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De aquĆ salió el maravilloso meme de los portadores de ataĆŗdes bailarines, el mejor meme de todos los tiempos. Y aunque nunca he querido un funeral, ahora quiero que ellos bailen en el mĆo.

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Etymologies of African Currencies.
Syllables are the building blocks of spoken language. And now a study of brain activity hints at how we extract them from a stream of speech
ā[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you canāt afford the first monthās rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you donāt have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which ā in addition to its nutritional deficits ā is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor ā especially with children to support and care for ā is a perpetual high-wire act.ā
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Prince Philip has done the world an extraordinary service by exposing the racist hypocrisy of "Western civilisation".
A good lesson on journalism, too, and about how to do things with words.

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Fundéu recomienda usar proceso de destitución .
LGBTQ Mexicans arrested 1935 x Plus LGBTQ Mexicans in the 1940s
A set of pictures of Mexicans, purportedly arrested for homosexuality in 1935. The photo belongs to the collection of the National Photo Library of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico.
Very little is known about the detainees themselves, except these pictures are dated around 1940. These pictures come from Lecumberri prison in Mexico City. Up until 1976, gay men were imprisoned in the prison ward J, or Jota. Joto(s) is still a common homophobic slur in Mexico.
Las ālĆderes lingüĆsticasā estĆ”n en contacto con personas de diferentes clases sociales y generaciones.
2019 Australian 50c coin celebrates International Year of Indigenous Languages
Every year Australia produces a 50c coin to celebrate the theme of the UN International Year. This year itās the International Year of Indigenous Languages, and a coin has been created with a design that includes the word forĀ ācoinā or āmoneyā in 14 different languages.
(image via indigenous.gov.au)
Iāll be keeping my eye out for one, in the mean time thereās an interactive page at the Mint that lets you click on each of the words and learn more about the language. And if you want to make sure some coin goes towards Indigenous languages you could donate to AIATSIS or RNLD.
Palabras Domingueras #2
trƩmulo, la
Del lat. tremÅlus.
1. adj. Que tiembla.
2. adj. Dicho de una cosa: Que tiene un movimiento o agitación semejante al temblor; como la luz de una vela.

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Palabras Domingueras #1
cosmogonĆa
Del gr. ĪŗĪæĻμογονία kosmogonĆa.
1. f. Relato mĆtico relativo a los orĆgenes del mundo.
2. f. TeorĆa cientĆfica que trata del origen y la evolución del universo.
However it originated, though, the usage of ābecause-nounā (and of ābecause-adjectiveā and ābecause-gerundā) is one of those distinctly of-the-Internet, by-the-Internet movements of language. It conveys focus (linguist Gretchen McCulloch: āIt means something like āIām so busy being totally absorbed by X that I donāt need to explain further, and you should know about this because itās a completely valid incredibly important thing to be doingāā). It conveys brevity (Carey: āIt has a snappy, jocular feel, with a syntactic jolt that allows long explanations to be forgoneā āIt has a snappy, jocular feel, with a syntactic jolt that allows long explanations to be forgoneā).
But it also conveys a certain universality. When I say, for example, āThe talks broke down because politics,ā Iām not just describing a circumstance. Iām also describing a category. Iām making grand and yet ironized claims, announcing a situation and commenting on that situation at the same time. Iām offering an explanation and rolling my eyes ā and Iām able to do it with one little word. Because variety. Because Internet. Because language.
The theme of this yearās NAACL, which ended last week, was data bias and privacy, topics of great social consequence. On the former, manyā¦
A very good overview by Adina Williams of why machine translation is hard and why itās useful to have humans (and especially linguists) in the loop to know which things require more context. Excerpt:Ā
So, now weāve seen three new examples of where translations fail. They are very well controlled: in each example of a translation mismatch, weāre translating only a single sentence with only one grammatical system. In reality, pairs of languages may differ across numerous grammatical systems, even within the same sentence. We could have wanted to translate Turkish sentences with both āgenderlessā pronouns and evidentiality into English, and then we would multiple the potential translation alternatives.Ā
These three examples are just the three I could think up off the top of my head post-NAACL (as I write this, Iām reminded of others to try: we could look at translation mismatches in case, determiners and definites, question particles, clusivity, numeral classifiers, and this list could definitely go on and on).
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In Scottish Gaelic, to ask where someone is from you ask Cò Ć s a tha thu? ā which roughly translates as who are your people? Most of Scotlandās Gaelic speaking population are based in the Highlands and Western Isles, a smattering of islands to the top left of the mainland. Gaelic is considered an endangered language, with a speaking population of around 60,000 according to the last census. Scotlandās relationship with the Gaelic language is fraught and self-destructive, from the legacy of the ethnolinguistic genocide of the Highland Clearances, to the modern-day upward battle to restore the language in mainstream Scottish society. But like wider Scotland, the Gaelic world projects an image of post-racial homogeneity and fails to address the whiteness that stifles the community. This means that speakers of colour are pushed to the fringe and regarded not only as uncommon, but abnormal.

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While weāre losing biological diversity, weāre also losing linguistic and cultural diversity at the same time. This is no coincidence.
Welsh and other smaller language movements on Wikimedia projects suggest there may be ways to train technology to allow for cultural differences.
An article in Slate about the role of Wikipedia in creating language tools. Excerpt:Ā
Although Alexa still does not speak or understand Welsh, the Celtic languageās presence in tech has increased dramatically within a short period. Google announced in February that it had expanded its offerings in Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive to include Welsh. And Google Translateāinfamous since 2009 for its Scymraeg, or scummy Welshāhas, according to the BBC, recently taken a great leap forward in terms of the accuracy and quality of its Welsh translations. Morlais and others attribute this in part to the fact that there are now more than 100,000 articles on the Welsh version of Wikipedia, known as Wicipedia.
Like other language editions, Wicipedia is a separate website with its own content, not simply a translation of English Wikipedia, a distinction that matters for both users and big tech companies. Back in 2017, Morlais observed, āThere appears to be an indication that there is a link between the languages with the most Wikipedia articles or pages and the languages that are supported by the digital giants.ā Google Translate and other technologies use artificial neural networks to learn from example, training themselves with language data from rich internet sources like Welsh Wikipedia.
The Welsh community is not alone in using wiki-technology to promote its language. This yearās Celtic Knot conference in Cornwall, England, included several indigenous languages with their own Wikipedia editions. The original idea, as the name suggests, was to focus on Celtic languages, including Irish, Scots, Breton, Welsh, and Cornish, which was declared extinct merely a decade ago. But as word got out about a Wikipedia minority language conference, others began to join, representing, for example, the SĆ”mi language spoken in parts of Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Russia; the Berber family of languages spoken in Northern Africa; and the Basque and Catalan communities. (In his 2017 presentation, Morlais noted that Catalan was one of the few minority languages supported by Google search, an accomplishment he linked to the fact that Catalan already had more than 500,000 articles on its language edition of Wikipedia.)
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