Your instincts are perfect, kiddo. We just accidentally messed up the whole orthography because we invented the printing press in the middle of a giant sound change.

This paragraph just gets better with every line

syntax tree of the week: two trees for the price of one #linguistics #syntaxtreeoftheweek

Halloween is on the way! Do you like the International Phonetic Alphabet but wish it was... spooOOOoookier? I present... The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹 r.jyu.fi/IPAspooky Free to use/adapt! (@creativecommons.bsky.social) Repost or I will send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟‍‍ 🧠🍽️

I hereby name this symbol "the schwat". I will be taking no questions. #linguistics #phonetics #threads #schwa #schwat

After [mumble] years of teaching linguistics, writing "ɐpdɔg" in the corner of the board has finally paid off

I have been informed that I and my lap are expected in the loungeroom, post-haste

Today's #syntaxtreeoftheweek (with thanks to @lauraskh.bsky.social)

syntax tree of the week

I can't even be mad

fly, you fools

14 years ago in med school we got this unforgettable lesson in the dangers of using both English and Swedish in the same PowerPoint presentation

syntax tree of the week

This tissue box contains one _____.

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

This is high art

"One thing that we've found out in our impact surveys is that sometimes people find our enthusiasm for science/linguistics overwhelming and too much to handle at the time, which we'd never have known without surveys" (eep!) -Charlotte Vaughn @charlottevaughn.bsky.social #LingComm25

Laura Wagner, on measuring impact in lingcomm: “Not that any of us would ever have wrong ideas… but itš useful to have data to back up that we’re doing things the right way.” #LingComm25

This book was not at all what the title led me to expect. 0/5 stars.