Linguistics

Why you call it RSS when you could simply have called it syndication? Why call it CEO when you could have called it top chief. You are making your language harder to understand for no good reason. Why call it TLDR when you can call it summary. Like what the fuck...

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The Tatoeba Translation Challenge: A new challenge set for machine translation covering over 500 languages and thousands of language pairs, by the University of Helsinki (CC-BY-SA 4.0) (github.com)

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Grammarly's predatory model and implicit racism (www.youtube.com)

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What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1 (youtu.be)

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what language is spoken in the balkans? (www.atlasobscura.com)

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If this author is full of it, please do let me know, but... This was a fascinating read.

Linguists in the age of nationalism had real influence in a way that's nearly unimaginable today, because the accompanying standardization handed people useful tools they had a reason to wield. It reminds me of the Korean alphabet. See also the creation of modern Hebrew. What are the conditions today that could use new tools? This wiki points to some grassroots innovation around the digital world and Cyrillic....

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What's the most interesting language to you? (lemmy.ml)

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