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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Aug 5

I spent the last 2 weeks in the Netherlands, at the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics. I had 4 courses in Chechen, Indigenous languages of North America, Tibeto-Burman languages of China, and documentation of storytelling & oral traditions.

Wonderful place, students, and professors!

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Jul 12

Yes, you said it correctly, it's mostly a feature of orthography. Most Catalan varieties have now lost the distinction with <l> orally.

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Jun 6

Bona sort i bon viatge!

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thank you!

Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · May 31

As you see in the photos below, phonology, synonyms, and examples are also included in entries. If you see any mistakes, please let me know!

Go to the "open viewer" red tag to see all the entries.

@sketchengine.bsky.social
@caoccat.bsky.social
@ieo-opm.com
@jornalet.bsky.social

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · May 31

I'm happy to share my first ever dictionary, which is also the first ever Occitan - Polish dictionary! I've created a bilingual dictionary of the 100 Swadesh list terms using Lexonomy, a great tool for creating dictionaries.

It's accessible and browsable through this link:

lexonomy.eu#/oci-pol

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Jan 17

I am convinced that with such matters, pope Francis should fully follow his principles. Any other take is impossible to justify from a Christian perspective, even if Catholic-Jewish dialogue is compromised.

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Romànic Català @romaniccatala.bsky.social · Jan 1

Quan el romànic català es fon amb l'avantguarda: el món d'Iker Spozio.

FIL 🧵👇

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Jan 13

Increïble!

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Jan 9

What else?

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 30

Carretejant exàmens per Europa nivell: de Polònia a Catalunya i de Catalunya a Polònia, dos avions i 500km en tren. Total: 0 exàmens corregits.

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 30

Lectura ferroviària a l'MD destinació Barcelona Sants.

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 25

You're correct, but the article doesn't talk about native speakers of English.

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 17

Facts.

Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ahir vaig rebre el títol de 'Honorowy Polakiem' ('polonès honorífic') dels meus alumnes. Ho he aconseguit.

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 10

He entrat al canal de YouTube de Wikitongues... Ens veiem d'aquí a tres hores.

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Hulda Gates @huldagates.bsky.social · Dec 4

Pieter Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow (1565; oil on panel, 116.5 x 162 cm; Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 5

Que guai, estic escoltant Twarres ara

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Dec 4

Què escoltes en frisó? M'interessa!

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Thanks. That's clarifying.

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Nov 29

Isn't this quite common crosslinguistically?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_co...

Zero copula - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Nov 28

Nou documental sobre l'alguerès:

Un parlant reflexiona sobre el retrocés accentuat de la llengua a partir dels 70 amb l'arribada de l'escola i la televisió.

Un altre parlant maquilla el poc coneixement de l'alguerès entre els joves repetint "però el comprenen".

youtu.be/RNbwlJddy4I?...

💛 Documental ALGUERÈS | Característiques i situació lingüística del català de l’Alguer | Sardenya

YouTube video by Parlem d'escriure en català

youtu.be

Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Nov 23

'An Oasis in the Badlans' by Edward Curtis (c1905)

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Nov 23

It is actually a well studied phenomenon named TOT (tip of the tongue).

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Pau Bofill @paubo.bsky.social · Nov 23

"When she died, we buried all of those words with her", poem by Sherman Alexie on the suffering caused by language loss

lithub.com/eulogy-a-poe...

Eulogy, a Poem by Sherman Alexie

My mother was a dictionary. She was one of the last ﬂuent speakers of our tribal language. She knew dozens of words that nobody else knew. When she died, we buried all of those words with her. My m…

lithub.com

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