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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Shameless plug to [email protected] . This sort of question is welcome there.

Latin already did a bloody mess of those suffixes:

  • if you were born in Roma, you'd be romanus ("Roman")
  • if you were born in Eboracum (modern York), you'd be eboracensis ("Yorkese")
  • if you were born in Gallia (roughly modern Belgium and France), you'd be gallicus ("Gallic")

In turn those suffixes used to mean different things:

  • that -anus was originally just -nus. Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *-nós; you'd plop it after verbs to form adjectives.
  • that -icus was originally just -cus; from PIE *-kos, but you'd plop it into nouns instead.
  • nobody really knows where -ensis is from but some claim that Latin borrowed it from Etruscan.

Then French and Norman inherited this mess, and... left it alone? Then English borrowed all those suffixes. But it wasn't enough of a mess, so it kept its native -ish suffix, that means the exact same thing. That -ish is from PIE *-iskos, and likely related to Latin -cus.

And someone from Afghanistan is an Afghan? How did the word get shorter not longer? 🤔

There's some awareness among English speakers that "[$adjective]istan" means roughly "country where the [$adjective] people live", so the suffix is simply removed: Afghanistan → Afghan, Tajikistan → Tajik, etc.

That -istan backtracks to Classical Persian ـستان / -istān, and it forms adjectives from placenames.

In turn it comes from Proto-Indo-European too. It's from the root *steh₂- "to stand", and also a cognate of "to stand". So etymologically "[$adjective]istan" is roughly "where the [$adjective] people stand". (inb4 I'm simplifying it.)

Also, why is a person from India called an Indian, but the language is called Hindi? This breaks my brain…

Note that India doesn't simply have different "languages"; it has a half dozen different language families. Like, some languages of India are closer to English, Russian, Italian etc. than to other Indian languages.

That said:

  • "India" ultimately backtracks to Greek Ἰνδός / Indós, the river Indus; and Greek borrowed it from Old Persian 𐏃𐎡𐎯𐎢𐏁 / Hindūš. That ending changed because it's what Greek does.
  • "Hindi" comes from Hindi हिंदी / hindī, that comes from Classical Persian هِنْدِی / hindī. That hind- is the same as in the above, referring to the lands around the Indus (India), and the -ī is "related to".

Now, why did Greek erase the /h/? I have no idea. Greek usually don't do this. But Latin already borrowed the word as "India", showing no aspiration.

Philippines --> Filipino? They just saw the “Ph” and decided to use an “F”? 🤔

So, the islands were named after Felipe II of Spain. And there's that convention that royalty names are translated, so "Felipe II" ended as "Philip II" in English. And so the "Islas Filipinas" ended as "Philippine Islands".

...but then the demonym was borrowed straight from Spanish, including its spelling: filipino → Filipino.


Note that this mess is not exclusive to English. As I hinted above, Latin already had something similar; and in Portuguese for example you see the cognates of those English suffixes (-ese/-ês, -an/-ano, -ic/-ego... just no -ish).

Except that for Portuguese simply inheriting the Latin suffixes wasn't enough, you got to reborrow them too. So you end with etymological doublets like -ego (see: Galícia "Galicia" → galego "Galician") and -co (see: Áustria "Austria" → austríaco "Austrian").

Then there's cases where not even speakers agree on which suffix applies, and it's dialect-dependent; e.g. polonês/polaco (Polish), canadense/canadiano (Canadian).

Besides afegão vs. Afeganistão (Afghan vs. Afghanistan), another example of a word where the demonym is shorter than the geographical name is inglês vs. Inglaterra (English vs. England). But it's the same deal: -terra is simply -land, so people clip it off.

There's also the weird case of "brasileiro" (Brazilian), that -eiro is a profession suffix. Originally it referred to people extracting brazilwood, then the country name was backformed from that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

As in, the Italo-Western Romance language?

Yup, that one. Numbers are not to be trusted, but estimates are usually around 500k speakers in Brazil alone. There's also a bunch of them in Argentina, and even in Mexico (more specifically Chipilo, Puebla).

Under Brazilian territory Venetian is often called "Talian", and sometimes partially creolised with Portuguese. The name is a misnomer though, the language has little to do with the Tuscan-based standard Italian.

When you said there are about 200 other languages, I was expecting indigenous languages and maybe some Spanish, but certainly not other European languages

There are a few other colonial languages among those 200, like Eastern Pomeranian (Low German; extinct in Europe after WW2), Hunsrik (German too, but in the Franconian group). And I wouldn't be surprised if here in Paraná some Polish- or Silesian-speaking clusters survived.

Additionally, some folks down north use Kikongo (a Bantu language, brought to South America due to African slavery) as a liturgical language for their syncretic religion (candomblé).

That said the "bulk" of those 200 languages I mentioned are Amerindian languages indeed. Typically Macro-Ge and Tupi-Guarani families.

What’s the history there? Were there Italian colonies in Brazil, or a notable migration of Italians to Portuguese colonies?

Yup, immigrants. Not just in Brazil; Latin America as a whole got a lot of them in the XIX and early XX centuries, and since Italy was in a ruckus a lot of them were from Italy. Mostly Gallo-Italic speakers in a "belt" between São Paulo and Buenos Aires. Both are tendencies though, and there are plenty exceptions - São Paulo city for example got also a bunch of Calabrians and Sicilians, and as I said there were Venetians even in Mexico.

Other common groups of immigrants in LatAm were Iberians, Germans, Levantine Arabs, Japanese. But the distribution changes heavily from place to place; for example here in Paraná we got quite a few Poles and even a few Ukrainians and Lithuanians, but up south in Chubut (Argentina) there were Welsh immigrants instead.

See, this is exactly the sort of conversation I had hoped the original thread would lead to. Interesting linguistics, history, and geography. Until dessalines came in with the toxicity.

There's [email protected] for any topic involving language. [Disclaimer: I'm one of the mods there.]

That backtracks to the main subject: the community was originally in lemmy.ml. One of the reasons why I migrated it to mander.xyz was the notoriously poorly way that .ml admins enforce rules in their instance - with the straw that broke the camel's back, for me, being [email protected]. (I wasn't a mod there but I'm a weeb so...)

Now thinking, if I didn't do so, I bet that I would enter in direct conflict with dessalines and cypherpunk. What if someone wanted to talk about the Uyghur language? Or surzhyk (mixed Ukrainian/Russian) varieties? Bloody hell, even Proto-Indo-European (the Late PIE homeland is right where the war is happening now). Even mentions of lavender linguistics (i.e. how queer people use language) would become a ticking bomb.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Let's see:

  • "You're being pushy" is one of them indeed. I might not be the first one contacting them to talk about this.
  • Assuming that I want to merge [email protected] with their community. I definitively don't, but the expectation itself could create unnecessary conflict.
  • Assuming that I'm only shilling the Fediverse, with no regards to the well-being of their communities, when it's both.
  • Assuming that I have further, hidden motivations.

