#linguist

[useless-catalanfacts]

Yesterday, the linguist and activist Carme Junyent died. It saddens me deeply to write this post, because she was someone who I really admire.

She was a linguist who led the Grup d'Estudis de Llengües Amenaçades (GELA, Research Group on Endangered Languages) in University of Barcelona and author of many books and articles about language diversity and the defense of minoritized and/or indigenous languages here and around the world, and a firm defensor of immigrants' language rights and cultural diversity. She was also very active in defense of the language rights of her own community, Catalan speakers, against linguistic imperialism from Spanish and French.

Even in her last moments, she wrote an article about the right to die speaking one's mother language (Catalan in our case) if you are in your own country, instead of the usual case of forcing the patients who are part of the local marginalized and/or indigenous language community (even those in the very last moment of their lives) to speak in the dominant state language (Spanish, in our case). She sent it to the newspaper Vilaweb, where she often collaborated, to be published right after her death:

She has died of cancer at 68 years old. In her last months, most doctors who treated her in Catalonia's public healthcare system did not speak or did not want to speak Catalan, only Spanish. But she took the decision to keep firm and not change her language, so she could die in her mother tongue.

#death cw #carme junyent #sociolinguistics #linguistics #lingblr #langblr #minority languages #indigenous languages #actualitat #minoritized languages #language #languages #linguist #endangered languages #language rights #language imperialism #imperialism #llengua catalana #catalan

[labratofthemonth]

my conlang kinda started off as a joke of “how long can i make words and how many consonants can i shove in there together,” and i’m doing really good so far because my word for “word” is “tanam’amdžle” and it comes from “tana`” meaning letter, “a’mdžle” meaning collection, and “m” meaning and, a word that also doubles as a way to connect two words into a compound word, making my word for “word” literally mean letter collection.

in case you’re wondering, in my conlang, “džl” makes the j sound. i just wanted to be evil for a second

#conlang #constructed language #language #linguistics #fake language #compound words #linguists #linguist

[yourdailyqueer]

Barbara Kannapell (deceased)

Gender: Female

Sexuality: Lesbian

DOB: 14 September 1937  

RIP: 11 August 2021

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Activist, sociolinguist, academic

Note 1: First to promote bilingualism as an educational philosophy for the education of deaf students and helped legitimize American Sign Language. First deaf person at Georgetown University to earn a PhD. in sociolinguistics. So much more.

Note 2: Was deaf

#Barbara Kannapell #lgbt history #Sign Language #lgbt #lesbianism #female #lesbian #1937 #rip #historical #white #activist #linguist #academic #first #deaf #disabled #popular #popular post

[tealingual]

Comeback & re-introduction

Hi! I disappeared around October last year, but I'm back now and thought I should re-introduce myself!

My name is Essi, I'm from Finland and I'm turning 29 (on March 6th). I'm a university student and I major in German language & culture and minor in communications and Japanese language & culture. My native language is Finnish and my target languages are English, Japanese, Swedish, German and Arabic. I'm also interested in linguistics, especially historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language revitalization and (second-)language acquisition. Nice to meet you!

#tealingual #polyglot #languages #langblr #languageblr #language blog #langspo #langtwt #tongueblr #studyblr #lingblr #linguist #linguistics

[londonlingo]

Brazilian texting slang

Here's a list of abbreviations that Brazilians use:

pro/pra -para o/para a -this meaning depends on the context but it can be 

Kkkkkkkkk -hahahahaha 

Fds -fim de semana -weekend OR -foda-se -fuck you/fuck this/screw this

Hj -hoje -today

tô /tá -estou/está -i am/he/she/it is

Vc/ce/cê -você -you

Cmg -comigo -with me

Gnt -gente -guys (used to refer to the whole group of people addressed)

Tbm -também -also/as well

Vdd -verdade -true 

Blz -beleza -sorted/great

Msg -mensagem -message

Pfv -por favor -please

Pq -porque -because

Mto -muito -a lot/very

Sdd -saudade -this means something similar to nostalgia or to miss someone/something

Bjs -beijos -kisses (get your mind out of the gutter!!)

KEY:

Slang -Portuguese word -Eng translation

The inspiration behind this post is a text my friend sent in a group chat: “Be ce ta na uni” meaning Bê, are you at uni (university)? I saw this and felt proud of how much Portuguese I’ve learnt because honestly it is a difficult language.

#tradução #traduções #portuguese language #lingua portuguesa #brazilian portuguese #brazil #portuguese #portugal #lingblr #langblr #linguistness #linguistic #linguistics #multilingual #linguist #language #language learning #learning languages #languages #translation

[linguisticdiscovery]

Yes, I’m a linguist. And before you ask, the answer is 5.

#English #Swahili #Spanish #Latin #Chitimacha #linguist #lingblr #langblr

[tower-of-hana]

Lesbian comes from the name of a Greek Island, Lesbos, known for high concentrations of girl-kissing. There was also a Roman poet named Lesbia who wrote love poems but I'm pretty sure she was straight and her name was also derived from the island.

#linguistics #linguistic #languages #lesbian #etymology #lingblr #linguist #language

[melody-han-wayne]

this was my graduation today. Where was my family? Why didn't they come? Why did they abandon me after promising me again and again that they would always be there for me?

