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Amber Wutich
AWutich
Thanks to everyone who turned out for the NYAS panel on COVID-19 & Anthropology. We had more than 1000 people register. It was wonderful to hear from @tonyataylor27 @Thurka149 @juemos
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chaniechanchann
Baekhyun uses the Oxford comma Oxford comma is a comma used after the penultimate item in a list of 3 or more items. It's stylistic and users are often those
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हर्षितः ஹர்ஷித
hmishrahm
Thread on attack on Dharma and culture - Where does Sanskrit stand?There have always been attempts to separate Hindu Dharma from Sanskrit. Similar attemptis Tamil Nadu has been successful. We
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Ariel Cohen-Goldberg
arielmc_g
By now you've probably seen the vitriol against "irregardless" being considered a "real word". I wanted to discuss the actual science (linguistics) behind words like this because quite frankly, it's
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adem
boshluff
my last thread now in On pic1 we see 3 Akkadian and 3words (from book on pic4, page 96).The word I will examine is KÖMÜR, meaning coalNisanyan drew attention to
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Michael Hobbes
RottenInDenmark
The New York Times ran a full-page ad denouncing the decision. Researchers later discovered that editors had given away the space *for free.* Meanwhile, when linguists put together an open
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Gretchen McCulloch
GretchenAMcC
As a linguist, waving is a brilliant solution to bridge the sudden disappearance at the end of a video call: esp in a group, when you can see everyone's waving,
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Ben Cartlidge
benjcartlidge
Grammatical gender, a thread. This has been going on a while, so I thought it worth articulating what I think and why. I respond to some of the earlier discussions,
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Joe McVeigh
EvilJoeMcVeigh
I want to add some linguistic resources to this. Linguists have been doing the work to explain what's going on here. I'll focus on vocal fry here, but get into
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Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš
samopriya
Linguists (and language enthusiasts in general), how did you get interested in your specific language(s) (or family) of expertise, especially if it's a language that's not your own first language?As
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William Redding
dlockholmes_
I can’t stress enough how irritated I get when I learn a friend has allowed me to call them a name that is not THEIR name because “it’s easier for
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Shyam Bharadwaj
Herran_Ukkonen
English word Rice descends etymologically from Greek ὄρυζα(Óruza)- alternatively ὄρυζον(Óruzon)Greek ὄρυζα descends from Old Persian Vrinji/Brinji- Witzel considers this be from an Indus Valley Language,whilst Southworth suggests an origin from
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📜milica📜
h2eusos
Slavic microlanguages Aegean Macedonian (македонски език от Егей), South Slavic, GreeceAegean Macedonian is a variety of the Macedonian language spoken by Slavic Macedonians of Greece. For a long time these
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Amit Schandillia
Schandillia
[QUICK THREAD: XERXES, RIKSH, AND THE BIG DIPPER]1/10This brilliant thread by Crystal speaks of the word for dog in a tongue that went extinct more than 3,800 years ago. Do
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JPB Gerald
JPBGerald
The ninja turtles theme song is both amazing and full of clunky lines."He's a RADICAL RAT.""That's a fact, JACK."This is also true of the Carmen Sandiego theme, which SLAPS, but
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Alex Rawlings
alex__rawlings
I'm in Greece at the moment working on a short documentary about the Tsakonikan language revival movement. Here's a brief thread to explain what it's all about and some things
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