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Gopalakrishnan R

@cobbaltt

Linguist (and Shitposter) | PhD student at Somewhere™

Joined December 2018
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lisatomic
@lisatomic5Oct 28
once I told my then 3yo that, when we went into the restaurant, he'd "have to behave" him: "I AM bein' have"
Catherine, Constantly 🕯 (@ConstantCate) profile pictureCatherine, Constantly 🕯@ConstantCateOct 28
3yo said "I amn't" instead of "I'm not". I love this age where kids are recognizing grammatical patterns and applying them more consistently than the English language actually allows.
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Vefa T.@32nd_guessingSep 21
Things to say to a linguist -what is a 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 -i brought my own 𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 -where do you keep the 𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗵𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘀 -are you a 𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘁 -when does 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗼-𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻 come 𝗼𝘂𝘁 -sell me this 𝗶𝗱𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁
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Sorry, eigenspace is esoteric for vast majority of people. Linguists may think IPA is not esoteric, but most people have only ever heard of India Pale Ale, not the International Phonetic Alphabet.
Friend of the Talking Bird (@DrugGovoruna) profile pictureFriend of the Talking Bird
@DrugGovorunaOct 27
Replying to @elidourado
Have you seen this, also from The New York Times?
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Gašper Beguš
@begusgasperOct 26
In Tarma, Peru a very interesting dialect of Quechua is spoken. We analyzed the recordings and show that the dialect features one of the most intriguing phonotactic restrictions. Stops are voiced after a voiceless stop and voiceless after a nasal.
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Neil Renic@NC_RenicOct 26
Don’t let imposter syndrome define you. Embrace actual incompetence.
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குளுர் எதிர்மறை டிக்ரீக்கு எறங்கியாச்சு, மொழியியல் கடவுள் என்னைக் காப்பாற்றவும்
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Darin Flynn
@phono_logicalOct 25
“Nahuan relative chronology: How and when did Nahuatl develop?” by Magnus Pharao Hansen (Oct. ’26) magnuspharao.com/wp-content/…
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வாசக்கதவ தறந்த வெளில ஒரு படி மட்டும் வெச்சாலே ஃப்ரிஜ்ஜுக்குள்ள கை வெச்ச மாரி கைல குளுர் படுறது, என்னயா இது. நல்ல வேளை க்ளவ்ஸ் நேத்திக்கி போய் வாங்கிட்டேன்.
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*தறந்து
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Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) profile pictureEric Alper 🎧
@ThatEricAlperOct 24
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Well, it's not really different in Tamil. கறி ‹kari› is a generic word for a type of dish, it's roughly analogous to “stew”. People don't say they like “stew”, because they'd be asked, “What kind of stew?”.
Rebecca Valentine (@defnotbeka) profile pictureRebecca Valentine@defnotbekaOct 25
it's very funny that she's like "I've never heard of curry, they probably mean kari, which is a south indian sauce, but curry doesn't mean anything" ok well.
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Samuel K. Akinbo@akinboskOct 24
New publication: Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul doi.org/10.1007/s11049-026-0…
Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul

Iconicity and expressiveness of grammatical tones targeting ideophones in Mwaghavul

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory - All tonally derived verbs in Mwaghavul have ideophonic bases and are derived through one of two lexically determined alternations. In the first...

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🙄 No more Dīkšits, Sukʰdīps, and Hardīps then.
meeta (@meetapersecond) profile picturemeeta@meetapersecondOct 23
my unpopular opinion is that everybody should be looking up definitions of their baby’s potential names in different languages. you can’t seriously name your child laura not knowing what it means in the world’s 3rd most spoken language
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Nice! Chapters by Ahmad Al-Jallad, George Starostin, Guillaume Jacques, @MagnusPharao, @thomas_wier, and Fernando O. de Carvalho.
Magnus Pharao (@MagnusPharao) profile pictureMagnus Pharao@MagnusPharaoOct 23
Replying to @neilalexanderw1 @OsoDanes
Yep! degruyterbrill.com/de/docume…
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From a pilot study with a sample size of three, I hypothesise that apfel strudel is a tricky thing to get right but easy to get wrong
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Darin Flynn
@phono_logicalOct 24
New 10-min presentation by Jessica Coon on field linguistics, universals in language, and her Heptapod language in the 2015 movie Arrival youtu.be/V7nSoQN93AU?si=RJhF…
SHASS 75th Anniversary Symposium: Session 6-Alumni Lightning Talks

SHASS 75th Anniversary Symposium: Session 6-Alumni Lightning Talks

SHASS alumni are impacting the world in significant ways, in fields...

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This handle will now become a cold weather hate handle. No linguistics, only hate on single degree weather
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Darin Flynn
@phono_logicalOct 23
New book by my new colleague!
Charles Han (@hangang96) profile pictureCharles Han@hangang96Oct 23
global.oup.com/academic/prod…
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Or more precisely, there is ambiguity in how the string can be pasted, and prosody disambiguiates the readings.
Premodernist (@premodernist) profile picturePremodernist
@premodernistOct 22
The OP is making a joke but people are reading this headline and thinking it's ambiguous. No, it is not ambiguous. There is only one way to read it, but you have to pay attention to and understand punctuation. This fits a pattern I've already noticed. Young people virtually never use hyphens, and many don't even know how to use them.
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Every fucking day it says "temperature expected to drop tomorrow" Tell me when it's fucking expected to get warmer dammit
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