general linguistics thread

I forgot what its called, but theres a program that lets you read digitized shit from global newspapers

you get them in pdf format and its literally just local papers from all 4 corners of world w/o translation unfortunately

forgot what its called, but guaranteed 100% exists such a repository

>>7776402
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought myself.
In fact, there's a lot of stuff available for free on gen.lib.rus.ec, but hardly any magazines there are actually digitized.
As for translations, that's not my concern at all because I work with source texts directly. Anyway, if you remember its name, feel free to leave a reply.

>>7776400
most irritating misconceptions about linguistics
>linguistics is about learning/teaching languages
>linguists are experts on whether someone's using proper grammar
>studying linguistics will make you a good writer
>linguistics is about culture

>>7777049
>culture
Well that depends on your definition of language and culture — it's not as if there was just one opinion on the matter.

>studying linguistics will make you a good writer
Not sure about that. For one thing many linguists I know speak well, and some of them have a really good turn of phrase.

>linguists are experts on whether someone's using proper grammar
Agreed. On the contrary, when you study linguistics, you could get the idea that grammar conventions don't matter too much.

>>7777049
Because if we define ‘language’ as a system of symbols, cultural codes can be be seen as languages as well. And in any case the aforementioned cultural codes play a big a role in a language, because what lies behind our words relating to beauty, our rude words — they are all culture-defined. Just to give an example, it is because of the long established conception of sin and sexuality that we can refer to a person we don't like as a "bugger" or "faggot". (By that I don't mean imageboards).

Anyway, how would you define linguistics?

>>7777193
the study of the language faculty