łaá siri is a conlang I have worked on for over 5 years. Notable features include: an inventory of merely 10 phonemes, a complicated grammatical system of pitch-accent, and verbal conjugation for five degrees of spatial deixis. I have worked extensively on it since January of 2011, and it has gone through various revisions, and is currently being revised.
For the record I used the word "siri" to mean "language" before Apple's iPhone with Siri came out. >:c
So, I have been offered admission to all but 1 of the linguistics PhD programs I applied to! That means, U. of British Columbia (currently top choice), U. Chicago, UC Berkeley, and U. Hawaii. Does anyone here in the tumblrverse have any perspective they can offer on any of these linguistics programs? Pros, cons, insider tips, insight, sagacious wisdom? I am unexpectedly in a position of making a hard decision. :’)
Are these two sentences truth-conditionally equivalent?
1a. Dogs are not rocks.
1b. Rocks are not dogs.
(i.e. does the order of the arguments in a negated copular construction matter?)
“Yoink” is the opposite of “Yeet”
But it’s just as fast
The Lord yeeteth and the Lord yoinketh away
In many ‘Spaghetti Western’ films, a broad sub-genre of American Western films that emerged during the 1960s in the midst of Sergio Leone’s film-making success, many of the vuglar roles Native Americans were hired to act in forced them into offensive portrayals with little attention paid to authenticity, with emphasis only placed on painting them as “simple savages.” As a result, many American filmmakers paid little attention to actually translating the indigenous languages for what they were saying on screen. As a result, many actors were able to say what they really felt.
Reel Injun, Documentary (2009)
it’s on netflix right now for anyone that wants to catch it
This is such a good documentary, guys. I try and convince all my students to watch it. It was made by Neil Diamond, a Cree filmmaker, and it’s an utterly fascinating look at portrayals of indigenous peoples in North American cinema.
Need to watch.
Here’s an excerpt of an original fairy tale that I just finished writing in łaá siri. No idea where the inspiration came from but it just flowed out of me! PDF HERE (for the interlinear)