One of my students refers to me in her thesis draft as "supervisor and provider of data"
which makes me feel like the sage in a fantasy novel.

I am The Provider Of Data!!!

The sound of "snoring" in Croatian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

”Ryssiä”

This is a finnish slang verb for failing, to fuck it up.

It literally translates: ”to Russian it”
#folkwisdom #finnish #linguistics #russia

Genomic study indicates our capacity for language emerged 135,000 years ago

https://lemm.ee/post/58705560

When did #human #language emerge?
A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that
#evolution #linguistics #genetics #languages #archaeology #HumanLanguage

: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full

https://news.mit.edu/2025/when-did-human-language-emerge-0314

The sound of "frog croaking" in Greek!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

I was thinking about #linguistics 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.

Happy #StPatricksDay!
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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdPQ8zFUipw

We invite applications for two fully funded #PhD positions in a project on "multimodal argumentation" (https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/multimodal/home) - especially interesting for applicants with an interest in #DiscourseAnalysis, #linguistics, and/or the #philosophy of #argumentation and #language.

For more info, see https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B82P and https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B83P

My phone just autocorrected "the shitposts are" to "the shitpost are" and uhh, are shitpost(s) a plurale tantum? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurale_tantum

Hello from Singapore! #HelloWorld #Singapore #language #linguistics

The sound of "hushing" in English!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps

Week 11

Yamirā (2) (animals)

Nwōdār ['ŋwo:.da:r] - cattle (noun, PART pl case: nwōdārta)

orrýn [ 'o.rɨn ] - horse (noun, PART sg case orrýna)
orrun [ 'o.run ] - equine (adjective)
Root: w3rr-j3-m

ngūs [ 'ŋu:s ] - cow (noun, PART sg case: ngūda, plural: nyūdā)
nwōdun [ 'ŋwo:.dun ] - bovine (adjective)
Root: ngw2ó-d

udhal [ 'u.ðäl ] - sheep (noun, PART sg case: udhala)
udhalun [ u.'ða.lun ] - ovine (adjective)
Root: h3dál

#conlang #conlangs #language #languages #linguistics @conlang

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?

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.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/17/azernews-azerbaijan-advancing-ai-projects-including-azerbaijani-language-database/

English should have diacritics.

It would be nice if we didn't have to do things like "sooooo" to indicate stretching out the syllable.

#jobs #linguistics

Projektgebundene Promotionsstelle

- Beginn: 1. Juni 2025
- Bewerbungsfrist: 21. April 2025
- bis zu TV-L 13, 65%, auf 3 J. befristet

Drittmittelprojekt "Nutzerfreundliche und auf optimale Vernetzbarkeit angelegte Erschließung des Online-DFWB (= Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch)"

Mehr Infos unter https://www.ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/stellen/stelle7/

There are multiple questions in Geoff Lindsay’s short multiple choice questionnaire on the changing use of *multiple* in English.

It only took me a couple of minutes.

https://www.englishspeechservices.com/multiple-survey/

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. #linguistics #Tucson #UniversityOfArizona #AcademicChatter

The sound of "scream" in Finnish!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps