Similar charts ranking languages by "difficulty" in function of the time needed to reach "proficiency" are regularly being shared on social media. www.economist.com/graphic-deta... Here's why they are to be taken with a mountain of salt 🧵 #langsky

Several interesting BOOK 📚 feeds by genre in French! 🇫🇷 (and a SCI-FI FANTASY book feed in English 🇺🇸🇬🇧)

Anne L’Huillier won the Nobel prize in Physics today in the middle of class, and carried on with her lecture after. Dedication! 😃🧪

Similar charts ranking languages by "difficulty" in function of the time needed to reach "proficiency" are regularly being shared on social media. www.economist.com/graphic-deta... Here's why they are to be taken with a mountain of salt 🧵 #langsky

from a FB friend — how common is it, cross-culturally, to assign names to inanimate objects? e.g. boats, cars, favored houseplants... I'm also curious about cross-linguistic tendencies in this type of naming... anymore know of research? (kinda #linguistics, is there also #anthropology?)

Non so niente di troppe cose per tenerne conto, però a volte affiora un'ignoranza che mi dà nostalgia. - Erri De Luca ("Tre cavalli") 🇮🇹 I can hardly keep track of the things I don’t know, but every now and then comes an ignorance that makes me nostalgic. - Erri De Luca ("Three horses") 🇬🇧🇺🇸

WAR INTERPRETERS A brilliant and poignant action thriller about the tragic fate of the Afghan war interpreters, who risked their lives for the U.S. military and were left behind in a country where they're considered traitors, and the veterans trying to fulfill the US duty. #langsky #xl8

Reposting this because I still see language-related posts floating around in the interfeedic void. To ALL: add your posts related to your field/displine/hobby to their respective feeds so that users with the same interests can more easily find them. Find relevant feeds on goodfeeds.co

Antarctic scientists showed tiny, early signs of a new accent after spending all winter in isolated groups talking to each other. Cool to see exactly how the process of language divergence starts #langsky

Reposting this because I still see language-related posts floating around in the interfeedic void. To ALL: add your posts related to your field/displine/hobby to their respective feeds so that users with the same interests can more easily find them. Find relevant feeds on goodfeeds.co

Yesterday, I approached a Moroccan lady for directions and we started chatting, being both foreigners in Germany. She had an armful of flowers she'd just cut in her garden. Out of the blue, she gave me the bouquet with such a warm, generous smile. It made my heart melt and cry a little inside.

A few #ff just to mention some people I didn't know at The Other Place but love here Thank you to @robonabike.bsky.social @emgenius.art @jaynehilditch.bsky.social @carpeidiom.bsky.social @emms.bsky.social @jenbren.bsky.social @adamcsharp.bsky.social for general timeline improvement

Allez c'est parti pour la foire aux favoris #ff Je vous conseille deux têtes bien faites et bien pleines @carpeidiom.bsky.social qui a moults talents cachés (dont de motarde) et @swamilee.xyz du sud de la botte Deux belles âmes numériques à sang bleu bsky.app/profile/did:...

There is no barrier of entry to make art.

THREAD PREFERENCES: You can now choose in which order you want replies to the same post to appear. You can also test the threaded mode and prioritise your follows. HOME FEED PREFERENCES: You can choose to only see replies betw ppl you follow.

Dostoevsky’s "mind map" draft of Brothers Karamazov, 1880. I'm old enough to remember the days before word processing, but hell... Just a reminder that there is no one way to #write or one set of rules that will make you an "Author." Part of the hard work is figuring out what works for you

Do you have cool pics of Berlin's linguistic landscape = graffiti, ads, public signs, especially on language practices or in varieties other than (Standard) German? Then please send them to me, we'll analyze them with my students of German Studies at Leiden Uni in our sociolinguistics class!

Here's a very complete guide on Bluesky by @emgenius.art. The guide is in French, but you can use your browser's translator to read it in your language. www.ecranmobile.fr/Bluesky-Manu...

Remember to update to the latest Bsky 1.51 (including on Web!): - easier access to all your feeds (now # symbol left on Web & bottom on app) - add. suggested follows - improvements on thread readability, language settings and translation & many more. (Note: reply settings default again to 2).

We should create a Bsky community for insomniacs where we could talk our middle-of-the-night nonsense or share unusual and bizarre legends with other sleep-deprived zombies like us.

LUFT HANSA. Originally written separately, is composed of the words Luft (air) and Hansa (Old High German for "group"), in reference to the shipping and trading tradition of the HANSEATIC LEAGUE, a league of merchant guilds and market towns in N. and Central Europe. #langsky

The song that always helped me to focus and get back on track, when things go sideways in my head, is the one below. It allowed me put words on things I never understood consciously, to the point that it was literally a catharsis.

