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The New York Times conducts its own version of the kiki vs. bouba experiment:
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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and Hugh the Ass (all citizens of 11th century Britain), this is the book for you.
Preorder a copy at the links:
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Bookshop: bookshop.org/a/110785/979...
—without losing sight of the fun. If you’ve ever wondered which meaning of “cardinal” came first (the direction, then the Church figure, then the bird) or lamented that we no longer give people names like John the Wifeless, Ralph the Haunted, ...
... dating to a time when constructing clothing was so labor-intensive that it was the most valuable thing in most people’s homes and thus likely to be stolen?
Olivia Swarthout tells a deeply-researched, authoritative story about the history of the English language—
... such as the black paper cutouts that were a cheaper alternative to traditional portraits? That the word “unfriend” actually dates to the 17th century? Or that “robe” and “robbed” share an etymological root, ...
Enter “The Wordspotter’s Guide”, a delightful tour through our etymological past. Did you know that the term silhouette comes from 18th century French finance minister Etienne de Silhouette, whose austerity measures caused his name to be associated with any low-quality work, ...
English is, by many measures, the largest language in the world—and doubtless the unruliest. Over the last millennium, we’ve borrowed, stolen, conquered, and invented our way to a massive lexicon (a million words by some counts), filled with numerous untold stories.
A new book on etymology comes out later this year! “The Wordspotter’s Guide: A jaunt through our etymological past”
Here’s the publisher’s blurb:
Two seals that look like they’re laughing hysterically, with the text, “And then he said he doesn’t have an accent!”
🦠Everybody has an accent.
📸 Marti Phillips
#accent #linguistics #language
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Can you tell whether someone is an extravert just by the words they use?
A meta-analysis of 37 studies identifies two linguistic markers of extraversion
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Style guide nerds will love this one
xkcd.com/1602/
#linguist #linguistics #xkcd
Do Inuit languages really have more words for snow? And what does that tell us about the relationship between culture and language? Find out in this issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter:
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eggcorn in the wild!
It definitely makes for some really fun fiction!
I appreciate you tagging in @miniminuteman.bsky.social on this. You're right, it's so up his alley haha
I just posted another issue about this!
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rude
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In linguistics, a *minimal pair* is a pair of words that differ by only one sound and have distinct meanings.
We can use minimal pairs to figure out the sounds of a language.
Here’s how baby talk works in the languages of the world, from the Linguistic Discovery newsletter:
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All cultures use baby talk, but that doesn’t mean that all baby talk is the same!
