#Linguistics

kate kush

k8kush

i exist in this weird space bwn having grown up insecure about my english so getting irked when anglos misspell things, and believing p firmly that policing grammar is classist,

cultural martian is voting Labour

calliandtosh

1. @UWankings one of my fav humourous comrades but here a serious point is raised. A preamble - no disrespect to those expert in online /mobile teaching and learning -

A’Yanna S.

ayannichka

Earlier this year many NHL teams released some of the most pitiful statements on BLM i've ever read. and that got me thinking: what makes a good statement? i decided

Gretchen McCulloch

GretchenAMcC

As a linguist, waving is a brilliant solution to bridge the sudden disappearance at the end of a video call: esp in a group, when you can see everyone's waving,

Amy March STAN🦉💚🐍

ceresreads

For the #magicalreadathon2020 I decided on the spell maker career path so for the seven prompts i decided to read:Ancient Runes: Heartless (Marissa Meyer)Arithmancy: Dead Mountain (Donnie Eichar)Charms: The Final

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

Tim Jones 🌏

Forthleft2

For those watching from home:You might know me from wonderful hashtags like #Tinonee, or maybe, #TinoneeArmadillo. But this plague has brought a number of trajectories into conjunction on my timeline.

MildlyExasperated (But Make It Festive)

MExasperated

Well it took **THIRTY GODDAMN MINUTES** but I finally decoded that symbol on Rey's jacket that is absolutely not Aurebesh.Strap in, this is a fuckin' journey. #StarWars #TheRiseOfSkywalker https://twitter.com/laceygilleran/status/12002493848

UtdArena

utdarena

A quick non-footballing thread:I was teaching an ESOL (English as a second/foreign language) class not long ago and there was a Peruvian man in his mid-40s, Jorge, who seemed to

Mateusz Fafinski

Calthalas

Ok, time to @steak_umm historians to showcase that nuanced explanations can be communicated expertly!@LitteraCarolina manuscripts/science @monicaMedHist history of medicine@Pseudo_Isidore medieval West@j_t_palmer medieval science@FlintDibble archaeol

Arminius

ArminiusThe

1. Language is a guide to our social reality. Those who manipulate language do so to manipulate your perception of reality"Neo-liberalism" is authoritarianism by deception. The label itself is deceptive.

Laura Ingallinella

lauraingalli

UNPOPULAR OPINION. 99% of my feed is lashing out at this post, but hear me out. The ACTUAL paper is presented as an attempt to replicate known concepts with large-scale

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

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

1. Thread. Despite many easy to criticize flaws, my intellectual hero remains Noam Chomsky, the man who revolutionized linguistics, significantly contributed to the burgeoning cognitive psychology movement, and did more

Dave 🦔 hopes you are at home 💛

_dmh

Here's the thing with #260papers: some days you read more, some days you read less, but averaging a paper per work day seems like a lot, especially since that expects

William Redding

dlockholmes_

I can’t stress enough how irritated I get when I learn a friend has allowed me to call them a name that is not THEIR name because “it’s easier for