#Linguist

S. Qiouyi Lu · ae/aer · 💛🤍nb💜🖤 · 💚🤍aro🖤🏹

sqiouyilu

every once in a while, I finally make my peace with firefly again, only for some white person to say they'd reboot the franchise and my soul just starts scREAMING

Joe McVeigh

EvilJoeMcVeigh

I want to add some linguistic resources to this. Linguists have been doing the work to explain what's going on here. I'll focus on vocal fry here, but get into

Dr Peredur Webb-Davies

doctorpreds

Many varying etymologies of Yr Wyddfa ("Snowdon") and Eryri ("Snowdonia" - itself a faux-Latin Victorian coinage) floating about here. So! here's the most definitive explanation I can muster for the

Tim Grant

timgrant123

OK here goes for today’s paper for the #FLReadingGrp Bamman, Eisenstein, & Schnoebelen (2014) Gender identity and lexical variation in social media. J. of Sociolinguistics I’ve read this paper *a

Samantha Shannon

say_shannon

This has reminded me of my deep, visceral discomfort with the phrase ‘becoming a woman’ (or ‘you're a woman now’) and how it ties womanhood inextricably to sex and childbearing.https://twitter.com/veschwab/status/1252986339957575680

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Friedrich Max Müller(1823 – 1900).Understanding the mind of the man who wrecked Indian history. Why is it important? Because he is the 'godfather' of the Marxist historiansBecause the major section

Dr. Katja Thieme 👀

Katja_Thieme

Excellent thread.I'm very glad there's a scholarly piece now, extensively sourced, analyzing how Steven Pinker's media access allowed him to sway reporting on the petition to the LSA to take

J. Buendgens-Kosten

JudithBK

Research on research trends - always fun! They looked at 12 years of data from 42 journals on applied linguistics - including e.g. ReCALL, CALL, LL&T. They extracted topics from

Dave 🖖 #BlackLivesMatter #WeAreStarfleet

1701Trekkie

Hey Rhode Island Trekkies, let's talk about the name of our state and why it's time to change it. It's Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. That's a lot of words.

Magdalena Ohrman

MagdalenaOhrman

A love letter to Lampeter 1/?: I came here as a young lecturer in Classics in 2008, driving from Manchester on roads that seemed to go on forever with Welsh

Berina

anirebee

A friend asked me why Bosnians sometimes get offended when people claim we speak the same language as Serbs and Croats and are just a dialect of Serbo-Croatian. I’m no

Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian

riversidewings

Y'all have no idea how tempted I am to do more "Enterprise" era writing as #microfiction fanfic here.I prefer being able to write in my own "sandbox," but damn, it's

Dr. Suzanne Wertheim is staying home/washing hands

WorthwhileRandC

Linguist here. It looks like one of our biggest issues in this pandemic is convincing people that:1. it is deadly serious2. the consequences of their actions may be life or

Caitlin Dewey Rainwater

caitlindewey

So I know a lot of us are debating how to cover these anti-social-distancing protests. Here's my submission: https://buffalonews.com/2020/04/19/health-experts-advise-sustained-social-distancing-ahead-of-gridlock-buffalo-protest/I don't have a

Dr. Green, I'm a linguist doctor what what

caitlinmoriah

Another truly terrible, poorly researched puff piece, this time out of @TelegraphUKnews, painting the letter as a cancelation attempt rather than the academic spring cleaning it is; the first line

Gabriel Murray

murraygabriel

There is a lot I like about this book. It's well-written, and includes a lot on the scientific study of groups (i.e. it's not a business book containing some CEO's