I'm looking for a transliteration tool for English words to Thai pronunciation, as Thai has a phonetic alphabet.

I'm learning Thai and my MIL wants to learn English so I want to make flashcard/post it's that show
the English word : LIGHT
the Thai pronunciation of LIGHT: ________
The Thai word for LIGHT: แสงสว่าง
The English phonetic of แสงสว่าง: S̄æng s̄ẁāng

Any #linguists #polyglots or #translators or #thai speakers that could help me out? Please boost until we find each other. Thanks!

#GeoffreyChaucer fans, #medievalists , #EnglishLanguage and #linguists

Around 10 years ago, a Geoffrey Chaucer parody account on ye olde Twitter (Chaucer Doth Tweet) promoted “Whan That Aprille Day” on April 1st (but it perhaps should be 17th?)

“On the first daye of Aprille, lat us make tyme to take joye yn alle langages that are yclept ‘old,’ or ‘middel,’ or ‘auncient,’ or ‘archaic,’ or, alas, even ‘dead.’ ...

Yn thys celebracioun we shal reade of oold bokes yn sondrye oold tonges. We shal singe olde songes. We shal playe olde playes. Eny oold tonge will do, and eny maner of readinge. All are welcome. We shal make merrye yn the magical dreamscape of 'social media,' and eke, yf ye kan do yt, yn the 'real worlde' too. ... ”

https://houseoffame.blogspot.com/2015/03/maken-melodye-on-whan-that-aprille-day.html?m=1

#WhanThatAprilleDay 2025 anyone?

Hey #linguists: if I have a rule like below, what “category” of language is this? What is it?
Pretend I know nothing, cause thats exactly the case

Rule:
Single consonant is normal but double consonant means ʊ at the end.

Example:
“fun” = /fʌn/
“funn” = /fʌnʊ/ (think German “Sonne”)

Indo-European Phylogenetic And Linguistic Trees Concur
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https://www.razibkhan.com/p/we-are-what-we-speak-indo-european <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14317 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #language #IndoEuropean #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #linguists #historians #archaeologists #phylogenetic #tree #HumanGenomeProject #genetics #cultures #migration #paleogenomics #genotypes #prehistory #ancient #ancienthumans #DNA #prehistoric #populations #genetictree

MIT study explains why #laws are written in an incomprehensible style
Analysis revealed legal documents frequently have long definitions inserted in the middle of sentences -- known as "center-embedding." #Linguists have previously found that this #legalese structure can make text much more difficult to understand. "Legalese somehow has developed this tendency to put structures inside other structures, in a way which is not typical of human languages,"
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-study-explains-laws-incomprehensible-writing-style-0819

Hey, #linguists! I was just watching a video about a conlang that mentioned its nouns having two cases, goodness and badness. Are there any real languages that do that? I mean, have good/bad a part of the grammar as noun case? Or otherwise baked into its grammar?

For the #truecrime #linguists.

Calling all #editors and #linguists! Know anyone who'd be a good fit for this #job? Cambridge University Press & Assessment wants to hire a senior research manager. Candidates must be experienced researchers with a background in #language #education. https://careers.cambridge.org/jobs/vacancy/senior-research-manager-cambridge/5480/description/

Calling #Linguists dealing with spoken language:
Do you have a favourite tool for transcribing an interview while keeping data like dialect, pauses, etc.?

4yo: you want a sausage dog?

#linguistics #english #LangAcq #overgeneration ? (Help, #linguists, how do you call this thing here?) #parenting

#linguists (phonologists): Is it possible that the g in #English is its own syllable?

Bilingual 4yo just chanted:
Pe-pa Pig!
En-guh-lish!

Looking for help on this one: fellow #linguists, what's this phenomenon?
How is it that one intuitively and unproblematically interprets the reference of the NP "the first women" as restricted to "the first women [to receive an Oxford degree]"?

#linguistics @linguistics.

**Please** boost this, I’m trying to build a queryable DB for “reasons” :

If you speak any language* other than English well enough to know the vernacular, please reply with the translation or equivalent of

“go fuck yourself”

(singular imperative in whatever gendered - or nongendered as the case me be - formats you’re aware of)

Please & thank you

* to be clear, I’m looking for different languages, not dialects, as defined here https://iso639-3.sil.org

#Linguists ! and #Teachers !

Question: If I want to learn another language (written and spoken) and I know (native in) UK English (London to be specific) - then what is the closest European Language (structure wise) to English?

May or may not be relevant, but I can read musical notation (modern staff) and Guitar Tab but don't feel particularly skillful at language acquisition.

Thanks in advance !

#Linguists & NLPers: what textbook/articles wld you recommend to someone with some experience in #NLP / #NLProc who wishes to learn more about #language concepts / #linguistics?

With a bit more ling stuff then, say, the wonderful Jurafsky and Martin (3rd ed.)
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/

Would Languages Files be too much? (They are not on the path of becoming linguists; and it’s $$ far from free $$)

Any #linguists here? I’ve always been curious about how children develop accents. We’re not born with them. Presumably children learn through listening and imitation from parents?

My own accent is garbled. I never grew up in one place. Hence, I don’t have a regional accent.

But how does this work? Does it happen through listening or something else?

I’m just horrified at how since poor littleun would have to learn either a scouse accent or a brunmie one.

As #NecronomiconPVD approaches, so does the pace of our episode publishing. Just finished reading HP #Lovecraft's "The Picture in the House," featuring my poor attempt at mimicking Robert Shaw's Quint from Jaws, but it slides a little Southern and less "ancient Yankee," in parts.

But hey, who knows how people sounded in the 1700s. It's not like there were any recordings. Come at me, #linguists!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/1078223/15332846

Catch it at the direct link, or wait a minute and find it on your favorite podcast app. Just search for "Podsothoth" and you'll find it.