Ha! This is interesting. What it's basically saying is that Malay lost the word for earthquake (which is still extant in other Austronesian language cousins eg Indonesian languages for example, like Javanese) that we had to re-import it from Sanskrit because we have so few of it

In their new article published in Cadernos de Linguística, Brayna Cardoso and Kethellen Lima report on the use of adapted RPGs as a pedagogical approach to assist children with language delays.

https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N3.ID741

The Hundred-Page Language Models Book by Andriy Burkov is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $50.00; get it for $20.00 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/sh/iJMtu0nu #Ai #Gpt #NeuralNetworks #DeepLearning #DataScience #ComputerScience #Linguistics

#TIL that the word "transmogrify" has been around since the 1600s. And here I always thought Bill Watterson invented it just for #CalvinAndHobbes.

#transmogrification
#etymology
#EtymologyNerd
#EtymologyForever
#language
#linguistics

I bring you the most important paper ever contributed to the especially crackpot-prone field of Minoan studies. A paper that will defeat Reviewer 2 once and for all. A paper that I definitely didn't write based on ideas I had while direly ill with a flu.

academia.edu: https://www.academia.edu/128559713/The_Utterly_Unhinged_Elamo_Minoan_Hypothesis_April_Fools_

clean direct pdf: https://0xabad1dea.github.io/bin/Utterly-Unhinged-Elamo-Minoan-Hypothesis.pdf

Translating software apps. Interesting points by @rennerocha on a meaningful way to contribute to open source application projects, even if you are not a software developer.

And a niche area of #linguistics that may deserve more attention.

https://rennerocha.com/posts/things-i-learned-from-translating-free-software-projects/

#linguistics #language @languagelovers

Wow! We hit 90 abstract submissions for our conference LILG2!

Huge thanks to everyone who submitted - we are now diving into the review process and cannot wait to see the amazing presentations that will come out of this. Stay tuned!

"There is a poorer breeding ground in England and Norway for taboos and swearing connected with 'whore mother'."

- Drange et al. 2014: “Your mum!” Teenagers’ swearing by mother in English, Spanish and Norwegian (I may have laughed too much at that metaphor in this context...) #linguistics

Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer Yuri Knorozov, who died OTD in 1999, played a pivotal role in the decipherment of the Maya script used in Mesoamerica https://toilet-guru.com/blog/18.html?s=mb #Maya #linguistics

I entered the #ComputationalLinguistics field in 2018 by enrolling for a Bachelor's degree.

Since then, a lot has changed. Almost all the things we learned about, programmed in practice and did research on are now nearly irrelevant in our day-to-day.

Everything is #LLMs now. Every paper, every course, every student project.

And the newly enrolled students changed, too. They're no longer language nerds, they're #AI bros.

I miss #CompLing before ChatGPT.

A journalist who was interviewing me* asked how long I’ve been working on #emojis, and off the top of my head, I answered “over ten years”. Then I checked, and it has been exactly ten years and a month (or so) #linguistics #sciComm 1/2
* (article appeared Friday in SZ)

How ‘Abracadabra’ Became a Magical Word in the Medieval World

https://www.medievalists.net/2025/03/abracadabra-magical-medieval/

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

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

Lateral pointing signs in sign languages can function as pronouns, determiners, demonstratives, or adverbs—despite phonological similarity. Anderson Almeida da Silva proposes a morphosyntactic categorization based on data from Brazilian Sign Language.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2021.V2.N4.ID465
#linguistics

The sound of "coughing" in Finnish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

A LINGUIST’S LOVE LETTER to language is a stunning combination of scientific depth, personal candor, and beautiful prose that ties speech (and sign) to everything essential to being human. Truly extraordinary. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/linguaphile-julie-sedivy/1144629515?ean=9780374601836

@bookstodon

The Hundred-Page Language Models Book by Andriy Burkov is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $50.00; get it for $20.00 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/sh/Y2pFnLMs #Ai #Gpt #NeuralNetworks #DeepLearning #DataScience #ComputerScience #Linguistics