Why There's A Campaign To Re-Introduce A Historic Letter Back Into The #Alphabet | HuffPost UK Life

#Ae #Pronouns #English #Language

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/bring-back-history-letter-let-history-say-thae-exist_uk_64d38832e4b05c10fd6d838c

I made a lot of progress with my depression these past weeks and am finally motivated to read and write again.
I've started writing an #AutoBiography a long time ago, to cope with what I've been through, but also to release it one day.

I'd love to let other people contribute chapters to my book. Essays on various topics that come up in my story.

So now I'm asking you all, if there is anyone who could think of writing such an essay for me, because you are affected by the topic yourself, or are an expert in the field.
Or if you know someone, who would be perfect for that topic.

Here are a few of the topics:
#depression
#GenderIdentity
#asexuality
#SurveillanceCapitalism
#Fediverse ( @ueckueck, you said you might write that one, still interested?)
#SocialPhobia
#WTFromance
#SelfHarm
#suicidality

There are other topics as well, but I already have people in mind who I'll directly ask to write essays about them; especially topics around #ClimateJustice.

The essays should be at least 2-5 pages long and provide a general gist about the topic, but ideally also contain something personal, like what the topic means to you.
Written in #English or #German.

Preliminary deadline is summer '24, but a lot can change until then and if you need longer, don't worry.

Please :boost: #boost. Thanks. ❤️
#author #book #writing #essay #FollowerPower

Yes, this radio station actually did want me to talk about regional/local dialects (!!??) #English #HEL #Language https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1002-nightside-with-dan-28654279/episode/american-dialects-9-pm-122536547/

In a previous corpus-linguistic study (https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecz033), we found that #neologisms built only with 'native' #language material are accepted faster into the German language than #loanwords from #English.

Back then, we operationalized 'acceptance into the language' by the amount of 'flagging' (use of linguistic markers, e.g. quotes or "so-called").

I've always read #HTTP as “aitch tee tee pee” and used “an” to prefix an indefinite article to HTTP, but today I saw a sentence with “a HTTP.” Is there a different way to read it among native #English speakers?

@creohn
Not so easy in German....

Der Computer (male: the computer)
Die Spülmaschine (female: the dishwasher)
Das Betriebssystem (neuter: the operating system)

Damn those articles. 😩 😅

#language #sprache #grammar #grammatik #english #german

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Excellent video on "difficult" varieties of #English Well worth a watch.
#Language #Linguistics
https://youtu.be/7SJ-wTR2H6M?si=sJ2USsn-Abu6K9tb

So happy to see posts in #german, #french, #spanish, #english, and more on floss.social! What a relief.

Is there a word in English that you’ve always wanted to use but never found a chance?

I’ll go first: mellifluous

(And that’s me who manages to regularly use things like “artifact” or “onomatopoeia” in non-academic conversation)

#english #language #LanguageLover #LanguageNerd

Fedi-brain-hive, I need you once again.

Is there an #English #word that means "to make permanent?" Essentially, I need the word "permanentize" to exist, but evidently it does not. Surely another word exists in its stead?

Please #help! This problem has been vexing me for over three years (since I began tracking the way cities changed their street space during the pandemic and whether or not those changes were permanentized).

I'm so tired of writing "were made permanent."

#Language

#Introduction

I work as the Community Outreach Officer for the Welsh Dictionary of Biography, more collquially called the #Bywgraffiadur, at the #NationalLibraryOfWales. Our goal is to close representational gaps and set the Dictionary on a course of recording the diverse lives of historical Welsh people in all their facets. https://biography.wales/

Otherwise, I'm working on #WelshWritingInEnglish mostly from the long #C19, so there is lots of overspill into #RomanticLit and #EdwardianLit, #CulturalHeritage and #History of this small nation. Other research interests include #TravelWriting, particularly illustrated accounts and the history of the #VisitorsBook. For recent projects, I've undertaken some #PublicHistory work and community outreach about #PortHeritage, #WW1 German submarine warfare and its effects on Welsh communities.

I share longer #WorkInProgress on my blog: https://bydbach.hcommons.org/

Toots will be mostly in #English, but occasionally also in #Deutsch and #Cymraeg.