#batsis oc #batsis rp #batsis oc rp #batfam oc #batfam rp #tw: depression #polyglot #linguist #multilingual #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #Kate kane #dick grayson #Jason todd #Damian wayne #Tim drake #cassandra cain #duke thomas #stephanie brown #Barbara gordon

[translatoronthebrink]

Emotional Intelligence in Translation

Hey everyone!

I am a student finishing my second year of Master's Degree, and I'm currently writing a thesis on the role of Emotional Intelligence in translation. It's a subject that has been brought up more and more in the field lately and I wanted to explore how beneficial it could be to add courses centered around the improvement of Emotional Intelligence in translation studies (especially since, with the rise of AI, emotional intelligence is one of the main aspects that adds value to our work).

I have created a survey for this thesis and am currently looking for translators who are still in the midst of their translation studies, or who have been in the translation market for less than 2 years. The survey takes five minutes, and I would be immensely grateful if some people here had time to take it!

Here is the link: https://forms.gle/H8tvBMD12MiMFeueA

Many, many, countless thanks to anyone who will take time to fill it out, and feel free to share it with anyone who fits the profile!

#translation #translator #lingblr #langblr #linguistics #linguist #language #bilingual #xl8 #languagelearning #translation studies #traduction #traducteur #student

[bwabbitv3s]

How Language Nerds Solve Crimes | Otherwords

The way you speak can be as unique as a fingerprint... and as useful for investigators in solving crimes! Otherwords is a PBS web series on Storied that digs deep into this quintessential human trait of language and finds the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted. Incorporating the fields of biology, history, cultural studies, literature, and more, linguistics has something for everyone and offers a unique perspective on what it means to be human.

#linguist #Youtube

[summer-gh0st]

Me, a linguist: contractions

Duolingo, far cooler than I will ever be:

#thoughts #summerghost thoughts #summerghost linguist #linguistics #germany #german #contractions #smooshed words is killing me this morning #Linguist

[floriphobic]

Can we un-dead-language-ify latin? Like can I learn Latin with my friends and then we make slang and now Latin is an alive language? Like technically? Just learn Latin and make slang & sayings and now there's new Latin sayings and slang and then bam! People are using Latin as a modern language it's not dead anymore!

Linguists let me know please

#latin #the language #not the peoples #dead language #undead language #linguists #linguist #linguistics #latin language #latin langblr #please help me #i need answers #i need to know #i am very sleep deprived rn #make latin an alive language

[yourdailyqueer]

Andries Coetzee

Gender: Male

Sexuality: Gay

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: White - South African

Occupation: Linguist, professor

#Andries Coetzee #lgbt #lgbtq #mlm #lgbt people #male #gay #white #south african #linguist #scientist #teacher

[stinkgh]

Languages are so weird because I'll see people who can speak like 5 languages fluently and they'll say shit like "My thoughts were in German but I spoke it in Spanish!" And my mono lingual ass cannot relate because I'm too busy struggling to remember the proper grammar in my head so I don't sound like a country ass bumpkin when I say it out loud, like is this verb conjugated properly? Is this sentence structured the right way? Is this past tense? Future tense? What is the direct object in this sentence? Is this a past participle? Like. How do you do that so effortlessly and flawlessly IN YOUR HEAD??? I still get excited whenever I recognize a word I know!! I can literally hear my brain go "OMG I KNOW THAT WORD! THAT WORD MEANS "PIE!" I KNOW WHAT THIS SAYS!" Do y'all still do that or do you just instinctively know what it means??? And if it's the latter, like... HOW DO YOU JUST INSTANTLY DO THESE THINGS???? I'm in awe of your abilities please teach me your secrets 😳

#language #languages #multilinguism #multilingual #bilinguist #linguism #linguist #foreign languages #learning languages #culture #latin #etymology

[londonlingo]

History of @

Did you know that...

"The @ symbol, which we call "at" and which integrates the electronic address of any person on the planet, has its origin in Latin.

It appeared in the Middle Ages, when monks who copied texts and documents created symbols to replace letters, words and proper nouns, making their work easier. For instance, to replace the Latin word et, they created another symbol, interlacing the two letters: the ampersand (&).

Using the same interlacing resource, they replaced the Latin preposition ad (in house of) with the symbol @. Often used in accounting, the @ moved to the typewriter keyboard. And in 1972, American programmer Ray Tomlinson took advantage of the symbol to create the first electronic mail system."

SOURCE: Museu da Língua Portuguesa (São Paulo, Brazil)

#language facts #lingblr #langblr #linguistness #linguistic #linguistics #multilingual #linguist #language #language learning #learning languages #languages #translation #museu da lingua portuguesa #musuem of portuguese language #tradução #traduções #portuguese language #lingua portuguesa #brazilian portuguese #brazil #portuguese #portugal

[linguisticdiscovery]

No one:

Me, a linguist:

Pike: What's he saying? La'an: The universal translator isn't processing it. Uhura, do something. Uhura: That's not how linguistics works!

#Star Trek #Strange New Worlds #linguist #linguistics #language #lingblr #langblr #story of my LIFE