Urbanists.Social

N-gated Hacker NewsIn an epic twist of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistic</a> hilarity, the National Weather Service decides that translating weather warnings is just too much work. 🌦️ Apparently, Mother Nature's wrath will now be strictly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/monolingual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#monolingual</a>, because weather doesn't discriminate—only the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NWS</a> does. 🌪️ <a href="https://apnews.com/article/weather-spanish-translation-noaa-nws-trump-71c727dbe2e4956247c9d9152494f1dc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://apnews.com/article/weather-spanish-translation-noaa-nws-trump-71c727dbe2e4956247c9d9152494f1dc</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/weatherwarnings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weatherwarnings</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humor</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MotherNature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MotherNature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ngated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ngated</a>

Tony 💉x8 🇦🇺"What Do These Two Dots Mean?"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cfurhipS2pM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cfurhipS2pM</a><a href="https://masto.ai/tags/interesting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interesting</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistic</a>

Coach Pāṇini ®Multiple IntelligencesDr. Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences seems really fascinating: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistic</a> intelligence (“word smart”) <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Logical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Logical</a>-mathematical intelligence (“number/reasoning smart”) <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Spatial</a> intelligence (“picture smart”) Bodily-Kinesthetic intelligence (“body smart”) <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Musical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musical</a> intelligence (“music smart”) Interpersonal intelligence (“people smart”) Intrapersonal intelligence (“self smart”) Naturalist intelligence (“nature smart”)<a href="http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/13/multiple-intelligences/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/03/13/multiple-intelligences/</a>

Kathy ReidWhile I'm a huge supporter of <a href="https://aus.social/tags/linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistic</a> diversity, I'm a little cold on Meta's Language Technology Partner Program. It aims to get language communities to supply speech training <a href="https://aus.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a>, for free, with the promise Meta will release trained models "open source". I have multiple issues with this approach: 1. It concentrates power in the hands of Meta - the data, when provided, is not being made openly available, which means that only Meta is able to benefit from the data. Promising to "open source" models does not respect data sovereignty.2. The term "open source" here is another case of open washing - while the models trained from the supplied data and released by Meta might be openly available, they cannot be easily reproduced - a core tenet of the *original* open source definition - before it was watered down by the OSI.3. The implications for cultural heritage are unknown. Language encodes knowledge, customs, history. If that language is preserved only by a for-profit company, what are the implications for language transmission.Will future generations have to pay to learn their ancestral language?4. What's the bigger picture goal here? We have companies trying to represent "the world" in models - written language, imagery, video, and now speech. The bigger piece here is enabling people all over the world to speak with each other ... as long as each interaction is mediated by Meta.<a href="https://about.fb.com/news/2025/02/announcing-language-technology-partner-program/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://about.fb.com/news/2025/02/announcing-language-technology-partner-program/</a>

Lucas HaasisRare Basque Letters found in the Prize Papers.On Monday, 17 February, we welcome Céline Mounole & Annabelle Lafuente (UPPA, France) for the Prize Papers Talks (1-2 pm CET). Project Presentation: BASQEGOBASQEGO aims to explore the history of the languages of the Basque Country (French, Castilian, Basque) through the study of ego-documents.Register: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-papers-talks-tickets-1067307006989" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-papers-talks-tickets-1067307006989</a><a href="https://historians.social/tags/earlymodern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#earlymodern</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/basque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#basque</a> <a href="https://historians.social/tags/linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistic</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/historikerinnen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@historikerinnen</a>

SiranaGerman language advice: Many long scary words are just several small words in a trench coat. It's like lego, you just have to know how to stack them. Also, many words are rather, well, descriptive:Handschuh -> hand shoe -> Glove It's kind of like a shoe, but for your hand.Fußgängerüberweg -> foot walker over path (sort of) -> pedestrian crossing The path where people walking on foot can cross the street.And that second one is often marked with a Zebrastreifen, a zebra stripe, because it's a bunch of white stripes placed on usually rather dark coloured streets, creating a pattern resembling a zebra.<a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/GermanLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GermanLanguage</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/German" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#German</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/LanguageLearning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LanguageLearning</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/SecondLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SecondLanguage</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistic</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a>

Mx Verdaunrleated but a friend asked how I pronounce the word "poem". MEMORY UNLOCKED. I was LIVID with a study workbook in Japan (so 6 to 10 y.o., which was 2nd or 3rd to 5th grade for me). Fucking thing dinged me for saying "fire" was TWO syllables. Because it IS! If "fire" was ONE syllable, it would be "Far", a different fuckign word. "Fai yer" or "fie err".also unrelated <a href="https://uktransshop.co.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://uktransshop.co.uk/</a> and <a href="https://www.consortium.lgbt/member-directory/gender-construction-kit/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.consortium.lgbt/member-directory/gender-construction-kit/</a><a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistic</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/word" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#word</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/words" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#words</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/dialect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dialect</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/accent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accent</a> <a href="https://lgbtqia.space/tags/sound" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sound</a>

Marcial Tenreiro-BermudezArchaeoethnologica: Gods & Languages in Ancient Anatolia - Book / Deuses e línguas na Anatólia Antiga - Livro+INFO in: <a href="https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/deuses-e-linguas-na-anatolia-antiga.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/deuses-e-linguas-na-anatolia-antiga.html</a><a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Anatolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anatolia</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistic</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/HistoryofReligions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoryofReligions</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/hittites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hittites</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Antiquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antiquity</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AncientHistory</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/Indoeuropeanstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indoeuropeanstudies</a> <a href="https://archaeo.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

Marcial Tenreiro-BermudezArchaeoethnologica: Gods & Languages in Ancient Anatolia - Book / Deuses e línguas na Anatólia Antiga - Livro+INFO in: <a href="https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/deuses-e-linguas-na-anatolia-antiga.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2025/01/deuses-e-linguas-na-anatolia-antiga.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Anatolia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Anatolia</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistic</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HistoryofReligions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoryofReligions</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Archaeology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hittites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hittites</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Antiquity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Antiquity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AncientHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Indoeuropeanstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Indoeuropeanstudies</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a>

Recent searches

Search options

Administered by:

Server stats:

#Linguistic