A neologist is a lexicographer of new words and expressions. I am a meowlogist: a lexicographer of new cat-inspired words and expurressions.

"Very entertaining and informative book that covers everything you'd want to know about cats online! I especially liked the sections on the jargon used in cat communities. Must read for any cat lover!" (Review on Amazon) 🧪 #cats #caturday books.google.at/books?id=MXi...

Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us. Just like the cats, we, too, judge other people because we want to know who they are in relation to us. That’s psychology. When we form our judgements on the basis of language, that’s sociolinguistics. meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7095 🧪

Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community and on the social media platform. Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, differences are out there waiting to be discovered and described. meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7055 #linguistics 🧪

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I’m a Dialectologist. Get Meowt There! meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7032 #cats #linguistics

An old newspaper adage says “If it bleeds, it leads”. While that may be true for many news stories out there, it does not apply to cats in the news. Mostly cat news are feel-good stories making you happy. meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7011 #cats #news

#InternationalCatDay #Weltkatzentag For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it? meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6906

Time to prepare for 08 August - International Cat Day. Be in the know and read my book ➡️ www.cambridge.org/at/universit...

On my quest to discover research on why cats love cardboard boxes so much, I have come across a research article that looks at how visual illusions affect cats. Cats can perceive shapes even if they are just illusions. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Let’s apply some PR (purring relations) to the Meow Factor and come up with catchy slogans to bring the essence of the blog to you, its readers, and to attract new people to linguistics with cats meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6708

Many people have an online account for their cats. I noticed that people pretended to be their cats. As cats, they used their own kind of language with their own words and spellings. As a dialectologist, I went “yes!” straight away. #GuestNewsletter 🐦🐦 🧪 fedeminozzi.substack.com/p/weekly-new...

I could not have said it better 😻

Linguistics about and for cats 🐦🐦

Linguistics with Cats: focusing the cat lense on language 🧪 open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...

There are cats in LOTR 🐈‍⬛😸😻: the fiddling cat in a song, a cat in Bree, cats jumping on poor mice (Sam pouncing on Gollum), cats of Queen Beruthiel (I still need to check out Queen Beruthiel’s cats). So we have cats in their roles as entertainers and hunters. am reading LOTR now

next issue coming on Wednesday. Sign up for linguistics with cats open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...

This is why I love my research on cat-inspired language: Luke Skywhiskers, Purrincess Leia, Han Meowlo, Purr2D2, C3Purro, Meowda, Jabba the Cat, Darth Meowder, Empurror PawPawtine on "May the fourth". This is cats meeting Star Wars meeting cultural meaningfulness #Caturday 🐦🐦 🧪

in time for Meowther's Day on Sunday, here are some #catspeak words for my cat friends to use for their hoomans meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6027

Wenn du jede Woche denkst: „So geht’s nicht mehr“ – dann ist das nicht Jammern. Das ist der Anfang von Klarheit. Webinar für alle, die aus der Wissenschaft raus wollen, aber (noch) nicht wissen, wie. https://leavingacademia.my.canva.site/plan-statt-panik #ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia

Doing #linguistics with cats on #Caturday: New blog post out on the Meow Factor focussing on small stories as part of #SocialMedia communication 🧪 meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5975

Friday is Caturday eve 😸

"purring" in Ukrainian: муркотіння ( murkotinnya) 🐈‍⬛

There are sun puddles and there are recharging bays for cats. 🐈‍⬛ Happy #Caturday everypawdy

Bookstaversary of my book on this #WorldBookDay: "Purrieties of Language" came out two years ago. It still does not get old 🐈‍⬛ 🧪 #linguistics

Schnurrschlange (purring snake) and flauschige Gefahr (floofy danger). #meowlogisms am not sure about my translation of Schnurrschlange

#Caturday is trending on Bluesky. Deservedly so

Meowsachusetts is so pawsome 😹

pawmazing now that's a first occurrence for me, I have come across it as ameowzing before

New mewsletter out today: what using catspeak says about us 🧪 #linguistics open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...

Meow Dai is Catspeak for Monday 😻

Help needed with real #Catspeak: Purr Reviewer 2 typed this on my laptop: UIIIIIIIIIIIIII 4 ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,mkaQ<<<<<<< I think he wishes everyone a Happy #Caturday. What's your take?

Bidialectal post on #caturday: Catspeak and standard English

How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder: community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5799 # linguistics 🧪

🙋‍♂️ Got a burning linguistic question? ✍️ Let us know in the comments, and we'll try to match your question with an agony linguist in a future Babel!

purrsday is both birthday and Thursday. And Thursday can be purrsday and fursday. Birthday can be purrsday and birdieday #meowlogisms #linguistics

Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social? And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

my dear cat furiends, what do you call your cat language? cat speak? cat typing? cat? *asking for myself (am writing an article) @gonzo.bsky.social @princessluna.bsky.social @itsflanoy.bsky.social maybe you can halp me?

Right now I am trying my hand at some science communication with cats. I want to reach people with sociolinguistics and dialectology, which I am purretty passionate about.

If you know about other initiatives, please let me now. My International Office is interested in getting an overview what‘s happening at European institutions.

I am now switching my newsletter to #Substack. If you love #cats and #linguistics, sign up now. Fank mew 🧪

Push back against language peevery, promote the idea that language can be analyzed scientifically, and amuse the heck out of your fellow linguists with this sturdy, snarky notebook www.redbubble.com/i/notebook/N...

Love the acknowledgments in the paper "If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus)" by Smith, Chouinard, and Byosiere: "We wish to extend our gratitude to the cats, ..." Please note that the cats come first. 🧪

Subscribed to @babelzine.bsky.social yesterday and I ask myself now: why didn't I do this earlier? It's awesome #linguistics Happy weekend reading!!

That would be my linguistic reality TV show. What's yours? "I'm a dialectologist. Get meowt!" #linguistics

Cats are freeloaders. Apparently. What's not to love here? 🧪 #cats steadyhq.com/en/purrspect...

Niaski is a feline-inspired artist and uses #meowlogisms in her newsletters: "Who fancies a cupcat or a trip to the Meowseum to see the Mummies, in need of some paint for your new paw-lette, then a trip to the feline fine art shop is a must,..." 1/2 niaski.com/products/cat...

Keith Hairball, Andy Purhol, and others. New post out now. The catspeak selection gives you examples of feline-inspired word formation #morphology #linguistics 🧪 meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5576