#linguistics

@hackernews A Genealogy of Freudenthal's Lincos #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews Euphemisation of Taboo Areas [pdf] #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews Tocharian Online #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews The Indo-European Family Tree #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@scientific_american Birdsong follows a fundamental law of human language #Science #Linguistics #Ornithology

@nyt_opinion Our Modern Way of Speaking Comes With Extra Dressing #Language #Linguistics #Opinion

@hackernews Study uncovers lost 'golden age' of languages #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@scientific_american Humans may have spoken 10 times as many languages 2,000 years ago #Linguistics #History #Anthropology

@kottke On the Britishisms & grammar imported into American... #Language #Culture #Linguistics

@hackernews The Second Life of Sanskrit #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@guardian_world 'Happy vowel' is a key indicator of social class in Manchester accents, study finds #Sociology #Linguistics #Culture

@hackernews The curious case of the disappearing Polish S #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews Deciphering Basmala #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews Amateur may have cracked Linear A, a 120-year-old puzzle #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@aartaka Armenian Shorthand System from 1888! #Tech #History #Linguistics

@hackernews Omniglot: The Online Encyclopedia of Writing Systems and Languages #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews A Written Language for the Cherokee So Efficient It Was Thought to Be Magic #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@hackernews Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@nyt_homepage Not Every Language Has Spelling Bees. Here's Why English Is Perfect for Them. #Language #SpellingBee #Linguistics

@aartaka Reverse-engineering Prose From Internet Lingo #Tech #Programming #Linguistics

@ars_technica Men use "vocal fry" more than women, counter to stereotype #Science #Linguistics #Sociology

@npr_culture Do you say 'wash' or 'warsh?' Here's where the pronunciation comes from #Linguistics #Language #Culture

@npr_news Do you say 'wash' or 'warsh?' Here's where the pronunciation comes from #Linguistics #Language #Culture

@npr_national Do you say 'wash' or 'warsh?' Here's where the pronunciation comes from #Linguistics #Language #Culture

@lobsters Inverse Sapir-Whorf and programming languages #Programming #Linguistics #SoftwareDev

@nyt_opinion What's Better Left Unsaid #Language #Linguistics #Opinion

@hackernews North American English Dialects #HackerNews #Tech #Linguistics

@aartaka Kaktovik Numerals #Tech #Linguistics #History

@works_in_progress The triumph of logical English #Language #Linguistics #Logic

@npr_ted_radio_hour How the creator economy is making you talk like the internet #CreatorEconomy #InternetCulture #Linguistics

@public_domain_review Charles Davy's Conjectural Observations on the Origin and Progress of Alphabetic Writing (1772) #History #Writing #Linguistics

@hillel_wayne How old is the name 'Daniel'? #History #Linguistics #Etymology

@kottke The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It #Language #Linguistics #Grammar