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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

one of life's great quandaries

Can @ayter.com · 26/09/2026

Found an old homework page: transliterating the colophon of the 1721 print of the Golden Beam Sutra (Mongolian Altan gerel) in Classical Mongolian script. The margins show the real puzzle: a/e, o/u, t/d, k/g share letter shapes, so vowel harmony and context decide. Good old times. 🧐 #Suvarṇaprabhāsa

Photocopied book page, numbered 272, showing a woodblock-printed passage in Classical Mongolian script, printed sideways so the vertical columns run horizontally across the page. Thick black borders frame seven columns of bold calligraphic text. Handwritten pencil notes surround nearly every word, giving possible sound values for ambiguous letters, such as a/e, o/u, ö/ü, t/d, k/g and y/j, with some guesses crossed out and a few circled question marks. The printed caption reads: "From the colophon of the 1721 print of the Golden Beam Sutra."

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Secret Panel HERE 🐻 patreon.com/mrlovenstein/posts/on-whim-143945864

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Can @ayter.com · 25/09/2026

If you expect the unexpected, would the unexpected still remain unexpected, given the unexpected is now expected?

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Can @ayter.com · 22/09/2026

Shown a spiky shape and a blobby one, then asked which is "kiki" and which is "bouba," people worldwide overwhelmingly give the same answer: spiky is kiki. Sound and shape are linked in the brain in ways nobody fully explains. Saussure's arbitrary sign has a little asterisk. #lingsky

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Can @ayter.com · 22/09/2026

2011 yazında kişisel ağ günlüğümde paylaştığım bir söyleşiyi yeniden gündeme getirmek istiyorum. Metin bana ait değil: "bilgisayar", "yazılım" ve "bilişim" terimlerinin ad babası Prof. Dr. Aydın Köksal'la yapılmış bir söyleşi. Terim türetme üzerine hâlâ son derece güncel. 🧵 1/5

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Prof. Dr. Aydın Köksal'la Türkçe'de Terim Sorunu Üzerine Bir Söyleşi

'Bilgisayar' sözcüğünün ad babası olarak anılıyorsunuz. 'Bilgisayar' sözcüğünden başka bilişim alanıyla ilgili yaşayan hangi terimleri türe...

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Can @ayter.com · 09/09/2026

“In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon (/ˈhæpəks lɪˈɡɒmɪnɒn/) is a word or an expression that occurs only once within a context: either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text.” Today’s harvest.

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Can @ayter.com · 06/09/2026

More on Turkish /r/: It is a plain alveolar tap [ɾ] intervocalically, but word finally (and before a voiceless consonant) it devoices and gains audible frication: transcribed [ɾ̞̊] (a voiceless tapped fricative). This can be "mistaken for [ʃ] or [ʂ] by non-Turkish speakers. #TurkishSLA

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Can @ayter.com · 04/09/2026

Turkish for English speakers, built on a morphophonological engine that generates every exercise from the grammar instead of a fixed bank. Vowel harmony comes first, since nothing else in Turkish works without it, sequenced by research on SLA and paced by per-rule mastery tracking. ayter.com/langram

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Langram

Turkish for English speakers, built on a morphological grammar.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Short thread 🧵 for folks who are learning another language who have Dyslexia, ADHD, and/or Autism. #LanguageLearning #LangSky

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Can @ayter.com · 16/07/2026

A pangram is a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet of the language in formation. In English, it’s “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.” Turkish: “Pijamalı hasta yağız şoföre çabucak güvendi.” And Swedish: “Flygande bäckasiner söka hwila på mjuka tuvor.”

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Can @ayter.com · 24/06/2026

Semaphore now recognizes ASL digits 0–9 alongside the A–Z manual alphabet — 39 static signs in total, at 99% test accuracy. The recognizer's label space is now open-ended, so new static signs can be added by training, with no code changes. ayter.com/semaphore

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Can @ayter.com · 13/04/2025

‘Coeur Mécanique, où sont tes piles? Perdu dans un monde tout étranger. Pourquoi tous ces mensonges? On n’a plus le droit de se renfermer. Je n’ai pas le temps de perdre la tête, pour nous sauver de nous-mêmes. Quelle est cette ivresse qui nous entraîne?’ #musicsky

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Shadows of Ourselves

Thievery Corporation · Mirror Conspiracy · Song · 2000

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Can @ayter.com · 12/03/2026

Yarım ölçekli bir delta ovasında dolaşan kuramsallaşmış cilalı buzdolabı devri ornitorengi gibiyim; durumsuz vadiye gitsem şaşırtıcı renkler yok, aylar öncesindeki kıvrımlı dağlara çıksam yeşil erikli kurabiye yok, yönergesel mağaraya insem varoluşçu zürafalar yok.