Pont du Gard, France 🇫🇷 The world's highest Roman aquaduct, built in 40-60 CE. The Pont du Gard has remained largely intact, due to the importance of its secondary function as a toll bridge. It is to this day one of the best preserved Roman aqueducts in the world. 📷📸 Motorbike roadtrip, 2017

Tip: if you're not seeing some posts in your TL or feeds or you see no reactions to yours, it may be due to your language settings. It's best to uncheck all languages (in Content AND Post languages) otherwise you might not see some posts (even if written in a language you've selected) & vice versa.

#langsky

Green reflections, Lake Annecy, France 📸📷🇫🇷 #Saturdaymorningmood #ThrowbackSaturday

Many disciplines/fields now have their own feeds. Feeds are to Bsky what library sections are to a library. Linguists and language nerds, use the #langsky or #linguistics tag to add your language-related posts to the dedicated "section" (= feed), instead o/t general one (where we might not see them)

A few multilingual TV series: TEHRAN Persian, Hebrew and English TOKYO VICE Japanese, English DROPS OF GOD French, Japanese, English, (Italian) THE GIRL FROM OSLO Norwegian, English, Arabic, Hebrew SUBURRA Italian, Romanesco, Sinte Romani, Latin FAUDA Hebrew, Arabic #langsky 🎥

Paul Rand's logo for IBM, 1982

« Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. » Marilyn Monroe — © Dane Shoe

A few multilingual TV series: TEHRAN Persian, Hebrew and English TOKYO VICE Japanese, English DROPS OF GOD French, Japanese, English, (Italian) THE GIRL FROM OSLO Norwegian, English, Arabic, Hebrew SUBURRA Italian, Romanesco, Sinte Romani, Latin FAUDA Hebrew, Arabic #langsky 🎥

One of the most irregular verbs of the French language, ALLER (to go), is derived from THREE different Latin verbs: IRE ➡️ irai, irons... / irais, irions... VADERE ➡️ vais, vas, va, vont AMBULARE ➡️ allons, allez / allais, allions... / allai, allâmes... #langsky #etymology #French

Probably the first example of boustrophedon writing on Bluesky.

#Wordoftheday BOUSTROPHEDON: an ancient way of writing in alternate lines from R to L and L to R, instead of always from L to R (English), or R to L (Hebrew, Arabic). Lit. "turning as an ox in plowing", from Greek βοῦς (bous, ox) and στροφή (strophei, turning spec. of a horse or ox) #langsky

Good morning Bsky! ☀️☕📚✍️ What are you up to today? #langsky #shelfie

1/n 🧵 I see lots of new users complaining about missing hashtags etc. Please, just take the time to see how Bsky works. This place is not designed to be a Twitter clone. Custom feeds have all the same advantages (and more) as hashtags on Twitter, without the defects. They are the magic tool here.

Chemical elements named after the city where they were discovered: Strontium < Strontian, a village in Scotland Lutetium < Lutetia, the Latin name for Paris         Darmstadtium < Darmstadt, a city in Germany Hafnium < Hafnia, Latin name for Copenhagen   Berkelium < Berkeley, CA #langsky #etymology

Golden hour on my side of the world. Good morning Bsky! ☀️☕🥐

🥳 Happy Birthday to Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) who had the remarkable gift of weaving engaging stories & academic insights seamlessly between #paleo #evobio #histsci & #philsci with an eye to social justice & making the world a better place. (Covers of two books of his I teach from)

Anyone interested in doing a FREE online course on the Egyptian hieroglyphic script (in #French) ? The MOOC is organised by the Departement of Egyptology o/t University of Liège 🇧🇪 and the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale. www.fun-mooc.fr/fr/cours/les... #langsky #linguistics

NEW @yellowmint.xyz.wf created a thread splitter for Bluesky! Just paste your text into the upper box and the tool will automatically split the text into separate posts. No need to manually mark or number your threads anymore, "the tool does (almost) all the work" lemonmeant.github.io/splitter/

Recently-discovered inscriptions in Tajikistan helped scholars decipher an ancient script that’s eluded scholars for 70 years.    From this breakthrough they identified a previously unknown Middle Iranian language they associate with the Kushan Empire: www.livescience.com/archaeology/...   1/n

📸📷 #Roses #urbanjungle #balcony

This is heartbreaking. One of only two major prizes for disability literature is failing after just 3 years. Please repost, like, etc. Someone must have some ideas/support/money. ♿️ 📚💙

Maltese, the language spoken on Malta, is an interesting linguistic curiosity! It is based o/t now extinct Siculo-Arabic, spoken by the people who set off from Sicily to settle in Malta ca. 1048-49. It's also the only Semitic language of the EU 🇪🇺 and the only one written in Latin script. #langsky

The sad life of the brilliant Lucia Joyce, artist and daughter of the author of 'Finnegans Wake'. How many women like her were institutionalized simply because they were just a little too sensual, too brilliant, too wild or too eccentric and refused to fit the mold? #booksky #biography

This is a fractally complex rabbit hole. For a long time, typewriters lacked a “1” key, with the expectation that “I” would serve the purpose. They were the same shape, after all, and all you were coding was display, not semantics.