🧐 #AMA on #emojis for #WorldEmojiDay ❗ #linguistics

Two widely used browsers both claim to protect your privacy, but they mean something different by it. One builds a stable profile to sell. The other tries to scatter it each session.
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2026.V7.N3.ID980
#linguistics #digitalrights

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A pastel lilac Instagram card from Cadernos de Linguística reading "Read in Cadernos de Linguística" at the top, followed by a highlighted headline "Privacy that still names you" and a paragraph explaining that a browser promising the greatest private browsing experience still addresses a "you," creating a contradiction where the word "individualizing" is bolded, ending with the observation that not even privacy escapes the logic of the individual, with the CadLin sunburst logo in the bottom left corner.

I had to stop myself from blurting out the answer to a Coptic decipherment challenge the professor gave us and give others a chance to check the chart

#linguistics

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xkcd "quartz of course" meme template: Writing systems are second nature to us Bronze Age nerds, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows one or two syllabaries and the Chinese radicals. And Greek, of course. Of course.

OUT NOW | 'Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages' edited by Victoria Fendel

The latest book in the Papers of the Philological Society series brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary cohort of scholars to shed new light on verbal multi-word expressions in corpus languages such as Greek, Latin, and Egyptian.

Read freely or buy online: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0478

#OpenAccess #Linguistics

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The hardback book on a colourful background alongside text that says: Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages, edited by Victoria Beatrix Fendel This volume brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary cohort of scholars to shed new light on verbal multi-word expressions in corpus languages such as Greek, Latin, and Egyptian. Addressing, in particular, corpora related to in-groups, which are often overlooked due to entrenched research traditions or limited accessibility, the volume makes these corpora newly visible and methodologically relevant. Drawing on expertise from linguistics, computer science, papyrology, and Egyptology, Verbal Multi-Word Expressions in Corpus Languages explores both the theoretical and practical dimensions of studying verbal multi-word expressions, including cutting-edge digital solutions. Grounded in original data, the research pushes beyond current boundaries, advancing typological understanding and methodological precision.

The sound of "laughter" in Thai!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

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Map of Thailand overlaid with "ฮ่า ๆ ๆ (hahaha)".

Recruitment call!

A student of mine is looking for #Italian native speakers, or Italian-English bilinguals, over the age of 18, to participate in an experiment. Entirely online, 30 minutes, boosts welcome!

#linguistics #psycholinguistics

Experiment link:
https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/0EE0511C-C95B-4A56-97C4-42D4B25E5E6B
Any questions? Contact 3115621P@student.gla.ac.uk

This morning I awoke thinking about sex – actually gender – of borrowed Latin words. Get your mind out of the gutter.

👉 https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/we-still-bury-the-dead

I wrote a piece about it, but I was truly conflicted on my journey, especially as I compared English and French approaches, and a potential feminist rift.

#philosophy #language #sociolinguistics #etymology #english #french #latin #gender #writing #culture #feminism #linguistics #reform #administration

A Necessary History of the Oddest Letter: W

Danny Bate on the Linguistic History of Our Alphabet

https://lithub.com/a-necessary-history-of-the-oddest-letter-w/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01KVZ90JA55X1GY58PKNE4348H&_kx=3MZUehzXM-41qlWAMPUiuNZadX2p0SByuNf_t0eMLB0.U5D8ER

Books about Linguistics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=linguistics+

#books #literature #linguistics

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Letter W San-serif shown in Neue Helvetica 48 pt.. Serifs shown in Bodoni 48 pt.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W#/media/File:Latin_alphabet_Ww.svg

What can we say about trust and guilt? Not as much as we might think.

https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/guilty-as-charged?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=masto&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #language #substack #blog #metaethics #ethics #epistemology #linguistics #law #legaltheory #guilt #semantics #truth #wittgenstein #speech

I offer some linguistic clarification on the misogyny implied in the image.

https://substack.com/profile/43480121-bry-willis/note/c-277455068?r=pvxh5&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=masto

Spoiler alert: there is none. Whether this is language-splaining or mansplaining is up to you.

NB: Evidently, LinkedIn already censored this image, but in a new context, we'll see what happens.

#philosophy #language #linguistics #pangolins #musk #misogyny #substack #response #note #censorship #speech #blog

#language #linguistics #neography #conlang #conscript #orthography #neography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8ZkWfor5qU

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

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Hexlish Alphabet logo. The word HEXLISH in rainbow colors on a black background with a hexagonal dot above the letter I. Beneat the logo in yellow reads the phrase, "English Text Compression & Encoding."

In the linked paper, Carl D. Franklin digs deep into the history of the tetragrammaton and debunks some of the myths commonly accepted as fact. The paper is part of a series and well worth the read for anyone interested in textual criticism or translation.

PDF: https://www.cbcg.org/franklin/debunking2.pdf

SYNOPSIS

"Is it true that the name Jehovah borrowed its vowels from Adonai?"

Spoiler: No, it is not true. It is a fabrication of a false history. The pronunciation, JEHOVAH was used centuries before Galatinus, so it is impossible for him to have invented it. Moreover, there is a lack of historical evidence that medieval scholars before Galatinus accepted any pronunciation other than JEHOVAH. They all appear to have unanimously supported this one widely known pronunciation of the tetragrammaton.

A lot of religious and textual myths have resulting in mass misconceptions about biblical textual history and meaning. Some of the myths misrepresent the tetragrammaton, or the name of God. This eventually led to the creation of the artificial name, Yahweh, which is not a Hebrew word, and is in fact a cleverly disguised classical Latin name for Jove. The author defrocks the Galatinus origin myth, proving the name JEHOVAH was in use long before Galatinus.

The sacred name mythos is popular in some Christian and Jewish sects as well as among the Hebrew Roots movement. This paper exposes some of the false history and baseless assertions about the pronunciation of the tetragrammaton. As it turns out, the early Masoretes and some early Catholics and the later Reformers had gotten it right - JEHOVAH is the correctly preserved pronunciation of the name of God. The name was never 'lost' and it has been known all through recorded history, if even only by a few.

#Bible #MasoreticText #Translation #Theology #History #Philology #Myths #SacredNames #NominaSacra #Judaism #Christianity #Hebrew #TiberianHebrew #Language #Linguistics

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