A dialect generator, converting standard Japanese text into one of over 50 kinds of vernacular. Perfect if you want one of your troll personas to sound like they're from the Tsugaru hinterlands or whatever.
A dialect generator, converting standard Japanese text into one of over 50 kinds of vernacular. Perfect if you want one of your troll personas to sound like they're from the Tsugaru hinterlands or whatever.
A good column, and thorough.
Laura Yuen: With some help from my colleagues at the Minnesota Star Tribune, here’s a short guide to regionalisms you may hear in our state and the Upper Midwest. Hopefully, native speakers will find this attempt at translation at least a notch above “not too bad.”
https://www.startribune.com/yuen-beyond-ope-and-you-betcha-theres-subtlety-in-the-minnesota-dialect/601438166?utm_source=gift
Thank goodness for something funny
This #professor really learned his #GenAlpha #dialect #languages #communcation #funny #haha
Comme certains ne savent peut-être pas comment utiliser l'instance expérimentale LibreTranslate dans laquelle il y a différents modèles de #traduction en #kabyle, voici un petit tuto vidéo à ce propos.
Ici on récupère l'URL de l'instance grâce à l'API et on l'insère dans l'application #Dialect (Flathub) :
Ça alors ! Le meilleur article sur la langue wallonne de l'année vient de paraitre (voire le meilleure des trois dernières années)… et il est publié en anglais par le Brussels Times !
https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1667726/belgiums-forbidden-language-at-the-point-no-return
Une fois de plus : tout le monde se rend bien compte de la valeur de notre patrimoine linguistique… sauf les Wallons eux-mêmes
I always feel like Hakka is like a fusion of Hokkien , Cantonese and cat yowling
They offered you “o-chazuke” — sounds cozy, right? Wrong. You’re being politely told: “Get out.” Learn how Kyotoites drop hints before a visit. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/06/20/language/kyoto-dialect-invitation-japanese/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #kyoto #dialect #kansai #osaka
#dialect : means or mode of expressing thoughts
- French: dialecte
- German: der Dialekt
- Italian: dialetto
- Portuguese: dialeto
- Spanish: dialecto
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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations
A test for the preponderance of American or UK/IE/IN/NZ/+ English. Which term is unambiguous to you?
The Secret Gay Slang of the Philippines
https://youtube.com/shorts/XiMiEOlC-sI?si=pggNT-DpqeJLW3oQ
> #language #linguistics #etymology #slang #lgbt #philippines #tagalog #dialect
Has anybody used #Glottolog data?
It is a database of languoids, that is, it contains information on dialects, languages and language families globally, their geographical "ranges", and inter-language relations, and has potential for some pretty cool analyses. Awesome #OpenData for sure. However, I am unsure how it compares to #WALS or #Ethnologue data.
"Nijmegen heeft allerlei stadsspecialisten: een stadsdichter, een stadsarchivaris, een stadsarcheoloog, een stadstekenaar … en nu ook een stadstaalkundige. Taalwetenschapper Luis Miguel Rojas-Berscia is de gelukkige en zoals zijn naam al doet vermoeden: hij is niet in Nijmegen met Nimweegs dialect opgegroeid."
https://www.ru.nl/onderzoek/onderzoeksnieuws/maak-kennis-met-een-nieuw-fenomeen-de-nijmeegse-stadstaalkundige #taal #dialect #Nijmegen #Nimweegs
#849 A.J. Lyne (ed) - Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, New Series, Vol VI, Part 3. Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro, 1971. #Cornwall #Kernow #AJLyne #RoyalInstitutionOfCornwall #Dialect #BookOfTheDay
unrleated but a friend asked how I pronounce the word "poem".
MEMORY UNLOCKED.
I was LIVID with a study workbook in Japan (so 6 to 10 y.o., which was 2nd or 3rd to 5th grade for me).
Fucking thing dinged me for saying "fire" was TWO syllables.
Because it IS!
If "fire" was ONE syllable, it would be "Far", a different fuckign word.
"Fai yer" or "fie err".
also unrelated https://uktransshop.co.uk/
and https://www.consortium.lgbt/member-directory/gender-construction-kit/