Vowel harmony encounter in the wild

This is what we’ve been busy doing instead of YouTube editing

Long time no videos. They’re still coming, don’t worry.

Is uncompletedly a word?

New video on dog butts and timeslip in communicative systems. Find it here: youtu.be/9Z09SO-hThI #prattle 💬 #🗣️💬 #dogs #butts

Abkhaz looking at Central Chadic

New video up today, featuring some amusing language names and some thoughts on the problem of naming languages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQR... #linguistics #linguisticshumor #langsky #africansolutions

I think I don’t have the working memory to solve @nytgames.bsky.social #Letterboxed in one word, if that’s ever possible. But two is a fun challenge.

Is McWhorter the Joe Rogan of contemporary linguistics?

Gee English has a lot of negation prefixes. Why so many? un- non- ill-/irr-/in- anti- a-/an- Non negating: re- locational Latinate ones (circum-, ex-, trans-, etc)

I would also accept studying how humans react to hype

Reflecting on Sharpeville for Human Rights Day youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service #youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid

Does anyone else ever randomly match up the meter in a song with an arbitrary phrase from another context? Is it just me? youtube.com/shorts/2C4o4... #silly #linguistics #jokes #prosody #syntaxjoke #gender #agreement

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?

Just posted a new short: youtube.com/shorts/jOcW1...

1000 and 1, this was fun

Pope Francis Flips Off Crowd From Balcony

Somehow this has passed 1000 views!😮

Georgian words look so much like pretend African language words that I had to make a video about it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7E-... #georgian #chishona #lingcomm #scicomm #langsky #🗣️💬

Senses are complicated and I made a video to prove it. youtu.be/Eotlqi4cYw8

I’m experimenting with different filming options. Expect the next video to be better and/or worse quality. There will probably be awkward jump cuts based on inter-device latency.

New video coming about senses, modalities, and which ones are amenable to Language

600 people have watched this. 😮

I’m making a series of short videos about some of my favorite example words. I just finished the first one! 🗣️💬 youtu.be/aSvl3qTrIjs?...

New video is up! youtu.be/SGj8DP33Mxs

New video almost done! It will go up tomorrow I think

Fiddling with AI art for simple illustrations, sometime I’ll have to try putting in classic compound examples from Lieberman and Prince

Next video is gonna be about academia being problematic but not in the ways people expect

New video just went up! #linguistics #L2 #phonetics #phonology #perturbedspeech

Oh hey it’s that YouTube channel that I am!

Is it bad form to ask people to send videos where they talk with their mouths full? (Asking “for science”, of course.)

New video posted today: youtu.be/iZmGkLQFVXw

Hey there Bluesky