Robert Fromont @robertfromont@scholar.social

It amazes and angers me so much that languages across the world are being undermined and going extinct at such a high rate because of the online world.

There is no justifiable reason that all languages aren't provided for digitally. "Big-tech" makes billions and they can't spend thousands to pay translation and localisation to help the world.

Instead it's English 1st, major languages 2nd and everyone else waits for scraps.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/maori-language-tech

FlorisBoard #FOSS keyboard for #Android has a bloody IPA layout 🤯 😮 ​

R and R-like sounds!

Episode 55 of @lingthusiasm https://t.co/kbmp4xs0Ia #linguistics

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

— Carl Sagan

#quote #CarlSagan

Bonus 50 of @lingthusiasm, on Talking to babies and small children

Plus a Lingthusiasm liveshow about backchanneling on April 24th - get tickets now! https://t.co/oqUhlgRPs3 #linguistics

#LingFest, an online festival of linguistics beginning Saturday, April 24 https://t.co/RW5ALpI7SQ #linguistics

All too often I hear "how can we justify funds to maintain research software?"

But really, we should be asking "How can we justify _not_ funding it?"

My colleagues and I wrote a thing: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-021-00048-5

Shakespeare sounds a certain way. Why? And why could it only work in English?

I collaborated on another video with @tomscott, this time about how the structure of a language influences how poetry can be written in it. https://t.co/gZImQtE2hc #linguistics

How linguists figure out the grammar of a language

Episode 54 of @lingthusiasm https://t.co/5YW8Lr6SzS #linguistics

Bonus 49 of @lingthusiasm: The episode-episode (Reduplication) https://t.co/ibqHOwSrqk #linguistics