Why honoring home languages matters in education - SmartBrief Many students maintain their identity through their home languages, writes Elena Schmidt.

Why honoring home languages matters in education: bit.ly/4uclVWS | SmartBrief (12/11/2025) | By Elena Schmitt
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This is accurate I fear

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From The ATA Compass - Best Practices for Virtual Interpreting: What Clients and Language Service Users Should Know: https://bit.ly/3NTBDpC | By Martina Capelle
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Lady Jane Wilde #linguist #Irish #Ireland #advocate #poet #poetry #poems #nationalist #activist #women #woman #womensrights

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Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom visual communication research cluster!
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From the ATA Compass - From Roncando to the Record: Best Practices for Forensic Transcription/Translation (FTT): https://bit.ly/4tlXxRK | By Peter Kashatus
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Independent Linguists Meet (2025-) Last year I made a call for participation in a new work…

A blogpost summarising the creation and development of our new group ‘Independent Linguists Meet’. #linguist #linguists #independent #academic #academia #linguistics #research #scholarship #AcademicBluesky

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☕ Join ATA's Arabic Language Division for a relaxed ALD Coffee Break to connect, chat, and enjoy a moment together: https://bit.ly/47u1H1n

Whether you’re a longtime member or simply curious, you are warmly welcome.

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Any linguists here? #linguistics #linguist #dilbilim

European Parliament Seeks Proofreaders Across 12 Languages The European Parliament seeks proofreaders/language editors.

European Parliament Seeks #Proofreaders Across 12 Languages
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#linguist #career #langsky

In His Resignation Letter, Joe Kent Spoke About the Death of His Wife

In his resignation letter, Joe #Kent, a top #counterterrorism official, criticized the #U.S.-Israeli war against #Iran. But he also mentioned his “beloved wife,” a #Navy #linguist who was killed in a suicide bombing in #Syria in January 2019. Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent was 35.

Gen Z thinks capital letters are just 'too intense.' And a linguist agrees. It's not about being lazy.

#GenZ thinks #capitalletters are just ‘too intense.’ And a #linguist agrees.

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Photo of Ola Szczesnowicz, with her name, title of 'Editor' and Faclair na Gàidhlig's logo in blue.

Ola is one of our team of Editors at Faclair na Gàidhlig, with responsibility for digital systems.

“I learn something new every day, and not only about the language itself but also about history, literature, heritage and many other topics.”

#gaidhlig #faclair #team #lexicographer #linguist #team

Telugu language professionals 📢

Remote opportunity focused on translation, localization, and linguistic review.

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While AI is doing wonders to make audiovisual content accessible in major world languages, it still often falls short when it comes to less widely spoken or regional languages.

#Professionaltranslator #Linguist #Audiovisualtranslation #Accessibility

CIOL members have access to electronic stamps and logos to give websites and official documents a professional look.
This article from #TheLinguist sets out the benefits of using them.
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#Linguist Dr. Taylor Jones gets into it. He manages to coalesce many of my thoughts on this in ways I couldn't hope to have done.

6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh22m1QG6i4

#Linguist Dr. Taylor Jones gets into it. He manages to coalesce many of my thoughts on this in ways I couldn't hope to have done.

6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh22...

LINGUISTA SUM. LINGUISTICI NIHIL A ME ALIENUM PUTO.

This #Latin phrase was written by a 20th-Century #Linguist whose work was (and still is) of great importance: #RomanJakobson (1896-1982).

What do his words mean?
I am a Linguist. Nothing in Linguistics is alien to me.
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I prefer #trollish and look forward to the emergence of true #trollic languages. Not comprehensible to #normies but only to LLMs and the #ignostic post-Abrahamics.

#linguist comment welcome!

#linguist #linguistics #kpop

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Where did all the #linguists go?
Did I get into a linguist blocklist?

Need reviewers!
Pls boost the quoted post! Thanks!

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Deborah Cameron obituary Linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how language can shape gendered experiences

😢 Obituary of Deborah Cameron: #linguist, feminist activist and author of influential books on how #language can shape gendered experiences
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You'd think that, as a #linguist who's lived a decade and a half in the northeastearn US, I'd have learnt before now that Americans use "sleet" for ice pellets (what I grew up calling "hail") rather than partly melted falling snow.

I don't mean to sound ableist so please correct me if I'm wrong but, can someone who knows ASL confirm whether this interpreter is accurately interpreting or is it nonsense? I study language and to me it didn't seem consistent. Thoughts?