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Can @ayter.com · 04/02/2026

Here's a comprehensive list of the processing words displayed by Claude Code CLI while it works on your requests: 🧵 Flibbertigibbeting, Puzzling, Wrangling, Envisioning, Generating, Marinating, Ruminating, Cerebrating, Coalescing, Mulling, Booping, Hatching, Vibing, Meandering, Moseying... 1/4

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Can @ayter.com · 31/01/2026

I’m very stoked to hear the new @puscifermusic.bsky.social album soon and see them live in Chicago in April. 🤘

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Can @ayter.com · 20/01/2026

Therapists: Turkic programming languages aren't real, they can't hurt you. Turkic programming language:

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Can @ayter.com · 16/12/2025

"Waluigi is the ultimate example of the individual shaped by the signifier. Waluigi is a man seen only in mirror images; lost in a hall of mirrors he is a reflection of a reflection of a reflection. You start with Mario – the wholesome all Italian plumbing superman, you reflect him to create Luigi.🧵

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 14/12/2025

when the word that you don’t know is desribed by three more words you don’t know

obsequious adjective
an obsequious manservant welcomed them.
SERVILE, ingratiating, unctuous,

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Can @ayter.com · 26/11/2025

A Gagauz folk song: Oğlan oğlan kalk gidelim. Granitza'nın boyunda koyun güdelim. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban. Oğlanın evi sarı samandan. Ona yaklaşamıcam tozdan dumandan. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban. Oğlan oğlan, boynuma dolan. Şu elinlen saçından bana yap yorgan. Ne güzel oğlan, yalabık çoban.

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Altın Gün - Oğlan

YouTube video by Thara Ak-Var

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I love that /ɑ/ and /ɔ/ kind of rhyme for those who have undergone the cot–caught merger, such as Californian Zack de la Rocha

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Can @ayter.com · 24/09/2025

In Taiwanese, @ is "little mouse" (小老鼠 (xiǎo lǎoshǔ). It's "dog" (собака/sobaka) in Russian, "strudel" (שְׁטְרוּדֶל/shtrúdel) in Hebrew, "monkey's tail" (apestaart) in Dutch, "duckling" (παπάκι/papaki) in Greek, and "snail" escargot in French. The @ sign is a mirror of history going back 1000's of years.

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The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign

In Taiwan they call @ "little mouse". It's "strudel" in Hebrew, "dog" in Russian and "monkey's tail" in Dutch. The @ sign is a mirror, and its story goes back thousands of years.

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Niko Kontovas @nikokontovas.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Channeling my best David Attenborough to introduce one of the many wonderful items in our #Treasured exhibition, currently running until 26 October in the ST Lee Gallery of the Weston Library in #Oxford. Come visit to see this manuscript and more!

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Can @ayter.com · 30/07/2025

📚 New read: Algospeak is the study of language evolution through content moderation algorithms. Great for anyone tinkering with linguistics & data. Re: lexical innovation through algorithmic rules, phonemic substitution patterns, and corpora analysis of viral propagation via a sociolinguistic lens.

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‎Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language (Unabridged)

‎Languages · 2025

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 21/07/2025

“kaçıncı” is a turkish word that doesn’t correlate to a word in english. i propose a new word “whichnth” (pronounced which-unth) for it. so instead of saying “how many times has this happened abi ya!” you say “whichnth is this abi ya!”. (“abi ya” is just an exclamation for frustration)

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Darin Flynn @phono-logical.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Helvetica, the most famous and undisputed king of typefaces, has most IPA characters? Since when???

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Because Language (becauselangpod) @becauselanguage.com · 15/06/2025

Today is Uyghur Language Day. I once had the honour of talking with Uyghur language advocate Abduweli Ayup, who was imprisoned for his work by the Chinese government. That’s here, from 37:36. becauselanguage.com/101-talkin-c...

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101: Talkin’ Chomsky (with Katie Martin and Abduweli Ayup) – Because Language

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Can @ayter.com · 13/06/2025

I’d love to watch a Wes Anderson-style movie about the lives of everyone I know, care about, and love.

