#Linguistics

Lauren Gawne

superlinguo

Signed language linguistics twitter - I'm trying to find any examples of dissimilation in phonological processes, if you know any examples from any signed language? I've got examples of the

Rafi D'Angelo

RafiDAngelo

The only reason any of us cringe at "ebonics" is bc we grew up with news media telling us it was bad after the Oakland controversy. A short history thread.

Oleksandr Slynko

alex_sly

Someone need to do research about the linguistics in programming. There are lots of developers in the world whose mother tongue is not English. Like me. But we mostly communicate

Hans-Joerg Schmid

HJ_Schmid

Classifying, categorizing, demarcating - is that what linguistics is all about? Ill-tempered ruminations on two paradoxes about how linguists spend their time. 1/ First paradox: On the one hand, in

Living with Machines

LivingwMachines

We are happy to share our latest @arxiv preprint on atypical animacy, in particular the scenario in which typically inanimate objects (--> machines) are represented as living entities in nineteenth-century

AAAL Grads

AAALGrads

Because we are all graduate students, our thread has to start with @ProfessorIsIn. You might know the blog, but do you know the podcast? This is valuable career advice coming

Sami Jiries | سامي جِريِس

samijiries

One of the first things I learned when I started taking linguistics courses was that linguists are uniquely qualified to document and preserve the languages of marginalized and threatened communities,

Orange Book 🍊📖

orangebook_

Reading for ~5 hours a day for 2 years completely rewires your brain.If you did it as a child,you’re already smart & may believe it’s innate talent instead of stored

Hannah Erroneous

TheMonaOgg

Neurodivergent folks who want to learn more about hidden meanings - tumblr is not a terribly reliable source, but you know what IS useful? Books by linguists! Linguists are often

Michael Erard

michaelerard

Writing advice in most books are like fingernails on chalkboards to me. A batch of te-rendered juicy bits from Williams, Strunk & White, & Zinsser. 1) They usually don’t acknowledge

Oliver Willis

owillis

Please add “I’ll be that president” to the end of statements like this instead of dangling it out therehttps://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1309908091249422336 Republicans say “I or we will”Democrats say “somebody should”And th

Nelson Flores

nelsonlflores

For me, the disinventing of named languages parallels the deconstruction of gender binaries. Both political projects seek to challenge the seeming objectivity of bounded categories by revealing the colonial logics

‘Mayowa Ayodeji

AyodejiM_

We are hiring for some roles(Product, Sales, Engineering). All to start between now and August 3. I'll share the JDs here later today. :) At iQube, we are doing some

T.C. Aurelius

q_aurelius

I'm tired and I'm sad and I'm angry and I don't get enough sleep. So we're going to say some things that will upset people this morning.Sounds like fun, right?

Jonathan Hastie, MD

hastie_md

I’ve been thinking about the usage of “at the front lines” to describe nurses, doctors, and therapists providing direct clinical care. More battle imagery.#COVID19 https://twitter.com/hastie_md/status/1244329903924883462 Once again, it’s understandab

🔴 jomari is: on sporadic hiatus

jomvri

on one hand, i think it's nice that a linguistics professor stepped in in good faith, broke down his position clearly, was sympathetic etc. on the other hand, i think