#Linguists

seeing a lot of replies like, “i wish it was just called ebonics, a white person probably made up AAVE,” when a quick google search would inform you that the

AAVE is not stan language or internet culture. y’all just found out about it and only hear it on the internet cuz you’re not around niggas in real life. seeing

Michael Drogalis

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Many teams have created best practices for how they should name & describe their @apachekafka events. When they do this, a kind of murky categorization emerges, but no one can

Sāmapriya Vasu | ḫa-am-ap-ri-a-ma-u-iš

[Language enthusiasts who are not professional linguists]-VOC. If you were one, and got to study (as in *describe*, not necessarily *learn*) 5 languages of your choice, what would they be?

Going on with the #NLProc peer review debate!The most thorny issue so far: should *ACL should require resource papers to have some proof-of-concept application?* FOR: no ML experiments => go

Juan R. Luna Díaz-Durán

something that irked me in my lang&culture classes was when they'd say the blanket statement: "when ppl codeswitch, they're not doing it bcuz they don't know the word"well ACTUALLY I

Hans-Joerg 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

Rikker Dockum /ɹɪkɹ̩/

This is true! Something that I, as an academic linguist, wish everyone knew: linguists use ‘grammar’ in a different meaning than what they told you ‘grammar’ meant in school. Here

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

After everything that's happened with @sapinker and the letter to the Linguistic Society of America, I'm excited to share with you a preprint copy of a journal article submitted for

Ben Braithwaite

It's been good to see more and more linguists recently pointing out how deeply embedded modality chauvinism still is in our field, where language is often used to mean 'spoken

Locksneedfartin

The amount of gays , black nerds , trannies , and linguists shitting their pampers over this thread is wild.No posting screen caps of urban dictionary from 2016 does not

Dr. 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

Hannah Erroneous

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

My two-penneth on the Great English Teaching kerfuffle 2020:1. Prescriptivist grammar teaching IS problematic, see the KS2 Grammar test which is prescriptivist AND pays no head to stages of child

I’ve done a story that is at once a local Dundee row about a single uni course being suspended, symptom of Scotland’s horrifying “cultural Brexit” and a big scary warning

Sami Jiries | سامي جِريِس

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,