Language - kirschner-ED If neurodiversity is a strength or a unique cognitive profile, why do we intervene? If it’s “not something broken that needs to be fixed”, why are we spending so much time and money to fix it?

What's in a name? “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.
Changing the label doesn't solve the problem. #EduSky
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103: Unequal Englishes (with Ruanni Tupas and Nicole Holliday) Podcast Episode · Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · 03/08/2024 · 2h 21m

Unequal Englishes with Ruanni Tupas. So enlightening! & definitely resonates.

Also shout out to Nicole Holliday who is so good at making linguistics so engaging & accessible eg speech, prosody & shibboleths 🐦🐦

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Contextual forms

Old #Uyghur was descended from a vertically written form of #cursive #Sogdian. This #alphabet was used in 8-17 c. CE to write #medieval #Turkic languages, #Chinese, #Mongolian, #Tibetan, and #Arabic.

Full page: tinyurl.com/4nfcp52u
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww

We have become obsessed and overly reactive about testing than closing the gaps in teaching-and-learning. Perhaps, our understanding of the problem is still limited or superficial. 😊

Our underperformance in PISA is not merely a consequence of differing the way we test our learners compared to the rest of the world, but is largely attributable to our priorities and practices in the classroom and in the Department as a whole.

When an assessment outcome is unfavourable, it is imperative to focus on refining the instruction rather than altering the assessment itself.

How to use YouTube to boost your language skills YouTube video by Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve

I really love this approach by Steve Kaufmann for teaching languages in the classroom. He also speaks to the Canadian education context directly and outlines some solutions to our terrible outcomes in teaching french in our public schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jqs...

Are we all saying ‘Passyunk’ wrong? The word Passyunk today is something of a defining Philadelphia word. We found five different pronunciations.

How do Philadelphians pronounce 'Passyunk'? It's complicated.

Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)

h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦

Bias and discrimination in AI: Why sociolinguistics holds the key to better LLMs and a fairer world The language "engines" that power generative artificial intelligence (AI) are plagued by a wide range of issues that can hurt society, most notably through the spread of misinformation and discriminat...

Important work on large language models and discrimination here. Good timing, given yesterday's UK government announcement about the 'mainlining' of AI (🙄).
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From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them

'With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them'. #linguistics 🐦🐦 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis - Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey, John E. Richardson, 2025 There has been a dramatic surge in uses of big data analytics and automated methods to detect and remove hate speech from social media, with these methods deplo...

New #OpenAccess article in @sociologicalreview.bsky.social >>
Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and John E. Richardson:
Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis
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A colleague on X has suggested every linguist should brush up on their von Humboldt, de Saussure, Bloomfield, Boas, Sapir, Harris, and Chomsky.
Who else would you add to the list?
#linguistics 🐦

I'll be running a professional development workshop for our Linguistics PhDs on non-traditional career paths. What advice should I give them? What resources should I share?

Here's what I shared last time - thanks @hadaskotek.bsky.social!

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Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages? A recent update to the Unicode Standard means that Haíɫzaqvḷa can finally be fully written and read on all digital platforms.

An #article I co-authored w/ @markturin.bsky.social, N̓a̓ṇ̓gáinúx̌v & @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social is live on @theconversation.com!

"Ensuring accurate character #encoding that is predictable on all operating systems is a cornerstone of #language justice"

theconversation.com/why-is-it-so... #langsky

Hello resident linguist here and PhD in English. This is true. AAVE as a language has rules that negate the way we are taught to speak and it is culturally specific. You cannot learn AAVE if you did not grow up speaking it. You will not understand the linguistic nuances.

Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process.

For $250. For her classroom…

Lingcomm Bibliography Lingcomm Bibliography bit.ly/lingcomm-biblio Maintained by: Lauren Gawne & Jess KrukLast updated: Dec 2024 What is in this bibliography? For the purposes of this bibliography, ‘lingcomm’ is the cre...

Introducing: the Lingcomm Bibliography of research:

bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...

I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm

As Kate Price, a Brit living in Berlin, explains about speaking German:

“There is definitely a parabola – one drink, getting more confident; two drinks, feeling eloquent; but three drinks, probably starting to slide down the other side of the curve”. 😊🍷🍷

#polyglot #LangSky

Language and Place Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place

#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Captions confer comprehension advantages up through advanced levels of L2 proficiency - only at highly-advanced levels (C2 in the Common European Framework) does this advantage seem to dissipate.

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Linguists, is there actually work on this kind of unconventionalized onomatopoeia? 🐦🐦

Filipino Linguist here

congrats to bluesky team for building such a successful social media network! i can tell they're succeeding because the numerosity and overall tedium of my reply guys are beginning to resemble height of twitter

Linguist Answers Word Origin Questions | Tech Support | WIRED YouTube video by WIRED

This was quite good fun to do
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I’m here hehe

Please add me

I paid a respect to the shaman, elders, and chieftains of Higaonon #tribe, an ethno-linguistic group in the #Philippines, through a ritual and conducted a community-based theater production to show their almost forgotten traditions.

For the Lumads of Mindanao 🇵🇭
#culture #linguistics

Words such as racist slurs can literally hurt – here’s the science Research has disproven the saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me’.

theconversation.com/words-such-a... In case you haven't read it. #Linguistics

While promoting ind. lang. thru signages is beneficial to the vitality of an ethno-ling group, here is a case from the #linguisticlandscape of Chiapas, Mexico 🇲🇽 that shows otherwise. Coca-Cola weaponized language and hijacked culture. Now, these IPs became loyal to the brand. #langsky #linguistics