...and so goes on. Plus much like PugJesus I get anxious thinking "this is an unforgivable interruption of someone else's life",.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I cross-posted this in the Linguistics comm ([email protected]), with a few additional comments. Might as well share them here:

There's an earlier study from the Max Plank Society that estimates the family to be 8k years old (this one gives makes it 6kyo). That study was using a glottochronology technique; it gives you a decent guess about the age of a family/branch, but this one gives you actual data instead.

And yet both kind of mix the Caucasian and Steppes hypotheses - with Early PIE in the Caucasus, Late PIE in the Pontic-Caspian Steppe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

To be frank I've been a really shitty and sloppy mod. I need to stop being so bloody lazy, and actually promote the communities that I moderate ( [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected]) better. I know what I need to do (post stuff to keep the community active), but I haven't been doing it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Algorithm stuff aside, I'm not sure this thread is a good indication of how much can be contributed to linguistics or grammar comms. Plenty of people are in here airing pet peeves, but that's never a good indication of actual interest in language-- like how r/grammar doesn't allow pet peeve threads or simple prescriptivism without also providing a discussion of the grammar mechanics. Low effort stuff used to get removed with a recommendation to try subs like r/grammarnazi, but that community (now it's private so I can't check details, but I remember it being kind of dead) never had much content specifically because people who just want to make pet peeve threads don't have any interest in actual discussion.

There already are a couple comms that don't get much traffic, so maybe if the algo were better we'd see an uptick of the linguistic minded lemmings over there, but it's a pretty niche interest so I'm not holding out much hope. Looks like the most "active" with a couple posts a month is [email protected] (anything more grammar focused looks dead).

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Salve! Haec communitas de lingua Latina in lemmy est.

Everyone is welcome here, from absolute beginners to practically fluent speakers.

Dictata (rules):

  1. All type of content is allowed, from questions to memes, as long as it is about Latin.
  2. Think before you post or comment.
  3. Be kind.

If you are learning Latin, be sure to check the Codex.

Some other great communities to check out:


Community link: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Cross posted from: [email protected]

...communitatem de linguā latinā habemus? Nesciebam! /me subscribit

Feel free to cross-post this stuff in [email protected] by the way, it's right into the comm's alley.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[Shameless advertisement: we have a linguistics community, [email protected] . I'm the mod there; I apologise for the relative lack of activity nowadays, but everyone is welcome to post this sort of stuff there.]

What Morris Swadesh did was at the same time simpler and greater than that: he created a list of concepts likely to pop up across many different languages, regardless of their time period and area. This is extremely useful to track the relationship between multiple languages, even if you don't speak them.

I'm not sure if he created one for Proto-Indo-European; "Swadesh list" became a generic name for this sort of list, regardless of who compiles it. Plus Morris Swadesh main interest was Amerindian languages.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I guess [email protected] might be a very good place to discuss this, @[email protected] is usually very knowledgeable

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

For historical questions concerning language, feel free to use [email protected]. It's by no means a big or well-organised comm, but given that the mod there (me) has a hard-on for Historical Linguistics, you'd get at least some answer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

We're already listed in their sidebar! :) I might make a post a bit later too. The mod of [email protected] actually helped us initially set up the community!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh nice! Did you consider crossposting to [email protected]? That would probably interest people over there as well

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CONLANGING RESOURCES

If you have any suggestions for resources, feel free to share them in the comments, and try to provide descriptions of your resources too. Make sure to also upvote the ones you find useful!

General Resources

  1. The Language Construction Kit by Mark Rosenfelder. Collection of general information and tools to get started with creating constructed languages. A must for any aspiring conlanger! 1.1. LCK Resources. Resources recommended by Mark Rosenfelder.
  2. Glossary of Linguistic Terms by the SIL. If you ever come across a linguistic term that you haven't heard of, you can probably find what it means in here!
  3. World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) A large overview of many features of the world's languages.
  4. The International Phonetic Alphabet. You don't need to know the IPA to make your own conlang, but it's a great way to refer to the sounds that you might include in your conlang.
  5. Conlanging course from the MIT. A free, university level course on creating constructed languages.
  6. Wikipedia Linguistics Portal. A nice gateway to lots of linguistics content on Wikipedia.
  7. ConWorkShop. A conlanging community and tools website.

Phonology

  1. The International Phonetic Alphabet chart.
  2. The Index Diachronica. It lists sound changes by family and sound, so if you're evolving your conlang from another, it gives you a good idea on what would feel natural
  3. Mark Rosenfelder's Sound Change Applier. An easy to use tool to apply sound changes to lots of words at once.

Grammar

  1. List of grammatical cases. (Wikipedia)
  2. Tense, aspect and mood. (Wikipedia)

Lexicon/Vocabulary

  1. Lexiconga. An easy way to store your own languages' lexicons.
  2. 625 Useful Words. A list of 625 useful words to add to your conlang's lexicon.
  3. A Conlanger's Thesaurus. A big lexicon of all the words that you could possibly want to have in your conlang, ordered by subjects and connections between words.
  4. Swadesh list. A list of words used to compare langauges. (Wikipedia) 3.1. Appendix. List of swadesh lists for many different languages. (and even some conlangs!)
  5. Kinship Terminology. One of the easiest ways to introduce non-English flavour to your conlang.

Conlanging on Youtube

Other Communities

  1. Conworkshop Events Another nice conlanging community.
  2. [email protected] (Kbin link). A community about general linguistics.
  3. [email protected] (Kbin link). A community to post memes and funnies about linguistics.
  4. [email protected] (Kbin link). A community to discuss all the other interesting facets of worldbuilding.
  5. [email protected] (Kbin link). A community to discuss practical language learning.
[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

You're probably gonna get a better technical answer in [email protected] on language questions.

It's not dealing with the past, but with things that don't happen or might not happen.

Does this answer your question? It's probably better than an ad-hoc explanation.

https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/How-to-Use-Could-Would-and-Should

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I did the same migration a few months ago, from @lemmy ml to [email protected]. Frankly, I don't regret it; even being a smaller instance I've seen far more activity there, and I feel like the environment is safer to talk about certain topics. (The lemmy ml comm was a bit of a ticking bomb, really.)

Keep in mind that the focus of the dataisbeautiful comm might change a tiny bit, even if the rules stay the same. Older users already created an association between mander.xyz and science; I think that they'll be a bit less prone to post fluff, and more scientific data. That's actually good IMO.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

There is also [email protected] for people interested

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12495381 at Blaze's mention.

This is not a comprehensive list by any means, and is why I'm featuring this post and leaving it open to comments. I may update this as people make suggestions, and I encourage others to make their own variations on this list in the comments or in their respective versions of this community.

Also to clarify some terms here, by active I'm aiming for at least some commenting on recent-ish posts, not merely recent posts, and by the topic names...I'll let the linked communities serve as examples.

