Quick, in under 90 seconds, what’s the longest word you can find? Drop your word (4) in a reply with the letter count. Non-English words welcome with translation. #langsky, #letterboxd

Quick, in under 90 seconds, what’s the longest word you can find? Drop your word (4) in a reply with the letter count. Non-English words welcome with translation. #langsky, #letterboxd

Quick, in under 90 seconds, what’s the longest word you can find? Drop your word (4) in a reply with the letter count. Non-English words welcome with translation. #langsky, #letterboxd

One word can change how an ad is understood. In a Brazilian Christmas TV commercial, Dério & Nascimento show how “but” redirects interpretation, turning “Christmas is for everyone” into a question about representation. #langsky #linguistics
https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n5.id842

En castellano decimos que el hábito no hace al monje, pero en serbocroata se dice odelo ne čini čoveka (odijelo ne čini čovjeka), que significa que el traje no hace al hombre #langsky #srpski

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#langsky #UtLinguaeVitamHabeant "…fins a la dècada de 1970, en el marc d’una política lingüística orientada a la promoció de la llengua estàndard, les altres varietats eren percebudes com a desviacions fonològiques que calia corregir o fins i tot eradicar." www.vilaweb.cat/noticies/el-...

El Japó és un país monolingüe?

#langsky New year, new pinned post. Saluton al ĉiuj! I'm an autistic ESL teacher at a state school in Macapá 🇧🇷, my hometown. I like studying languages, following sports competitions and listening to radio in my free time. Pleased to meet you! 🌻

#LangSky hoy empieza el mes de enero y eso me da pie a hablaros de otro locurote del serbocroata que son los nombres de los meses. En esta historia entra muy en juego la adscripción étnica.

Advanced learners from Italy writing in Portuguese sometimes invent a word when the right one won’t come: "esfrutamento", "soferença". In 90 student essays, Alessandra Baldo finds 28 nonstandard word forms or meanings, most linked to Italian influence.
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https://doi.org/10.25189/2675%2D4916.2025.V6.N5.ID816

Webb says he has a different metric for measuring success. “Happiness,” he says. “When we bring our children up to feel really good about who they are through their language and through their culture, then all other learning is sorted.” #LangSky #linguistics

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“Dozens of NSW schools teach Aboriginal languages but this is the state’s only bilingual school. GGFS is open only to Indigenous students from kindergarten to year 8. They attend at least one language class every day and have weekly lessons on country.” #LangSky www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

The Australian school spearhea...

The X-mas calendar ends with the shepherds going to Betlehem to see the newborn. Reconstructing this Early Old Nordic (650-850) is hard. For explanations see link below. The markings for length, nasality and vowel qualities illustrate that is an entirely different language from Old Norse. #langsky 👇🏻

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So, the chant of the angels before the shepherds belongs very much to the X-mas night and the calendar has an extra night entry: — ”Glory (δόξα) to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.” #langsky

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This x-mas calendar in Early Old Nordic has another night and day to go. At this stage of Luke 2nd chapter, verse 12, the angel finishes with a piece of guidance: ”And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.” #langsky

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Luke 2:10-11: 10: And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. 11: For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. #langsky

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You describe an action one way; the reply renames it with a loaded label—like calling a land occupation an “aggression.” Zoé Camus shows how this kind of relabeling can redraw what a political discussion can be about next. https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.V6.N5.ID825 #langsky #linguistics

"’The three interviewees all illustrate the profound experiences of trauma associated with the absence of te reo Māori in their upbringing (…)’ all three of the interviewees have pushed through the reo trauma to continue learning to speak” #LangSky #linguistics www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu...

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Verses 6-7 of the X-mas Gospel from Luke Chapter 2. In these verses the Child is born. Stand by for the rest, in archaic reconstructed Early Old Nordic, in daily updates until the Holidays. #langsky

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2 more verses of the X-mas Gospel, in Nordic 7th century speech: ⁴ Þā̃ fōɹ ɞuk Jōsēfř uppaf Gaɫilēō̃ ūř Natsaɹēþā̃boɹg, upp ī̃ Jūþēō̃, tiɫ Dāfīþsboɹgāř, su hæitīř Bētlihæimř, fyɹiř þi͡y at hānn was af hūsē ɞuk kynjē Dāfīþs, ⁵ tiɫ at lātā̃ wɹītā̃ sik tiɫ skatts meþ Maɹjō̃ sīnnē fæstāřmœyjū ō̃lẽhtřē. #langsky

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