I love linguistics more than I love any physical being

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Happy birthday to book! I really enjoyed our talk about it. becauselanguage.com/123-consciou...

The best feeling in the world. Signing books for the third sold out night this week for How To Kill A Language

New Cambridge Element, Microlearning with GenAI, by Lucas Kohnke, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/3PUkEVh

wario More specific than “nemesis”, it’s an antagonist who’s a polar opposite in some important way #WordOfTheWeek

@laserhedvig.bsky.social JUST got through saying on our podcast: “Oh, you guys from the Caribbean, why don’t you come and settle over here and work in our factories?”…And then, they’re like, “Oh, no. The brown people from the perimeter came to the center? Argh.” becauselanguage.com/136-these-la...

A very happy Persian Language Day to all who celebrate! en.irancultura.it/national-day... thx Diego

Jim Crow 2.0 #WordOfTheWeek

New appearance of the -washing combining form just dropped! hot-washing #WordOfTheWeek

reverse centaur #WordOfTheWeek

Good news for #Gaeilge: people are using it for normal fun human stuff! It's not just a duty. Laura Pakenham breaks it down for us. Laura is the author of "Irish: History and Culture Through Language", available from Simon & Schuster. Listen to the full episode: becauselanguage.com/138-pop-up-g...

If you have to ask… it’s likely likelelline

Goodness, what a question. Obviously you wouldn’t put farmland on a parking lot. Structural ambiguity of the day. Also yay solar bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

What's going on in our minds when we make sentences? Are we constructing trees? Or words in a sequence? We're climbing down from the trees with @mh-christiansen.bsky.social and @yngwienielsen.bsky.social Video (recommended): www.patreon.com/posts/video-... Audio: www.patreon.com/posts/audio-...

Today is the National Day of British Sign Language in the UK, and here's an interesting talk with BSL interpretation :) #nationalbslday

What will happen to the languages of climate refugees? Dr Mary Walworth of @cnrs.fr explains that language is a cultural anchor. She's on our latest episode. becauselanguage.com/136-these-la... #PoleToPole

People on the island of Enusi weren't just glad to get a visit from Will Smith — they were also keen on meeting linguist Mary Walworth @coollinguist.bsky.social . We're glad to see her too, as a guest on this episode. becauselanguage.com/136-these-la... Find it on your pod listener. #PoleToPole

Coming very soon — a live episode with television presenter Laura Pakenham about Irish. All patrons free and paid are welcome. Details here, so click through and sign up! @simonandschuster.bsky.social www.patreon.com/posts/live-s...

Why does this ungrammatical sentence sound fine? When your grammar says one thing, but your feels say another, you may have found a ✨linguistic illusion✨. Dan Parker, author of "Agreement Attraction". Available now @universitypress.cambridge.org Listen/watch: becauselanguage.com/135-linguist...

Linguists – make a habit of posting about your latest work. Not only is it good for the public, but it helps us to find you. Maybe we’ll feature your work on the show! We are constantly on the lookout.

LLMs can make mistakes. Always verify the output.

we need more linguists because i don't want to have to explain to otherwise educated people that there's no such thing as a "biological pronoun"

We need more linguists because for too many people, thinking about language means: People say a thing and I hate it. We can flood the media with stories of fun, positivity, inclusion, and good science in language.

file under: ambiguity, "for"

Our most recent episode of @becauselanguage.com is a really nice chat about language trickery - what can these pranks tell us about how language works? becauselanguage.com/135-linguist...

How many of each kind of animal did Moses bring on the Ark? Dan Parker brings us a ✨linguistic illusion✨. From our latest episode, which you can watch or listen to in all the places. becauselanguage.com/135-linguist...

French overtakes Arabic for fourth place! 🤔 Maybe. What kind of French do you like? It's in our new episode with Dan Parker! becauselanguage.com

Great to see this book from @korystamper.bsky.social And also she's on so many fun podcasts, talking about it! Any of them are worth listening to. Here's ours: becauselanguage.com/134-true-col... But also lingthusiasm.com/post/8115654... vocalfriespod.com/2026/03/31/i... Any others?

That's a good definition. Can anyone tell what dictionary that is?

A highly entropic sentence. cw: sex, vaginal, knocked (maybe), Cumming

Indigo is a scam. There, I said it. What's your spicy take on colour? Listen to our episode with @korystamper.bsky.social, author of "True Color" becauselanguage.com/134-true-col... @aaknopf.bsky.social

Do you confuse puce and chartreuse? And what's vermilion? We have a new episode with @korystamper.bsky.social, author of True Color. Get the book, watch the podcast! Wherever good books are sold and good podcasts are listened to. @aaknopf.bsky.social becauselanguage.com/134-true-col...

sloppelganger #WordOfTheWeek

Coming soon: a chat with @korystamper.bsky.social about her new book True Color. How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis and a dictionary crisis. Kory tells us all about it. @aaknopf.bsky.social

Final hours for this Kickstarter! Tim is creating beautiful works of art, and presenting them as words of encouragement for communities that use endangered scripts. Check it out and support.

as a treat #WordOfTheWeek

frustration tolerance #WordOfTheWeek

that YOU know of

Need some help spelling the word BUREAU? It's easier than you think, but it's going to take a gross mnemonic. And Daniel's got one. Full episode: becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...

For editors, on National Grammar Day. On Grammar Day, they get aggressive: Of their pronouns and nouns they're possessive, Their subjunctives are hot (Though we wish they were not), And their verbs, like themselves, are progressive. #alimerickaday

I feel complicit because I sold the dog food

Classic

ai/dr #WordOfTheWeek

Language helps with information transfer, and that includes a lot of information about ourselves. With Valerie Fridland, author of "Why We Talk Funny". Full episode: becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...

The US Southern accent is becoming a marker of ideology. With Valerie Fridland, author of "Why We Talk Funny". Full episode: becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...

Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba

New Cambridge Element, Aviation English as a Global Lingua Franca, by Hyejeong Kim, out now! Read for free for the next 2 weeks at https://cup.org/4aJ494I #LangSky

How did the kids feel about 6-7 at the #WotY2025 vote? Kelly Wright is the data czar for @americandialect.org, and she tells us all about it. Whole episode: becauselanguage.com/132-woty-202...