#blog Post:

"A Solresol Library"

https://stevengharms.com/posts/2024-10-19-solresol/

#music #solresol #linguistics #history #videogames #horizon #aloy #musictheory

Language is made up of what we say, so if we call them penguins, they're penguins. There is no state of "penguin-ness" outside of language, so to suggest today's penguins are somehow not legitimate because another bird was once called penguin would just be silly.

#linguistics #english #penguins

Seriously Europe, get your water bodies straight.

#Etymology #Language #Linguistics

2. Language, linguistics

The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies (Richard Hamblyn)

The story of how cloud types were named by Luke Howard at the turn of the 19th century. The book gives great historical context starting from the 1600s, about the birth of meteorology and the difficulties of cloud classification. I finally learned how the categories work.

https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Clouds-Amateur-Meteorologist-Language/dp/0312420013

#cloud #language #linguistics #nonfiction #history #books #bookstodon