🎨 Creative Communities 🎨
Fabricraft

Music

Photography

Visual

Writing

🗿 Humanities 🗿
Art

History & Anthropology

Language/Linguistics

Philosophy

Religion & Spirituality

😄 Entertainment 😄
Reading and Listening

Multimedia

Music

Playing

Watching

🏅 Sports 🏅


Hope this helps any newcomers find some different communities to join and participate in!

p.s. although it's now out of date, as some instances are no longer around (RIP Lemmy.film), this post is still a pretty useful resource for a broader range of communities than those listed here.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

C'est en effet pas un doublon, on a cependant déjà parlé de la même source (le philosophe Français qui dit que l'Anglais n'existe pas) que la source que la vidéo Analyse, valide et/ou débunke ici: https://jlai.lu/post/6063398 (ici même sur [email protected] au 16 avril 2024)

Il y a un fil à propos de cette vidéo sur un Lemmy anglophone: https://dormi.zone/post/1798329 (sur [email protected] au 7 Avril 2024)

Hésitez pas à rigoler sur le dernier lien, les anglphones ont bien la haine sur cette vidéo !

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Des linguistes dans l'assemblée ?

J'ai regardé vite fait mal fait et c'est bon, j'ai pas l'impression de doublonner de publi-postage.

Au passage, désolé pour la langue de la ressource partagée, quoique, ça devrait aller.

[Édithe:] @[email protected] m'a informé que si ce n'est pas un doublon, le sujet a déjà été discuté il n'y a pas longtemps ici https://jlai.lu/post/6063398 (le 16 avril 2024) et ici (anglophone) https://dormi.zone/post/1798329 sur [email protected] (le 7 avril 2024).

Donc la réponse est : oui, l'anglais est une vraie langue, merci de ne pas aller titiller les copains outre-{manche/atlantique} là-dessus ^^

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

[shameless ad] This sort of question fits well [email protected] [/shameless ad]

What causes the loss of a local variety (dialect or language) is not simply exposure to other varieties, but the loss of the identity associated with said variety. In other words, what led to the blending and death of those dialects wasn't the audio communication technology - it's economical, social, and ideological pressures, such as nationalism.

I'll exemplify this using rhoticity in England. If telephone, radio and TV led to blending and death of dialects, you'd expect rhoticity in England to increase, due to exposure to American media. It didn't - it's decreasing:


Source for the map: it's a collation of both maps in this article. The reason for the shift however becomes obvious when you look at identity matters: "you're a Brit, speak like a Brit".

The exact same reasoning applies to other languages, by the way. Caipira Portuguese features aren't being replaced with the ones from that weird Globo TV accent, but with the ones spoken in São Paulo city; sheísmo in Argentina seems to be spreading, regardless of media from other countries; Occitan was not killed in France by simply exposing kids to French, but by making them feel ashamed of speaking Occitan.


With that out of the way, it's hard to predict the future impact of machine text generation, be it through LLMs or better models. It's perfectly possible that this sort of tech helps the preservation of local varieties, as LLMs are kind of good at translation; for example, I've noticed that Gemini is able to parse Venetian, even if unable to answer in the language.

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[email protected], Renchester's community, 18 => 43, 26 posts (10 this week)
[email protected], movies, 394 => 480, 130 posts (23 this week)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', 178 => 227, 89 posts (14 this week)
[email protected], CRTart, 16 => 32, 33 posts (20 this week)
[email protected], Geoengineering, 4 => 11, 15 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Nostalgia, 613 => 681, 81 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], bobsburgers, 439 => 495, 48 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Meanwhile on reddit, 32 => 48, 5 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Leopards Ate My Face, 344 => 385, 6 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars, 31 => 43, 13 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that, 165 => 191, 42 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Linguistics, 204 => 232, 28 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Crows, 341 => 375, 39 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Video Game Artwork, 70 => 84, 33 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Kagi search engine, 28 => 37, 12 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], PsychedelicArtwork, 36 => 46, 15 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Fake Band Names, 114 => 131, 49 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], The Leaky Cauldron, 117 => 133, 38 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], memes, 6690 => 6815, 1523 posts (26 this week)
[email protected], InsanePeopleFacebook, 1483 => 1540, 148 posts (15 this week)

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Active User Growth

[email protected], philosophy, 15 => 221, 645 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System, 104 => 879, 192 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], sino, 2 => 258, 919 posts (5 this week)

[email protected], Fuck Cars, 461 => 1534, 1099 posts (9 this week)

[email protected], DeGoogle Yourself, 41 => 298, 240 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse, 12 => 171, 189 posts (5 this week)

[email protected], Quick Animal Facts, 3 => 84, 6 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], Clever Comebacks, 5 => 231, 28 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Map Enthusiasts, 27 => 987, 197 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Atheism, 53 => 505, 206 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], me_irl, 9 => 456, 370 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Crochet, 27 => 203, 83 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Comics, 23 => 516, 68 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Actually Useful AI, 14 => 449, 145 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], askmenover30, 5 => 371, 24 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Emulation, 209 => 1524, 210 posts (19 this week)
[email protected], The Monkey's Paw, 2 => 101, 69 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Right to Repair, 13 => 174, 34 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], MonkeyUser, 9 => 326, 39 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Windows Support (shitposting), 5 => 190, 21 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Alberta, 4 => 208, 71 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], YUROP, 114 => 715, 94 posts (10 this week)
[email protected], Open Source, 2044 => 4393, 2411 posts (35 this week)
[email protected], Asklemmy, 3218 => 6076, 4683 posts (63 this week)
[email protected], Virginia, 15 => 110, 85 posts (4 this week)


Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Talks, 4 => 37, 20 posts (12 this week)

[email protected], Renchester's community, 18 => 34, 21 posts (5 this week)

[email protected], Leopards Ate My Face, 343 => 378, 6 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Toki Pona for Socialists, 6 => 11, 11 posts (8 this week)

[email protected], Estudando hegel, 4 => 8, 4 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], KDE, 3786 => 3886, 389 posts (22 this week)

[email protected], Trans, 177 => 279, 53 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], movies, 392 => 474, 127 posts (25 this week)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', 176 => 225, 89 posts (14 this week)
[email protected], CRTart, 16 => 31, 31 posts (19 this week)
[email protected], PsychedelicArtwork, 28 => 44, 15 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Meanwhile on reddit, 32 => 47, 5 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Nostalgia, 602 => 664, 79 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], bobsburgers, 439 => 491, 48 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Dungeon Meshi, 76 => 98, 105 posts (19 this week)
[email protected], Linguistics, 194 => 228, 27 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Ghetto Markendiscount, 106 => 129, 26 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Kagi search engine, 25 => 36, 12 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Video Game Artwork, 66 => 83, 33 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], DOI, 10 => 17, 46 posts (19 this week)
[email protected], Crows, 340 => 374, 39 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], CrossView, 220 => 247, 49 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Signal Groups, 53 => 66, 4 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that, 165 => 187, 41 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], The Leaky Cauldron, 114 => 129, 37 posts (7 this week)

