How to read this date? The film is Japanese and from 1941. It akes places during the summer so I assume the 8 is August.
language
"The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve."
~ Chitown Kev
#EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/26/800028011/community/abbreviated-pundit-roundup/
How far back in time can you understand English?
It’s a thousand years of the English language, compressed into a single blog post.
"... as his post goes on, his language gets older. A hundred years older with each jump. The spelling changes. The grammar changes. Words you know are replaced by unfamiliar words, and his attitude gets older too, as the blogger’s voice is replaced by that of a Georgian diarist, an Elizabethan pamphleteer, a medieval chronicler."
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
The frequency of the term “load-bearing” seems to be spiking in a lot of stuff that crosses my radar. Is this just another linguistic fashion or do I detect the aroma of slop?
"When we say firefighter instead of fireman, we’re not just tweaking lexical units, (...) we’re challenging the assumption that one identity can stand in for all others. These changes signal something powerful: a willingness to see, to listen, and to evolve."
Read full article:
https://bit.ly/LGFinclusive ✨
New report from Human Rights Watch about the Chinese government's systematic erasure of the Tibetan language
“Language loss on the scale taking place in Tibet is not accidental – it is Chinese government policy. Unless China’s practices change, an entire generation of Tibetan children will grow up cut off from their own language, culture, and heritage.” - Maya Wang, HRW
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/05/04/china-harmonization-plan-erasing-tibetan-language
If you're looking for a community on #Fluxer about culture and language exchange, feel free to join my community: The Cultural Exchange! I newly made it :)
Fluxer server: https://fluxer.gg/NpGn5uWH
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Ken Paxton’s hypocrisy is well-documented. He's one of the loudest proponents for requiring schools to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms. Yet he’s famously eschewed Number 7 multiple times (thou shalt not commit adultery). https://www.texasobserver.org/ken-paxton-attorney-general-rhetoric-analysis/
#JoyScrolling (for readers and writers alike) I present to you the glorious genius of the inimitable Elle Cordova.
Do pay attention to what's happening in the captions provided (turn off your own if they're on, as they obstruct the ones already there--which are the ones you want, trust me.)
“The Scots language has many ways old and new to describe LGBT+ experience… queer Scots-speakers can play with the words they’re given to find a language for what was once unsayable”
UNCO: a queer Scots lexicon
by Harry Josephine Giles & Malin Lewis
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://harryjosephine.com/portfolio/unco/
#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #Pride #PrideMonth #Queer #language #LGBTQ
How reading shapes and enhances our cognitive activity
by Stephanie Baum, reviewed by Robert Egan
https://phys.org/news/2026-06-cognitive.html
Books about Comparative linguistics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/19696
1. "I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels" #TellYouAll
2. "runnin' into the sun But I'm runnin' behind" #Sun #Son #SonOfGod #Metaphors #JohnOneOne John 1:1 #Language metaphors
CC: @punishmenthurts #BabelTowerOpera John 1:1 Babel English Language Opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBL0WTfn4Hk
3. "Everyone I know. Everywhere I go. People need some reason to #believe "
🆕 blog! “This blog is written in en-GB”
Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I'd mind making my language more inclusive. They didn't get some of the cultural references I'd used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were more globally known.
Here's the thing. No.
All my blog posts start with a simple declaration:
<!doctype html>
<html…
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/07/this-blog-is-written-in-en-gb/
⸻
#blogging #English #language
“Scots poets might have a few lessons to teach the French”
In “Towards a Post-Colonial Alliance?”, Paul Malgrati offers some perspectives on Franco-Scots poetry translation, exploring questions of voice, place, & power
🇫🇷🏴
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #Scots #Scotslanguage #language #translation #French #BastilleDay #quatorzejuillet
Puntastic! I see your use now punctuation 😂
@linguistics @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @writingcommunity
#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Linguistics #Punctuation #Puns
#Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
I thought this article might end up just being a somewhat tired regurgitation of the well known habit English speakers have of borrowing words from other languages (and enriching English). But it does bear reading - the delegitimisation of a language, Scots in this case.
![From the linked article. A man reads part of the Oxford Dictionary of English with the text
How the English dictionary took Scots words and branded them 'slang
THE Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has delegitimised the Scots language by adding several new “Scottish” words.
While English and Scots are sister languages characterised by mutual intelligibility, they are still very much separate languages with their own grammar, syntax and words. But decades of cultural oppression persist and Scots remains reduced to either slang, or, in this case, an offshoot of English.
One of the recently added Scots words is “scaffie”, meaning “raggedy”. But writing as a Scots language author who spent nine years living in England, I never once heard an English-only speaker say scaffie (also spelled as scaffy). The other recent additions to the English dictionary – including “loup” and “gowp” – are even worse.
READ MORE: Bòrd na Gàidhlig invites Reform for talks after attack on Gaelic language
Fiona McPherson, the Scottish executive editor at the OED, said: “It’s always special when I get to work on Scottish words, and those included in this update of the OED are evocative and familiar.
“While new to the OED, [others] have long established histories. Loup and gowp are found as early as the 16th and 18th centuries respectively, meaning ‘of the heart, blood: to beat or pulse rapidly or strongly’. The later sense of ‘to throb or ache with a pulsating pain’ has also been included.”
There are many things wrong with this statement. The most glaring being that the dictionary’s Scottish executive editor chose to describe these words as Scottish and not examples of the Scots language – a year on from Scots receiving legal recognition and protection for the first time in history with the Scottish Languages Act.
