How many of each kind of animal did Moses bring on the Ark?
Dan Parker brings us a ✨linguistic illusion✨.
From our latest episode, which you can watch or listen to in all the places.
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French overtakes Arabic for fourth place! 🤔 Maybe.
What kind of French do you like?
It's in our new episode with Dan Parker!
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Great to see this book from @korystamper.bsky.social
And also she's on so many fun podcasts, talking about it!
Any of them are worth listening to.
Here's ours:
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But also
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vocalfriespod.com/2026/03/31/i...
Any others?
I believe in youuuuuuu
That's a good definition. Can anyone tell what dictionary that is?
Maybe if everyone used different wording all the time to describe the field? Oh, it's the field over there. It's the field that leads to that flat place. It's the field next to the thing.
If it wasn't conventionalised, then it wouldn't have a name, I guess.
But we like names. They're useful.
Yes — we could argue that Nameless Field stopped being nameless as soon as someone called it that.
If a language didn't have negation, then maybe, but they all do I think
A highly entropic sentence.
cw: sex, vaginal, knocked (maybe), Cumming
I've always loved this one, but yes, it is one of the more aggressively irritating songs of the '80s.
Let's note also that HF were playing around with this ramshackle style aesthetic years before Boy George.
Indigo is a scam. There, I said it.
What's your spicy take on colour?
Listen to our episode with @korystamper.bsky.social, author of "True Color"
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@aaknopf.bsky.social
Do you confuse puce and chartreuse? And what's vermilion? We have a new episode with @korystamper.bsky.social, author of True Color. Get the book, watch the podcast! Wherever good books are sold and good podcasts are listened to.
@aaknopf.bsky.social
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sloppelganger
#WordOfTheWeek
Coming soon: a chat with @korystamper.bsky.social about her new book True Color. How do you define what blue is? What even IS colour? Turns out, the quest to define colours was happening along with a standardisation crisis and a dictionary crisis. Kory tells us all about it.
@aaknopf.bsky.social
Final hours for this Kickstarter! Tim is creating beautiful works of art, and presenting them as words of encouragement for communities that use endangered scripts. Check it out and support.
I really want to believe that he asked "the what?" reflexively
as a treat
#WordOfTheWeek
frustration tolerance
#WordOfTheWeek
Seriously it’s this kind of complacency
Get tested, everyone
that YOU know of
Need some help spelling the word BUREAU?
It's easier than you think, but it's going to take a gross mnemonic. And Daniel's got one.
Full episode: becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...
For editors, on National Grammar Day.
On Grammar Day, they get aggressive:
Of their pronouns and nouns they're possessive,
Their subjunctives are hot
(Though we wish they were not),
And their verbs, like themselves, are progressive.
#alimerickaday
I feel complicit because I sold the dog food
Classic
A sticker on a laptop. It says “BECASUE LANGAUGE” and there are red squiggles under the two misspelled words
I can’t even get this right on our promo stuff 😭
Sticker: "Lingusitics is the science of langauge." Red squiggles appear under the two misspelled words
And as we all know…
ai/dr
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Language helps with information transfer, and that includes a lot of information about ourselves.
With Valerie Fridland, author of "Why We Talk Funny".
Full episode: becauselanguage.com/133-why-we-t...
The US Southern accent is becoming a marker of ideology. With Valerie Fridland, author of "Why We Talk Funny".
Full episode:
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Life is extremely kiki right now and I would really like it to be just a little more bouba
