Tootfinder

Please remember to flag the correct language on your Mastodon posts! Otherwise, everyone else's language filtering doesn't work.
Signed, someone who doesn't want to keep seeing posts in languages he can't understand and therefore gets no value from.
#Mastodon #Language

YouTube... started defaulting to auto-translated audio.
It would default to my "preferred language".
My #preference is the original #language, and I speak multiple ones. That is not an option though. So I have to manually change the audio track or turn off CC all the time - w…

German would be much easier to read if they switched to AlwaysOnInterCaps.
#Language #LanguageLearning

Just published:
Supplementing CEFR-graded vocabulary lists for language learners by leveraging information on dictionary views, corpus frequency, part-of-speech, and polysemy
A machine-learning method to suggest word candidates for CEFR-graded vocabulary lists.
#CEFR level of previously unlabeled words
#linguistics #CEFR #frequency #dictionary #LanguageLearning

German-English connections: "anecken" and "to egg on." These words don't mean exactly the same thing, but they are related. Etymologically, they seem closely related. English is a Germanic language. And phrasal verbs offer up interesting connections.
#language #linguistics

Here is my latest Human Meme podcast episode!
#language

Fun podcast, but I love reading A Way with Words at #WordOrigins #Language
...Bab…

Mox Nix (episode #1662)
You might be surprised to learn that a “hoosier” isn’t necessarily from Indiana. Around the St. Louis, Missouri, area, the term hoosier has a whole other meaning. And: Scotland is the home of the…

My wife and I just watched a show on Kanopy, called Language Matters with Bob Holman--by David Grubin, 2015.
It was just top-notch. It was about 3 endangered cultures: the 1st was on islands off N. Australia, the 2nd was Welsh, and the 3rd was Hawaiian.
I'm going to watch it again, right after I think about it some more.
#Language

ESSLLI 2025 is officially closed! Thank you all so much for being here 🥰 #esslli2025 #logic #language #information #rub

Baumschule. Where trees are taught to behave from a very young age.
#nursery #German #Deutsch #language

🤩Last day of #esslli2025 ! 😅
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#ESSLLI2025 ! #rub #logic #language

Getting ready for #ESSLLI2025 ! #rub #logic #language #information