This emphasises how far we still have to go when it comes to having Scots recognised as a leid. Especially as it has legal recognition by Unesco since 2009 and the European Charter for Minority Languages since 2001.
According to the OED, for a word to be included, its development needs to be researched using sources including “newspaper archives, online forums, academic studies, magazines, law tracts, recipe books, or social media for published evidence of the word”. But if the new additions are anything to go by, the Scots origins of these words have been ignored and/or reduced.
While languages mix and evolve over time and a lot of words are “loaned” from one leid to another, their origins need to be acknowledged and respected, especially by an institution with as much linguistic respect as the OED.](/proxy/post_attachment/1127229/ca422a553e.png "From the linked article. A man reads part of the Oxford Dictionary of English with the text
How the English dictionary took Scots words and branded them 'slang
THE Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has delegitimised the Scots language by adding several new “Scottish” words.
While English and Scots are sister languages characterised by mutual intelligibility, they are still very much separate languages with their own grammar, syntax and words. But decades of cultural oppression persist and Scots remains reduced to either slang, or, in this case, an offshoot of English.
One of the recently added Scots words is “scaffie”, meaning “raggedy”. But writing as a Scots language author who spent nine years living in England, I never once heard an English-only speaker say scaffie (also spelled as scaffy). The other recent additions to the English dictionary – including “loup” and “gowp” – are even worse.
READ MORE: Bòrd na Gàidhlig invites Reform for talks after attack on Gaelic language
Fiona McPherson, the Scottish executive editor at the OED, said: “It’s always special when I get to work on Scottish words, and those included in this update of the OED are evocative and familiar.
“While new to the OED, [others] have long established histories. Loup and gowp are found as early as the 16th and 18th centuries respectively, meaning ‘of the heart, blood: to beat or pulse rapidly or strongly’. The later sense of ‘to throb or ache with a pulsating pain’ has also been included.”
There are many things wrong with this statement. The most glaring being that the dictionary’s Scottish executive editor chose to describe these words as Scottish and not examples of the Scots language – a year on from Scots receiving legal recognition and protection for the first time in history with the Scottish Languages Act.
This emphasises how far we still have to go when it comes to having Scots recognised as a leid. Especially as it has legal recognition by Unesco since 2009 and the European Charter for Minority Languages since 2001.
According to the OED, for a word to be included, its development needs to be researched using sources including “newspaper archives, online forums, academic studies, magazines, law tracts, recipe books, or social media for published evidence of the word”. But if the new additions are anything to go by, the Scots origins of these words have been ignored and/or reduced.
While languages mix and evolve over time and a lot of words are “loaned” from one leid to another, their origins need to be acknowledged and respected, especially by an institution with as much linguistic respect as the OED.")
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Nudists, peaceniks and freeloading travellers: the people keeping the #Esperanto dream alive | #Language | The Guardian, by Katie Thornton
Scots Language & Identity
24 July, Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Tickets £12
Prof Jennifer Smith takes attendees through the past, present & future of Scots. Where did it come from? How was it used in the past? How is it being spoken today, & by who? Hear how this living, evolving language is being used in everyday speech, in the creative industries, in writing, & what it might look like in the future.
https://www.pitlochryfestivaltheatre.com/whats-on/scots-language-and-identity/
Elvish, Klingon and Pig Latin: what can invented languages teach us about the human brain?
From pidgins to Tolkien and Esperanto, humans have created entirely new languages for many different reasons.
By Inka Romero-Ortells Labrada, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Manuel Perea
What happens when the grammar police inevitably gets corrupted? 🤔 Is that where slang comes from? 😁
@linguistics @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @writingcommunity @writingbooks
#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Linguistics
#Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity
#Novel #Books #Fiction #Bookstodon
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Each time we have an influx of users from a particular region over at Stoat, I notice small interesting messaging behaviours. I’ve documented interesting ones I’ve noticed across Stoat as a whole: https://vale.rocks/micros/20260818-0455
Tom Leonard
“Jist ti Let Yi No”
(from the American of Carlos Williams)
ahv drank
thi speshlz
that wurrin
thi frij
n thit
yiwurr probbli
hodn back
furthi pahrti
awright
they wur great
thaht stroang
thaht cawld
Audio on Penn Sound:
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Leonard/Tom-Leonard_Jist-ti-Let-Yi-No.mp3
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard #WilliamCarlosWilliams
efturryd geenuz iz speel
iboot whut wuz right
nwhut wuz rang
boot this nthat
nthi nix thing
a sayzti the bloke
nwhut izzit yi caw
yir joab jimmy…
—Tom Leonard, “liason coordinator”
from GHOSTIE MEN (Galloping Dog Press, 1980)
Tom Leonard (1944–2018) was born #OTD, 22 August
https://www.tomleonard.co.uk/online-poetry-and-prose/liasoncoordinator.html
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn…
—Tom Leonard, “The Six O’Clock News”
#Scottish #literature #language #Glasgow #Glaswegian #poem #poetry #TomLeonard
And their judges spoke with one dialect,
but the condemned spoke with many voices.
And the prisons were full of many voices,
but never the dialect of the judges.
And the judges said:
“No-one is above the Law.”
—Tom Leonard, “And the judges said”
from Situations Theoretical & Contemporary (1986)