/ling/ - Linguistics General

>>1694622

So...
Someone did put "Human Lands" and the "Great Land without Humans" in Google Translate, And finally get bored and wrote the rest on English?

Pretty lame as linguistic, more so while memeing IndoEuropeans.

>>1694622
The fuck am I looking at? Explain like i'm 5 please.

Any resources for a beginner who wants to learn more about linguistics?

What does /ling/ think about the Pirahã

>>1695535
>Comparative Indo-European Linguistics - Robert S.P. Beekes
>An Introduction to English Morphology - Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMEFr7ghMTg&index=2&list=PLduA6tsl3gygfiWmGAhhHb4-HAqP6I63l A surprisingly good overview over phonetics
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRGtDF5VAywUVwgT51Ud6OQ A comparison of multiple germanic languages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETm2e4M7T4c A lecture on the ket language and it's relation to american nativ languages

>>1695535
linguistics is a broad field. there are people who examine historical changes and the contexts in which it happens, which makes them kind of anthro-lite. there are computational liguists who work with mathematical theory, automation, and decryption, and neurology. there are theorists who make up grand theories that no one cares about because they're unfalsifiable.

choose one.

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>>1694622
Is Lojban the biggest meme of them all?

>>1695852
Nothing will beat Ithkuil in terms of uselessness.

>>1695830
Computational linguistics sounds badass, even though it is probably far beyond my level. Any recommended youtube channels or books?

Where do people studying linguistics usually start?

>>1695540
A people turned into a living meme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3jWI4cPRMg

>>1696127
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory

I posted this in a thread earlier and I literally got ooga booga'd at.

it's not as far out, in terms of iq requirements as physics, but unlike physics, there's no "normie" content. you just have to dive straight into basic computation theory and neurology

http://www.musanim.com/miller1956/

prepare to ooga booga. the standard response to this kind of stuff is to bury your head in the sand and say "NUH UH IT'S RELALY SIMPLE. AN ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHER FROM 200 YEARS AGO SAID SO."

>>1696591
If it weren't for my monolingualism, then this would seem like a field I could study.

>>1696650
expectations are that you should be able to speak 3 languages fluently. one of them would generally be somewhat exotic.

it's actually one of the few extremely lucrative fields at the moment. if you have the quantitative skills to do it, I wouldn't shoot it down.