Hello from Spain! #HelloWorld #Spain #language #linguistics

The sound of "sneezing" in Slovak!
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For the last session of our seminar on digital discourse, we are thrilled to welcome Dr Isobelle Clarke of Lancaster University for a talk entitled “Using Keyword Co-occurrence Analysis to Explore the Discourses across Websites Known to Promote Pseudoscience and Conspiracy Theories”
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If you can, please contribute to

https://www.dict.cc/

As the name implies, you'll find there online dictionaries, but you can also download and cook your own !

Definitely recommended!

The sound of "drinking" in Arabic!
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'Bald' sounds like 'bold'.

Hello from Bangladesh! #HelloWorld #Bangladesh #language #linguistics

The sound of "falling strike" in Bulgarian!
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Hello from Brunei Darussalam! #HelloWorld #BruneiDarussalam #language #linguistics

The sound of "wet strike" in German!
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The sound of "pausing or thinking" in Italian!
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In the word "queue", only the first letter is pronounced. The other four are silent (quietly waiting their turn).

Hello from Bermuda! #HelloWorld #Bermuda #language #linguistics

The sound of "biting" in Portuguese!
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Last fall, I was writing what I called "the most boring paper in the universe" for an edited volume. I found it so boring that I literally fell asleep multiple times while writing it.

Today I received the reviews. One of them begins with: "This is a fascinating chapter, with numerous well-glossed and useful examples from original documentation research."

ARE THEY PULLING MY LEG OR WHAT.

Hello from Bulgaria! #HelloWorld #Bulgaria #language #linguistics

The sound of "wet strike" in Polish!
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New Research Suggests Human Language Evolved More Than 135,000 Years Ago

By Emma Taggart

https://mymodernmet.com/human-language-history/?utm_campaign=daily-digest&utm_content=link&utm_source=convertkit&utm_term=05262025&utm_medium=email&sh_kit=19f2988141aeef1ce3da2871b25613801e24297faaf654001575521d8c39910f

Full paper:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full

Linguistics at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=linguistics

Eines Tages im April, als ich gerade dabei war überlebende Maikäfer vom Bahnsteig zu sammeln, kam mir der Gedanke, dass es schon reichlich inkonsequent ist, mitten im Klimawandel weiterhin einen Käfer nach dem Monat seines Auftauchens zu nennen.

Dies war der Ausgangspunkt eines Deepdives, der sehr anschaulich zeigte, dass Sprache nicht nur als Kommunikationsmittel, sondern auch Wissenstransportmedium fungiert:
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The sound of "sneezing" in Macedonian!
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