Ian Joo 주이안 朱易安
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비슷한 예로 순두부가 있는데, 한국에선 양념 간을 해서 짜게 먹지만 중화권에서는 달콤한 디저트를 만들어 먹습니다.
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I told my mom that I might change my citizenship to Japanese one day if I settle down here.
Her reaction: "But then if you win the Nobel Prize, that will be another one for Japan, not for Korea."
How high can parents' expectations get?
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When I lived in Canada everybody expected me to learn and speak English or French (even though I didn't plan to settle down there).
So why can't I expect Europeans and N. Americans living in my country for 10+ years to learn and speak Korean to a decent level?
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@xruiztru
I live in Aichi and see Portuguese signs in the metro, public offices, and even gyms. Photo is taken by me at the gym toilet
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Is Quebec the only place facing hatred and ridicule for trying to preserve its own language, at the sake of nuisance for anglophones who can't bother to learn it?
We applaud and support language preservence in every part of the world, but why is it not cool when Quebec does it?
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I think linguists have the duty to reach out to the public and make the following scientific fact to be common knowledge:
A child acquiring one language does not hinder acquiring another.
It is one thing linguists can actually do to make the world a better place.
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Dear fellow linguists, please don't quote German or French without translation, unless you'd like to see Chinese or Arabic quoted without translation as well.
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Everyone I meet: So how many languages do you speak?
Me: Define "speak"
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National Museum of World Writing Systems in Incheon, South Korea
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Another etymology quiz: Guess the English word based on Germanic cognates.
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This would be a sandwich based on its definition - food between two slices of bread - but not a sandwich by common sense. An example that many concepts are not built on definitions, but frames and prototypes.
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Who else uses Google Translate not as a translator but a dictionary?
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A quiz on my Germanic etymology class next week: Try to guess the English sentence based on Germanic equivalents. Can you guess (if you don't speak any of these languages?)
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전에 독일에 살던 어떤 한국인과 대화를 나눈 적이 있는데 그 사람이 말하길 자기가 독일이 싫은 이유 두 가지가 1) 인종차별이 너무 심하고 2) 난민이 너무 많다 는 것이었다.
한편 일전에 말레이시아에서 커피 마시는데 옆 테이블에 한국인이 있었고 자녀 동반 한달살이중인 3가족의 친목 모임이었다. 말레이시아 전에는 호주에서 자녀 단기 유학을 했다고 했다. 호주인들이 얼마나! 인종차별을 하던지! 라고 했다.
그리곤 곧이어 말레이 애들은 느려 터졌다고 욕을 시작했다.
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What a beautiful figure
Iconicity mediates semantic networks of sound symbolism Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, English speakers rated unfamiliar jewel names on size, brightness, hardness. Results showed language-specific & cross-linguistically shared pluripotential sound symbolism
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Cognate quiz for my etymology class tomorrow. Can you guess them all?
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The censored forms of "fuck" in the string "WH- the fuck BE" (e.g. "What the f*ck are you doing") in the English Web 2020 corpus
Is there any research done on the position of the hidden letters in censored words (in any language)?
For example the relative frequency of f*ck, f**k, f***, fu*k, *uck, fuc*, etc.
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@unfortunatemerc
>Anglophone communities that have been in Quebec forever
>Frustrated that some laws require them to learn French
Maybe the problem is theirs?
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I found this doctoral thesis written at Inner Mongolian University on Kalmyk Mongolian... only to find that it's written *in* traditional Mongolian.
秀花 (2007) 卡尔梅克语与蒙古语比较研究
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My take: North Africa and Near East are successors of Greco-Roman cultures just as much as Europe is.
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Kazakh word чипсылар 'chips' has three plural markers in it:
chip-s-ы-лар
root-English-Russian-Kazakh
чипсылар
chip
↓英語複数形
chip-s
↓借用
чипс
↓ロシア語複数形
чипс-ы
↓借用、カザフ語複数形を付加
чипсы-лар
3回複数形になったゲテモノが出現
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I was talking to this grocery clerk in Dutch and when he kept on replying in English I got so fed up and said "Ik spreek geen Engels".
Technically I lied but somehow I feel it was justified.
