#linguist humour

[allthingslinguistic]

xkcd is making a vowel hypertrapezoid

#linguistics #xkcd #linguist humour #vowels #vowel trapezoid #ipa #international phonetic alphabet #linguistics comics #comics

[lingthusiasm]

Lingthusiasm Episode 91: Scoping out the scope of scope

When you order a kebab and they ask you if you want everything on it, you might say yes. But you'd probably still be surprised if it came with say, chocolate, let alone a bicycle...even though chocolate and bicycles are technically part of "everything". That's because words like "everything" and "all" really mean something more like "everything typical in this situation". Or in linguistic terms, we say that their scope is ambiguous without context.

In this episode, your hosts Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch get enthusiastic about how we can think about ambiguity of meaning in terms of scope. We talk about how humour often relies on scope ambiguity, such as a cake with "Happy Birthday in red text" written on it (quotation scope ambiguity) and the viral bench plaque "In Memory of Nicole Campbell, who never saw a dog and didn't smile" (negation scope ambiguity). We also talk about how linguists collect fun examples of ambiguity going about their everyday lives, how gesture and intonation allow us to disambiguate most of the time, and using several scopes in one sentence for double plus ambiguity fun.

Read the transcript here.

Announcements:

In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about the forms that our thoughts take inside our heads! We talk about an academic paper from 2008 called "The phenomena of inner experience", and how their results differ from the 2023 Lingthusiasm listener survey questions on your mental pictures and inner voices. We also talk about more unnerving methodologies, like temporarily paralyzing people and then scanning their brains to see if the inner voice sections still light up (they do!).

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Here are the links mentioned in the episode:

Wikipedia entry for Everything Bagel

'Shel Silverstein's hot dog and the domain of "everything"' post on Language Log

Wikipedia entry for 'Scop' (an oral poet)

'New publication: Reported evidentiality in Tibeto-Burman languages' post on Superlinguo

Wikipedia entry for Tom Swifty

'Bench in honour of Nicole Campbell, who never saw a dog and didn't smile' post on All Things Linguistic

WALS entry for Feature 144B: Position of negative words relative to beginning and end of clause and with respect to adjacency to verb

'A few notes on negative clauses, polarity items, and scope'

'I didn't ask you to kill him' Learning English post on sentence stress and meaning

'I didn't ask you to kill him' sentence stress example in action by @dheanasaur on TikTok (⚠︎warning, loud sound)

Non-manual Markers in ASL / NMM's

'The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect' by Simon Harrison

'Quantifier Scope Jokes' post on All Things Linguistic

'Caring for your baby since 1890' ambiguity post on All Things Linguistic

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Lauren is on Bluesky as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our production editor is Sarah Dopierala, our production assistant is Martha Tsutsui Billins, and our editorial assistant is Jon Kruk. Our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles. This episode of Lingthusiasm is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license (CC 4.0 BY-NC-SA).

#linguistics #language #lingthusiasm #episodes #podcast #podcasts #episode 91 #scope #ambiguity #scope ambiguity #linguist humour #SoundCloud

[drlinguo]

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German words … not mobile-friendly 🤷‍♂️

#linguistics #linguisthumor #lingblr #linguist humor #langblr #German #german vocabulary #german words #language meme #German meme #morphology #linguistics memes #linguist humour #linguistic meme #language

[anglocatholicboyo]

Welsh Cyrillic alphabet

Yeah I know - it's a hot mess, but I did it for a bit of fun, okay?

So anyway, I made an adaptation of the Cyrillic alphabet for writing Welsh:

A - А

B - Б

C - К

Ch - Х

D - Д

Dd - Дь

E - Е

F - В

Ff - Ф

G - Ґ

Ng - Нґ

H - Г

I - И

J - Ч

L - Л

Ll - Ль

M - М

N - Н

O - О

P - П

Ph - Пь

R - Р

Rh - Рь

S - С

T - Т

Th - З

U - Й

W - У

Y - Ы

Example sentences:

Os gwelwch yn dda - Ос ґуелух ын дьа

Sut roedd y tywydd yn Abertawe? - Сйт роедь ы тыуыдь ын Aбертауе

Bore da - Боре да

Costau byw: lle mae'n mynd i stopio? - Костай быу: лье мае'н мынд и стопио?

