Nettle Briar @Ulfra_Wolfe@awoo.space

@SwooshyCueb I mean, I'm SURE Oancitizen has covered it, but: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF0k4qV1I1Y&feature=youtu.be

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@Zaiaku I'm interested in the "musilanguage" theory of linguistic development. That it started with long series of noises, much like chimps communicate, instead of assembling sentences by small words. But regardless, music explains a lot of paleolithic language. Ready to go on a hunt as a group? Talk with a war chant! Ready for romance? Sing beautifully & personally & poetically. Want to combine the do? Do like the Norse & battle rap.

Languages are expression and music and communication and they are wonderful beautiful things, each language.

Every "silly" word you hear from another language is a window to that language. A method to understand what that word means and understand that language a bit better.

And that language has beauty. It has poetry. Every language does.

(There are even poets who have found ways to make programming languages into poems)

I wanna be a research bitch. Like do research for people and learn shit through it. History, family history, stuff like that

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social Some people called me out on showing pics of my operator, so whatevs.

Admittedly, my photography skills need work

In the land of the blind, no man is king.

This is more "me" than my shell ever will be.

Duality.

(But if you really know Old Germanic, you're gonna get a lot of it.

If you know Old Germanic AND, say, old Latin, and say... Middle French, you're pretty solid on pretty much getting the gist of Middle English)

Specifically: Old English, back when English was much more a Germanic language is is virtually unintelligible to anyone today without training.

And in languages, lingual drift is what you get with population drift. That's a big reason why there were so many different languages that made it hard for people to communicate. They split up.

You get populations splitting apart, coming back to meet each other, and then coming up with whole new words that were really your old words but different now. (Example: "shirt" and "skirt" used to just mean "skirt", which is to say shirt. English dropped the k to h)

@Shotagonist@mastodon.social I miss my Gara. Sold her to make room for my latest Mirage Prime.

Polari is a linguistic deviation. So is Ebonics -- whether the original term referring to the language of all descendants of Black African slaves, or the modern term of Vernacular English. It's language, it evolves and changes and combines into something new & interesting.

There are people that would frown on that idea. There's also people in Singapore who look down on Singlish. Or Spanglish. But that's a linguistic deviation. It's valid. It's legit.

One trick to linguistics is to learn to not be elitist about linguistics. If you look at language with a sense of equality, and not as an institution on high that's Cambridge-approved or whatever, it morphs and evolves a *lot*, and every culture has a stereotype of each other.