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Active User Growth

[email protected], Map Enthusiasts, 24 => 887, 196 posts (4 this week)

[email protected], Atheism, 102 => 502, 206 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], me_irl, 7 => 430, 370 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Comics, 63 => 504, 68 posts (6 this week)

[email protected], Emulation, 93 => 1447, 208 posts (20 this week)

[email protected], Crochet, 38 => 150, 82 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], The Monkey's Paw, 2 => 99, 69 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], MonkeyUser, 12 => 313, 39 posts (4 this week)

[email protected], Alberta, 5 => 206, 71 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], memes, 983 => 2384, 240 posts (11 this week)

[email protected], Internet of Shit, 2 => 826, 8 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Clever Comebacks, 5 => 221, 28 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Leopards Ate My Face, 2 => 229, 6 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Idiots of Marketplace, 2 => 119, 22 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Actually Useful AI, 13 => 445, 144 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], askmenover30, 5 => 340, 23 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Right to Repair, 18 => 165, 34 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Windows Support (shitposting), 7 => 189, 21 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Reddit, 1399 => 3317, 667 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], Open Source, 1804 => 4229, 2406 posts (32 this week)
[email protected], Science Memes, 3533 => 6017, 562 posts (40 this week)
[email protected], YUROP, 114 => 684, 93 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Linux Gaming, 555 => 1926, 908 posts (15 this week)
[email protected], Achievers, 3 => 124, 180 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Asklemmy, 3218 => 5828, 4680 posts (60 this week)


Subscriber Growth

[email protected], CRTart, 10 => 27, 28 posts (24 this week)

[email protected], Signal Groups, 39 => 65, 4 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], bobsburgers, 435 => 486, 48 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars, 31 => 40, 13 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], Helldivers 2, 97 => 240, 37 posts (13 this week)
[email protected], movies, 391 => 457, 121 posts (21 this week)
[email protected], Meanwhile on reddit, 26 => 42, 5 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Dungeon Meshi, 69 => 94, 102 posts (21 this week)
[email protected], Community (TV show) Community, 111 => 141, 10 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', 176 => 212, 84 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Nostalgia, 602 => 663, 79 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], palestine news and politics, 22 => 34, 243 posts (55 this week)
[email protected], Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that, 152 => 181, 40 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Linguistics, 192 => 224, 27 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], PsychedelicArtwork, 28 => 40, 14 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Ghetto Markendiscount, 106 => 127, 26 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Fake Band Names, 109 => 130, 49 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Kagi search engine, 23 => 33, 11 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Trans, 171 => 195, 51 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Crows, 339 => 371, 39 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], Movies and TV Shows, 1309 => 1368, 811 posts (55 this week)
[email protected], Hanfanbau - Alles rund um den legalen Eigenanbau von Cannabis, 145 => 164, 19 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], The Leaky Cauldron, 111 => 126, 37 posts (8 this week)
[email protected], DOI, 10 => 15, 45 posts (24 this week)
[email protected], Hardware Gore, 495 => 528, 21 posts (1 this week)

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Active User Growth

[email protected], Clever Comebacks, 6 => 192, 28 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Idiots of Marketplace, 2 => 116, 21 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Windows Support (shitposting), 21 => 180, 21 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], Reddit, 1393 => 3225, 666 posts (6 this week)

[email protected], Lefty Memes, 418 => 1454, 233 posts (9 this week)

[email protected], Patient Gamers, 2 => 74, 90 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Buy it for Life, 15 => 281, 42 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], YUROP, 125 => 584, 92 posts (8 this week)

[email protected], RPGgreentext, 20 => 170, 29 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], copypasta, 3 => 52, 568 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], Internet of Shit, 3 => 722, 8 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Memes @ Reddthat, 15 => 2225, 100 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Science of Cooking, 2 => 237, 124 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Leopards Ate My Face, 5 => 228, 6 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], askmenover30, 5 => 296, 23 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Solarpunk, 547 => 2295, 417 posts (13 this week)
[email protected], Open Source, 1731 => 4105, 2401 posts (32 this week)
[email protected], Science Memes, 3542 => 6046, 554 posts (32 this week)
[email protected], Old People Facebook, 69 => 570, 101 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Castles, 2 => 175, 93 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Linux Gaming, 473 => 1636, 908 posts (18 this week)
[email protected], Abstract Photography, 15 => 265, 275 posts (10 this week)
[email protected], Aufmüpfig, 7 => 166, 209 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Asklemmy, 3674 => 5479, 4667 posts (55 this week)
[email protected], Virginia, 15 => 107, 83 posts (2 this week)


Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Dungeon Meshi, 68 => 92, 99 posts (20 this week)

[email protected], PsychedelicArtwork, 28 => 38, 14 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Helldivers 2, 86 => 226, 36 posts (13 this week)
[email protected], Hanfanbau - Alles rund um den legalen Eigenanbau von Cannabis, 107 => 163, 19 posts (13 this week)
[email protected], Community (TV show) Community, 94 => 135, 10 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], movies, 391 => 448, 117 posts (18 this week)
[email protected], Meanwhile on reddit, 26 => 40, 4 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', 162 => 195, 81 posts (14 this week)
[email protected], The Back End, 6 => 13, 2 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Geoengineering, 4 => 9, 15 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], palestine news and politics, 21 => 32, 232 posts (45 this week)
[email protected], Nostalgia, 593 => 646, 78 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that, 152 => 179, 40 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Linguistics, 190 => 219, 27 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Ghetto Markendiscount, 105 => 126, 26 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Fake Band Names, 108 => 128, 49 posts (10 this week)
[email protected], Trans, 169 => 193, 50 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], The Leaky Cauldron, 106 => 124, 37 posts (10 this week)
[email protected], Crows, 339 => 370, 38 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Matematica, 20 => 27, 17 posts (7 this week)
[email protected], Movies and TV Shows, 1304 => 1364, 810 posts (54 this week)
[email protected], UK Nature and Environment, 153 => 173, 234 posts (40 this week)
[email protected], Kagi search engine, 23 => 31, 11 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], InsanePeopleFacebook, 1455 => 1509, 142 posts (14 this week)
[email protected], Hardware Gore, 495 => 526, 21 posts (1 this week)

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Active User Growth

[email protected], Leopards Ate My Face, 9 => 223, 6 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], askmenover30, 4 => 175, 22 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], Abstract Photography, 15 => 252, 275 posts (10 this week)

[email protected], Virginia, 15 => 103, 83 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], transgender, 85 => 410, 271 posts (5 this week)

[email protected], Technology, 434 => 1116, 578 posts (67 this week)

[email protected], Are the Straights OK?, 4 => 89, 69 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Asklemmy, 3830 => 5141, 4659 posts (48 this week)

[email protected], The Onion, 2285 => 3505, 504 posts (21 this week)

[email protected], Ask Experienced Devs, 2 => 89, 26 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], News, 414 => 1158, 504 posts (23 this week)

[email protected], Internet of Shit, 3 => 699, 7 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Memes @ Reddthat, 16 => 2220, 99 posts (8 this week)
[email protected], Science of Cooking, 11 => 233, 124 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Actually Useful AI, 5 => 445, 144 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Ohio, 60 => 873, 135 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Science Memes, 2821 => 5896, 547 posts (32 this week)
[email protected], Open Source, 1844 => 4030, 2398 posts (30 this week)
[email protected], Linux Gaming, 358 => 1552, 906 posts (20 this week)
[email protected], Old People Facebook, 69 => 562, 101 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Castles, 3 => 172, 93 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Aufmüpfig, 6 => 165, 209 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Firefox, 682 => 1711, 809 posts (17 this week)
[email protected], pets, 3 => 124, 30 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Memes, 3679 => 4664, 1098 posts (13 this week)


Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Helldivers 2, 67 => 201, 36 posts (15 this week)

[email protected], movies, 391 => 435, 113 posts (15 this week)

[email protected], Geoengineering, 4 => 8, 15 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], Teh AnKorage, 2 => 5, 19 posts (8 this week)

[email protected], Meanwhile on reddit, 24 => 33, 4 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Crows, 339 => 367, 38 posts (6 this week)

[email protected], palestine news and politics, 21 => 28, 224 posts (47 this week)

[email protected], Kagi search engine, 22 => 29, 11 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], The Back End, 6 => 9, 2 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Pulse of Truth, 84 => 95, 529 posts (36 this week)

[email protected], Not voting (in your election), 4 => 14, 7 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], The Leaky Cauldron, 87 => 119, 34 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', 162 => 193, 81 posts (14 this week)
[email protected], Linguistics, 188 => 217, 27 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Ghetto Markendiscount, 104 => 125, 26 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that, 151 => 172, 39 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Nostalgia, 592 => 635, 77 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], UK Nature and Environment, 151 => 172, 226 posts (38 this week)
[email protected], Trans, 168 => 190, 49 posts (5 this week)
[email protected], Greentext, 2069 => 2143, 400 posts (11 this week)
[email protected], Movies and TV Shows, 1295 => 1349, 799 posts (50 this week)
[email protected], Fake Band Names, 108 => 123, 45 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Free Open-Source Artificial Intelligence, 2333 => 2395, 191 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], The Deep Sea, 353 => 377, 20 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Antiwork, 114 => 127, 35 posts (4 this week)

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Active User Growth

[email protected], Science of Cooking, 22 => 222, 123 posts (4 this week)

[email protected], Shitty Food Porn, 2 => 194, 89 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Ohio, 57 => 896, 135 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Linux Gaming, 354 => 1496, 905 posts (19 this week)

[email protected], Castles, 3 => 164, 93 posts (2 this week)

[email protected], Aufmüpfig, 5 => 164, 209 posts (4 this week)

[email protected], Open Source, 1981 => 3535, 2396 posts (31 this week)

[email protected], Memes, 3448 => 4820, 1098 posts (14 this week)

[email protected], Firefox, 722 => 1692, 806 posts (15 this week)

[email protected], Squirrels, 2 => 70, 92 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], pets, 3 => 111, 30 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], furry_irl, 4 => 74, 85 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Unpopular Opinion, 163 => 623, 258 posts (28 this week)

[email protected], Internet of Shit, 2 => 696, 7 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Memes @ Reddthat, 23 => 2215, 99 posts (8 this week)
[email protected], Actually Useful AI, 3 => 444, 144 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Solarpunk, 482 => 2329, 410 posts (9 this week)
[email protected], Furry Technologists, 5 => 347, 157 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Geography, 13 => 328, 325 posts (10 this week)
[email protected], Science Memes, 2786 => 5485, 546 posts (31 this week)
[email protected], Bloodborne, 11 => 195, 21 posts (10 this week)
[email protected], Old People Facebook, 69 => 536, 101 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Achievers, 7 => 123, 180 posts (2 this week)
[email protected], Trippin' Through Time, 164 => 776, 41 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Futurology, 372 => 1064, 565 posts (12 this week)


Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Photoshop Nonsense, 75 => 248, 10 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], Hanfanbau - Alles rund um den legalen Eigenanbau von Cannabis, 34 => 161, 18 posts (16 this week)

[email protected], Weedtime, 27 => 89, 55 posts (32 this week)

[email protected], The Leaky Cauldron, 72 => 118, 33 posts (11 this week)

[email protected], Matematica, 8 => 26, 15 posts (8 this week)

[email protected], Cranes, trains, planes and excavators and stuff like that, 141 => 167, 38 posts (5 this week)

[email protected], Linguistics, 187 => 211, 27 posts (3 this week)

[email protected], Ghetto Markendiscount, 103 => 119, 25 posts (1 this week)

[email protected], Movies and TV Shows, 1285 => 1336, 791 posts (50 this week)

[email protected], Community (TV show) Community, 90 => 132, 10 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Not voting (in your election), 4 => 10, 6 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', 152 => 184, 77 posts (13 this week)
[email protected], TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name, 2171 => 2283, 761 posts (66 this week)
[email protected], Cool Guides, 2823 => 2927, 205 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], Greentext, 2052 => 2139, 399 posts (14 this week)
[email protected], InsanePeopleFacebook, 1423 => 1495, 138 posts (21 this week)
[email protected], Nostalgia, 577 => 623, 75 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Fake Band Names, 102 => 120, 43 posts (8 this week)
[email protected], memes, 6578 => 6712, 1501 posts (34 this week)
[email protected], Free Open-Source Artificial Intelligence, 2315 => 2391, 191 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], What is this thing?, 4761 => 4867, 81 posts (3 this week)
[email protected], Trans, 166 => 186, 48 posts (6 this week)
[email protected], Hardware Gore, 493 => 523, 21 posts (1 this week)
[email protected], xkcd, 6843 => 6957, 136 posts (4 this week)
[email protected], UK Nature and Environment, 150 => 167, 218 posts (36 this week)

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This is not a comprehensive list by any means, and is why I'm featuring this post and leaving it open to comments. I may update this as people make suggestions, and I encourage others to make their own variations on this list in the comments or in their respective versions of this community.

Also to clarify some terms here, by active I'm aiming for at least some commenting on recent-ish posts, not merely recent posts, and by the topic names...I'll let the linked communities serve as examples.

🎨 Creative Communities 🎨
Fabricraft

Music

Photography

Visual

Writing

Food

🗿 Humanities 🗿
Visual Art

Literary Art

History & Anthropology

Language/Linguistics

Philosophy

Religion & Spirituality

😄 Entertainment 😄
Playing

Watching

Reading and Listening

Multimedia

Music

🏅 Sports 🏅


Hope this helps any newcomers find some different communities to join and participate in!

p.s. although it's now out of date, as some instances are no longer around (RIP Lemmy.film), this post is still a pretty useful resource for a broader range of communities than those listed here.

