/lit/ - Literature

>>12234627
Why did the near close front vowel render as capital <j>

What distinguishes linguistics from philology?

>>12234641
Linguistics is the study of language in general but philology is language history essentially

>>12234627
the gnomed video triggers me, why does he pronounce g before n in the onset, that's not a thing in english
>>12234641
linguistics is a science, philology is fuck knows what

>>12234627
>>/int/

>>12234688
I’m gehnot gan elf, I’m gehnot a goblin, I’m a gehnome, and you’ve beeen..... gnoooomed!!!

>>12234688
that’s the joke, autist

>>12234641
Linguistics is the general study of language e.g. describing the phonetic sounds of language
Philology is the study of a language through the lens of culture or literate e.g. studying Latin by studying Roman graffiti

>>12234688
If you listen some epenthesis is happening there, something like /ə~ɯ̽~J/

>tfw all of /lit/ reads languages but has no clue about the workings of said languages

wtf i've been gnomed :(

>>12234627
I was thinking of learning IPA to improve my language learning, but it is extremely hard to do through Anki, since i haven't found a single decent deck. Is there any worthwhile app with the sounds of each letter and a spaced repetition feature? If it has graphics, even better.

>>12234627
Gnome Chomsky

>>12236403
I learned it with Wikipedia.

>>12236403
I remember a decent series of pronunciation videos on youtube, but that's just for vowels found in English