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Conference on the Languages of the Nordic Countries as a Second Language From June 10th to 12th, 2026, the Department of Linguistic, Literary, and Aesthetic Studies at the University of Bergen will host the seventeenth scientific conference on the languages of the Nordic c...

Conference on the Languages of the Nordic Countries as a Second Language: Bergen/Norway, 10-12 June 2026
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I embarrassingly colour code everything in my diary and carry a nerd pack with me in order to update things

#BLinguistik #linguistics

All our sympathies!

Yay, @wikipedia.org!

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Save English Language & Linguistics at University of Hertfordshire.
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Screenshot of AI check claiming a text was ai generated.

AI text checkers are NOT reliable! I ran a review I wrote yesterday - 100% me, in my words, my own style, very typically "me", untouched by AI. A checker tells me that my text was '96% likely' to have been written by AI. Bad enough writers are using AI, but even worse to be unjustly accused of it.

Not now, Cold Blob

(Except for Las Vegas, where it's just outside the casino)

Rank, City, Number of swears per day 1 Columbus, OH 36 2 Las Vegas, NV 30 3 Jacksonville, FL 28 4 Oklahoma City, OK 25 4 Dallas, TX 25 4 Philadelphia, PA 25 4 Indianapolis, IN 25 5 San Francisco, CA 24 5 Fort Worth, TX 24 5 Louisville, KY 24 6 Washington, D.C. 22 7 Los Angeles, CA 21 7 Austin, TX 21

The U.S. cities that swear the most and least
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#language #research #HigherEd #edchat #AcademicSky

HB JG!

Heroes of Slang: Anonymous Leaves from the Diary of a Celebrated Thief and Pickpocket

So. It's my birthday and I shall substack if I want to: open.substack.com/pub/jonathon...

1 Sheffield 23 2 Bradford 18 3 Derby 15 3 Cardiff 15 3 Leicester 15 4 Southampton 14 сл 5 Newcastle 12 LO 5 Liverpool 12 6 Leeds 11 7 Nottingham 10 7 Manchester 10 8 Glasgow 9 8 Birmingham 9 8 London 9 9 Belfast 8 9 Edinburgh 8 9 Coventry 8 10 Bristol 7 10 Hull 7

UK: Urban Swear Map Update!
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#language #research #swearing #edchat #English #linguistics

A stray orange cat in Thailand moved into a bar. The owners got him a QR code so that customers can buy him food and cat treats.

Linguists collecting regional swear words to map UK dialects Dr Chris Montgomery says the team is

"We're really interested in anything that's rude, that's a bit naughty, that might be counted as a swear word or a phrase"

Can you help build the UK Swear Map?

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And it’s good night from him…

There already was an ambassador. And she was competent and popular

Martha Stewart quoted a nice proverb about gardening, but it isn't Dutch... so where did it come from? - English and the Dutch As someone who writes professionally about the Dutch language in English, I’m pretty versed in Dutch proverbs. So when I see someone quoting a “Dutch proverb” that isn’t actually a Dutch proverb, I’m ...

Perhaps someone with knowledge of Chinese can weigh in here: there's a proverb that goes (more or less):

If you want to be happy for a day, get drunk;
for a year, get married;
for the rest of your life, start a garden.

It's being attributed as Dutch, but I think it is Chinese. Am I right?

Proud to provide living proof

GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach After a long decline, the number of pupils taking language GCSEs in Wales rises for two years.

Languages and culture go together so well!: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At last some essential sociopolitical content on this site

This is the crucial content we come here for

A glass of wine in the evening reduces the effects, and provides an excuse!

Not short term but thankfully a much lower dose than Self is taking. Still horrible side effects though.

I spent a few days in Albania last week visiting several universities. I really like this part of my job: Seeing how higher education works in other countries and meeting people who shape the system.