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Why is panic, panic, but panicked is panicKed? Why the K? #Language #Linguistics

Bonobos combine calls in ways that resemble human language, study finds https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/04/bonobos-combine-calls-in-ways-that-resemble-human-language-study-finds/

Multilingual Mastery: AI Text Translation Tool
https://zurl.co/QEIOp
#AI #TranslationTool #Multilingual #Language #Technology #Efficiency #ArtificialIntelligence #Text #Global #Communication

The sound of "wet strike" in Arabic!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Another marvelous phrase from CLARISSA: "That's the plain Dunstable of the matter," as in the road to Dunstable, derived from dunce. It reminds me of Dashiell Hammett's "You don't know the whole Limburger." I do love all these 18th century idioms! And I shall be doing my best I can to drop them in my patois from time to time!

Hello from Latvia! #HelloWorld #Latvia #language #linguistics

From: blenderdumbass . org

People often point out various grammatical errors in texts people write. As if having better attention to words makes the argument presented more or less valid. So I suppose I'm gonna rant about this.

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/stupid_correct_english

The surprisingly connected origins of "task" and "tax".
https://youtube.com/shorts/BgPyeuBxnB0

The sound of "drinking" in Swedish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The hunt for the birthplace of Indo-European languages.

It’s incredibly tricky to pin down the origin of the language that led to the words spoken everywhere between Spain and India – and it’ll be even harder to be sure we’ve got it right

https://mediafaro.org/article/20250408-the-hunt-for-the-birthplace-of-indo-european-languages?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

Someone told me this 90s band isn't "relevant" any more. Sure, I understand that they mean that the band isn't innovating, isn't making good albums, isn't putting on a good show. But it's such an odd choice of words. There's a tendency among less educated people both in English and Swedish to use the word "relevant" as if it meant important or respectable or professional.

The ‘untranslatable’ emotions you never knew you had
Emotions that have specific words in other languages, but not in English.

HUSKYLOUR. A guinea, or job. Cant.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

An LLM Query Understanding Service

https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2025/04/08/llm-query-understand

Hello from Malta! #HelloWorld #Malta #language #linguistics

The sound of "belching" in Slovak!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Maundy Thursday

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/maundy-thursday

#DIN #Spec 91526 released on #Knowledge #Graphs for #Language models and vice versa: Hybrid applications of #symbolic and sub-symbolic #AI

The #standardization focuses on the advantages of hybrid approaches that combine symbolic knowledge with modern language models.

@NFDI4DS was involved in creating the specification together with other partners from academia and industry.

Read more: https://www.dinmedia.de/en/technical-rule/din-spec-91526/390496163

The sound of "bee buzzing" in Estonian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps