You know what I just realised? If you multiply 6 by 7, the result is 42. and suddenly it all makes sense 🤭

Anybody wanna go to the Christmas market before the conference starts tomorrow?

The SLE membership application thing does not seem to work :(

Who's coming to #NorDisCo soon? I'm arriving tuesday already, let me know if you want to be social sometime (e.g. dinner or breakfast or whatever)!

#norge #norskforsk

Academic writing should have more bulleted or numbered lists. We write lists! Let them be what they are which is lists!

A postdoctoral researcher position (languages and conversation analysis) open in Oulu! #EMCA oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

There's a journal called "Linguistics", which is different from the journal "Journal of Linguistics". There's also the journal "Language" which is different from the journal "Languages". Obviously we need to establish the "Journal of Language" and "Journal of Languages" to finish this mess. 🐦🐦

Praat easily lets you remove sound, but not without messing up your annotations... I wish it was simple to just replace it with silence instead of complete removal 😭

I have a suuuuuuuper niche question about tense usage in Ancient Greek lexicography who do I know who might know stuff about this???? All pointers and bibliography suggestions greatly received!!! #ClassicsBluesky #AncientBluesky

Is it just me or did the video guides on the Gailbot website break? I looked at them recently...

I hate the ICCA "registration" website already and I only wanted to see descriptions of the workshops

You can't convince me that these are the real names of the authors of this study. Harder & Kock (1976) isn't real.

From around late July 2025, Urban Dictionary no longer shows an upvote/downvote count. Nobody knows why. It might just be a bug, or it may have been intentional. The missing counts make the site unusable for slang researchers like me :-(

Are you teaching prescriptivism this year? If so, please consider introducing your students to YourWrong.co.uk. It could form part of a seminar activity or prep! I'd also be very happy to provide some corpus examples for a small analysis task. Just get in touch!

Casual reminder that the Tocharian B adjective meaning 'bad, evil' is yolo.

Do you know any good texts/quotes on conceptualizations of "language" or other notions somewhat related to #linguistics? Or any other kind of ideas/material to inspire teaching a class about Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics in a "language theory" course #emca 🐦🐦

The alternate spelling <pive> of the #Danish verb otherwise spelt <pibe> 'squak, whine' was added to the orthograpic dictionary last year. This better reflects common pronunciation. I'm not sure there are other <b>=[w] words that have both spellings? 🐦🐦

Abstract accepted for @icca2026.bsky.social !!!

First article of my PhD is published! It examines how midwives raise the topic of violence in antenatal care. Using CA of 35 consultations, we show that asking about violence involves subtle, interactional work - not just delivering a question. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/author...

"There will be one linguistics, or there will be none" (Haberland & Mey 1977) 😵

I'm getting error code "429 Too Many Requests" from the EMCAwiki :(

YOU can review our Grammar in Action book! Please do it!!! I want people's honest opinions!

No one has received any abstract decisions for ICCA, right?

Glagolitic! On a tram!

Review: Typology: Otto Jespersen; Brett Reynolds, Peter Evans; Olli O. Silvennoinen (2025)

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Isogloss No. 26 ☠️

Reminder! Less than a week left to apply for PhD and postdoc positions in Futures of Language — 🔁 for folks interested in the intersection of language, social interaction, and technology Vacancies: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... FAQ: markdingemanse.net/futures/news... #emca #linguistics #sts

Ok, so, I was listening to the We're Not So Different podcast episode about bdsm in the middle ages (ta, @lukeisamazing.bsky.social and @goingmedieval.bsky.social ), and they had this quote about how in Sumeria the goddess Innana would lower nets for mortals to fuck in, mingling pain and ecstasy.

Apologies to all syntacticians, but please take a look at my fresh article called "Fuck syntax and fucking syntax in the borrowing of swearwords for assessments in #Danish" - about the interactional functions of "fuck" and "fucking" in various assessments! #EMCA www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In the current JIPA there's an obituary for John Kelly -- phonetician at York 1972-1998, and my PhD supervisor. The piece contains some of John's typically detailed and astute observations, the kind that form the core of Kelly & Local (1989), Doing Phonology. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Most of us were ECRs at the time. Choosing a proper OA journal by a trusted publisher over a 'Q1' 'Scopus-indexed' paywalled Elsevier venue for a was worth it: the papers are well-read and well-cited, and paved the way for several more special issues. There are many more OA now — why go Elsevier?

Do we know anything about which conference workshops there will be?

Our book! It's on the LinguistList!!!

Turned out this was the "solution"

👇🏻In academia this is very common. People feel flattered or obliged when they are asked to be part of a project, give a talk, write a chapter ... What is often not part of the thought process is their own wellbeing. Why do so many academics ignore that they are the most important person for themself?

Update: Forensic Conversations 17-18 Sep ‘25 We’re delighted to announce the programme (see below) with keynote speaker Prof Jan Svennevig (University of Agder): “Presenting evidence to suspects in investigative interviews” darg.lboro.ac.uk/event/forens... Register now!!

To appear soon (I hope)!

A very substantial new collection just published - will repay study by all interested in the relationship between grammar and the way that language is used in interaction. #EMCA

Struck by divine madness (severe hyperfocus and obsession), I have been thinking about this for a bit. Please take this commentary as inspiration for better (i.e., not-transphobic) future EMCA/DP research. I love our field and think we have way more to offer than has been the case so far.

#OTD 165 years ago, Otto Jespersen (1860–1943) was born 🥳 Initially a specialist in language teaching and phonetics, he later became an expert on English historical syntax, also active in the international language movement, contributing to Esperanto, Ido, and Novial. #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

Honoured and excited to have been invited to be part of the amazing line-up of instructors at the LOT Winter School. Excited to take the phonetics of talk-in-interaction to Amsterdam next January. LOT Winter School 2026 - Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics lotschool.nl/events/lot-w...

In sunny news, praatpicture version 1.5.0 is now on CRAN 🌞🧨 and you can now finally overlay pitch and intensity on the waveform (thanks to @jannelorenzen.bsky.social for suggesting this)

Our new paper based on Marwa Amri's PhD project is now out! Happy and proud to see that Marwa's work on project-based learning and between-desk interactions is making a good impact in the field already. @marwaamri.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CA #classroom #interaction #Sweden

Just got an email reminding me that I can still submit until July 10? which I had not seen anything about before... Don't remember seeing it for the thing submitted on the original day of the "non-extendable" deadline 😅

In our paper, we consider *imposition* as a factor in linguistic borrowing 🧵 We often imagine borrowing in a certain way: A speaker learns a new language (L2) and then adopts words from the L2 into their native language (L1). Imposition is the mirror image of this scenario: 1/5 #linguistics