Arun Schaechter Viswanath
@a_a_viswanath
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algo strategy @instagram. yiddish translator of https://t.co/sRsZxPjXEL. not an academic. #aspiraglot and serial language forgetter. musicmaking. அத்தர தான்
Manhattan, NY
Joined March 2016
The magic continues! My translation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is now available for pre-order at https://t.co/p5o2Rs0qc5 🧙 Get it for your bookshelf, your bubbe, or that friend who started #Yiddish Duolingo during Covid #HarryPotter #CoS #ChamberofSecrets
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PSA: it's pronounced "mom-donny" you're welcome
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Er isch maule ער איש מלא (Er ist betrunken) 'He is inebriated' Note the shift of the komatz to the diphthong /au/, which has happened as a fused component along with the shift in the Germanic component of long ā, such as blausen 'to blow', dau 'here', jau 'yes'.
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Wow, "tsedaká tatsíl mimawwwwves": a Sefaradit + Western Yiddish crossover!
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Feels like the acronym they should be using is VERIFY.
My PhD student submitted her thesis chapter last week. 3 citations were completely fabricated. Authors that don't exist. Journals never published. Studies that never happened. She had no idea. ChatGPT hallucinated them. Now we're retracing every citation in her entire thesis.
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Fun fact: antepenultimate is the only word in this series that describes its own stress pattern.
ultimate = last in a series penultimate = second-to-last in a series antepenultimate = third-to-last in a series preantepenultimate = fourth-to-last in a series propreantepenultimate = fifth-to-last in a series
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is there a straightforward way to scrape a random set of 500 example sentences in South Levantine from Wiktionary? doesn't even need to be nicely parsed. minor obstacle is i'm largely a technical dunce
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לא זו הדרך
!xóõ-Mandarin False Friend of the Day: dào "road" = IPA /dao˩/ dào "road" = IPA /tɑʊ˥˩/ = 道 Examples: n̄ à !gāhn'ń ǀnà-u ǀà̰lu-tê ǀu ǂnūma-tê ki dào tshôe. 1sg PST right:here see-4 wildebeest-PL GEN:4 track-PL LOC:1 road inside "I just saw wildebeest tracks in the road."
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Amazing how Albanian gjë ‘thing’ /ɟə/ & English sooth are perfect cognates. Plural gjëra and dialectal Gheg gjâ /ɟã/ reveal the nasal lost in standard Tosk, which all go back to Proto-Albanian *sana (!!). And now the shared descent from PIE *h₁sónts ‘being’ is easily apparent😊
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high vowel laxing is largely predictable in québécois french, but thanks to its interaction with word boundaries and liaison, every now and then you get a minimal pair of a tense vs. lax high vowel: /ptsɪtami/ (=/ptsit + ami/) 'girlfriend' /ptsitami/ (=/ptsi + ami/) 'boyfriend'
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As someone who grew up in a home where English was not spoken (and perhaps other factors at play like affinity for language), I can confirm that this is literally me. I have to actively monitor myself to reduce the amount of accent mirroring that I do.
Zohran Mamdani completely changes the way he talks and how he sounds depending on what country he’s in Here are clips of him - In America - In South Africa - On a Turkish podcast - During his hip-hop rapper days This is absolutely insane. He’s an actor
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א גאנץ יאר סוכות
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v useful
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Make Afrikaans Middle Dutch again
@PebbleOfGod That is amazing. I would love to see Afrikaans in Finnish noun cases
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kondʒa kūɽi uɭɭa taɭɭirpēn 'I'd have pushed [them] in a bit more' kɨːriʈʈaleyē? 'it didn't scratch [you] did it?'
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Tis time for the yearly Palakkad Iyer sukkah-building! kontʃa kōɳaka irɨkɨ, stiramā ɨrɨkā? '[the ladder] is a bit crooked, is it stable?' onnonnā taraʈā, i-iraɳɖaā taraʈā 'shall I pass [them up] one at a time, or two at a time?'
Sukkah-building in (Palakkad Iyer) Tamil.... • tɨrɨgellām ɨɽɨtatʃ(ɨ) 'I took out all the screws' • ēɳiya kontʃakūɽi inda pakkam nīkɨngō 'please move the ladder a bit more this way' • tiru piɽitʃɨrkɨ 'it's rusty' • marakaʂɳam pōr(a)leyō? 'are there not enough planks?' 1/2
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Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen.
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There are *at least* two kids on the island who are L1 in the language. So, that’s encouraging.
Found a young speaker (well, around my age) of Frisian on Oomram!! She works in a café and I said “föl soonk” to her instead of “vielen dank” and she replied “Snaakst dü Öömrang?” Got her contact!!
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