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#LinguistTwitter: What is your current level of proficiency for common notational systems in linguistic subfields?
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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA): internationalphoneticassociation.org/sites/default/…
Leipzig Glossing Rules: eva.mpg.de/lingua/resourc…
Linguist here. It looks like one of our biggest issues in this pandemic is convincing people that:
1. it is deadly serious
2. the consequences of their actions may be life or death.
I have some suggestions about how to talk about #COVID19 to help with this message. /1
1. it is deadly serious
2. the consequences of their actions may be life or death.
I have some suggestions about how to talk about #COVID19 to help with this message. /1
Our linguistic choices can amplify a message.
Or they can muddy it, and lessen its impact. /2
Or they can muddy it, and lessen its impact. /2
Here are three suggestions to help amplify the message of personal responsibility, communal responsibility, and harm reduction. /3
I wonder where the cut-off is between linguists who learned about IPA as phonetics before they knew about the beer. #linguisttwitter
(I first encountered the beer a few years into my linguistics program, so phonetics came first.)
(I first encountered the beer a few years into my linguistics program, so phonetics came first.)
Which one did you encounter first?
Hey #linguisttwitter, words with pronunciation pairs for which one pronunciation is interpreted as genuine/emphatic in meaning but the other is not? Is this a general thing?
E.g., I've heard that Canadians may say /ˈsɔɹi/ when they are sorry, but /ˈsɑɹi/ when they are not. 1/3
E.g., I've heard that Canadians may say /ˈsɔɹi/ when they are sorry, but /ˈsɑɹi/ when they are not. 1/3
I came to think of "snygg" ('pretty, good-looking') in Swedish, which is pronounced /snʏɡː/ but sometimes /snœɡː/ (even spelled "snögg") when you don't really mean it: "Oh, is that a new sweater? {Snygg=👍;Snögg=👎}". 2/3
Not thinking so much about emphatic pronouns and such, more like the function of phoneme quality (rather than prosody etc.) to signal these things. 3/3