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#BOTD in #ChineseHistory: Zhou Youguang #周有光 (1906–2017), #economist, #linguist, and 'father of #Pinyin' #漢語拼音 之父, a system of #Romanisation for #Mandarin #Chinese, now recognised as the most common standard. #ChineseLinguistics #ChineseEconomics

Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool Language is fascinating. The way humans have come up with literally thousands of languages to communicate with one another, the grammatical structures we've concocted, the fact that we learn our native tongues so naturally, and how powerful words can be are all testaments to how cool language is. But when you drill down even further, language gets even cooler, and in ways that most of us aren't even aware of. Linguist and self-professed "etymology nerd" Adam Aleksic shared a video on TikTok explaining how many common phrases we use for thinking directly reference walking. We often use metaphors in our speech, of course, but there are many that we likely don't even recognize as metaphors. We use metaphors all the time. Giphy He starts with "by the way," which literally means being next to the way, or the path we're supposed to be on. It indicates that we're taking a mental detour from the path we were supposed to be on to introduce something unrelated. On the other hand, when we're talking about something that is actually on the path we're meant to be on, we say, "of course," which literally means "of the path." "We use this metaphor all the time when we say, 'you're on track' or 'you're way off,' literally implying that you're not where you should be on the 'path' of thinking," Aleksic says, explaining that there's a greater metaphor at play here that "thinking is walking." Once you see some examples, it becomes so clear. Our minds "race" or "wander," our thoughts "stray," and we "arrive" at conclusions. > @etymologynerd > > "Via" just meant "road" in Latin #etymology #linguistics #language "All this relies on physical motion, even though your mind is stationary," says Aleksic. "But it's from that idea—that thoughts can walk—that we can then go ahead and make statements about our own cognition. Like how I just used 'from'—originally a preposition for motion—and 'go ahead' to indicates continuation…Once you know thoughts can walk, you can 'follow' them down 'a line of thinking' until you 'come to' a resolution." Even a saying as common as "Way to go!" is a metaphor indicating that you are on the correct path. Once you start thinking about it, it's easy to come up with many more examples of how we conceptualize thinking as walking: "Let's circle back." "Walk me through your thinking." "I'm backtracking here." "The thought crossed my mind." "No way." "Let's move on." We use physical movement metaphors to conceptualize ideas. Giphy Some commenters shared that their languages use similar metaphors: "In Norwegian you can say 'du er på helt på bærtur' when someone is way off, and it means that you are on a berry trip—specifically blueberry trip." "In Czech, you say btw as ''mimochodem', while mimo means outside and chodem means a step or a walk, so literally meaning by the walk." "En passant in french is the same way. It's like 'I passed near this thought' while on my way to another thought." There's something to be said for "thinking is walking" even beyond the metaphorical way we describe our thoughts. Many of the world's greatest thinkers were also obsessive walkers. In 2014, Marily Oppezzo and Daniel Schwartz of Stanford University conducted a foundational series of studies on 176 people, mostly college students, to see if walking had any effect on different types of thinking. They found that participants who walked instead of sitting or being pushed in a wheelchair consistently came up with more creative responses on tests commonly used to measure creative thinking, such as thinking of alternate uses for common objects or coming up with original analogies to capture complex ideas. In one test, they had some people walk outside and others walk on a treadmill, neither of which seemed to make a difference. Wherever people walked, their answers were more creative than those who sat or were pushed in a wheelchair. "Thinking is walking" and waking can also help us think. Photo credit: Canva “Incorporating physical activity into our lives is not only beneficial for our hearts but our brains as well," Oppezzo said. "This research suggests an easy and productive way to weave it into certain work activities." Could we perhaps say, "walking is thinking" in addition to "thinking is walking"? A 2021 study of students in Japan found similar correlations between walking and strong responses on alternate use tests that measure divergent thinking. So it appears at least some types of thinking are enhanced by walking, which _of course_ makes it all the more fun that we use so many walking metaphors to describe our thoughts. __**You can follow Adam Aleksic for more on TikTokhere or check out his book, _Algospeak: How Social Media Is Transforming the Future of Language_****,****here.** _This article originally appeared last year._

Fellow Indigenous peeps specifically those affiliated with the Taíno/Caribe Arawak tribes…. Is it stupid and dumb and bad to take the language (from what I could find online at least) and Yee Haw it up? In my story the (definitely Arawak) native language (specifically their accent) evolves over time in (now) small pockets of the world that still speak it, over a thousand years the invaders have rewritten and buried native history, traditions, and much of their language. Much of the world building is based on Taíno myths and stories. I want to celebrate my heritage, honor my ancestors, and I want everyone to know who we Still are And all of our many contributions to the entire World. But I do not want to be racist. Can someone check me before I finish the dictionary? I’m on the letter ‘G’.

I’m getting somewhere on tumblr but I thought I’d try here. ISO #sensitivityreader and #betareader (preferably those affiliated with #taino / #arawak / #nativecaribbean tribes, or #native #linguist) for guidance in telling my story.

The American Translators Association is excited to showcase our #2025 Year in Review! 🎉 Check it out, and give yourself a shoutout below if any of these included you! 😎
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