The sound of "biting" in Latvian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The sound of "flatulence" in Danish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The sound of "frog croaking" in Vietnamese!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The sound of "snoring" in French!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

**Runes are not from Phoenician letters**

Jackson Crawford

#Video length: fifteen minutes and twenty-four seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NP3a4w5Pv8

#Runes #Phoenician #Letters #Linguistics @linguistics

People were less averse to #risk (d = 0.4) when making #prenatalTesting decisions in their SECOND #language — even when they seemed to understand the relevant information.

https://doi.org/10.1002/bdm.70016

The sound of "frog croaking" in Ukrainian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

It’s #ZipperDay! A simple-seeming invention that’s had a big effect on clothing and fashion, as we talked about in our video on Costume. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzgoxKvgAr0

The sound of "bee buzzing" in Finnish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The sound of "biting" in German!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The existence of Kiki’s Delivery Service implies the existence of Bouba’s Repo Service.

The sound of "pausing or thinking" in Dutch!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

[CEO: We want humans to learn how to talk to other humans, but instead of that, humans can talk to machines about talking to humans. Trust me, you'll love it. Remember to email the 5 things that justify your continued employment before each week's deadline.]

Will they ingest everything they hear?
Informed consent?
What about deep fake fraud risk?

Can machines school you on local slurs and slang?

How might machine instruction affect dialects?

The sound of "falling strike" in Hungarian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

The sound of "wet strike" in Estonian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Too Many Cooks in the Soup. - https://languagehat.com/too-many-cooks-in-the-soup/

“Read between the tea leaves.”

“I’m not trying to beat a dead horse to death.”

“We need to make sure dealers have some skin in the teeth"

“We need to talk about the elephant in the closet"

wonderful #linguistics #language

The sound of "frog croaking" in Lithuanian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

My poll on Goodread: What languages (among these) are you interested in?

Join Goodreads to vote https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/264405

How the world’s largest #language family spread — and why others go extinct

Three books that take on the history of #languages have something for everyone

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01296-5