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10 votes
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Anyone willing to teach me ASL?
I'm a sucker for languages and lately I've been wanting to learn a sign language (not specificallly ASL as I put in the title, I'm open to learning any local flavour). And well, with COVID and...
I'm a sucker for languages and lately I've been wanting to learn a sign language (not specificallly ASL as I put in the title, I'm open to learning any local flavour).
And well, with COVID and everything, I figure this may be a good opportunity to do this with someone else and have someone to talk to. So, is there anyone on Tildes who would be willing to have regular informal video chats, where we talk and you try to teach me as we go? (And of course I can accommodate by text if needed)
No hard commitment, this can just be something we try once and if it's boring for either of us we don't have to continue :) But I'm hoping it'll be fun enough to be a regular thing!
PS. I can teach you French in return if you are interested!
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How many languages are there?
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Why we say "OK"
7 votes -
What is the meaning of "Cheeki Breeki"?
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A list of TokiPonists on Twitter
8 votes -
A beginners' course in modern Icelandic
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Conlang Critic: Toki Pona
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Conlang Critic: Lingwa de Planeta
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A tildes thread for toki pona, the minimalist conlang
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang famous for having a vocabulary of under 130 words. There are communities of speakers on all major social media platforms. This is an introduction thread for...
Toki Pona is a minimalist conlang famous for having a vocabulary of under 130 words. There are communities of speakers on all major social media platforms. This is an introduction thread for speakers, learners or the toki-curious to introduce themselves. I'll advise on learning resources, or just answer general questions if anyone is interested.
I'm a toki pona speaker and creator of the YouTube channel 'seme li sin?' which translated news stories into toki pona.
mi wile e ni: kulupu wawa pi toki pona lon lipu Tetesu. jan ale pi toki pona li jan pona mi. sina ken la o kepeken e toki pona lon lipu ni!
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What are your favorite conlangs?
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a...
I saw this post. And it reminded me of a hobby I haven't paid much attention to for a while. Apparently there are at least two people who are moderately fluent at Toki Pona, soon to be joined by a third.
In the meantime, I was wondering what conlangs you find to be interesting or unique?Edit - Also, do you speak any conlangs?
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Which is "Bouba", and which is "Kiki"?
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Redefining “racism”: Against activist lexicography
8 votes -
The subtle linguistics of polite white supremacy
11 votes -
Samfundssind – A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit
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Paul Taylor - #Franglais - Bilingual stand-up comedy
7 votes -
War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
8 votes -
How should I refer to you? | Review of “What's Your Pronoun?”, by Dennis Baron
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I asked 64,182 people about “Jingle Bells, Batman Smells”. Here's what I found out
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How a climate crisis helped shape Norse mythology – a group of archaeologists, linguists and other experts have teamed up to analyse the inscriptions of the Rök Stone
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Ə: The most common vowel sound in English
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Children growing up after this crisis will use far more oral language after it ends
10 votes -
Microsoft Word now flags two spaces after a period as an error
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Abso-bloody-lutely: Expletive infixation
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500-year-old manuscript contains earliest known use of the “F-word”
9 votes -
How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Appalachian English
6 votes -
Swearing in the Woods
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Sámi are the only officially recognised indigenous people in the EU and some of their languages are on the brink of extinction
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Sweden's Rök runestone reveals inscriptions were as much about climate change fears as they were the history of ancient battles
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Why do we move our hands when we talk?
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Why I'm possessive about apostrophes
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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Spirit scripts: Japan’s mysterious outcast alphabets
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A dialect dissection of Britney Spears
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Oslo's city council wants the Norwegian capital to have an official name in Sámi
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The musicians helping revive the Cornish language
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Interview with one of the developers of Interslavic: the constructed language used in "The Painted Bird" which aims to be mutually intelligible with all Slavic languages.
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Altaic: Rise and fall of a linguistic hypothesis
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How Hollow Knight's community crafted gibberish into a real language
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The language sounds that could exist, but don't
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My first conlang - How not to make a language
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The birth of the semicolon
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Why are there so many different types of “R”?
9 votes -
Anyone here into conlanging?
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently...
I've been creating new languages for a few years now. I like to do it in my spare time, which becomes smaller and smaller each year, mostly from proto-languages that already exist. I'm currently working on a Slavic language in Belarus and Ukraine for fun. Anyone else into this stuff or wanna know more about conlanging in general?
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"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
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Why do people say "Jesus H. Christ," and where did the "H" come from?
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Why certain words are left out of our English Bibles
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Language wars: the nineteen greatest linguistic spats of all time
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How Cape Town’s “Gayle” has endured – and been adopted by straight people
3 votes