I tweet mostly about Linguistics and Tolkien | PhDing at @VUamsterdam about historical linguistics & North Halmahera langs | @SilmariaPodcast | {female markers}
Dec 31, 2023 • 24 tweets • 6 min read
Here's my take on the claims in this unfortunately rather ill-informed thread.
Like every form of art, you can like or dislike conlangs but not based on the arguments in this thread please. 1/19
1) most conlagers are extremely interested in natural languages (natlangs) and either use features they particulary like or try to come up with new ones. The latter can inform us about what language could possibly do but for some reason don't 2/19
1/ Yiddish is often said to consist of linguistic „components”, one of them being (Middle High) German. Why is that and what does it mean? We will now look at some phonological features that may (or may not) shed light on these questions. #LinguisticSunday
2/ Before we delve into this topic you need know that the history of Yiddish is controversially discussed by scholars. I’m limiting the topic to some linguistic facts and will address the controversies in separate threads, otherwise this would become a 100+ tweets thread.
