Map of China overlaid with "怦怦 (pēng pēng)[zho 1]".

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

VICE’s Slang Amnesty: The Silly Words You’re Too Old to Say Every time your age changes, there are words that become shameful to use overnight. Here’s a handy list for you to return to once a year.

VICE’s Slang Amnesty: The Silly Words You’re Too Old to Say

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#Entertainment #Culture #Life #Language #Words #Slang #Age #Aging #PopCulture

Map of Poland overlaid with "bzzz".

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

Sketch of two snowshoes with some of the parts labeled in Tanacross Dene.

Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska

Snowshoes are a technological marvel that allow northern Dene peoples to move across the land during the long winter. There is an ancient and intricate vocabulary associated with snowshoes.

aayh "snowshoes".
sh’ǎay’ "my snowshoes"
wu’ǎay’ "his/her snowshoes"

So, what gives you the ick? #beginnersirish #language #irishforbeginners #gaeilge #irish

Map of Niger overlaid with "miam".

The sound of "biting" in French!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Any putative truths beneath or beyond truth-talk, apart from analytic or tautological cases, are not directly available to us except through mediated encounter, interpretation, and language. I am going to make a concerted effort to quit using the word truth when I only mean truth-talk, the language translation of truth, to which we have no unmediated access. We don’t debate truth bare. We debate truth-talk, which is already dressed in rhetoric, grammar, power, and selective emphasis.

Any putative truths beneath or beyond truth-talk, apart from analytic or tautological cases, are not directly available to us except through mediated encounter, interpretation, and language.

I am going to make a concerted effort to quit using the word truth […]

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I am a fly: what are you?

#7SyllableSentence #EastCostKin

#WordGames #Puzzles #Words #Language

#Flies #Insects

Midjourney Pirates Thar be pirates. Midjourney 6.1 has better luck rendering pirates. I find it very difficult to maintain composition. 5 of these images are mid shots whilst one is an obvious closeup. For those not …

The Nano Banana API comments on blog posts? Is this a thing?
philosophics.blog/2024/11/01/m...
I noticed a comment from the API commenting on a Midjourney post from Nov 2024.

#ai #generativeai #nanobanana #blog #images #midjourney #progress #api #commenting #workflow #advert #language #philosophy

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO “ONLY SPEAK AMERICAN”?

Reducing language to nationalism doesn’t show strength. It shows a refusal to engage reality in a country that has never had just one language.

#CriticalThinking #Language #Truth #Culture #AntiIntellectualism

Map of Aruba overlaid with "plons".

The sound of "wet strike" in Dutch!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Hiberno-English word/phrase of the day:

Deadly

Commonly used in everyday Dublin slang, ‘Deadly’ is Irish slang for ‘Good/great’.

For example, ‘The internet would be deadly if it wasn’t for those feckin' ads!’.

#ireland #slang #language

Dear #NoKings and #language friends:

Do you have photos of #multilingual protest signs (at least partially in a language other than English) from any U.S.-based No Kings rally yesterday? I’m doing a small project and would be grateful for any examples 🙏🏻

#AcademicSky #LinguisticLandscape

English Verbs of Loving Expand your vocabulary and sound more natural with English verbs of loving, idiomatic expressions, and more.

She acts like that necklace is a priceless jewel, but it’s very cheap actually. #English vocabulary for what you love. #EAL #ESL #EFL #EnglishVocabulary. Visit #Language Garage to learn more. thelanguagegarage.com/english-verb...

Map of Aruba overlaid with "plons".

The sound of "wet strike" in Dutch!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Map of Cyprus overlaid with "ντουκ ντουκ (duk-duk)".

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

The Language of Medical Concepts in Spanish Julián Bohórquez and Ivory Day reflect on the importance of translating fundamental terms in philosophy of medicine into Spanish, as well as the value of importing Spanish terminology into the Angl…

"this contribution aims not only to demonstrate the advantages of #Spanish #language terms for articulating “what is #disease” for a Spanish..audience, but also to establish that it provides a valuable conceptual #vocabulary.": buff.ly/Xeel1Qn

via the_polyphony
#medicine #linguistics #medical

Map of Denmark overlaid with "møs".

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

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#Joke #humor #meme #comedy #memes #funny #shitposting #fuck #literature #language #vocabulary #thesaurus

Map of Poland overlaid with "plask".

The sound of "wet strike" in Polish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

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#KAYODE #AJULO
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When Words Divide but Wisdom Unites News about MSI Press authors; Excerpts from MSI Press authors' books; Carl's Cancer Compendium information; tips for authors

When #words divide, but #wisdom unites

a post inspired by the #awardwinning #book, An Afternoon's Dictation (#StevenGreenebaum)

msipressblog.blogspot.com/2026/03/when...

#interfaith #ecumenism #spirituality #religion #language

Map of India overlaid with "achhee".

The sound of "sneezing" in Hindi!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Ciorcal Cómhrás and Pleasantries #gaeilge #irish #drogheda #language #ireland

“He created man & taught him eloquence.”Quran 55:3–4

Just look at an infant;how he gathers scattered sounds & gradually turns them into meaningful words.

Who taught him this ability?!

He’s Allah,the Creator & He alone deserves worship.

#Quran #BookSky #readers #Language #Consciousness #Eloquence

"what is actually happening is that your brain starts parsing the sentence, and it makes a statistical prediction of what most likely comes next."
A bit like LLMs but more intelligently.
#Language #Parsing

For example, ‘Yer man is some eejit – he stuck a load of petrol into the car and sure hasn’t it got a diesel engine!’.

#ireland #slang #language

IRAN 🇮🇷
i truly loathe the new
#EpsteinCLASS
#EpsteinWAR 🪖 terminology
When we hear ‘Epstein’ we should be thinking only of the VICTIMS
i won’t cheapen that into more hashtags
OR let 🇺🇸TRUMPco™️off-the-hook (The war is about ‘way’ more than some dead ⚰️ guy) 🔚 #cdnPoli #NDP
#Language Matters

Map of Albania overlaid with "pum".

The sound of "dull strike" in Albanian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps