wolfe but sad @wolfgang@awoo.space

it just fucks with my mind how small israel is, and yet how big it can feel when i need to get somewhere

i have a 45 second tiktok song stuck in my head and i am determined to get it stuck in everyone else's heads too

ok i think i'm done spamming the public timelines with my probably-lukewarm-by-now takes on languages and the field of linguistics for now 😇

heck, the hebrew verb for "to roll" is most likely a gosh dang onomatopoeia!! like,,,, dude!! iconicity in language is all over the place and all around us and it's friggin awesome!!!

israeli sign language: you can sign climbing a tree by one hand signing "tree", a sign that conveniently kinda looks like a tree, and having the other hand go up next to/on top of the other. when the story tells about coming back down, the hand that climbed up now goes back down

hebrew: if i'm telling a story about climbing a tree, i will increase my pitch to signify going up. when the story tells about coming back down, i'll decrease my pitch to signify going down

the last 20 years had a bunch of research about various types of iconicity in spoken language. but even without knowing that! i speak*/hear languages! i can tell i/others do things that linguists used to say don't ever happen!

1900s generativists just... ignored a lot of stuff,, kinda, and that legacy stuck

so the books all like "signed languages do this thing! and no spoken language does anything like it!" meanwhile i can think of 3 example sentences in hebrew that do the exact thing...

the linguistics book i'm reading is from like 20 years ago or so, and every once in a while it has a spoken language take that i look at and go "yeah we actually know now that this is not exactly that way" 🙃

hmm when shit hits the fan on a global scale, would i rather be living in a medium sized city in backwater proxy-war-territory (israel)? or in a big city in one of the main participating countries (probably in europe, or even less likely,, the us)?

also this is probably all going to be extremely useful if i ever learn other sign languages too because apparently most of them do these things

reading the book about isl, im starting to finally realize what a lot of grammatical and phonological features that confused me before actually ARE! and what the RULES are for them!! in a way that makes my autistic brain actually UNDERSTAND something!!!!!!

princess and the pea basically describes a pre-modern-psychiatry autism assessment

you know how german speakers always maintain a list in their head, of who they need to address with <du> or <Sie> (regular word for 'you' vs special word for 'you' that feels a bit like how adding "ma'am/sir" feels)

well,,,, i seem to have inadvertently created a similar situation for myself in hebrew: when i text with someone, i need to remember if i text with them using he/him grammatical gender or using mixed s.he/him.er grammatical gender 🙃

update: it's working again, false alarm, you can keep opening more tabs everyone

hmm mobile firefox doesn't want to start up anymore. have i finally discovered how many tabs is too many tabs?

hmmm how many bars of white chocolate will i need to eat to approximate a full day's minimum caloric intake...........