Steve Randy Waldman · @interfluidity
1674 followers · 1566 posts · Server fosstodon.org

About as pithy a summary as you are going to get of how social affairs work and evolve, from @DanLittle understandingsociety.blogspot.

#diachronic #viarss

Last updated 2 years ago

Lauren Hall-Lew · @dialect
456 followers · 163 posts · Server mastodon.scot
Roman ALAN · @romanalanwrites
40 followers · 145 posts · Server mastodon.nz

@benchaotica

Ghost in the Shell. Look closely at my top shelf, just behind the Pocket Monsters box of pencils ...

mastodon.nz/@romanalanwrites/1

As for identity, my take is:
I am but a collection of drifting stars, like motes in infinity, and others see various constellations from whatever point of view they have of me.

#identity #diachronic

Last updated 3 years ago

David Mortensen · @davidmortensen
409 followers · 389 posts · Server sigmoid.social

After a very long process, my former student Clayton Marr (no realationship to Nikolay Marr) and I have published a new paper in on the use of large-scale to discover previously neglected patterns of (in this case, in ).

benjamins.com/catalog/dia.2002

Regrettably, we couldn't make it open access but I would be happy to share an offprint.

#histling #diachronica #forward #reconstruction #sound #change #french #historical #linguistics #diachronic #latin

Last updated 3 years ago

Kombi (Dave) · @kombi
112 followers · 254 posts · Server mstdn.ca

As time passes and language evolves I wonder if (assuming we can mitigate further climate change) future generations will say musk it up instead of muck it up.

#idiom #diachronic #semanticshift

Last updated 3 years ago

Tom Stewart · @tomstewart
42 followers · 31 posts · Server lingo.lol
Tom Stewart · @tomstewart
42 followers · 31 posts · Server lingo.lol