thanks for reading this through lmao sorry not sorry гуыл

#linguistics #linguist humor #welsh #welsh language #cyrillic #conlangs #learn alphabets #linguist humour

[nerdymemes]

#linguists are the real scientists #nerdy memes #memes #nerdy meme #nerd humour #nerdy #biology #chemistry #physics #maths #philosophy #linguistics

[leftoblique]

I got to channel Urianger FFXIV to roast someone

#linguistics #pronouns #english language #humour #early modern english

[hewsos-from-lesbos]

[v] ? Yeah, I wish someone would dentally frick my labia until I'm vocal.

#lesbian #linguistics #linguist humor #lesbian humour #lesbians #IPA #international phonetic alphabet #cunninlingus #or should I say cunninlinguistics? #Women! #[v]

[linguisticsnightmare]

What's this version for your language?

#langblr #bilingual #linguistics #language #multilingual #language learning #history #language memes #linguistics humour

[thelingodingo]

one of my niche favourite things about knowing more than 1 language is the HUMOUR!!!!!! like underneath a funny video in a different language you might see those comments that are like "this video is so much funnier if you understand spanish", "knowing german makes this so better", etc and I AGREEEEEEE

whenever i watch something in korean (whether its a tiktok, kdrama, kpop compilation, etc) the jokes, mannerisms, and humour of the people are just so much funnier when you actually understand the language like the subtitles TRULY DONT DO JUSTICE

im not exactly a 'kpop stan' but i do watch those variety shows of kpop groups such as run bts and going seventeen and i swear the sheer amount of laughter that isn't communicated through the english subtitles IS A CRIME

...and that's the reason why i wanna know every language that exists in this world

#korean language #korean linguistics #korean #linguistics #humor #humour #funny #variety show #kvariety #bts #seventeen #svt #run bts #going seventeen #jungkook #jimin #namjoon #rm #yoongi #suga #j hope bts #jhope #taehyung #jin #bts jin #kpop #scoups #joshua #mingyu #hoshi

[skribeworks]

Can you read what it says?

#Phonology #linguistics #Humour #funny

[secondwheel]

*time travels*

#ouija #latin #language #witchy #studying #study #language studying #linguists #lingusit #insidesjoke #memes #meme #comedy #humour #humor #funny #relatable #student memes #low

[allthingslinguistic]

December 2022: New Zealand and "Uzhe" in The Atlantic

My newsletter for December 2022: New Zealand and "Uzhe" in The Atlantic

This month, I wrote a piece for The Atlantic for the first time! It’s about when the connection between spelling and pronunciation breaks down. You walk into your favorite coffee shop. You greet the familiar barista, who knows your daily order. You say “Hi, I’ll have the”—wait, I can’t figure out how to write the next word. You know, “the usual,” but shorter. Hip! Casual! I’ll have the … uzhe. I…

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#conferences #internet linguistics #lingthusiasm #linguist humour #podcasts #talks #travel #tweets #twitter

[beautiful-basque-country]

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- How will we know they’re truly dead? + We have won the fight (correcting) *we, *we, *we ,*we

You may have heard that in Basque there’s this quite unique case called ergative. The ergative case identifies the agent (the intentful performer of an action) of a verb; this is, a transitive verb. In Euskara the ergative mark is -k.

So why this is funny. Since “to win” is a transitive verb the subject needs to wear the ergative mark. As you can see in the vignettes the soldier says gu instead of guk as a bait to be corrected.

#euskadi #euskal herria #basque country #pais vasco #pays basque #euskera #euskara #basque #languages #linguistics #ergative case #humour #vignette #culture

[drlinguo]

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#linguistics #linguisthumor #lingblr #linguist humor #linguist humour #linguistics memes #linguistic meme #linguistics meme

[a-suspicious-lack-of-bagel]

there's gotta be some cursed polish joke involving Ł being pronounced [w]. turning a L into a Ł or whatever? idk

#linguistics #linguistics humour #shit humour at that

[nerdymemes]

#hypercorrectors get what they deserve #grammar #pedantry meme #pedantry #linguistics meme #lingblr #langblr #nerdy memes #nerd humour #nerd meme