Gooo! 🖤❤️ So letzte Etappe. Es fehlen nur noch 1700 Mitzeichner. #BlueskyDoYourMagic

It is unclear to me how much traction Glossa: a journal of general linguistics is getting on BlueSky. I am thinking of switching communication about new papers to LinkedIn, which gives better insight into the # of views garnered. Give us a like if you want Glossa to stay on the Blue side of things.

@lynneguist.bsky.social norwegian language council picks "tekoligark" (tech oligarch) as woty

I cannot stress how important it is that we make “bitch, do something yourself” a language-embedded meme on the level of “kim there’s people that are dying”

The Impact of AIDS on the Artistic Community, by Fran Lebowitz. For World AIDS Day. 1 of 2:

How the cuts have shaken HIV/Aids care to its core and will mean millions more infections ahead

spannender rbb-artikel und vor allem spannende spracheinstellungen im kommentarfeld

apropos junge Frauen in Städten

“An emotional research team became tearful as they described how data shows the disease was slowed by 75% in patients.” What an absolutely incredible, joyous achievement for everyone involved. Hurrah for science and scientists! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Calls: 78th Student Conference on Linguistics / 78. Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft

Wogegen die HU klagt: Eine Verpflichtung zu stabilen Beschäftigungsbedingungen. Wogegen die HU nicht klagt: Eine Verpflichtung zu Stellenkürzungen und schlechteren Bedingungen für verbleibende Beschäftigte. Traumhafter Arbeitgeber, so lockt man Spitzentalente an.

1/ i was spending a couple of months abroad and my then gf set me up with someone she knew (yay polyamory !) who had moved to the same city. i arrive at the pub where we were meeting and realise we have already been on a date a year before in my home city.

@lingucat.bsky.social taz.de/Vermuellung-... ist mülllawine schon in deiner tristabensammlung ?

I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

anne lister @badgayspod.bsky.social ep lets fuckign gooo

realising again and again that writing is hard because thinking is hard

wow zoteros had a real glowup

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

fun multilingualism situation: speaking norwegian to the (probably british) barista in the thirdwave coffee shop in stockholm and being replied to in english. at first i thought bc she took me for a tourist (which i am tbf), then realised it was bc she didnt speak scandinavian

already hyped for radio 4s special shipping forecast-themed programming on nyd !!

oh my god overleaf I DO NOT WANT AI WRITING INTEGRATION

~structural ambiguity~

Hey, I just met you And this is freaky But which one is bouba And which is kiki?

does anyone know a good reference for the dominance of english in linguistics/psycholinguistics/psychology ? it needs to refer specifically to english, rather than WEIRD in general. thanks ! #linguistics

All linguists should read one of these: Baker, A., et al. (2016). The linguistics of sign languages: An introduction. Benjamins Hill, J.C. et al. (2019). Sign languages: Structures and contexts. Routledge Wilkinson, E. & Morford, J.P. (2024). Understanding signed languages. Routledge #linguistics

#linguistics 🐦🐦

Solidarity means joining forces with people you find annoying so you can more effectively fight people who want you dead

Today one of London’s Overground lines officially becomes the Mildmay Line. In the 1980s, before effective treatment, the Mildmay Hospital pioneered AIDS care. In 1987 Princess Diana famously shook hands with a patient there, a small gesture of solidarity which made front pages across the world.

If food prices are a main driver for voter resentment leading to the firing of incumbent governments, then there's going to be a string of firings as none of the incoming governments will be able to do anything about what's driving those higher prices: unrelenting climate change.

the idea that being attracted to Taylor Swift—a high-status woman—makes Travis Kelce gay follows only from viewing sexuality as a performance in which you reinforce your position over others in a status hierarchy, therefore sex is only straight when the man is higher in status than the woman.

as @gretchenmcc.bsky.social would say, linguists werent kidding when they said you can effortlessly understand sentences that have never been produced before

Took me a while to pick up US food terminology, but gradually getting there… Cilantro: coriander Zucchini: courgette Pumpkin: sugar and cinnamon

paying homage to the original textpost:

Teaching morphology in my intro to linguistics class this week which means breaking out the old koalas 🐨🥬

i have learned that the word "eggcorn" is not just itself an eggcorn, but because the word "acorn" started as an eggcorn of "oak corn", "eggcorn" is a DOUBLE eggcorn many thanks to @lingthusiasm.bsky.social for sharing this delightful fact in a bonus episode 🐦🐦

Baldwin: "Love has never been a popular movement."

Linguistische Filmklassiker: Das schweigende Lemma

This is my ChatGPT statement on this semester's syllabus.

interesting popsci article from susan goldin-meadow about applications of gesture research in everyday life psyche.co/ideas/expert...

This is a thing of beauty.

Grammar is not the “rules” you were taught in school. It’s what your brain does to make sense of the linguistic input it’s exposed to. The “rules” you were taught are a hidden curriculum designed to maintain a social hierarchy. Before you learned them, you were already an expert at your language.

Linguists love to talk about all the ways you can pluralize “platypus” but they really sleep on the question of “what’s the technical term for a platypus enclosure”

26 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

if you are emailing a professor, write professionally (but not ott formal) and introduce yourself with your class. profs teach several classes and have a lot of students ! e.g. Dear Dr. X, My name is lexiecalised and I am in your class "Linguistics for Nerds". [Insert question/request here]

there is probably a document explaining in detail the rules and regulations around your studies (which classes you take when, how many credits, how is the exam graded, how long should grading take, etc). read this document !

This is so needed and well framed