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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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Correction: that should be [ɾ̝̊] with the raising diacritic, which marks frication. The lowering diacritic I used would imply the opposite. Linguists, you're welcome to point and laugh. 😁

Söyleşinin asıl tezi dil planlamasının sosyodilbilimsel gerçeği: doğru terimi bulmak yetmez; dernekle, dergiyle kurumsallaştırmak ve on yıllarca yinelemek gerekir. "Bilgisayar" ancak kişisel bilgisayarlar yaygınlaşınca halka mal oldu. #lingsky #dilbilim 🧵 5/5

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Seçilen karşılıklar da dikkat çekici. "Character" için "damga": Yunanca kharaktēr da "kazınmış iz, damga" anlamı taşır. "File" için Osmanlıcadaki nüfus kütüğünden "kütük". "Bit" için ise "iki"den "ikil". Anlambilimsel süreklilik bilinçli bir tercih. 🧵 4/5

Bence en zarif örnek "bilişim" (1970): "bilmek" kökünden, "koşuşmak" gibi karşılıklılık bildiren varsayımsal bir "bilişmek" biçimi üzerinden -(I)m ad yapım ekiyle türetilmiş. Yoktan var etme değil; dilin kendi biçimbilimsel kurallarını işletme. 🧵 3/5

Köksal'ın savına göre "yazılım" 1966'da türetildi; Fransızca "logiciel" ise ancak 1974'te ortaya çıktı. Doğrulanması gereken ama ilgi çekici bir iddia: "software" kavramına kendi köklerinden karşılık üreten ilk dillerden biri Türkçe olmuş olabilir. 🧵 2/5

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

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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'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

Hem yorum yapamama konusuna hem de sözcük tekrarına bakacağım şimdi. Teşekkür ederim yorum için

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.

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

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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

Can @ayter.com · 13/04/2025

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‘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 · 28/02/2026

Top Artists 1. Ayreon — 42 2. Maximum Love — 17 3. Dire Straits — 13 4. Massive Attack — 12 5. Tosca — 10

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Churning, Forging, Noodling, Spelunking, Deciphering, Cooking, Wandering, Considering, Brewing, Pontificating, Herding, Calculating, Working, Inferring, Computing, Puttering, Accomplishing, Crafting, Smooshing, Actioning, Manifesting, Contemplating. 4/4

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Actualizing, Jiving, Thinking, Enchanting, Mustering, Germinating, Concocting, Spinning, Reticulating, Channelling, Effecting, Incubating, Percolating, Stewing, Honking, Conjuring, Unravelling, Hustling, Determining, Schlepping, Shucking, Finagling, Pondering, Clauding, Processing, Whirring... 3/4

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Combobulating, Doing, Creating, Musing, Wizarding, Frolicking, Crunching, Cogitating, Baking, Synthesizing, Discombobulating, Elucidating, Unfurling, Tinkering, Philosophising, Perusing, Forming, Deliberating, Ideating, Scheming, Simmering, Divining, Shimmying, Imagining, Sussing, Wibbling... 2/4

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Can @ayter.com · 31/01/2026

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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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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In a world where our identities are shaped by warped relationships to ideologies, brands, commerce, trends, and fashion – we are all Waluigi's."

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He is not his own man. His existence is the triumph of capitol over creativity; he has no reason to exist beyond adding a simulacrum of novelty to a declining commodity. He is the committee designed end point of a franchise alienated from ideas of play.

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Waluigi is the true nowhere man, without the other characters he reflects, inverts and parodies he has no reason to exist. Waluigi’s identity only comes from what and who he isn’t – without a wider frame of reference he is nothing.

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The same thing but slightly less. You invert Mario to create Wario – Mario turned septic and libertarian – then you reflect the inversion in the reflection: you create a being who can only exist in reference to others.

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Sedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 14/12/2025

"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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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.

Can @ayter.com · 19/09/2025

Of, street view koymamışlar trafoya ._. maps.app.goo.gl/Lqd2bVe38erk...

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Can @ayter.com · 18/09/2025

Tamam geliyorum. İş güç sahibi de oldum şimdi bilet alıp gezebilen bir insana dönüştüm. Gelip kan veririm sonra da ayak başparmaklarımızla iki buçuk tane falan çiğ köfte yaparız.

Can @ayter.com · 04/09/2025

This is the evilest thing I've read for a long time.

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Can @ayter.com · 21/08/2025

This is very cool. Thanks for sharing.

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

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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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Can @ayter.com · 07/07/2025

İnviloptan çıktı orda gördüm. 👁️