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Lie vs Lay https://hynek.me/articles/lie-vs-lay/ #Language #Grammar #Writing

Japanese has a word for when your husband makes you sick. Learn the language behind one of Japan's most surprising ideas about marriage and retirement. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2026/07/17/language/japanese-husband-stress-illness/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #language #nihongo #vocabulary #grammar #jlptn2 #jlptn3 #retirement

If you think you can spot AI slop in writing, think again – the models have evolved (and diverged) 🧐: “How To Spot AI Writing”, The Economist (https://www.economist.com/culture/2026/07/30/how-to-spot-ai-writing or https://archive.is/DAhaj) #GenAI #AI #LLMs #Slop #AISlop #Writing #English #Language #Style #Grammar

What's a word for a person who used to do something? e.g. Jane is a ______ contributor to the project. It's not alumni. It's not posthumous because the person is still alive. #English #vocabulary #grammar

@wikidata@wikis.world Cool tool! However, I find myself confused on the hyphenation tasks. I thought that hyphenation and syllabification were two different things. I thought that hyphenation was a typography concern and syllabification was related to phonology. But the hyphenation task references this hyphenation property: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P5279 which defines hyphenation as "positions where a word can be hyphenated" and yet, in the "also known as" column, includes the term "syllabification". Which is it? For example, the word "Japanology". For hyphenation, I would leave "ology" as a phonological suffix, and the only hyphen would be between "Japan" and "ology". "Japan‧ology". I've always heard that hyphenation is more a matter of taste than a strict set of rules. But for syllabification, I would want the number of syllables to equal the number of vowel sounds (five). So syllabification would look something like "Ja‧pan‧ol‧o‧gy". Though frankly, it seems that there are a whole bunch of rules for syllabification that I either was never taught in school or have thoroughly forgot. Dropping some linguistics-related tags below to see if I can nerd-snipe anybody into providing more authoritative and/or helpful commentary. #english #grammar #syntax #morphology #phonology #linguistics

@bazkie@beige.party @sknob@mamot.fr I’ve been thinking this morning (while it is 6.8°C *inside*) on writing music when one has little formal training. Something akin to “Structure by Ear”. I’ve listened all my nearly 6 decades to a vast amount of music but I still get hung up on the most basic concepts like Verse and Chorus. This feels like the #Grammar in #MusicTheory, and my comfort with grammar in my native language is not very significant. My response to the terms Verse and Chorus is very similar to how I respond to being asked to diagram a sentence. Instant paralysis! I want to talk to you all about music, but rely on art metaphor and cooking analogies to mask my lack of knowledge and I find this a little frustrating. On some levels I suppose it doesn’t really matter if one still creates, but I wish I had some better command of the terms and language of music. #MudicProduction #MusicEducation

⚡ #Harper is an offline, privacy-first #grammar checker for developers, written in #Rust and maintained by #Automattic #opensource It lints a document in milliseconds and uses less than 1/50th of LanguageTool's memory footprint 🧵👇

The Write to Good Grammar https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-write-to-good-grammar-183279cd #Writing #Grammar #Language

You know when you've been using grammar correctly for a long time because it's just kind of a part of the way the language works? And then suddenly you learn the proper rule? That was me today with coordinate and cumulative adjectives. And as I was doing some edits, I started adding commas between my cumulative adjectives. It felt wrong, so I looked it up... And it was wrong. Now I need to fix the chaos I hath wrought. https://kristenstieffel.com/when-to-use-commas-between-adjectives/ #writingcommunity #amWriting #grammar

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116855182902859321 #fediverse #mastodon and by the way i'm looking for a welcoming friend as teacher here to help improve my english. Please friend don't let friend with a poor #grammar or a bad #english, any #help is welcome. You are free to DM me. Thanks!

The Adjective Word Order We All Follow Without Realizing It https://kottke.org/16/09/the-adjective-word-order-we-all-follow-without-realizing-it #Language #Linguistics #Grammar

@thatkatharine@ohai.social Mm, maybe, but it's even more complicated than that, because American English often uses the simple past where the present perfect would be better: so, instead of "have you eaten?" we hear "did you eat yet?" I'm afraid it's one of my pet hates, because it blurs a useful distinction that the language makes readily available. In UK English, "Have you eaten?" asks whether you're hungry, whereas "did you eat?" discusses a historical event with no direct consequences in the present. Anyway. Sorry. I'll stop ranting. The language used doesn't necessarily suggest that Covid is over: it depends on the idiolect of the author, particularly if the author is American. #grammar #nitpick #rant