HAT vs. HAND. 🌴

Same letter. Different vowel quality!

In California English, short A often rises before nasal sounds, as in hand, stand, and can.

Small shift, useful accent clue.

Full tutorial in comments.

#CaliforniaAccent #Linguistics

Last week, technical issues got in the way of us working on the koiné that becomes the Twilight Elvish language, but I've taken some steps to make sure we can progress on it today. Join me in 30 minutes to give it another shot. #conlang #language #linguistics #dnd #ttrpg youtube.com/live/3P4KK2T...

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Just read this interesting article about how the words for "God willing" are super similar in Portuguese and Arabic – two completely different language families!

https://medium.com/@senaidemirci/oxal%C3%A1-21e15eb71180

#portugal #arabic #language #linguistics #languagelearning

A linguistic debate unfolds over the word "spermatic." One participant feels a distinct frustration with the chosen term, questioning the word choice entirely. #language #linguistics

@thunderbird Also, a brief #JMAP (and #linguistics!) aside, from the JMAP website:

https://jmap.io/why-jmap/

It features a footer that rotates through various amusing #backronyms of "JMAP", at least when Javascript is enabled, such as:

* Just Mail, Actually Pleasant
* Jettison Messy […]

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Has five syllables
Has nearly cabbage six words
Reminds you of spring

#PredicateHaiku
#linguistics #Hofstatder
#NoTheOtherOne

"Noon" comes from the Latin for "ninth" and used to mean 3pm.

No one really knows why it changed, but there are theories.

#etymology #linguistics #latin #language #educational

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Reading this article only to find out who begged for a hug and was denied: the dog or the man

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" #Language and #Linguistics for Decolonization and Liberation and for Peace and Community Building--From the River to the Sea in Palestine and Israel to the Mountaintops of Haiti and Beyond" is still not being offered as a class at #MIT #highereducation
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/u...

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Read the most cited research in Studies in Second Language Acquisition:
📚 https://cup.org/49IBVqk

#linguistics

Read the latest issue of Natural Language Processing:
📚 https://cup.org/4a2QEwy

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