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Active User Growth

[email protected], textsfromsolarpunk, up 36.2% to 1704, (18 posts)
[email protected], Sweet Graffiti and other acts of wholesome vandalism, up 24.0% to 203, (24 posts)
[email protected], MEOW_IRL, up 17.3% to 1689, (286 posts)
[email protected], Degrowth - Economics as if People mattered, up 16.9% to 144, (38 posts)
[email protected], Missouri | The Show-Me State, up 16.7% to 161, (28 posts)
[email protected], Facepalm, up 16.2% to 105, (30 posts)
[email protected], askmenover30, up 14.4% to 424, (18 posts)
[email protected], Anime and Pics, up 14.4% to 145, (335 posts)
[email protected], War in Ukraine, up 14.2% to 18, (168 posts)
[email protected], Progressive Web Apps, up 14.2% to 22, (4 posts)
[email protected], News, up 14.2% to 552, (464 posts)
[email protected], Gauchiasses, up 14.2% to 321, (397 posts)
[email protected], Gardening, up 14.2% to 60, (26 posts)
[email protected], Beyond app, up 14.2% to 14, (10 posts)
[email protected], Autism, up 14.2% to 13, (52 posts)
[email protected], Ask Women, up 14.2% to 90, (8 posts)
[email protected], DevOps, up 13.9% to 61, (60 posts)
[email protected], Ubuntu, up 11.5% to 10, (8 posts)
[email protected], Lunarpunk, up 11.2% to 203, (21 posts)
[email protected], Learning Rust and Lemmy, up 10.4% to 172, (17 posts)
[email protected], art, up 10.1% to 320, (83 posts)
[email protected], Youtube, up 9.0% to 131, (43 posts)
[email protected], fixing, up 8.1% to 69, (25 posts)
[email protected], Aachen, up 6.9% to 15, (16 posts)
[email protected], Piracy, up 6.8% to 15, (17 posts)
[email protected], Gittertiere, up 5.8% to 62, (43 posts)
[email protected], Münster, up 5.7% to 11, (8 posts)
[email protected], Programmer Humor, up 4.8% to 10120, (514 posts)
[email protected], Pulse of Truth, up 4.7% to 191, (407 posts)
[email protected], Germany, up 3.5% to 300, (75 posts)
[email protected], Blåhaj, up 3.3% to 23, (73 posts)
[email protected], Leopards Ate My Face, up 3.2% to 35, (31 posts)
[email protected], Fotografie, up 2.8% to 27, (101 posts)
[email protected], 2westerneurope4u, up 2.4% to 255, (37 posts)
[email protected], RuneScape, up 2.3% to 26, (69 posts)
[email protected], Living in vans, cars, RVs, etc, up 2.3% to 44, (59 posts)
[email protected], Adventure / Point-and-Click / Narrative Games, up 2.3% to 54, (38 posts)
[email protected], Pixel Art - pushing pretty pixels around, up 1.7% to 87, (120 posts)
[email protected], Map Enthusiasts, up 1.5% to 1351, (189 posts)
[email protected], Political Memes, up 1.4% to 1110, (134 posts)

Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Actual Discussion, up 1.2% to 99, (11 posts, 7 recent)

[email protected], Hello Internet, up 0.3% to 41, (11 posts, 2 recent)

[email protected], Trans, up 25.6% to 118, (28 posts, 25 recent)
[email protected], Let's Talk About Games, up 1.8% to 135, (17 posts, 7 recent)
[email protected], Independent Movies, Series and Documentaries, up 0.6% to 24, (9 posts, 3 recent)
[email protected], Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars, up 0.4% to 21, (8 posts, 3 recent)
[email protected], TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name, up 0.4% to 1678, (549 posts, 90 recent)
[email protected], Linguistics, up 0.4% to 169, (20 posts, 5 recent)
[email protected], Internet of Shit, up 0.4% to 139, (6 posts, 2 recent)
[email protected], Fully Automated RPG, up 0.4% to 23, (8 posts, 3 recent)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', up 0.2% to 98, (36 posts, 16 recent)

(Results are averaged over the past 7 days)

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Active User Growth

[email protected], HistoryMemes, up 20.8% to 276, (72 posts)
[email protected], Smart Homes, up 15.4% to 76, (69 posts)
[email protected], Bertstrips, up 14.6% to 1156, (93 posts)
[email protected], The Andromedus Galacticus Collection, up 14.2% to 192, (564 posts)
[email protected], SQL, up 14.2% to 14, (15 posts)
[email protected], Missouri | The Show-Me State, up 14.2% to 116, (28 posts)
[email protected], Engineering Managers, up 14.2% to 17, (12 posts)
[email protected], Doomers, up 14.2% to 57, (46 posts)
[email protected], DIY Music Gear, up 14.2% to 11, (7 posts)
[email protected], Facepalm, up 14.1% to 73, (30 posts)
[email protected], secularhumanism, up 12.6% to 24, (46 posts)
[email protected], historyczna, up 11.1% to 10, (339 posts)
[email protected], Anthropology, up 9.1% to 345, (185 posts)
[email protected], Artensterben, up 8.5% to 13, (30 posts)
[email protected], Manchester, up 7.6% to 18, (12 posts)
[email protected], Very Real Tech Pics, up 5.9% to 28, (155 posts)
[email protected], Google Pixel, up 5.9% to 23, (42 posts)
[email protected], MEOW_IRL, up 5.7% to 1357, (285 posts)
[email protected], Mullvad VPN, up 4.9% to 15, (7 posts)
[email protected], when things get too real for me_irl, up 4.3% to 990, (62 posts)
[email protected], Comics, up 4.1% to 1889, (670 posts)
[email protected], Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm', up 4.0% to 429, (35 posts)
[email protected], Linux Memes, up 2.9% to 381, (13 posts)
[email protected], Source Ports, up 2.5% to 22, (22 posts)
[email protected], Linguistics, up 2.5% to 267, (20 posts)
[email protected], Bash, up 2.4% to 10, (23 posts)
[email protected], Non-Political Memes, up 1.9% to 1041, (59 posts)
[email protected], NZ Off topic, up 1.7% to 78, (59 posts)
[email protected], Firefox, up 1.7% to 5852, (771 posts)
[email protected], Android, up 1.6% to 298, (120 posts)
[email protected], Software Gore, up 1.5% to 106, (163 posts)
[email protected], Shitty Food Porn, up 1.5% to 326, (87 posts)
[email protected], COVID-19 Pandemic, up 1.4% to 38, (321 posts)
[email protected], Alles über den Garten, up 1.3% to 15, (10 posts)

Subscriber Growth

[email protected], Trans, up 28.6% to 112, (23 posts, 20 recent)

[email protected], Internet of Shit, up 0.4% to 133, (6 posts, 2 recent)

[email protected], Fully Automated RPG, up 0.3% to 20, (7 posts, 2 recent)

[email protected], Washington, DC, up 0.2% to 384, (155 posts, 3 recent)

