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P e p u é
@melancotopia.bsky.social
Lingüista (ENAH) interesado en Lengua de Señas Mexicana, semántica, morfología y filosofía del lenguaje.

Ente melancólico entre la metáfora, la psicodelia y la distopía.

Homo linguisticus Ⓐ ▲ ◯ ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ
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The five countries of the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) have overcome years of disagreements about letters and diacritical marks to agree on a common Latin alphabet for their languages that consists of 34 letters.
December 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Scholars claim to have determined the language of mysterious glyphs of Teotihuacan, the site of the most well-known Mesoamerican pyramids 🧵
December 17, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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AI is helping reconstruct damaged Latin inscriptions

Google DeepMind and historians created an AI tool called Aeneas that can predict the missing words in Latin inscriptions carved into stone walls and pottery sherds from the ancient Roman Empire.

www.newscientist.com/article/2489...
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Invierno lluvioso. Perfecto para lo que se viene.
December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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The word “hibernate” derives from the Latin word “hiems” ‘winter’, which would seem to imply that there’s a Latin-derived word for ‘summering’ as well—and there is!

May I present “estivate” (or “aestivate”), ‘to spend the summer in a certain place or doing a certain activity’. 😎
December 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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linguistics, n. — the scientific study of language

Today is World Linguistics Day! Here’s what linguistics is all about.

#WorldLinguisticsDay #linguistics #science #language #dialect #accent #phonetics #syntax #words #grammar
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Why is it “humans” and not “humen”?

Because “man” and “human” are completely unrelated words!

“man” is a Germanic word that comes from Proto-Indo-European *man- ‘man’, but “human” is from Latin “humanus” ‘of man, human’, and comes from the Proto-Indo-European word *dhghem- ‘earth’!
November 13, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Why do all languages have words for ‘this’ and ‘that’?

Researchers studied more than 1,000 speakers of 29 languages to see how they use demonstratives—words that show where something is in relation to the person talking (“this cat”, “that dog”).
November 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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La fortuna de Adán Augusto es un pantano escabroso: aparecen y desaparecen bienes...

www.sinembargo.mx/4716664/la-f...
October 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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How Much Businesses In Europe Are Taxed On $100k of Profit

(US is 21% on average by comparison)

Source: businessfinancing.co.uk/map...
October 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🚨 #ÚltimaHora | Con 83 votos a favor y 38 en contra, el Senado aprobó en lo general la reforma a la Ley de Amparo, unas horas después de haberla recibido de la Cámara de Diputados.
October 15, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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‼️ Amenazas, cabildeo y manipulación: Coca-Cola saca su arsenal para combatir impuesto

Las refresqueras, ayudadas de distintas asociaciones, se han encargado de difundir información falsa y negar la evidencia científica sobre el daño que causan sus productos.
www.sinembargo.mx/4711599/amen...
October 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Este mapa era el mapa que andaba buscando sin saberlo.
Map of World in George Orwell’s 1984

Read more about it: brilliantmaps.com/1984-map/
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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At some point in the evolution of human language, our species transitioned from instinctual vocalizations to ones that had to be learned and passed down through culture rather than genetics. 🧵
October 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
October 12, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Lo que comemos. Los secretos de la producción de alimentos. (1/2).

youtube.com/watch?v=_Jwf...
Lo que comemos - Los secretos de la producción de alimentos (1/2) | DW Documental
YouTube video by DW Documental
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October 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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Cuneiform was first used to write the Sumerian language, but eventually the Akkadian Empire displaced the Sumerians. The Akkadians then adopted Sumerian cuneiform.
October 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Hoy en el Día Mundial de la Tierra, aprende la seña de Tierra en Lengua de Señas Mexicana: youtu.be/eFxOxVIDucQ?...

Por ahora el proyecto "enSEÑAme astronomía" sigue en pausa y en busca de financiamiento para poder continuarlo.

#LenguaSeñasMexicana #LSM #Tierra #Mexico
Tierra
YouTube video by enSEÑAme astronomía
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April 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
He ahí la importancia de estudiar las lenguas de señas.
Linguists have long speculated that language may have originated in gesture, as a type of early sign language, before shifting to a spoken medium. Using experimental evidence, a 2022 paper suggests that the meanings of gestures are sufficiently universal to have provided a basis for early language.
Hand Gestures May Have Been the Start of Human Language
Our unique language systems distinguish us from other species, but researchers explore how early hand gestures paved the way for civilization.
www.discovermagazine.com
October 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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🧬 Un estudio da con las claves de la extraordinaria capacidad del roedor para vivir diez veces más de lo que debería sin cáncer ni enfermedades degenerativas asociadas a la edad. Aplicado en moscas, obtuvieron ‘supermoscas’ dozz.es/6qwaw18
Científicos chinos encuentran en el ADN del ratopín el secreto de su asombrosa longevidad
Un estudio da con las claves de la extraordinaria capacidad del roedor para vivir diez veces más de lo que debería sin cáncer ni enfermedades degenerativas asociadas a la edad. Aplicado en moscas, obtuvieron ‘supermoscas’
dozz.es
October 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM