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Olga Lovick (she/her)<p>One of my students refers to me in her thesis draft as "supervisor and provider of data"<br>which makes me feel like the sage in a fantasy novel. </p><p>I am The Provider Of Data!!!</p><p><a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academia</span></a> <a href="https://fnordon.de/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
Vzvzvz!<p>The sound of "snoring" in Croatian!<br><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onomatopoeia</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
Toni Aittoniemi<p>”Ryssiä”</p><p>This is a finnish slang verb for failing, to fuck it up.</p><p>It literally translates: ”to Russian it”<br><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/folkwisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>folkwisdom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/finnish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>finnish</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a></p>
Nemeski<p><strong>Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago</strong></p> <p><a href="https://lemm.ee/post/58705560" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">lemm.ee/post/58705560</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Laura aka LoboTC<p>When did <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>human</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> emerge?<br>A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genetics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/HumanLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HumanLanguage</span></a> </p><p>🔗: <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/journals/psych</span><span class="invisible">ology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full</span></a></p><p><a href="https://news.mit.edu/2025/when-did-human-language-emerge-0314" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.mit.edu/2025/when-did-hum</span><span class="invisible">an-language-emerge-0314</span></a></p>
Vzvzvz!<p>The sound of "frog croaking" in Greek!<br><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onomatopoeia</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
Michael "Admiral Memo" Moore<p>I was thinking about <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23linguistics" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> this morning and I had a thought: Can people tell me some jokes that ONLY work in certain accents/dialects? Wordplay is a thing most humans do, but I was thinking about how much pronunciation goes into it.</p>
Alliterative/Endless Knot<p>Happy <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StPatricksDay</span></a>!<br>It may be a rather obvious topic, but this old video about the Potato might be just the tasty morsel you’re looking for today!</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPQ8zFUipw" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=wdPQ8zFUip</span><span class="invisible">w</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/StPatricksDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StPatricksDay</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Etymology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Etymology</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Video</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/WordNerd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WordNerd</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/HistoricalLinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalLinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/StPaddysDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StPaddysDay</span></a></p>
UG Faculty of Philosophy<p>We invite applications for two fully funded <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/PhD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhD</span></a> positions in a project on "multimodal argumentation" (<a href="https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/multimodal/home" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">sites.google.com/rug.nl/multim</span><span class="invisible">odal/home</span></a>) - especially interesting for applicants with an interest in <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/DiscourseAnalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DiscourseAnalysis</span></a>, <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a>, and/or the <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/philosophy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philosophy</span></a> of <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/argumentation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>argumentation</span></a> and <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a>.</p><p>For more info, see <a href="https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B82P" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/j</span><span class="invisible">ob-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B82P</span></a> and <a href="https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B83P" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/j</span><span class="invisible">ob-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B83P</span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/job" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>job</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/Groningen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Groningen</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/PhilosophyOfLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhilosophyOfLanguage</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/ArgumentationTheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArgumentationTheory</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/GradSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GradSchool</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/SocialEpistemology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SocialEpistemology</span></a> <a href="https://social.edu.nl/tags/PhDPosition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhDPosition</span></a></p>
Jane<p>My phone just autocorrected "the shitposts are" to "the shitpost are" and uhh, are shitpost(s) a plurale tantum? 💩 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurale_tantum" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurale_</span><span class="invisible">tantum</span></a></p><p><a href="https://datavis.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
Hello, world!<p>Hello from Singapore! <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/HelloWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HelloWorld</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/Singapore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Singapore</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a></p>
Vzvzvz!<p>The sound of "hushing" in English!<br><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onomatopoeia</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>
Valannō Lyore<p>Week 11</p><p>Yamirā (2)🐴 🐮 🐑 (animals)</p><p>Nwōdār ['ŋwo:.da:r] - cattle (noun, PART pl case: nwōdārta)</p><p>orrýn [ 'o.rɨn ] - horse (noun, PART sg case orrýna)<br>orrun [ 'o.run ] - equine (adjective)<br>Root: w3rr-j3-m</p><p>ngūs [ 'ŋu:s ] - cow (noun, PART sg case: ngūda, plural: nyūdā)<br>nwōdun [ 'ŋwo:.dun ] - bovine (adjective)<br>Root: ngw2ó-d</p><p>udhal [ 'u.ðäl ] - sheep (noun, PART sg case: udhala)<br>udhalun [ u.'ða.lun ] - ovine (adjective)<br>Root: h3dál</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conlang</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/conlangs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>conlangs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/conlang" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>conlang</span></a></span></p>
Jeremy Mallin<p>I'm kinda curious how mechanical typewriters used to handle languages with diacritics. Did they need extra keys or did people have to backspace and type over the glyph? </p><p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/RandomThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandomThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Azernews: Azerbaijan advancing AI projects, including Azerbaijani language database. “Fariz Jafarov, Executive Director of the Center for Analysis and Coordination of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, highlighted a major initiative to create a large Azerbaijani language database for artificial intelligence development, Azernews reports.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/azernews-azerbaijan-advancing-ai-projects-including-azerbaijani-language-database/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/azernews-azerbaijan-advancing-ai-projects-including-azerbaijani-language-database/</a></p>
Jeremy Mallin<p>English should have diacritics.</p><p>It would be nice if we didn't have to do things like "sooooo" to indicate stretching out the syllable.</p><p><a href="https://autistics.life/tags/RandomThoughts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RandomThoughts</span></a> <a href="https://autistics.life/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linguistics</span></a></p>
Sascha Wolfer<p><a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>jobs</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> </p><p>Projektgebundene Promotionsstelle</p><p>- Beginn: 1. Juni 2025<br>- Bewerbungsfrist: 21. April 2025<br>- bis zu TV-L 13, 65%, auf 3 J. befristet</p><p>Drittmittelprojekt "Nutzerfreundliche und auf optimale Vernetzbarkeit angelegte Erschließung des Online-DFWB (= Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch)"</p><p>Mehr Infos unter <a href="https://www.ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/stellen/stelle7/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/s</span><span class="invisible">tellen/stelle7/</span></a></p>
Anna Nicholson<p>There are multiple questions in Geoff Lindsay’s short multiple choice questionnaire on the changing use of *multiple* in English.</p><p>It only took me a couple of minutes.</p><p><a href="https://www.englishspeechservices.com/multiple-survey/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">englishspeechservices.com/mult</span><span class="invisible">iple-survey/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EnglishUsage</span></a></p>
Natasha Warner<p>I'm so proud of my academic department (Linguistics at University of Arizona). We run a table at the Tucson Festival of Books, in the Science City portion, where we get lots and lots of members of the general public of all ages involved in hands-on activities about language. We use ultrasound to show them how their tongues move while they talk, which got reactions like freaky! awesome! weird! cool! We also did an activity about what language family your family's/ancestor's language fits into, which was a huge hit. I twisted a whole lot of arms last week to get enough volunteers to staff the table (and did eventually succeed), and I'm so proud of our department for putting the effort in to do public outreach about science this way. <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/Tucson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tucson</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/UniversityOfArizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfArizona</span></a> <a href="https://tenforward.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a></p>
Vzvzvz!<p>The sound of "scream" in Finnish!<br><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>language</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>onomatopoeia</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/maps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maps</span></a></p>