[email protected], Fox News, up 0.1% to 462, (59 posts, 2 recent)

[email protected], Cultube, up 0.1% to 22, (19 posts, 4 recent)

[email protected], Learning Rust and Lemmy, up 29.5% to 156, (16 posts, 8 recent)
[email protected], Cyberpunk, up 0.7% to 202, (48 posts, 8 recent)
[email protected], Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars, up 0.4% to 19, (8 posts, 3 recent)
[email protected], TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name, up 0.4% to 1657, (530 posts, 71 recent)
[email protected], Palworld, up 0.4% to 637, (43 posts, 12 recent)
[email protected], InsanePeopleFacebook, up 0.4% to 1183, (69 posts, 16 recent)
[email protected], Sweet Graffiti and other acts of wholesome vandalism, up 0.3% to 61, (23 posts, 3 recent)
[email protected], Independent Movies, Series and Documentaries, up 0.2% to 17, (8 posts, 2 recent)
[email protected], MonkeyUser, up 0.1% to 109, (24 posts, 5 recent)
[email protected], Microblog Memes, up 0.1% to 3468, (430 posts, 28 recent)
[email protected], askmenover30, up 0.1% to 265, (14 posts, 4 recent)

(Results are averaged over the past 7 days, Results are averaged over the past 7 days), up (Results are averaged over the past 7 days)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

(Shameless self-promotion: if you like this subject, consider [email protected] )

It's being used as an adversative conjunction, connecting a phrase (usually a clause) with whatever precedes it, in a way that highlights that the precedent would incorrectly imply something. Here's a set of examples showing it:

  1. "That 'tho' is like a 'but'. But it's used at the end of the sentence."
  2. "That 'tho' is like a 'but'. It's used at the end of the sentence tho."
  3. "That 'tho' is like a 'but'. It's used at the end of the sentence."

#1 and #2 are equivalent: the first sentence introduces an information (that "tho" is like a "but"), that information implies something incorrect (if "tho" is like a "but", it goes at the start of the sentence, right?), and the second sentence contradicts said implication (nope, "tho" goes at the end). With the "but" or the "tho", that contradiction is explicit.

Now look at #3 - it sounds like [incorrectly] saying that "but" goes at the end of the sentence, unlike #1 or #2.

A conjunction going after the elements being "conjoined" might sound a bit weird, but it's nothing new, or English exclusive. Latin for example used -que (additive conjunction; "and") this way: first you list the items being conjoined, then plop a -que at the end. (Classical examples: "arma uirumque cano" [I sing the arms and men] and "Senatus Populusque Romanus" [Roman Senate and People]).


Now, on why it's being used this way: there's the spelling and the increased usage.

"Tho" as a short form for "though" is old; Merrian-Webster claims that it was already uncommonly used in the 18xx. It's just that, nowadays, it became more socially accepted in informal writing, due to increased usage. This sort of "grammatical word" (conjunctions, articles, adpositions, copula verb etc.) tends to be rather small, both phonetically and spelling-wise.

And the usage of "though" as an adversative conjunction is attested from the 12th century. Probably even older since cognates in other Germanic languages also have the adversative meaning.

I'm not sure on what I'm going to say next, but I think that the increased modern usage is the result of some changes on how people interpret "but". Some have been treating it as if it contradicted everything said before, like:

  • Alice: "I wanted a banana pie. Not an apple pie."
  • Bob: "Why do you hate apples?"
  • Alice: "I like apples, but I like bananas better."
  • Bob [who stopped hearing at the "but"]: "THAN U DUN LIEK APPLES!"

That probably led to increased usage of "though" because it's used after whatever you said the relevant piece of info. So it's basically a way to cut short an assumption before it even happens.

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Active User Growth

Dads [feddit.uk], up 28.8% to 132, (37 posts)
Announcements [discuss.online], up 21.3% to 75, (27 posts)
Bremen [feddit.de], up 18.2% to 52, (32 posts)
CSCareerQuestions [programming.dev], up 18.0% to 206, (28 posts)
Bevy [programming.dev], up 17.0% to 29, (11 posts)
PlayStation [lemmy.zip], up 16.8% to 42, (14 posts)
Bicycles [lemmy.ca], up 16.4% to 1294, (187 posts)
Linux Gaming [lemmy.ml], up 15.3% to 2822, (838 posts)
Communism [lemmy.ml], up 15.2% to 960, (436 posts)
Fox News [lemmy.sdf.org], up 14.4% to 53, (56 posts)
fatherverse [midwest.social], up 14.3% to 74, (20 posts)
Seltzer Addicts [lemmy.world], up 14.2% to 13, (19 posts)
gardening [hexbear.net], up 14.2% to 118, (419 posts)
FuckCars [lemmygrad.ml], up 14.2% to 30, (28 posts)
Oklahoma [lemmy.sdf.org], up 14.1% to 247, (567 posts)
Chemistry [mander.xyz], up 14.1% to 198, (49 posts)
Programmer Humor [programming.dev], up 11.3% to 8575, (476 posts)
Programmer Humor [lemmy.ml], up 11.0% to 5865, (1231 posts)
Political Memes [lemmy.ca], up 10.9% to 1236, (130 posts)
Birds [lemmygrad.ml], up 9.9% to 17, (6 posts)
Sachsen [feddit.de], up 9.5% to 28, (63 posts)
Math Memes [lemmy.blahaj.zone], up 9.2% to 77, (41 posts)
High Strangeness [lemmy.ml], up 7.5% to 40, (17 posts)
Europe [feddit.de], up 7.5% to 3865, (1987 posts)
ama [hexbear.net], up 6.3% to 79, (175 posts)
Astronomy [mander.xyz], up 5.6% to 1308, (507 posts)
ChatGPT [lemmy.ml], up 4.8% to 13, (42 posts)
leathercraft [lemmy.ca], up 4.4% to 26, (34 posts)
Podcast recommendations and episode discussions [lemmygrad.ml], up 4.1% to 13, (20 posts)
Military Porn [lemmy.world], up 3.5% to 22, (143 posts)
Programming Horror [programming.dev], up 3.4% to 222, (22 posts)
PC Releases [lemmy.dbzer0.com], up 2.7% to 90, (257 posts)
privatelife - privacy, security, freedom advocacy [lemmy.ml], up 2.5% to 77, (198 posts)
Right to Repair [discuss.tchncs.de], up 0.2% to 165, (30 posts)

Subscriber Growth

Comics [programming.dev], up 0.9% to 130, (17 posts, 9 recent)

crossword [lemmy.world], up 0.3% to 291, (208 posts, 7 recent)

Pilzzucht - Speise- und Vitalpilze selbst anbauen [feddit.de], up 0.1% to 141, (37 posts, 3 recent)

Linux, Open Source and Tech News [lemmy.linuxuserspace.show], up 0.1% to 593, (443 posts, 19 recent)

hopeposting [lemmy.world], up 0.1% to 301, (41 posts, 2 recent)

