Oh My My Number Card I my me mine, I my me mine You your you yours, You your you yours He his him his, He his him his She her her her, She her hers I my me mine, I my me mine They their them theirs, They their them the…

I wrote a little essay about my My Number -
#LingSky #Linguistics #Japan #JapanSky #Devo #Polysics
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Failure of contextual invariance in gender inference with large language models Standard evaluation practices assume that large language model (LLM) outputs are stable under contextually equivalent formulations of a task. Here, we test this assumption in the setting of gender inf...

MASSIVE thank you to the brilliant @ariel-flint.bsky.social @lajello.bsky.social and @baronca.bsky.social for their help on this work!! Check out the preprint if you want to learn more: arxiv.org/abs/2603.23485

#LingSky #ResponsibleAI #AI #NLP #MachineLearning

A new white paper out on the relationships between Pearson Test of English speaking and writing and performance in freshman composition courses, co-authored with Hyung-Jo Yoon

#PTEA #languagetesting #lingsky

Save Languages and Linguistics at Essex To add your signature to this letter, please complete this form: Save Languages and Linguistics at Essex (Google Form) Dear Prof Bowen and members of the Executive Committee, We, the undersigned, ...

Letter to the University of Essex VC - please sign to save Languages and Linguistics from cuts to all but French & Spanish, and merger w/ another department tinyurl.com/SaveLingLang...
#Langsky #Lingsky #HE #StopTheCuts #Essex #ModernLanguages #BSL

Nigerian Modernism | Tate Modern Watch, listen and read

Highly recommended art exhibition!Of interest to linguists as many Igbo & Yoruba terms are explained, and indigenous graphic languages uli & nbidisi are showcased ❤️ Nigerian Modernism | Tate Modern share.google/LAdOHsGigPh6...
#Nigeria #Igbo #Yoruba #art #Langsky #Lingsky #uli #nbidisi #London

How languages make us How do languages shape our sense of self and our communities? Uncover the connections between language, identity, and society with a vibrant evening of talks, poetry, and songs performed in multiple l...

Free talk and performances about multilingualism on 21 April (British Academy) - showcasing British Sign Language, Welsh and "an English shaped by isiZulu, isiXhosa, and German": How languages make us: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...
#London #multilingualism #lingsky #identity

#Lingsky I really need to improve my listening without captions skills. Any advice beyond immersion/practice?

reader complaint in the margin of an old book. book in dutch, with a weird latin phrase used for no good reason. nonsense! it says

shoutout to the person who scribbled a complaint in the margin of this 50yo book (which i found in a ‘minibieb’ street library) using the pseudo-intellectual faux latin phrase ‘in ultima analysi’, stating ‘nonsense! analysis is greek, not latin’. amen brother 🙌🏼, neither is it italian 🤝🏼 #lingsky

Finally learning Montague Grammar and it has unironically brought me to tears because of how convoluted and ridiculous and well thought out and elegant it is #lingsky #semantics

International Mother Language Day: Youth Voices - NALDIC On International Mother Language Day (IMLD), many of us working in multilingual education celebrate the day by developing, refreshing or sharing our resources

Great blog by Denise Amankwah, highlighting how to involve young people in planning initiatives that explore and celebrate multilingualism: naldic.org.uk/internationa...
#NALDIC #Multilingualism #RepresentationMatters #YouthVoices #Collaboration #Languages #Lingsky #Langsky

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A screenshot from Wlingua app which has 6 square icons that show a number indicating progress. I have highlighted a green square that contains two overlapping green speech bubbles and has a zero where the number indicating progress would be. Nothing happens when I click on it, so no words available to indicate what that icon is supposed to connect to.

#lingsky Wlingua users, can you help me understand what this icon refers to? I’m image-illiterate.

#lingsky anybody learn Spanish in high school in the 90s with that telenovela with Arturo and I wanna say Raquel? They had a lot of drama about the weather and directions and I want to find it again to show my kid

LaTeX for #lingsky: When doing slides, include the following commands in the preamble after your glossing package (linguex/gb4e/etc):

\let\eachwordone=\itshape
\let\eachwordtwo=\normalfont

english has ‘because [noun]’ (e.g. @gretchenmcculloch.com ‘because internet’). dutch has ‘voor de leuk’ (‘for the [funny]’, i.e. adjective instead of expected noun). are there more examples of new not-entirely-wrong-anymore grammatical constructs? is there a name for this phenomenon? #lingsky ❓

Photo of a white table inside the cafe with sunlight coming in from the window. On the table is the small black paperback book and to the right is a light brown handle-less ceramic cup of black coffee. Outside the window you can see a blurred Japanese woman pedaling stage right on the street outside

#NowReading2026 APPLIED LINGUISTICS by Guy Cook via Oxford University Press imbibed at Kaede Life Coffee #KitaSenju #北千住 #Books #Linguistics #Coffee 💙 📚 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #LingSky

English lessons shouldn’t be an immigration test – why the UK’s new policy risks deepening exclusion The UK government says tougher English rules will aid integration. Esol experts warn they risk turning language learning into a tool of exclusion.

Excellent article about how language acquisition is positioned as a test of one's commitment to citizenship, disregarding the reality of language learning - and facilitating discrimination/abuse on linguistic grounds: theconversation.com/english-less...
#lingsky #immigration #English #policy #ESOL

Reform UK’s London mayor candidate condemned for burqa stop and search remarks Laila Cunningham accused of endangering Muslims after saying it ‘has to be assumed’ people hiding their face for a criminal reason

Abhorrent islamophobia from Reform UK, and as usual linguistic diversity is painted as un-British. We are all free to express ourselves in whichever language we please: shock, horror, "The signs are written in a different language"!
#hatespeech #lingsky #multilingual
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Heading SkyTreeward Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, I always knew my cardinal directions. I simply had to orientate myself to where Lake Erie was. That was North. From there I could surmise South. If I was facing North…

I wrote a little essay about losing my cardinals
#Tokyo #LingSky #Linguistics
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#lingsky and/or @gretchenmcc.bsky.social, is there someone on here who works on prosody/intonation in polyglots? A friend just made a fascinating observation about a certain New York politician, and I lack journal access to go digging myself.

#langsky #lingsky

I never know if I should be like #lingsky or whatever with these things. I lost track of which feeds are big and how they track

The paperback library book sits on a round dark brown table. To the right is a white mug of black coffee with DOUTOR on it. Behind the chair opposite is a man walking with a cane

#NowReReading2025 THROUGH THE LANGUAGE GLASS: WHY THE WORLD LOOKS DIFFERENT IN LANGUAGES by Guy Deutscher via Arrow Bookscare of Adachi-Ku Public Library imbibed at Doutor #Otemachi #大手町 #Boojs #Coffee #Linguistics 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #LingSky #LangSky

Please support staff at the university of Essex, who are at risk of massive redundancy in particular in my former department of Language and Linguistics, by sharing this letter and writing to your MP to express concern if you live in any of the constituencies near the University. #Essex #HE #Lingsky

Wow, I can't believe I haven't shared my own paper here yet! Well, it's officially out now. We got curious about "basicness" of basic vocabulary. #phdsky #lingsky

#lingsky #langsky

I’ve got a Welsh mate who’s got no further than Diolch and wants a learning partner.
Time to give Say Something in Welsh another go.
#lingsky

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🔊 Denise Amankwah (University of Essex): 'The Languages we Keep: African Parents’ Perspectives on Heritage Language Maintenance in the UK'
📅 Thursday 04 December 2025, 12-1 pm
💻 lnkd.in/eZKHWecX
#multilingualism #UK #lingsky #langsky #Africa

Happy World Linguistics Day! I write about #language in the key of narrative non-fiction; you might find my books interesting! A thread --
#lingsky #langsky #linguistics

On an old dark wooden table sits the white paperback library book with a white mother reading with her white child on the floor. To the right is a white mug & saucer of black coffee. Behind it is a small clear tumbler of water. On the chair across the way a purple puffy winter coat drapes a chair. Outside the bright window is a Japanese woman walking left with her long black hair obscuring her face

#NowReading2025 RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD by Barbara Zuber Pearson PhD via Living Language imbibed at Shiroiomise Coffee #Sendagi #千駄木 #Books #Coffee #Linguistics 📚 💙 #BookSky #CoffeeSky #LingSky #LangSky