How the letter Zz is pronounced in top English varieties.
- British Commonwealth: zed (/zɛd/)
- Philippines: zey (/zeɪ/) & zee (/ziː/)
- USA: zee (/ziː/)
language
RE: https://sfba.social/@JasonStiff/115987781195695687
Complaining about Humans is a fun and easy activity your pets can do from home! 😜😂
one thing I liked about chinese is that the pronunciation of a character remains constant unlike English
Who Speaks Scots Where: What Crowdsourcing Reveals
2 February, Edinburgh Futures Institute – free
Jennifer Smith & Brian Aitken present findings from a new crowdsourced resource – Speak for Yersel – which sets out to map dialect use in Scots throughout Scotland
#Scotland #Scottish #language #Scots #Scotslanguage #minoritylanguages #linguistics
Where Portuguese is spoken in the world:
Brazil;
Portugal;
Angola;
Mozambique;
Guinea-Bissau;
East Timor (Timor-Leste);
Equatorial Guinea;
Cape Verde (Cabo Verde);
São Tomé and Príncipe.
All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a #language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on.
The same pattern is universally found across human languages bit also occurs in #whale song.
This complex signaling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each individual from others.
#biology
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html
If you post something in a different language, say French & your usual language is English
Then you can change the post language to match what you post
On Tusky there's a language indicator at the top, click that & you can change the post language, it may be in a different place on other apps
This means other readers who's own post language doesn't match your post get a 'translate' option when reading it
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HadasWeiss/116046097576202905
But it should be spelt Q because everyone likes a short queue... 😁
@linguistics @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @writingcommunity @writingbooks @joinin
#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Memes #Linguistics
#Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
Suck it linguists I'll make my own grammar rolls 😜😂
@linguistics @humor @humor@lemmy.world @aiop @writingcommunity @writingbooks
#LinguisticMemes #Meme #Memes #Linguistics
#Language #Words #Humor #Humour #Funny
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction #Bookstodon
Hello from Philippines! #HelloWorld #Philippines #language #linguistics
Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it
BY Amelia Hill
More information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicolon
Question for folks who presented in countries where right-to-left languages (like Arabic or Hebrew) are the primary language:
Are presentation stands typically on the right side or the left side from the audience's perspective?
Asking because, in countries where left-to-right languages are common, you can stick a name or logo in the bottom right of your presentation slides, as the stand is usually on the left side.
I wonder if in right-to-left language countries, it would be better to move the logo and name to the bottom left of the slide. 🤔
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today I learned the difference between 是 and 很. at first it was so confusing but then I watched a video on bilibili where a teacher explained what's the difference between two of those :D
I'm curious to know how many people on the Fediverse are multilingual compared to non-multilingual.
How many languages are you fluent in (that is, you can either read, speak, and/or write it to get by in most situations)? Feel free to boost this to increase the sample size, and feel free to comment which languages you're fluent in!
Options: (choose one)
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Filipino netizens were quick to criticize girl group BINI for their genuine reactions to Filipino snacks in a YouTube video.
"Telling BINI to eat like Filipinos, then shaming them for flinching, is cultural policing dressed up as patriotism."
#Philippines #Asian #Bini #Food #Culture #Filipino #TootSEA #Celebrities #Language #SocialMedia
https://www.walphs.com/2025/07/bini-filipino-snack-backlash.html
Nam sheasamh thall aig geat a’ phreiridh,
feur glan fom bhotannan,
lamhan fuar nam phocaidean,
faileadh an dup
gu fann
gu neo-chinnteach
a’ nochdadh mu mo chuinnlean…
—Anne Frater, “Aig an Fhaing”
Today, 21 February, is UNESCO International Mother Language Day
https://www.unesco.org/en/days/mother-language
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #language #minoritylanguage #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO
“An entire system of comharran – Gaelic navigational marks – surrounds the islands… A wealth of knowledge about the creatures which populate these fishing grounds is also encoded within the Gaelic language.”
—Alastair Cole: How Scottish Gaelic is helping protect Scotland’s seas
https://theconversation.com/how-scottish-gaelic-is-helping-protect-scotlands-seas-155660
#Scotland #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #MotherLanguageDay #UNESCO #fishing #fishingindustry #Hebrides #language #minoritylanguage
🇪🇺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