CustardFist [feddit.nl], up 0.1% to 112, (56 posts, 4 recent)

Bertstrips [feddit.de], up 0.1% to 1327, (87 posts, 3 recent)

Arctic [lemmy.world], up 0.1% to 162, (29 posts, 3 recent)

Aneurysm Posting [sopuli.xyz], up 0.1% to 852, (82 posts, 6 recent)

InsanePeopleFacebook [lemmy.world], up 0.6% to 647, (20 posts, 6 recent)
TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name [lemmy.world], up 0.5% to 1400, (300 posts, 112 recent)
Linguistics [mander.xyz], up 0.4% to 111, (10 posts, 5 recent)
Movies and TV Shows [lemm.ee], up 0.2% to 1061, (552 posts, 39 recent)
Knowledge Fight [lemmy.world], up 0.2% to 21, (10 posts, 5 recent)

(Results are averaged over the past 7 days)

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Active User Growth

Important Images [lemmy.best], up 29.4% to 142, (70 posts)
Casual UK [feddit.uk], up 27.0% to 894, (138 posts)
British Telly [feddit.uk], up 23.7% to 562, (239 posts)
Ask UK [feddit.uk], up 17.6% to 289, (38 posts)
Socialist Rifle Association [midwest.social], up 16.0% to 235, (68 posts)
Solarpunk technology [slrpnk.net], up 14.9% to 688, (138 posts)
PlayStation [lemmy.zip], up 14.2% to 22, (12 posts)
Gigachad Takes [lemmygrad.ml], up 14.2% to 15, (10 posts)
Firefox [lemmy.ml], up 14.2% to 3716, (734 posts)
conspiracy [lemm.ee], up 14.2% to 27, (5 posts)
Announcements [discuss.online], up 14.2% to 34, (27 posts)
Technology [midwest.social], up 14.1% to 92, (69 posts)
Karlsruhe [feddit.de], up 13.9% to 54, (8 posts)
InternetIsBeautiful [feddit.de], up 12.6% to 200, (139 posts)
Humor [midwest.social], up 12.0% to 15, (4 posts)
Communism [lemmy.ml], up 11.7% to 778, (434 posts)
Spicy Pillows [lemmy.world], up 11.5% to 10, (14 posts)
Programmer Humor [programming.dev], up 9.4% to 8003, (475 posts)
fatherverse [midwest.social], up 9.4% to 38, (20 posts)
Palaeoecology [mander.xyz], up 6.4% to 133, (58 posts)
indie games [lemmy.ml], up 5.9% to 27, (21 posts)
ThinkPad [lemmy.ml], up 5.7% to 264, (81 posts)
unions [sh.itjust.works], up 5.4% to 111, (640 posts)
Hardware [lemmy.ml], up 5.4% to 402, (363 posts)
English usage and grammar [lemmy.ca], up 4.8% to 64, (23 posts)
Linux Gaming [lemmy.ml], up 4.5% to 2396, (836 posts)
CSCareerQuestions [programming.dev], up 3.7% to 99, (27 posts)
Aotearoa / New Zealand [lemmy.nz], up 3.2% to 593, (620 posts)
Dungeons and Dragons - Memes and Comics [lemmy.world], up 2.7% to 32, (142 posts)
High Strangeness [lemmy.ml], up 2.4% to 16, (17 posts)
Cannabis Cultivation [slrpnk.net], up 2.3% to 195, (103 posts)
Anime and Pics [reddthat.com], up 2.3% to 52, (327 posts)
Folklore, Myths, Legends, and Fairy Tales [mander.xyz], up 2.2% to 49, (50 posts)
Single Board Computers [lemux.minnix.dev], up 1.8% to 155, (94 posts)
WhyDRS [lemmy.whynotdrs.org], up 1.1% to 14, (71 posts)
Mining [lemmy.ca], up 0.4% to 53, (24 posts)

Subscriber Growth

Bevy [programming.dev], up 4.6% to 73, (9 posts, 4 recent)

Linguistics [mander.xyz], up 1.6% to 107, (10 posts, 7 recent)

Knowledge Fight [lemmy.world], up 0.2% to 19, (10 posts, 5 recent)

Camp Half Blood [literature.cafe], up 0.2% to 36, (11 posts, 4 recent)

Geography [mander.xyz], up 0.1% to 801, (300 posts, 3 recent)

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name [lemmy.world], up 0.8% to 1356, (255 posts, 80 recent)
Harry Potter [literature.cafe], up 0.3% to 83, (21 posts, 12 recent)
Non-Political Memes [lemmy.ml], up 0.1% to 254, (48 posts, 7 recent)
Movies and TV Shows [lemm.ee], up 0.1% to 1037, (540 posts, 34 recent)
Greentext [sh.itjust.works], up 0.1% to 1746, (316 posts, 22 recent)
Cyberpunk [lemmy.zip], up 0.1% to 84, (26 posts, 5 recent)

(Results are averaged over the past 7 days)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Close enough, I suppose. I feel as if there's another term, tho; someching specific to speech. Like, I've hearg it before, but can't recall it.

I tried to minor in linguistics in college, before I realized it wasn't quite what I thought it was. I may have heard a term there. Now I have to go check if there's a c/linguistics somewhere.

Edit: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even then, you can still move the community to another instance. You won't get the same address, but provided that the community wants to leave, it will. (In fact I'm doing this right now, migrating [email protected] into [email protected] )

That's because the community is not just some address on the URL bar. It's the users and the content that they share with each other. It'll be where the users are.

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Links to the community:

The community is open for everyone regardless of previous knowledge on the field. Feel free to ask or share stuff about languages and dialects, how they work (grammar, phonology, etc.), where they're from, how people use them, or more general stuff about human linguistic communication.

And the rules are fairly simple. They boil down to 1) stay on-topic, 2) source it when reasonable, 3) avoid pseudoscience.

Have fun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wait -- now it takes me direct to the mander server. Before, the one that was in the Lemmy bullet point was perfect (whatever it was would go to /[email protected] which would work on any kbin/mbin server whether the community was already federated or not).

Edit: Actually, I don't know if that's ideal, because bots will hit the link and cause federation load which maybe isn't ideal. But, it was convenient 🙂)

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UPDATE, 2024/JAN/17: this address has been locked so mods only can post. Use the new one.


This comm is being moved to [email protected] (Lemmy link) or /m/[email protected] (Kbin link). Same old topic, same old rules, same old mod. Different instance, focused on sciences. That's it.

A few additional points:

  • Since the new instance only defederates other two instances, access shouldn't be a concern.
  • I'll keep modding both addresses concurrently, until 19/February/2024 (August Schleicher's birthday), to give people enough time to migrate. In the meantime you can post in either but I'd like to ask users to use the [email protected] address instead.

If you believe that it's worth keeping [email protected] as a separated community, and wishes to moderate it, please say so in this thread. Or wait until the migration is over and ask lemmy.ml admins, whichever you prefer.

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