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BrettC, Ph.D. @brettc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

If anyone's curious, it's a clip of Dave Grohl during an interview addressing Canadians that the band pronounces it nirv [ɑ] na, not nirv [æ] na. But when pressed on it he says "I don't give a shit what they call it" The phonetics is good, the sociolinguistics is better tbh vm.tiktok.com/ZMD8nNEkB/

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TikTok - Make Your Day

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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Even though we associate language death with modern times, languages have been dying out in Late Antiquity too. Sometimes (well, most of the time) we learn about how it happened in quite unusual ways. A little thread 🧵 1/ Isidore, Etymologies, bk. IX.1 On languages St. Gallen, Cod. Sang. 231

A manuscript page with a large red L initial.

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Yoïn van Spijk @yvanspijk.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

The ancestor of 'to forget' meant "to lose hold of". It was the opposite of 'to get'. Speaking of 'to get', this verb is special: it only has cognates in the Nordic languages, such as Norwegian 'å gjeta'. It was even borrowed from their Old Norse ancestor 'geta'. Here's more:

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

And the seeming incredulity from each TSA agent that there could possibly exist any variation from the way they do it.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 26/11/2024

Australia’s oldest dictionary of Australian English has chosen “enshittification” – a slang term referring to the deterioration of products and services online – as the word of 2024.

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Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary names ‘enshittification’ word of the year

Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary says term captures widespread sense that things are getting worse.

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Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I’d accept being mid if it meant that I was never stressed #linguistics

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Their course selections are also pretty good: 500-700 lessons for the most in-demand languages (including Levantine Arabic, for which good materials are difficult to come by as it’s not the formal language), while there are decent starter courses of 50-70 lessons for many harder-to-find languages.

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

That said, I don’t believe I’ve yet come across their AI content and I’m a bit dismayed to hear they’re moving in that direction. (At the very least, AI language content should be labeled as such).

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Personally, I’ve been quite happy with Mango Languages for a number of their courses. I find it takes the best of the Pimsleur method, broken into more digestible chunks and gamified. I certainly have criticisms/suggestions but it’s one of the better tools I’ve found.

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Curiosity @mcuriosity.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

First ever direct image of a multi planet system with a sun-like host star...

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

און צווייטע-לשון רעדערס פון אלע שפראכן זענען געווענלעך מער פארזיכטיג ביים אויפהיטן גראמאטיק ווי געבוירענע רעדערס; טאקע דאס זענען רוב רעדערס פון כּלל-ייִדיש 🤷‍♂️

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

כ׳בין מער אדער ווייניגער מסכם, כאטש אזא דיגלאָסיע איז גאר פאראן ביי רוב שפראכן: ס׳איז דא פשוט א חילוק פון וויפל איין רעגיסטער פארשיידט זיך פון אן אנדערער.

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

וואס מיינסטו דערמיט? ביי יידיש רעדערס (און שרייבערס) זענען דא גאר טאג-טעגלעכע אויסגאבעס און אנדערע סיבות וואס אין זיי קען מען שרייבן סיי צווישן חסידים סיי צווישן יידישיסטן. גוב נאר א זוך אויף טעלעגראם וויפל אידישע קאנאלן זענען דאך פֿאראן.

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Justin Goldner @jusgold.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I’m a peripatetic language junkie (aspiro-glot), professional noodler (of musical sounds), appreciator of travel, history, culture and community. Things I like: - linguistics - groove / pocket - composition / arranging - science - 𝄢 𝄞 Whosits and whatsits at linktr.ee/jusgold

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