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My podcast #lingthusiasm is doing a liveshow about backchannelling in a few hours! To start getting psyched up, please tell me about some of your favourite backchannels!https://twitter.com/lingthusiasm/status/1386022355433140225 Here's

Let's say there's something you really really like, a book or movie or tv show or podcast or even just another twitter account And you don't think enough other people

Every so often, you end up down a Wikipedia rabbit hole that reminds you how Wikipedia's editorship being 85-90% male creates huge content gaps for certain topics, especially those more

The months of the year (metric system) UnemberDuemberTriemberQuattremberQuintemberSexemberSeptember OctemberNovember December See, that's why it needed to be reformed!https://twitter.com/1Man0Name/status/1311193039378018304?s=19 2021 ca

Because Internet is out in paperback TOMORROW (for ordering-via-the-internet purposes, that's practically today) Same bright yellow cover, now with 10x more nice quotes from people Get it for anyone you

hey Gretchen, did you and @superlinguo make up a joke goal on Patreon just to have an excuse to use the letter þ? wait uh why...why would you ask thathttps://twitter.com/lingthusiasm/status/1280005554610585600

it has come to my attention that the chinese translation of Häagen-Dazs ALSO has a spurious umlaut on ithttps://stumpyjoepete.tumblr.com/post/181070403398/i-shit-you-not-the-%E5%93%88-ha-in-h%C3%A4agen-dazs-has-a i'm glad to see that H

i feel the need to make you aware of this cursèd and entirely real wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred "but gretchen, if six score was a hundred, what did they call five

How's lockdown going, Gretchen? Well, I cleared the random stuff off the chair that normally holds random stuff, so now I have a New Location To Sit In and lemme

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,

I want to talk a bit about the news cycle and why @lingthusiasm doesn't participate in it This is a threadhttps://twitter.com/lingthusiasm/status/1245885364541296643 We launched @lingthusiasm in 2016Anyone remember 2016? *hollow laugh*

me, listening to First Burn for the umpteenth time: ooooh, look at that subjunctive! happy little subjunctive! Okay so at 1:41 in this song a line goes "Heaven forbid someone