@Linux_Is_Best Honestly just blame the #English language. There's no consistency for compound words (or anything for that matter). 'Fire brigade' but 'firefighter'. 'Head lice' but 'headrest'. 'Bike lane' but 'bikeway'.

Amusingly, in #Dutch, where all compound words are closed, there's a phenomenon called 'English disease' or 'spatitis', where compound words are wrongly opened. 'Fietswiel' becomes 'fiets wiel' (bike wheel). The influence of the English language is often blamed for this, but I'm more wont to blame American programmers. Search engines are rubbish for closed compound words, and spell[ ?]check can't deal with slightly rare closed compound words either. Never mind phone keyboards, where it's always hit-or-miss whether the word you just fat-fingered exists in the phone's dictionary.

The digital age was designed for English first and foremost, and all new digital technology must necessarily flow through English _first_, and I hate it.

#i18n

Rigaer94: Zwangsräumungen töten
###english below

"Heute sind in Spandau Poster und Flyer aufgetaucht, die auf die Geschehnisse vor Ort, vom 24. Juli 2023 aufmerksam machen sollen. Der Text von den Postern und Flyern ist der Folgende, die Poster findet ihr im Anhang: Was sich am Dienstag, den 24. Juli am Brunsbüttler Damm in Spandau ereignet hat, ist kein Einzelfall sondern einer der vielen Momente, in denen sich das kapitalistische System in seiner mörderischen Konsequenz offenbart. Ein System, in dem das Recht auf Eigentum höher gewertet und vom Staat geschützt wird als das Bedürfnis eines Menschen, ein Dach über dem Kopf zu haben."
https://de.indymedia.org/sites/default/files/2023/08/spandaugerman_bw.cleaned.pdf

https://de.indymedia.org/node/295742

#Kapitalismus #EatTheRich #Berlin

this was a garden path sentence for me...you?

"Breaking News: Biden's poll numbers get stronger, and more" === Biden gets both stronger and more poll numbers somehow?

...multiple seconds of confusion pass...

...Oh. OK. I get it now.

#headlines #gardenPath #sentences #English #parsing

🥥 This #tip is about how to create a #thread on the #Fediverse.
Until you've created your first thread, you may imagine the process consists of some arcane set of incantations or some such.
Afterwards, you say something like "d'oh" and get on with your life.
If #English has a word for being unable to accomplish a task because you expect it to be difficult and then you find out that it's actually quite simple, I, for one, would like to know what that word is. 🥥
https://hachyderm.io/@FinchHaven/110781983133626238

The ink is dry now, so I'm happy to report that I'll be starting a new postdoc next week at @UCC in #English and #DigitalHumanities. In the next few months I'll have new publications to share, and details about work towards my second monograph which focuses on shared questions and themes of #DeepMaps and #BlueHumanities. I'll also look forward to working with Prof. Claire Connolly on her future plant humanities research plans and with colleagues in my college and school.

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🎉 We moved to a new server!

:joinfediversewiki: The #JoinFediverseWiki recently moved to a new server in Vienna, Austria powered by the #FediverseFoundation.
There was an issue with newly uploaded pictures, but @fossie, who also migrated the wiki, fixed it.

:firefish: All pages on #Calckey were edited to reflect the rebranding to #Firefish. Translated pages don't all show the rebranding yet.

:fedi: We have pages on 18 Fediverse projects. Plus there are drafted but unfinished pages on:
#Threads
#Foundkey
#Drupal

🗣️ There are 9 active languages, but many translations missing:
#English
#français
#Deutsch
#日本語
#italiano
#español
#português-do-Brasil
#Russian
#עברית
#Korean

You can always start a translation to a new language too.

Please join the editorial team of the wiki and help editing/translating the pages. We have lots of todos. See: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Join_the_Fediverse:Todos

I love learning new things. This is a video about “weak forms” in #English. https://youtu.be/qlbGtEg68x4

Just some thoughts on why, even as an #English #teacher in #Japan, I don't assign homework to kids. https://freetalktefl.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-give-students-homework