an arrow into your bow. 8. Sow (/saʊ/ | /soʊ/): the pig and sow ate the seeds as fast as I could sow them. 9. Does (/dʌz/ | /doʊz/): does she know about the bucks and does in the forest?<a href="https://m.danq.me/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> 🔗 More: <a href="https://danq.me/heterophonic-homonyms" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://danq.me/heterophonic-homonyms</a>

Miss Gayle"This crowd had a certain way of dressing — usually over-the-top and fancy — and leaned into an Anglophile lifestyle that was often perceived by many as fake or trying-too-hard.Eventually, these men became known as "dudes," likely in reference to Yankee Doodle, who, as the old war song goes, was an unsophisticated American who "stuck a feather in his cap" in an attempt to parade as a kind of European "dandy" in high society."Dude!<a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Dude" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Dude</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Language</a>

Alliterative/Endless KnotThe surprisingly connected origins of "debate" and "battle". <a href="https://toot.community/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/wordnerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wordnerd</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HistoricalLinguistics</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/lingcomm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lingcomm</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/debate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#debate</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/battle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#battle</a><a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/zw6b3a2kQmA" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtube.com/shorts/zw6b3a2kQmA</a>

AnnaAnthro‘Dude’ - the history behind the word dude so complex and wild that professors of language wrote a book about it<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5482984/dude-big-lebowski-surfer-origin-etymology" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.npr.org/2025/07/30/nx-s1-5482984/dude-big-lebowski-surfer-origin-etymology</a>

Dallman RossGerman-English connections: "anecken" and "to egg on." These words don't mean exactly the same thing, but they are related. Etymologically, they seem closely related. English is a Germanic language. And phrasal verbs offer up interesting connections.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#German</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/English" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#English</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#etymology</a>

Agustin V. StartariNew article published: Syntax Without Subject What happens when AI writes rules but removes the speaker? This study tracks how LLMs erase the subject from legal, medical, and policy texts. We call this structural delegation. 🔗 <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/16571077" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/records/16571077</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedicalNLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MedicalNLP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LegalTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LegalTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MedTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIgovernance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NLP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aifutures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aifutures</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LawFedi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lawstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#finance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agustinvstartari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agustinvstartari</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LRM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClinicalAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClinicalAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a>

abadideaOld Frisian laws be like: If a man’s spine be splintered, such that he may never again bring himself to bath or bed, to wagon or wife, never again to roam on roads or glide on glittering ice: he is owed half the price of a slaughtered life.And if he’s oozing pus, three shillings. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Anselm "Two Sheds" SchülerA: I believe words’ meanings don’t fundamentally have anything to do with their pronunciation, it’s just arbitrary B: What makes you Saussure?<a href="https://ieji.de/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CETIs there a locale flag (POSIX or BCP47) to indicate how "educated" the expressions are (formulas vs formulae, choice of entirely differet words, etc.)But I assume, this would be hard to standardize<a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amProgramming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amProgramming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/amCoding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amCoding</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/computerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computerScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/webDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webDev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/webDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webDevelopment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/softwareDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwareDevelopment</a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/softwareEngineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#softwareEngineering</a>

That Word ChatMartha Barnette, co-host of the public radio show "A Way With Words," returns to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThatWordChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThatWordChat</a> on Aug. 5 to discuss her latest book, "Friends with Words."Join us at 4:30 p.m. EDT. Register: ThatWordChat.com<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Etymology</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BookParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookParty</a>

kamatahvel🇺🇦I love occasionally using methinks. It's one of those words you'd initially write off as not being an 'official' word (if that is a thing). TIL there's also methought!If I were Benevolent Dictator For Life of the Academy for Critical Anglolinguistic Bidding (ACAB, no relation), I'd decree that the <code>me + {verb}</code> format open for any legitimate verb in English (mesees -> mesaw, merun -> meran, meam -> mewas).So, I guess this is your semi-weekly reminder that it's a very good thing I'm not in charge of anything too important.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#humor</a>

Agustin V. StartariNew published article: Syntax Without Subject: Structural Delegation and the Disappearance of Political Agency in LLM-Governed Contexts <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/16571077" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://zenodo.org/records/16571077</a>This study introduces the concept of structural delegation to explain how large language models produce legally <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedicalNLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MedicalNLP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LegalTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LegalTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MedTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MedTech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIethics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIgovernance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AIgovernance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/healthcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#healthcare</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ArtificialIntelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArtificialIntelligence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NLP</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/aifutures" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#aifutures</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LawFedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LawFedi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lawstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lawstodon</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/finance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#finance</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/business" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#business</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/agustinvstartari" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#agustinvstartari</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#medical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LRM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClinicalAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ClinicalAI</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#politics</a>

Win :debian: :dateapp:สุขสันต์วันภาษาไทยแห่งชาติจ้า !Happy Thai / Tai-Languages day!อย่าลืม ! ภาษาไทยไม่ได้มีแค่ "ภาษาไทยกลาง" / ไท-สยาม" เท่านั้น ! เรายังมีภาษาในตระกูล Tai-Kradai อีก เช่น ภาษาปักษ์ใต้ ภาษาคำเมือง ภาษาอีสาน (ພາສາລາວ) และ ภาษาไทอื่น ๆ อีกมากมาย เรามาใช้โอกาสนี้ในการอนุรักษ์ความหลากหลายทางภาษาของสยามประเทศกันนะครับ !<a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/thai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thai</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/siamese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#siamese</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#languages</a> <a href="https://fedi.winscloud.net/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Karen Conlin<a href="https://beige.party/tags/Nautilus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nautilus</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/foolishness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#foolishness</a> One character in the "Nautilus" series speaks a conlang created specifically for him in the show. Supposedly it's meant to be a Creole formed from languages of nations colonized by the East India Mercantile Company (the British East India Company, historically).Why. Why? Such a language would take decades to develop under specific circumstances. Surely they could have chosen a lesser known language rather than invent one that is highly unlikely to have happened.I would love to be proven wrong, as i am an armchair dabbler at best in <a href="https://beige.party/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>. Talk to me. <a href="https://beige.party/tags/ConlangConstruction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ConlangConstruction</a>

LeanpubThe 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: <a href="https://leanpub.com/sh/I6dR1qGQ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://leanpub.com/sh/I6dR1qGQ</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ai</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gpt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gpt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NeuralNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NeuralNetworks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeepLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DeepLearning</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ComputerScience</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a>

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