This database includes lexical data from various Japanese, Ryukyuan and Hachijo varieties. It also provides some sample clips of each word, example sentences when available, and lists cognates in different varieties....
The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links....
CBC is grasping at straws trying to put the blame on Facebook for the very bill they pushed through, that had very predictable consequences. Canadians news publishers have no one to blame for this but themselves.
The article basically reads as though they're upset for not being paid by Meta during emergencies and sad they can't profit as much off people glued to watching emergencies (it's absolutely not because they're truly concerned for the actual ppl facing the emergency). It's quite tasteless for them to pull the misinformation card when news publishers aren't always known to spread accurate or helpful information -- they're mostly there for the fear mongering. And Meta's response on that front is the correct one: they're not blocking government sites and government sites should be considered the sources of truth and information during emergencies.
That said, unrelated to news link sharing, there's a larger discussion to be had around emergency broadcasts over the internet: should the government create legislation to have an emergency notification tool in place that can be triggered on Canadian websites and websites catering to Canadians (social media included)? Many institutions, including universities, have their own systems for doing exactly this so why can't the government?
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
I'm just here with the popcorn for when Canadian media finally realize they made a terrible decision with this bill. Everyone consumes American media anyway, so nothing lost.
Hi everyone, this is a small but hopefully enjoyable bit of MC from my childhood. Way back when, my Dad worked in IT and worked from home. This is back in the early days of telecommuting and so most of his day was spent on calls in between actual technical stuff. The internet was in its infancy, so if he was working he really...
I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...
It just says "kbin.social" in small after the title on Kbin, which is neither the community name nor the server on which the community exists. Am I missing something?
A Canadian bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law
"In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS. Based on historical dialect atlas data, we calculate a linguistic distance matrix across survey localities. The linguistic...
Shimoji, Michinori. (2022). "Chapter 1 The Japonic Languages: an Introduction". In An Introduction to the Japonic Languages. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004519107_002...
Demography, trade and state power: a tripartite model of medieval farming/language dispersals in the Ryukyu Islands (www.cambridge.org)
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Database of Endangered Languages of Japan (kikigengo.ninjal.ac.jp)
This database includes lexical data from various Japanese, Ryukyuan and Hachijo varieties. It also provides some sample clips of each word, example sentences when available, and lists cognates in different varieties....
Old Japanese Post-Nasal Non-Back Close Vowels in a Comparative Perspective (brill.com)
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Do media aggregators have a duty to provide links to public news sources in emergencies? (www.cbc.ca)
The NWT government and city of Yellowknife are describing in tweets, Instagram messages etc. how to search key evacuation information on CPAC and CBC. The broadcast carriers have a duty to carry emergency information, but Meta and X are blocking links....
For those of you interested in or studying Japonic languages, what specific languages and fields pique your interest?
As the title implies. Is it learning a particular Ryukyuan language? Documenting? Studying historical linguistics? Etymology? Syntax? Broader East Asian language studies? What's your personal goal?
Meta to end news access in Canada over publisher payment law (The Guardian) (archive.is)
Move comes in response to Canadian legislation requiring internet giants to pay news publishers...
Variation in form and meaning across the Japonic language family with a focus on the Ryukyuan languages (2021), by John Huisman (hdl.handle.net)
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Handbook of the Ainu Language (2022), by Anna Bugaeva (doi.org)
Requires institutional access....
Premiers ‘deeply disappointed’ in Trudeau government for moving too slowly to fight crime (www.thestar.com)
Modelling admixture across language levels to evaluate deep history claims (2023) (doi.org)
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"Unless the house is on fire or you are hurt, do not interrupt me on the phone!"
Hi everyone, this is a small but hopefully enjoyable bit of MC from my childhood. Way back when, my Dad worked in IT and worked from home. This is back in the early days of telecommuting and so most of his day was spent on calls in between actual technical stuff. The internet was in its infancy, so if he was working he really...
Tokunoshima Dictionary (徳之島の方言（島口）辞典) (ibuchan.blog)
r/TIHI has been banned for being unmoderated. (old.reddit.com)
OC IDEs always find a way to add a little fun to the day
Lemmy.ml is blocking all requests from /kbin Instances
I discovered yesterday evening that Lemmy.ml is blocking all inbound ActivityPub requests from /kbin instances. Specifically, a 403 'access denied' is returned when the user agent contains "kbinBot" anywhere in the string. This has been causing a cascade of failures with federation for many server owners, flooding the message...
[meta] Can We Please Include The Community Name In The Title?
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Canadian Senate passes bill requiring Google, Meta to pay for news (www.independent.co.uk)
A Canadian bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms is set to become law
Japanese Lexical Variation Explained by Spatial Contact Patterns (www.mdpi.com)
"In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS. Based on historical dialect atlas data, we calculate a linguistic distance matrix across survey localities. The linguistic...
An Introduction to the Japonic Languages --- Chapter 1 (brill.com)
Shimoji, Michinori. (2022). "Chapter 1 The Japonic Languages: an Introduction". In An Introduction to the Japonic Languages. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004519107_002...
Pragmatic Consequences of Language Shift: A Contrastive Study of Politeness Marker Loss in Northern Ryukyuan (brill.com)
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Building Okinawan Lexicon Resource for Language Reclamation/Revitalization and Natural Language Processing Tasks such as Universal Dependencies Treebanking (aclanthology.org)
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