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@UP8@mastodon.social
2026-01-02 16:11:22

🎶 Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
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Pleasant-sounding words are easier to remember, pseudoword experiment shows
Which words do we find beautiful? And do beautifully sounding words stick better in memory? A new study led by linguist Theresa Matzinger from the University of Vienna suggests that the phonemic composition of words influences how beautiful we perceive them to be, and how well we remember them. The findings are published in the journal PLOS One.

@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social
2026-01-30 15:15:07

"Digitizing Intangible Culture, Identity and Memory: Eurotales, a Museum of the Voices of Europe"
#language

Digitizing Intangible Culture, Identity and Memory: Eurotales, a Museum of the Voices of Europe
The open-ended project-in-development called Eurotales: A Museum of the Voices of Europe is an experimental online museum that is based on the underlying question of “how can one present and communicate, in museological form, the intangible culture of languages as they are and have been used across Europe?” Its response is to turn to digital technology to explore and create displays that foreground language uses as culture, as identity, and as memory. The aim is to show and explore the actu…

@ulfhenrich@mastodon.social
2025-12-27 12:15:54

In #Germany we don‘t say Sneak Peek, we say
#language

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-11-14 05:51:16

Guys. I just understood a Spanish meme on the first try 😆
#language
masto.es/@emersson/11554646958

@ckent@urbanists.social
2025-11-06 08:34:29

It took me slightly too long to find out why everything around here is labelled “IJ”, but this is an unrelated discovery that also supports my theory about “Y”.
#Dutch #Amsterdam #language