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Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:17:15 JST Glyn Moody

"Late last year, the magnum opus of the late David Pentland was published: an incredible, wonderful, massive, four-volume etymological dictionary of Proto-Algonquian" - https://miidashgeget.wordpress.com/2024/11/24/initial-responses-pentland-dictionary/ I love these insanely deep dives into insanely specialist linguistic topics...
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  Some Initial Responses to Pentland’s Dictionary
  
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  Late last year, the magnum opus of the late David Pentland was published: an incredible, wonderful, massive, four-volume etymological dictionary of Proto-Algonquian (Pentland 2023). While I’ve had …
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  Rich Stein (he/him) (runrichrun@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:32:43 JST Rich Stein (he/him)
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  Wonderful (IMO) article obliquely related from 2021. Hope you enjoy it —
  https://lithub.com/on-preserving-the-lenape-language-and-trying-to-get-face-time-with-an-nyc-mayor/
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    On Preserving the Lenape Language (and Trying to Get Face Time with an NYC Mayor)
    
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    Forty years ago, Jim Rementer drove east in a “little Ford Falcon station wagon” with Nora Thompson Dean, heading for Dean’s ancestral homeland of New York and New Jersey, which her people called L…
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  Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:40:52 JST Glyn Moody
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  @RunRichRun I did, thanks. Alongquian too... so sad to read sentences like this: "Unfortunately, our last fluent speaker died in about 2005"
  
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  Rich Stein (he/him) (runrichrun@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 18:55:16 JST Rich Stein (he/him)
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  Agree. The world is full of resilience in ways that are unexpected, however. I wish we weren't at the point where "rewilding" or "de-extinction" were not regarded as panaceas, however, but this story about raising awareness through tech of a dying language and culture that is only commemorated where it has been extinguished made me smile (there's no business case for it yet they went ahead with it; how rare is that these days):
  https://www.thedp.com/article/2023/11/student-creates-ai-translator-to-share-lenape-culture
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    Penn student co-creates AI-translator to spread awareness about Lenape language, history
    
    from Naija Agarwal
    
    LenaGPT allows users to pose questions and receive comprehensive answers, drawing on expertise and collaboration with the Lenape community.
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  Glyn Moody (glynmoody@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 19:09:48 JST Glyn Moody
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  @RunRichRun yes, better than extinction
  
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