Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish · 2 days agoWhy YouTubers (and AI) get these English features wrong [weak forms and deaccenting]plus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up11
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Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish · 2 days agoResearchers fear the British spoken 'r' is ready to roll away from the last bastion of rhoticityplus-squarephys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up11
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Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish · 2 days agoThe etymology of fencing was a tradeplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up11
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IndigoGollum@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days ago(Meta) Regular small questions threadplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up11
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Tony Bark@pawb.socialEnglish · 5 days agoTo the brain, Esperanto and Klingon appear the same as English or Mandarinplus-squarenews.mit.eduexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11
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Nemeski@lemm.ee · 17 days agoGenomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years agoplus-squarephys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11
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mapto@masto.bg · 22 days agoAs English as you can get in America... and probably around the worldplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up11
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koavf@lemmy.ml · 24 days agoThe surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use languageplus-squarewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up11
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fossilesque@mander.xyzMEnglish · 27 days agoThere’s a Word for That: Can language describe everything we feel—and should it?plus-squarewww.bostonreview.netexternal-linkmessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up11
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Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish · edit-230 days agoSocial media is changing the way you talk - Adam Aleksic's TEDx Talkplus-squarewww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up11
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fossilesque@mander.xyzMEnglish · 1 month agoAncient switch to soft food gave us an overbite—and the ability to pronounce ‘f’s and ‘v’splus-squarewww.science.orgexternal-linkmessage-square1fedilinkarrow-up11
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conlangliker862@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish · 2 months agoThe Syntax of Natural Language [book]plus-squarescholarship.claremont.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
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fossilesque@mander.xyzMEnglish · 2 months agoAncient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European Language Familyplus-squarehms.harvard.eduexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
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Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzM · edit-22 months ago[Meta] Requesting community feedback on potential rule changesplus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square6fedilinkarrow-up11
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Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzMEnglish · 2 months agoHumpback whale song shown to be structurally similar to human languageplus-squarephys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
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antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 months agobro wake up, seven new laryngeals have droppedplus-squarelemmy.dbzer0.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
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koavf@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoThe Foreign Language That Changed My Teenage Son’s Lifeplus-squarewww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
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koavf@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoStares and ear-twitches: The linguist learning to speak the expressive language of cowsplus-squarewww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
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Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzMEnglish · 2 months agoMissing link in Indo-European languages' history foundplus-squarephys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
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Binette@lemmy.ml · 2 months agoHow similar are expressions and memes?plus-squaremessage-squaremessage-square0fedilinkarrow-up11
arrow-up11message-squareHow similar are expressions and memes?plus-squareBinette@lemmy.ml · 2 months agomessage-square0fedilink