LanguageCrawler
@LanguageCrawler
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Interesting stuff I find about #languages, #languagelearning, #linguistics, and #translation. #langtwt #polyglot #linguist #linguaphile 🏳️🌈
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Joined July 2011
LanguageCrawler's Language Learning Bookstore: Over 4500 curated books and podcasts to learn over 250 languages (updated daily):
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(1 of 2) I just reviewed a 500-page Arabic verb textbook and right in the middle of the book it states: "Would you like ChatGPT to continue? Answer: Yes". I'm returning it immediately.
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(2 of 2) It's getting harder and harder to avoid this kind of thing and that's why I try to personally review every book on my book list:
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Oops. This printed book of sample sentences for Arabic verbs sells for $21.95. It returned it immediately.
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It would really be a shame if this discourages people from writing language books because there are some really good self-published titles available.
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How to determine what language you are looking at.
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@TheOnlySheikha There are dozens of websites that will use AI to write a book for you, draw the pictures and even publish and post it on Amazon for you. I even saw one man who was "proud" of the illustrated children's book he "created" with AI.
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57 language scripts that evolved from Egyptian Hieroglyphics:
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Amazon is filled with garbage ebooks. Here’s how they get made.
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German, Chinese, Japanese and Finnish morpheme maps from Reddit
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An 88 year-old man recently died in Germany. He had a private library of over 70,000 books. Every space, every wall on all 3 floors, even the ceilings in the attic, are filled with books. Video of the house (FF a little if you don't speak German):
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Translation challenge. Can you translate this cartoon into another language and retain the humor?
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“A doctoral student in Peru has made history by becoming the first person in the university's 468-year history to write and defend a thesis in Quechua – the language of the Incas, which is still spoken by millions of people in the Andes. "
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Where certain sounds are pronounced in your mouth. Ex: The word "crisp" moves from the back of your mouth to the front,
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The evolution of the word "two" in various Indo-European languages Source: http://t.co/zDmAaXmgLf.
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In a continued effort to resist the metric system, the United States has now adopted Carlos as a new standard unit of measurement.
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CEO making $5 billion a year: "$100 just to translate a label? That's insane. We can do that for free online."
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The interesting origins of the word 'money' in various European languages. Larger zoomable image here:
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My linguist friend hates all languages with accents, slashes, or any funny symbols over Latin letters. He was born a critic, he lived a critic, but he will never diacritic.
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"Pouvez" is a conjugated French verb that means "you can / you are able to" #translationfail
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Forget linear algebra, now there's linear Mandarin
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This is a unique illustrated German grammar that uses colors for genders, half and full boxes for weak and strong adj endings, clocks for tenses and many other interesting conventions:
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@KoehnJosh We received this multilingual letter from a large U.S. insurance company with wingdings for some of the languages. Coding errors happen, but how is it possible that no one at the company noticed this?
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Two scientists walk into a bar. "I'll have H2O," says the 1st. "I'll have H2O, too," says the 2nd. Bartender gives them water because he is able to distinguish the boundary tones that dictate the grammatical function of homonyms in coda position, as well as pragmatic context.
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A friendly reminder that correlation does not equal causation.
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A world of languages - and how many people speak them http://t.co/NXa4tTqmOp
http://t.co/fpaqU6zCPh.
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Spread of the word "sugar" .Larger zoomable image:
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4000 years and we're back to the same writing system
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If you're interested in constructed languages, or science fiction, or both, I HIGHLY recommend this new book that is packed with interesting information that I haven't seen elsewhere: #conlang #conlangs #linguistics #languages #scifi #sciencefiction
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The Geo-Linguistic Spread of Tea. Tea if by Sea; Chai if by Land. Larger zoomable image:
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24 English words that all trace back, through Latin, French & Proto-Germanic, to the same original word spoken in the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language c6000 yrs ago
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"Mike was always taking things literally"."Mike was always taking things, literally".
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Do Spanish speakers outside the U.S. use 'como' in phrases such as the one in this meme 'La llamé como cinco veces' as a filler word (meaning 'about') or is this just influence from English?
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More morpheme maps: Spanish, Arabic, Norwegian, Icelandic
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"I saw her duck" can have 3 different meanings in English depending on the context.
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I used to think I was the father of structural linguistics, but now I'm not Saussure.
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