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@Ult1mateMan
@BenjaminGJW
Did you ever go to grad school? Or visit it? It consists of people who basically forewent much better paying jobs solely for one reason that is their passion for knowledge.
Sure, there are some people who do it for fame and honor, but most of them leave at some point.
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I have submitted my doctoral thesis, "Phonological areas in Eurasia", which you can read at
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What's the reason *not* to include same-language subtitles for local movies?
Pros:
1. Deaf audience can watch it
2. Foreigners with limited knowledge of the language can better understand it
3. Even locals can understand better when the voice is not clear
What are cons, if any?
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An interesting parallel phenomena:
1. Latin dingua 'tongue' replaced by lingua, for unknown reason;
2. Middle Chinese zyet 舌 'tongue' replaced by lei 脷 in Cantonese and southern Sinitic, also for unclear reason.
There seems to be pressure for mapping /l/ to 'tongue'.
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Same with reference grammars written in Europe vs. India.
Europe: Now let us first define what a "phoneme" is by ten different theories ...
India: Here is the phoneme inventory.
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People: Why do you speak so many languages? What's your major?
Me: Linguistics
People: Oh that's why!
Me: Well yes, but no, but-
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Pirahã, Sakhalin Ainu, Nicaraguan Sign Language, Solresol, Sumerian
If you could only speak 5 languages for the rest of your life, which ones would you like to speak?
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Is there a lect with a single morpheme for "wanting to urinate" (which is unrelated to the morpheme for "urine")? It's such a basic feeling, wonder why there's no morpheme for it, especially when many lects have one for "wanting to drink" ( = thirst)
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Every day I follow several linguists more on Twitter. Will I one day follow them all? How many linguists are there on Twitter?
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I will assume the position of associate professor at the Otaru University of Commerce from April.
4月から小樽商科大学で准教授に着任されることになりました。
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Handout for tomorrow's course on prosody. I hope the students get my message.
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Do you have those moments when it's suddenly unreal and unnatural to you that you are you? Is there a name for such feeling?
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I asked ChatGPT to rate my face in different languages.
In English: Sorry as an AI model I can't give a subjective rating
In Japanese: 85 out of 100
In Korean: 80 out of 100
Maybe reflecting how blunt Japanese/Korean societies can be regarding looks?
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At international conferences, I often feel that the Americans are the best presenters.
What makes them so good at presenting? Being a native speaker of English is certainly a plus, but I feel that there is more to it.
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He's best-known for politics?
I guess he's only famous as a linguist... to linguists?
In today's
#vatniksoup
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As for the new Nature article on Transeurasian (Altaic) languages: I can't speak for other languages, but its proto-Korean reconstruction is full of errors. (Thread)
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I once submitted a manuscript to the Journal of Language Contact but never heard back from them, not even a desk rejection letter. I just checked where my manuscript was in their submission system and it looks like they decided to withdraw it after four years.
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Do Spanish-speaking South Americans feel like they're in a different country when visiting another Spanish-speaking South American country?
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Many Tweets in English about academia seem to be uniquely about American academia without explicitly saying so. This can cause confusion to many.
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@ddmarrrr
저도 암묵적으로 예능 관련 행사를 일괄 취소하는 것에 동의하지 않습니다. 애도는 자발적어야 하고 애도를 표현하는 방식이 모두가 다를 수 있습니다.
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Eurasian lects most similar to English in terms of phonology.
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I think language skills are surprisingly important linguistic research, contrary to the belief that they are irrelevant.
Sure, you *can* become a good linguist only speaking your native lect and/or English. But every other lect you learn will open many new doors for you.
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@JakeKwon88
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Remember, any "Buddhist monk" asking for donation in South Korea is a fake monk. No Buddhist sect in South Korea allow monks to accept donations.
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Altaicists: Noooo it can't be that five language families spoken across the whole Eurasian continent are different families, they must be related somehow
Papuanists: Why can't I hold all these sixty language families spoken on an island
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@unfortunatemerc
I'm not sure which part of not bothering to learn the local language for several generations constitutes victimhood
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I looked up the original claim to see if she was misquoted. Turns out not really.
