If anyone's curious, it's a clip of Dave Grohl during an interview addressing Canadians that the band pronounces it nirv [ɑ] na, not nirv [æ] na. But when pressed on it he says "I don't give a shit what they call it"
The phonetics is good, the sociolinguistics is better tbh
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William Labov, ‘father of sociolinguistics’ who studied the Philadelphia accent, dies at 97 William Labov's work changed whose dialects linguists saw worthy of study and dove into the socioeconomic politics of language. He is considered the father of sociolinguistics.

A lovely obituary for Bill Labov in the Inquirer.

A manuscript page with a large red L initial.

Even though we associate language death with modern times, languages have been dying out in Late Antiquity too. Sometimes (well, most of the time) we learn about how it happened in quite unusual ways. A little thread 🧵 1/

Isidore, Etymologies, bk. IX.1 On languages
St. Gallen, Cod. Sang. 231

The ancestor of 'to forget' meant "to lose hold of".

It was the opposite of 'to get'.

Speaking of 'to get', this verb is special: it only has cognates in the Nordic languages, such as Norwegian 'å gjeta'.

It was even borrowed from their Old Norse ancestor 'geta'.

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And the seeming incredulity from each TSA agent that there could possibly exist any variation from the way they do it.

Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

I’d accept being mid if it meant that I was never stressed #linguistics

Their course selections are also pretty good: 500-700 lessons for the most in-demand languages (including Levantine Arabic, for which good materials are difficult to come by as it’s not the formal language), while there are decent starter courses of 50-70 lessons for many harder-to-find languages.

That said, I don’t believe I’ve yet come across their AI content and I’m a bit dismayed to hear they’re moving in that direction. (At the very least, AI language content should be labeled as such).

Personally, I’ve been quite happy with Mango Languages for a number of their courses. I find it takes the best of the Pimsleur method, broken into more digestible chunks and gamified. I certainly have criticisms/suggestions but it’s one of the better tools I’ve found.

First ever direct image of a multi planet system with a sun-like host star...

און צווייטע-לשון רעדערס פון אלע שפראכן זענען געווענלעך מער פארזיכטיג ביים אויפהיטן גראמאטיק ווי געבוירענע רעדערס; טאקע דאס זענען רוב רעדערס פון כּלל-ייִדיש 🤷‍♂️

כ׳בין מער אדער ווייניגער מסכם, כאטש אזא דיגלאָסיע איז גאר פאראן ביי רוב שפראכן: ס׳איז דא פשוט א חילוק פון וויפל איין רעגיסטער פארשיידט זיך פון אן אנדערער.

וואס מיינסטו דערמיט? ביי יידיש רעדערס (און שרייבערס) זענען דא גאר טאג-טעגלעכע אויסגאבעס און אנדערע סיבות וואס אין זיי קען מען שרייבן סיי צווישן חסידים סיי צווישן יידישיסטן. גוב נאר א זוך אויף טעלעגראם וויפל אידישע קאנאלן זענען דאך פֿאראן.

I’m a peripatetic language junkie (aspiro-glot), professional noodler (of musical sounds), appreciator of travel, history, culture and community.

Things I like:
- linguistics
- groove / pocket
- composition / arranging
- science
- 𝄢 𝄞

Whosits and whatsits at linktr.ee/jusgold