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Grammarly's predatory model and cultural biases
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Why is the shape (❤) called a heart? And why is biological heart called a heart as well?
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Disney brought its streaming service to Iceland last year – the country's education minister has sent a letter of complaint over the lack of Icelandic dubbing and subtitling
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Salami slicing
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How do you convey emotions in text?
It's something I've struggled for a long time to do in text conversations. People will often think I'm mad when talking in a way that I think is perfectly normal or that I'm a brick wall while...
It's something I've struggled for a long time to do in text conversations. People will often think I'm mad when talking in a way that I think is perfectly normal or that I'm a brick wall while discussing disagreements and well, that can't be fun. I often have to reassure certain people that it's not the case.
Sometimes I try to show how I'm feeling through emotions or more "fluffy" language but I feel like that's too excessive and feels kinda fake to me?
It's also something I've more recently struggled with because I'm trying to write personally on my blog and I'm not exactly sure how to convey my feelings other than stating it like a robot like "This makes me mad" or "That's depressing" or "It makes me feel great".
It feels off to me and maybe it's just a me problem but I think that's also because I write the same way I speak and so, it just sounds strange.
I don't know, this post is rambly and I've been wanting to write something like this in the last few days but I just have to push enter at some point.
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It turns out
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How to revive a dead language: Although it was the language of sacred texts and ritual, modern Hebrew wasn’t spoken in conversation till the late nineteenth century
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How many languages are there?
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Why we say "OK"
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What is the meaning of "Cheeki Breeki"?
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A list of TokiPonists on Twitter
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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
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The subtle linguistics of polite white supremacy
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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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War of words as Nigerian English recognised by Oxford English Dictionary
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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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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”
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How Bernie Sanders answers a question
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Appalachian English
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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 I'm possessive about apostrophes
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Merriam-Webster's Time Traveler: Words by year of appearance
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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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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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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”?
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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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Esperanto superfans won’t rest until they’ve achieved world domination
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Dictionaries recently added more than 1,500 words. Here are some new entries.
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