Spanish speakers in Philadelphia break traditional rules of formal and informal speech in signs around town
Italian exam tomorrow! Can't wait for the oral part, where I will have to look at a picture then talk about it for 10 minutes, something I cannot even do in English. Current strategy is listening to dialogues of people passionately talking about bread and then I'll just shoehorn bread into my speech (this photo depicts a car accident and although you cannot see it, there is likely some bread in the back seat, speaking of bread....)
“But Patwa is not “broken English”. While English was the lexifier (base language), Patwa finds much of its structure and vocabulary in the west and central African languages of the people who formed the majority Black population of the island... Jamaican Creole has consistent grammatical rules as well as generations of native speakers that qualify it as a language.
Gullah Creole is similar to Jamaican Patwa.”
Я иногда из интереса ищу информацию про нивхский язык. У него невероятно сложное произношение, которое, думаю, даже посложнее вьетнамского. Очень много разных согласных, которые вдобавок часто следуют друг за другом. Вот как вам, например, четыре буквы Г: Г, Ӷ, Ғ и Ӻ? А четыре К: К, К’, Ӄ и Ӄ’?
#languages
If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution.
— Robert Sewell
While wandering through the 1960s, I discovered this series - Walter and Connie: English by Television. For English learners, the series ran from 1963 to 1967. Walter and Connie - Brian McDermott and Anne Lawson - were HUGE. They went on European tours to promote the series and were mobbed like the Beatles. Does anyone here remember Walter and Connie?
Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming"
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.
— Eric Raymond
Your personality changes when you speak another language, but that’s not always a bad thing / The Conversation
Un bell'aticolo sul Principio di Relatività Linguistica, formulato da Whorf negli anni '30.
Languages don’t just allow us to communicate – they also shape our perception of what surrounds us, and ourselves.
#Whorf #Sapir
#languages #linguistics #sociolinguistics #pragmatics #languageLearning
How to learn a language like a baby / The Conversation
Prima di tutto ascoltare e abituarsi alla musica della lingua. Scrivere verrà più in là.
[A new study] ... confirms that the relevant native-language acquisition mechanism remains intact in the adult brain.
https://theconversation.com/how-to-learn-a-language-like-a-baby-250551
Why Is Welsh Spoken in Some Parts of Argentina?
By Michael Nordine
https://dailypassport.com/why-welsh-spoken-argentina/
Welsh is sometimes known as the language of heaven (Iaith y nefoedd)
You Need Subtyping
https://blog.polybdenum.com/2025/03/26/why-you-need-subtyping.html
My biggest complaint about #Mastodon, at the moment, is the inability to #translate posts. Being given the option to translate a post, from a language you don't speak, should be on by default. There are some posts I can click an option to translate and others (see example image), I can't.
It does bug me as I would very much like to know what these #Japanese posts are saying, especially those that relate to #anime.
I have a whole bunch of marine puns in a different language that I doubt more than 1 other person at work would understand.
In Taiwanese / Hokkien,
‘Hae’ means shrimp
‘Heh’ means fish
So since I was a child my cousins and I have always been saying shrimp shrimp shrimp or fish fish fish for ‘hehehehe’ laughing
It was meant to be
У меня в голове застряла одна песня на раннем праславянском языке.
This Early Proto-Slavic song is stuck in my head.
https://youtu.be/5DH4DpsaUL0?si=a_x9F6n1zFQmItTs
#protoslavic #languages #music #slavs
JavaScript is the only language that I'm aware of that people feel they don't need to learn before they start using it.
— Douglas Crockford
Mruby/C and picoruby: high level langs in low-level devices?
We're thrilled to #announce that we have #partnered with WeMavin Language Services Co., Ltd. for all our localization needs!
WeMavin are planning to offer their services to several western #indie #games #studios in the near future, so if you're looking for any #localization #services, get in touch with them!
#languages #english #french #spanish #german #italian #swedish #finnish #turkish #japanese #chinese #korean #polish #hindi #arabic #gamesupport
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