#languages

Is Python causing performance issues with your small embedded machine? The Lua programming language may be a better alternative
https://www.makerspace-online.com/rpi-plus-temperature-sensor-to-talk-to-a-ps-vita-display-2/?utm_source=mms
#RaspberryPi #Lua #Python #programming #languages #performance #Bash #scripting #PSVita

Листья распускаются. Leaves are budding. #spring in #Russian #RussianVocabulary #русский #languages. #LearnRussian with us: https://thelanguagegarage.com/spring-in-russian/

Josh Billings’ book was a flop until he rewrote it phonetically (more or less)

Pete Metcalfe shows you how to create a Julia graphical user interface, micro-web server, and charting apps that communicate with Raspberry Pi hardware
https://www.makerspace-online.com/julia-programming-language-on-a-raspberry-pi/?utm_source=mms
#Julia #languages #RaspberryPi #hardware #SBC #programming #DataScience #AI #Jupyter #Python #GUI

The Sanskrit word ‘maitri’/ Pali word ‘metta’ is translated as loving-kindness or love in Buddhist philosophy. In Bangla it’s also a synonym for ‘mother’ #Languages #TheMoreYouKnow

Edit: after consulting with the experts (the other Bengali in the house), we’ve come to the conclusion that I was wrong. The actual Bangla word means ‘friend/ship’. #TheMoreYouKnowButTheCorrectOne

The question “Who are we?” in the four languages/language varieties used by the Kurds: Kurmanji, Sorani, Zazaki, and Gorani.
#jazykysveta #languages #linguistics #middleeast #kurdish #kurds #stanford #conference

Once again getting my mind blown by languages and etymology. The Pali word samatha leads to samādhi which is also the Bangla word for grave or final resting place. I mean it’s not a complete surprise. Although not direct, Bangla is a descendant of Pali. It’s kinda refreshing is learn Buddhism concepts through the Bangla lens #Languages #buddhism

Я очень рекомендую, вы должны посмотреть это!I highly recommend it, you should see it! #movies #films in #Russian. #languages. #RussianLessons: https://thelanguagegarage.com/movies-in-russian/

In honor of the general elections coming up in Singapore I’ll share some Singaporean terms in various languages.

1. KPKB

When you see this, it’s the colorful Hokkien phrase ‘kao peh kao bu’

It means ‘crying for both my father and mother’

This usually refers to ‘making a scene’. As in ‘boss gave him extra work to do at the last minute so he kpkb’

In political terms, my minister of parliament (Iswaran) was recently arrested for one of the worst corruption cases in our history, so you can be sure his party is KPKB right now

#Singapore #Languages

Realised that AI's LLMs are -also- shaped by the dark undercurrents of misinformation, hate speech, and the overwhelming tide of low-quality writing that permeates our digital landscape. It’s a troubling thought, isn’t it?

#AItrainging #TrainingAI #AI #LLM #LargeLanguageModelsLLM_ #misinformation #falacy #hatespeech #bigotry #literacy #languages #LargeLanguageModelsLLM_

I want to say: 'This beautiful tinkling of the rain piano!'

Then I see that it's quite ambiguous. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tinkling

In German, if the rain piano plays forte, we say "es pisst" (it's pissing).

#Languages are as fascinating as #rain after so many dry weeks.

#wordplay on a #piano #idioms #poetry #LearningLanguages

Week 15

Root: *ẉ3tru-ṃ ('solemn ritual, solemnity')

- utrum [ 'u.tɾum ] - marriage (noun, PART sg case utruma)

- utrumein [ u.'tɾu.meɪ̯n ] - to marry s.o. (transitive verb, active mode)

aorist: hutrũima
perfect: vetrumu

- intransitive, medium mode form:
utrumethein [ u.'tɾu.me.θeɪ̯n ] - to get married

- utru(gh)ellos [ u.'tɾu.(ɣ)e.lˠos ] - groom
- utru(gh)elmas [ u.'tɾu.(ɣ)el.mas ] - bride
(spelling differs per region)

@conlang #language #linguistics #languages #conlang

Break. Halfway through the text. There's nothing more boring than having to translate your own text, one that's riddled with technical terms from oil mining and ecology. I feel like I'm running a marathon. Who makes me a coffee?

#translation #essay #languages

**Empires and their Languages: Reflections on the History and the Linguistics of Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra**

“_Our interest in the history of lingua franca and lingua sacra is a contemporary one, and while examining a range of historic cases we will start from a modern point de vue, using concepts, categories and analyses from contact linguistics. Beyond history and linguistics, we will draw also on disciplines such as anthropology, cultural history, theology, the social history of language, Wissensgeschichte, global intellectual history, and so forth._”

Salverda, Reinier (2018). Empires and their Languages: Reflections on the History and the Linguistics of Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra. In: Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra. Berlin: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften. DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.34663/9783945561133-04.

#Languages #Linguistics #Academia #Academics #DOI @linguistics

Eavesdropping on old people talking in different Chinese dialects, I’m always surprised to hear the variety. Sometimes I understand all of it (especially any southern Min language variant, I’ll understand at least 70% of it). I don’t really understand any Wu or Yue languages natively. I could if I tried hard. Min (Hokkien, Teochew) and Yue (Cantonese, Toishanese) are the primary Chinese languages in the diaspora. My parents speak the range really well.

Sometimes one person talks in a Chinese dialect and the other replies in another. Either a whole other Chinese language or a whole other language (people speaking Cantonese and getting Vietnamese replies is very common). My grandparents used to call this ‘chicken and duck talks’. Pretty certain someone is speaking Hoklo and Hakka and the other person is responding in a Hokkien variant.

I’m so saddened by the decline in Chinese language diversity, largely as a result of Mandarian imperialism the world over.

#Chinese #languages

Can be ON anything really some ideas for book topics: -Metaphors and they effect us in the modern day -The limits and problems with translation and beauty from faults -How capitalism effects our language and relations
-The tyranny of the Dictionary

Philosophy relationship with language -How language effect love
How therapy talk can be suffocating -Language and colonialism
-The Language of religion

I have been thinking about language more and more recently and how we use it and want to read some theory on it

Most spoken #language in every #US #state, other than English and Spanish

#Aleut #German #Navajo #Chinese #Portuguese #French #HaitianCreole #Korean #Japanese #Arabic #Polish #Hmong #Vietnamese #Tagalog #Russian #Dakota #languages #linguistics #immigration #immigrant #immigrants #map #maps #graphic #graphics #data #visualization #DataViz

Question for non-native English speakers: would you say there is enough high-quality scientific information for those with non-science backgrounds in your language? (You can also add your language in the comments and elaborate if you’d like.)

In my native language (Romanian), I’ve noticed there is a vacuum that in recent years has been filled alarmingly fast by pseudoscientific, new agey hogwash. Trying to point people towards high-quality information is quite a daunting task, since there is very little available, so I’m curious how this looks in other languages.

Please consider boosting for reach. Thanks!

#science #SciComm #languages #misinformation

@languagelovers @music also earwormed by Dulguun by The Lemons

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=nI5vzYmmB9I

#Mongolian #rock #music #languages @languagelovers @music

Hey, I remembered the word, ‘ainsi’ and what it meant. That must add at least 0.001% to my French powers. Ansi, my French is about 15% complete then.

#français #french #language #languages