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A #BoardGame before bed: The Chameleon

A #BoardGame before bed: Hot Streak

Last night's #BoardGame: 7th Continent

It's a little depressing how many people apparently came to believe that Duolingo would be sufficient for learning a language. The consequence, of course, is lots of this. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I see why they made Benedict Cumberbatch American in tonight's #FirstTimeFilm. If he were a British surgeon he'd be *Mr* Strange.

Tonight's #BoardGames: 1. Mr. Jack in New York 2. Caesar! Seize Rome in 20 Minutes 3. Unmatched: Bloody Mary vs. Yennenga

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT🚨 Out now in Cognitive Science: Exploring the Guessing-Game Experimental Paradigm Can humans understand the meaning of novel vocalisations & ape gestures? Human performance in such tasks is definitely impressive but what does it mean? Let's dive in! 🧵⬇️ #language #linguistics 1/

A fascinating piece by Rosamund Oates offers a powerful historical perspective on inclusion, language & the long struggle for recognition of deaf communities. 🔗 tinyurl.com/m22yhbfb 🧵👇 #langsky #linguistics #signlanguage #language #forensiclinguistics

Today's #BoardGames and other #Games 1. Sleeping Queens 2. An Escape Room 3. Blob Party 4. Micro Macro Crime City

Sharing a PhD opportunity at Stockholm University for those interested in Romance languages and sociolinguistics. Great fit for scholars working at the intersection of linguistics and social analysis. #AcademicJobs #sociology linguistlist.org/issues/37/1161/?utm_source=dlv...

Top tip for avoiding mild embarrassment: If you hear people speaking another language and you hear English words you recognise (whether it's a borrowing or there's code switching), don't say, "Oh! I understood that bit!" Other people using their language doesn't need a response from you! Chill.

Tonight's #FirstTimeFilm: Twilight Zone: The Movie

We’d go to the mines we’d half enough to eat With old rags on our backs and no shoes on our feet And we go to the office with scrip on our minds And the scrip writer says, "You're one dollar behind."

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. Point Salad 2. Ten 3. Medium

It would be great to have some #linguistics representation in these survey results! Attn @lingcomm.org

Super impressed by this working transformer my 12yo daughter made for her younger brother on his birthday last week! (She followed instructions from a YouTube video apparently.)

#langsky Pure curiosity: can anyone point me towards research (if it exists!) on instances where a speaker temporarily switches between T- and V-forms for the same addressee in a language with T-V distinctions?

Tonight's #BoardGame: Kemet

I had some time to search through the text. There are actually quite a few examples of "less" with plural count nouns: Other examples include: "And yet less thanks have we than you" (Aragorn) "It cannot be less than forty miles from West- door to East-gate in a direct line" (Gandalf) ...

I actually strongly suspect that "less flies" comes more naturally to most English speakers than "fewer flies", and that this was if anything even more true when Tolkien wrote these words!

A reminder that if Tolkien could use "less" with a plural count noun, so can you!

#linguistics #earlymodern #media

It's endlessly amusing how many monoglot speakers of English (!) have come to the conclusion that, because they don't know how Welsh is pronounced, Welsh spelling is unreliable and chaotic. Keep this in mind if you're ever tempted to suppose that the average person is good at reasoning.

New game! Robson Green or Bob Odenkirk? (Bobson Green? Rob Odenkirk?)

Finished it! It turned out quite well:) I worked on it last night myself till I got to the section about demonstrating hydraulics. So we did that together after school, and then he was super keen to finish the hand tonight. So we stayed up a little past his bedtime and completed it together!

My youngest turned 9 on Friday and got this as a gift yesterday. He's quite excited about it so we were going to start building it today. Just as we started, his friend from next door called for him, so he begged me to work on it without him. I'm a little torn about this...

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. Super Mega Lucky Box

This is becoming a bit of a problem for Nature titles... retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l...

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. Moonrollers 2. Risk: Star Wars Edition

Does anyone know any criticism of "open-ended questions" or discussions of their limitations (esp. in the context of police interviews)? #linguistics

Getting ready for #EvoLang2026!

cot-caught-court on a British high street ;-) #linguistics

I still remember people on the left speculating a couple of years ago that Trump would be better for international security than Harris...

Last night's #BoardGames: 1. Charioteer 2. Hispania

The verb ‘to see’ is very distantly related to ‘to sue’ – and also to ‘segue’, ‘second’ and ‘sequence’. They all come from a Proto-Indo-European root whose meaning can be reconstructed as “to follow”. In Germanic, it shifted to “to follow with the eyes”. Click my new graphic to learn more: 1/

'Ye' in names such as 'Ye Olde Inn' was originally pronounced 'the'. The pronunciation with y is due to a misinterpretation. 'Ye' originated as a second-best way of writing 'þe', þ being thorn, the original English letter for the th sound. Click my new infographic to read the story of thorn:

I turned 45 this week. It occurs to me that in a few years I won't be too far off from approaching the beginnings of middle age. Strange to think how time flies!

I keep forgetting to tag #linguistics posts! 🧠💬 👐💬 🗣💬 🐦🐦

I teach classes on language evolution. Something interesting that I've noticed is that a lot of people seem to have a pretty strong idea that what makes language different from other species' communication, and a key part of what allows us to have language, is abstract concepts. 1/

Doubling down on a mistake is deeply irrational. Obviously being wrong is embarrassing and feels bad. But the flip side of that is that being right is good! And correcting yourself is a chance to replace being wrong with being right. Whereas doubling down just makes you even more wrong.

Advanced AI models are willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to regime survival.

So I saw a post that reminded me that many people (in the UK) at least have very strong views on what meat goes into shepherd's pie and what meat goes into cottage pie. I mean, obviously shepherd's pie should contain lamb or mutton right? So cottage pie contains beef! Right? 1/

"it smelled like and there was a big empty bucket of Kentucky fried chicken" <- incredible RNR example on the wild. #syntax #linguistics

We're going to need a hotter hell.

I got five bucks here that says there are more people who "know" incorrectly* that E. E. Cummings should be "e e cummings" than people who can quote even one line of his poetry *It was typographical affectation his publisher applied; Cummings himself capitalized his name

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Will the Royal Family be releasing a commemorative mug shot for Andrew's 66th birthday?

It is a heck of a statement, in royal terms. bsky.app/profile/alex...

A #BoardGame before bed last night: Spot It!