The number of multilinguals who can carry on a long conversation in five lects is not that negligibly small. (Including myself)
This statement by a distinguished linguist might carry some validity for the mostly monolingual Anglo-Saxon world, but for a Baloch from Jacobabad, who speaks Balochi at home, Sindhi in the market, Saraiki to their first cousins, Urdu when they travel and English at uni, has
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There's a widespread idea in Korea, even among Korean linguists, that Hangul is "superior" to other writing systems because it's "scientific" "logical" etc.
the National Institute of the Korean Language made the English/contemporary Korean translation of the original
#Hunminjeongeum
(the Korean alphabet) open access. Download ➡️
#KoreanLanguage
#훈민정음
#hangul
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My new classroom, where I will be teaching English/linguistics courses.
I love how they have whiteboards at the back too!
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Today's group task in intro to ling course: Making your own writing system and presenting it to the class
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Yes, Italians, I want a cappucino after lunch, what are you going to do about it
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Urum is a *Turkic* language spoken in *Georgia* by ethnic *Greeks*.
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Have you ever noticed that even though we *can* communicate across different languages online using machine translation, practically no one does in daily life?
It seems that people like to speak within a shared language, even when translation is possible.
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The main reason minority lect speakers speak not in their native lect but in the dominant lect to their children is the false belief that the acquisition of one lect excludes or hinders the acquisition of another.
We linguists have the duty to break this common misbelief.
Udmurt doom and gloom.
I found it very interesting what an Udmurt friend told me: even though Udmurts speak Russian with kids (even if they would otherwise speak Udmurt), none of them think the Udmurt language might die out.
They just don't connect the two things.
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Me: I have to go to a library in Paris to find a book (a thesis published in the 1980's not available anywhere else in the world).
Non-linguists: Can't you just buy the book?
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Unless you find a country identical to the US in a parallel universe, every bit of difference will be an excuse.
@PoliticsAndEd
“Just build trains, it works so well here why do you have such a problem with it”
Just please… shut up
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The Cia-Cia people are apparently using Hangul because of the recent popularity of Korean culture, not because Hangul is in any way better than the Roman orthography they have already been using. The association they make with Korean culture and Hangul is quite visible.
Fun fact: Hangul, the alphabet used by the Korean languages, is used by only one other language in the world: Cia-Cia, an Austronesian language spoken by around 70,000 people in Sulawesi
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Someone: Why are you learning this language?
Me: Because it's there.
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Reading literature on World Englishes gives me the feeling that researchers in this field tend to exaggerate the diversity of English (presumably because it's spoken in large geographical areas).
Plenty of (macro-)lects that are way more diverse than English, e.g. Hmong.
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How strongly does Catholicism vs. Protestantism in Europe correlate with cuisine quality? And if so, is it causal?
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In South Korea, you often see this kind of "pseudo-IPA" just to make a sign look cool: Here the tone diacritic and long vowel sign are used for no reason when the word doesn't even have a high tone or a long vowel. The "correct" transcription would be [pʰàp]
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I get the impression that statements like "language X belongs to the people X and you need their permission to do anything with it" sometimes come from linguists specializing in (and have access to) X and wanting to gatekeep other linguists from it.
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Until today I've been (mentally) pronouncing "albeit" as /əlbeɪt/. (It was /ɔlbiət/)
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English feels "easy" because
1. You learned it at school
2. You are exposed to it all your life
3. You already speak it
People who insist English is an easy language have no idea how hard it is for Japanese people
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Acorn jelly rice 도토리묵밥, a local dish of the Chungcheong region (where I come from). Korea is one of the few nations in world where humans still consume acorn, once a staple in neolithic times. In other countries, such as Spain, it is mostly fed to pigs.
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80% of the world's linguists are now in Düsseldorf or Prague, it seems.
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Idiom for experiencing something only superficially:
Korean 수박 겉핥기 'licking the shell of a watermelon'
Japanese 胡椒の丸呑み 'swallowing a grain of pepper (without chewing it)'
What's your language's?
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I'm thinking of writing a paper arguing against linguistic reconstructions used in the Transeurasian paper published in Nature. Please let me know if you're experienced in any of the five language families and interested in joining.
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The Linguistics journal (De Gruyter) is now an open access journal.
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