The Multilingual Library: A unique project in the north of England By Anam Zafar Being a professional linguist, whenever I hear the word “multilingual” I’m just itching to find out more. So, when I first heard about the Multilingual Library (during the fantastic I…

What if every child could find books in their language at the local library? 💛 The Multilingual Library is making that happen - celebrating culture, identity & reading for all. #WorldKidLit #library #diversereading 🌈📖

worldkidlit.org/2025/12/15/t...

Book cover of "Hassrede an der Schnittstelle von Linguistik und Justiz", edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß and Mustafa Temmuz Oğlakcıoğlu.

Our colleagues in the Law department have published an interdisciplinary, German-language collection on hate speech, edited by Julia Fuchs-Kreiß and Mustafa Temmuz Oğlakcıoğlu. Now available in #OpenAccess:

🔓 www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111683041/html#contents

A density plot with added eyes and mouth to resemble a ghost and a title saying Happy Halloween in a spooky font

library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
geom_density(data=data.frame(x=rnorm(1e5)),aes(x))+
geom_line(data=data.frame(x =-5:5,y=cos(-5:5)/100),aes(x,y))+
annotate("point",x=c(-.3,0,.3),y=c(.3,.25,.3),size=3) +
ggtitle("Happy Halloween")+
theme_void(base_family="Rubik Wet Paint")

#RStats #ggplot2

Unser Campus-Maskottchen wird vermisst. Wer hat den kleinen zutraulichen Kater gesehen?

FYI: New German-English corpus available - MPI EVA Leipzig Corpus

Screencap from the middle of a paper: questions like ‘where?’, ‘whither?’ or ‘what?’ and answer them with demonstrative words like ‘there’, ‘thither’ or ‘that’. English, like many languages, allows a range of spatially calibrated answers—here versus there (and yon in older English), hither versus thither, this versus that. Moreover, many languages are like English in having proportional formal relationships between question words and demonstratives. The English formula is wh- for questions, h- for proximal demonstratives, and th- for distal demonstratives, but we don’t do this consistently HIGHLIGHT (we don’t express ‘now’ with hen, or answer which? with hich or thich). END HIGHLIGHT Some languages, like Japanese or Tamil, have systems that are both richer and more consistent (see Evans 2012b for [screencap cuts off mid-sentence]

brb making "hich" happen

Did language evolve in multilingual settings? - Biology & Philosophy Accounts of language evolution have largely suffered from a monolingual bias, assuming that language evolved in a single isolated community sharing most speech conventions. Rather, evidence from the s...

(from this paper, which is not actually about that link.springer.com/article/10.1... )

Cover of The Acquisition of Celtic Languages

The first volume to bring together state-of-the-art studies on language development in Scottish Gaelic, Irish and Welsh.

The Acquisition of Celtic Languages eds. Vicky Chondrogianni, Ciara O'Toole, &Enlli Thomas, Out Now

#Linguistics #CelticLanguages #LangSky

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24. The Jellyfish Garden
Paola Vitale & Rossana Bossú
@postwavebooks.bsky.social

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Jakob Redinger hat 1656 «mit etlich hundert bispilen gewisen, wie die Latinishe Sprach us der Tütshen geflossen» ist. 😃 Schaut man Redingers Beispiele an, trifft man auf gemeinsame Erbwörter, auf Lehnwörter und auf pure assoziative Phantasie – Sprachbetrachtungen, bevor es Sprachwissenschaft gab.

Seconding this HOORAY!!! Very jazzed about presenting on September 3rd!

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

9. There’s No Such Thing as a Silly Question
Mike Rampton & Guilherme Karsten
@mikerampton.bsky.social @nosycrow.bsky.social

Raidió Fáilte celebrates 40 years on air as Gaeilge Northern Ireland's only Irish language radio station, Raidió Fáilte, is celebrating its 40th anniversary.

Lá breithe sona do @raidiofailte.bsky.social atá 40 bliain ag fás 👏

Belfast's Irish language station Raidió Fáilte celebrates 40 years 🎊

www.rte.ie/news/regiona...

AI search engines cite incorrect sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says CJR study shows AI search services misinform users and ignore publisher exclusion requests.

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones.

Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

Sidewalk chalk text in child's handwriting that reads "I love rainbowe and sonne" with drawings of rainbows and the sun

Don't we all(e)?

I appreciate that this has been the example in "anankastic conditional" for 18 years

With Sesame Street getting canceled, now feels like a good time to share this amazing clip from the show where you had Yiddish, ASL, Spanish, and English all being spoken together in one cozy little shop

perfect

Aiming to 'radicalize Main Street,' Christian nationalists set sights on tiny Jackson County, Tennessee Christian nationalists have set their sights on a remote Tennessee county, hoping to attract like-minded people from across the country as part of their efforts to “radicalize Main Street.”

Aiming to 'radicalize Main Street,' Christian nationalists set sights on tiny Jackson County, Tennessee www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Entry for the UK and US pronunciation of Uranus with a Note: The pronunciation /jʊəˈreɪ.nəs/ has virtually disappeared from use, after many years of bad jokes based on the fact that it is homophonous with 'your anus'.

Time to share my favourite entry from the Cambridge English Pronouncing Dictionary again #language #linguistics

AI Won’t Save Endangered Languages — The Dial Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.

✍ The Dial's language issue is here ✍ Read the first stories — including this fascinating essay on why AI won't help to protect endangered languages — on our website. You can also sign up to our weekly newsletter to receive new stories as they're published.
www.thedial.world/articles/new...

It’s an American Obsession. It’s Based on a Total Lie. We Have to Stop Before It’s Too Late. The truth about what's happening on America's roads—and how we can stop it.

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.”
slate.com/business/202...

Speak For Yersel Speak for Yersel maps the different words, sounds and sentences used throughout The Republic of Ireland, but we need YOU to do this. Take the survey now.

ooooooh #linguistics alert! the team that did the Scots Syntax Atlas (incredible tool!!!!) is collecting data in Ireland and Wales!! Please share these links around!

ROI: speakforyersel.ac.uk/roi/
NI: speakforyersel.ac.uk/ni/
Wales: speakforyersel.ac.uk/wales/