Posts tagged linguistics

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Posted 1 month ago
If everyone’s making the same ‘mistake’, by god, it’s grammatical!
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Posted 3 months ago
This was my Valentine from setavulos. Thank you fellow linguistics nerd! <3 Zoom

This was my Valentine from setavulos. Thank you fellow linguistics nerd! <3

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Posted 4 months ago
&#8220;A case in which we do have sloppy simultaneity is when a complement clause depending on hope or bet represents its posterior situation as if it were simultaneous.&#8221; —Declerck, Renaat. Tense in English: Its structure and use in discourse. This is actually absurdly apt. All kinds of hot action gonna be representing their posterior situations to me this year!

“A case in which we do have sloppy simultaneity is when a complement clause depending on hope or bet represents its posterior situation as if it were simultaneous.”

—Declerck, Renaat. Tense in English: Its structure and use in discourse.

This is actually absurdly apt. All kinds of hot action gonna be representing their posterior situations to me this year!

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Posted 6 months ago

Top: Tom Werner. Future and non-future modal sentences. Nat Lang Semantics (2006) 14:235-255.

Bottom: Abed. Remedial Chaos Theory. Community (2011) 3.04.

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Posted 6 months ago
Found on bathroom stall door in Philadelphia. Zoom

Found on bathroom stall door in Philadelphia.

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Posted 6 months ago
lesserjoke: ohhitumblr: I don’t follow this account because it’s not funny enough to warrant clogging up my feed, but I do check on it from time to time. Hey, who doesn’t wish she could have princess problems sometimes? This one was just kind of disturbing. Not only is it annoyingly prescriptivist (pronouncing “ask” as “ax” is not wrong, it’s a feature of a dialect of English! And if you’re going to be all high and mighty about it, you should at least spell it correctly: æks) but there are so many racial/socioeconomic complications that arise from this. The ask —&gt; æks pronunciation is mainly associated with black people, and sometimes with people of lower socioeconomic statuses. So… do we see the complicated politics behind this? Not to mention, people are always going to have linguistic pet peeves that sound perfectly fine to people who have that in their dialect/grammar. For example, positive anymore drives me bananas just as much as æks sounds “uneducated” to all those racist prescriptivists out there. But I would never threaten to chop someone’s head off because they have this in their I-grammar.  Ugh. /rant This post is perfect. Zoom

lesserjoke:

ohhitumblr:

I don’t follow this account because it’s not funny enough to warrant clogging up my feed, but I do check on it from time to time. Hey, who doesn’t wish she could have princess problems sometimes?

This one was just kind of disturbing. Not only is it annoyingly prescriptivist (pronouncing “ask” as “ax” is not wrong, it’s a feature of a dialect of English! And if you’re going to be all high and mighty about it, you should at least spell it correctly: æks) but there are so many racial/socioeconomic complications that arise from this.

The ask —> æks pronunciation is mainly associated with black people, and sometimes with people of lower socioeconomic statuses. So… do we see the complicated politics behind this?

Not to mention, people are always going to have linguistic pet peeves that sound perfectly fine to people who have that in their dialect/grammar. For example, positive anymore drives me bananas just as much as æks sounds “uneducated” to all those racist prescriptivists out there. But I would never threaten to chop someone’s head off because they have this in their I-grammar. 

Ugh.

/rant

This post is perfect.

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Quote 242
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Posted 7 months ago
Different languages are spoken at varying speeds but thanks to correlated differences in data-density, the same amount of information is conveyed within a given time period. For all of the other languages, the researchers discovered, the more data-dense the average syllable is, the fewer of those syllables had to be spoken per second — and the slower the speech thus was. English, with a high information density of .91, is spoken at an average rate of 6.19 syllables per second. Mandarin, which topped the density list at .94, was the spoken slowpoke at 5.18 syllables per second. Spanish, with a low-density .63, rips along at a syllable-per-second velocity of 7.82. The true speed demon of the group, however, was Japanese, which edges past Spanish at 7.84, thanks to its low density of .49. Despite those differences, at the end of, say, a minute of speech, all of the languages would have conveyed more or less identical amounts of information.

- Jeffrey Kluger, The speed and density of language (via graphicalundertones)

that’s so cool.

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Haha, totally not surprised with speed-demon Japanese.

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Posted 7 months ago

FOR SCIENCE!

I and a friend/colleague are conducting a linguistic study. We are trying to gather as much data we can in a fairly limited amount of time, so we’ve taken to the internet. And we need your help.

All you have to do is take a little time out of your day (10-20 minutes) to fill out two short surveys:

One survey.

The other survey.

Thank you, and please reblog.

i will do science to it

Edit:

“Tried to answer with what I would actually say irl, as opposed to what I know grammatically is correct” - next-muffin

This is exactly what we want! There is no right or wrong, only data!