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Can @ayter.com · 27/05/2025

Yabancılara Türkçe öğretirken çok sık karşılaştığım bir durum: “Anladım, ‘hayır’ diye yazılıyor, ama ‘hayış’ şeklinde telaffuz ediliyor.” İşin ilginci de örgün eğitimimiz boyunca Türkiye’de tek bir öğretmenin bile bundan bahsetmemiş olması ve hiçbir öğrencinin bunu farkedip sormaması.

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Türkçede Sonu "R" ile Biten Kelimeleri Telaffuz Ederken "Ş" Benzeri Bir Ses Çıkması

R harfini ana dili Türkçe olmayan insanlardan farklı bir şekilde telaffuz ediyoruz ve bunu biz hariç herkes fark ediyormuş.

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Irina Dumitrescu @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

"When language is reduced to grammar, phonetics and vocabulary – as it often is in second language classrooms and in many studies of bilinguals – it is easy to miss why people care so deeply about it." @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/languages-ll...

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How mother tongues are lost and found

The best stories begin with a wound. Julie Sedivy’s story begins with the death of her father. After a series of migrations that brought Sedivy and her

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Song of the day: Life During War Time "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around." My nomination for the soundtrack song of 2025. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8al5...

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Talking Heads - Life During Wartime (live)

YouTube video by forcedcoitus

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Niko Kontovas @nikokontovas.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#Librarian position open at the British Institute at #Ankara! Özellikle İngilizce bilen Türk(iyeli) arkadaşlarıma duyuruyorum: biaa.ac.uk/grants/biaa-...

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BIAA Librarian |

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Tim Pitt @timpitt100.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Renault Avantime spotted in Croydon. This one is the flagship 207hp 3.0-litre V6, with a matching blue and white leather interior. Magnifique!

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Can @ayter.com · 03/05/2025

Volo Bog State Natural Area in Volo, IL 🇺🇸 It is the only remaining open-water quaking bog in Illinois. Everything you see, including trees, are floating above 50 ft deep water. #naturesky

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M. Ali Kara @malikara.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

substack'e koyduğum geçmişten yazıların tamamı bir biçimde dil devrimine çıktığından adını merdek'ten dildevrimi'ne (dildevrimi.substack.com) dönderdim, daha önceden akıl edememişim. ikincil literatürde anılan makaleleri de bulup eklemek gerek, şu ana dek arşivlerde kendi denk geldiklerimi ekledim.

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dil devrimi | Substack

dil devrimi uğrunda, karşısında, çevresinde yazılanlar. Click to read dil devrimi, a Substack publication. Launched 3 years ago.

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Elizabeth Stuart @lizstuart.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is so important. And especially in non experimental studies where bias - not variance - is the first order concern.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Similes like this are so helpful; it seems really obvious when you say it out loud but there is a genuine perspective shift when you're emphatic that the point of your teaching is not to create 15 essays, but 15 students who can write an essay.

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Can @ayter.com · 19/04/2025

Swam in the almost frozen cold waters of Horsepasture River on the way to find the Rainbow Falls with my boyfriend. This river is in Pisgah National Forest land just outside Gorges State Park in Transylvania County, North Carolina. #naturesky

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 16/04/2025

insanlar kendilerini ne kadar güçsüz ya da değersiz hissederlerse tepkileri o kadar şiddetli ve acımasız olur. çünkü verecekleri daha hafif, daha merhametli bir tepkinin ciddiye alınmayacağına, önemli görülmeyeceğine ve bir tesiri olmayacağına ikna olmuşlardır.

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Can @ayter.com · 15/04/2025

An excerpt from from President John F. Kennedy’s speech at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, April 27, 1961: “It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions--by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. 🧵 1 of 6

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Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab.com · 14/04/2025

Hard things made easy by hard work over time are the things to focus on. That process captures the healthy dynamics of dopamine circuits and displaces your time and attention from the no- or low-effort reward traps that exist everywhere. We still need rest, but the formula never fails.

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Alycia @lajoiedevivre.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hannah Höch’s Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer-Belly Cultural Epoch in Germany (1919-20) is a bold photo montage critiquing politics and culture. Featuring chaotic juxtapositions, it reflects post-WWI turmoil, women’s rights, and the absurdity of modern life.

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Dave Sayers @davesayers.eurosky.social · 02/02/2025

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Did you know that wolves across the world speak in 21 different dialects, with differences depending both on species + location? The frequency with which types of howls are used corresponds to the species of canid, whether dog or coyote, as well as to the subspecies of wolf.

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Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. @hubermanlab.com · 07/04/2025

Focus harder on builds. Pivot faster out of nonsense.

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