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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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#Lying Is Way More #Complicated Than You Think

We all know that lying is wrong, right? But trying to figure out what exactly counts as a #lie is something that #religions, #courts and #linguists have grappled with for years.

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Question #44:

What is a culture outside your own that interests you?

#qna #question #culture #artsky #artcommunity #writersky #linguists

Pre-Snap Sign: Watch for the "Great #Vowel Shift" accelerating. #Linguists are already noting that #accents are changing faster than ever before. In this model, this is the Aetheric Pressure Gradient forcing our vocal vortices to re-align with the local density.

#vss365 #pole #shift
#science #crime

HELLO Lab Presents Evidence Library | HELLO Lab New to our HELLO Lab Presents Project? Take a look at our videos and references below! Click a thumbnail to watch the video, and follow the link underneath ...

📹 "HELLO Lab Presents"—Evidenced videos re 🧒 devel
🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #linguists #devpsychs

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Very nice, @derekhouston.bsky.social 💐 @rachelmtheodore.bsky.social

Lessons from a multilingual library of picturebooks "Lessons from a multilingual library of picturebooks: Implications for teaching and learning" with speaker Dr. Hannah M. King

Hi fellow #linguists & #educators!

Interested in #multilingualism in #teaching & #learning? I'm giving a free, online talk Wed 18 Feb, 4-5pm UTC

Lessons from a multilingual #library of picturebooks: Implications for teaching and learning

Link here: tiny.cc/fu0z001

@multilinglibrary.bsky.social

#linguists why is this worse than ”this email find you well”?

Is it just frequency effects or is there something beyond?

Say, the lack of context of replying.

Or a syntax issue (FIND “me” as direct object vs FIND “me (BE) well”?

#linguistics #semantics #ThematicFit #metaphor #langsky

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

Need reviewers!
Pls boost the quoted post! Thanks!

#linguistics #linguist #langsky #phonetics

Why linguists are better AI evaluators than engineers Evaluating AI language systems is often treated as a technical task: run benchmarks, compare scores, optimize metrics. But language does not… | F... Why linguists are better AI evaluators than engineers Evaluating AI language systems is often treated as a technical task: run benchmarks, compare scores, optimize metrics. But language does not fail...

Argument from the Poverty of Engineers’ Stimulus

#NLP #AI #linguistics #linguists

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I agreed to show what #linguists do in a kindergarten (audience aged 3-6 where children speak many languages), I thought to speak about commonalities (e.g., word for "mum") and differences. More ideas? #linguistics #for #children You know of cool facts about the following languages? 1(2)

Linguists explain why people often say 'is is' even though we'd never write it that way ​This is very clear and actually helpful.

#Linguists explain why people often say 'is is' even though we'd never write it that way

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Linguists explain why people often say 'is is' even though we'd never write it that way The English language is bizarre, littered with inconsistent rules, surprising pronunciations and subtle quirks in phrasing that we often overlook. With that in mind, what is "is is"? For starters, it’s a pretty common grammatical pet peeve. Beyond that, it’s also a strange repetition that you might find yourself saying out loud even though you’d never write it. Before we go any further, let’s give some examples. You might encounter "is is" in sentences like "The problem is, is that we don’t have time for dinner" or "My point is, is that rock music is best experienced on headphones." You might read both of those sentences and think, "I’d never say that." But read them out loud, using those commas for intentional pauses, and the concept should crystalize. (Next time you listen to your favorite podcast, keep this front of mind—it might now become _your_ pet peeve. You’re welcome.) > @wordsatwork > > When it comes to English grammar, the weird thing is is that we can use "is" two times in a row - but how? And why? Let's talk about it! #language #linguistics #english #grammar #learnontiktok #education #fyp ## You might call it the "is-is hiccup" This isn’t just the stuff of online griping—linguists do have technical names for it. One common term is a "double copula," and an excellent article from the website _GrammarBook.com_ uses the way catchier and more accessible "is-is hiccup." "Often these are statements made by sophisticated and qualified spokespersons," their author writes, distinguishing between real examples of this verbal flub ("The fact of the matter is, is that…") and others that are clunky and unorthodox but are technically correct ("A] comedian from North Carolina named Andy Griffith once made America laugh with ['What It Was, Was Football,' his monologue about college football from a country boy’s perspective.") So, why do we do this anyway? In 2013, __Slate__'s Alyssa Pelish spoke to linguists and presented an educated guess. At one point, they ask readers to consider the following sentence as spoken out loud: "The thing is we are all out of pickles." They explain, "If the speaker places a definite stress on _is,_ the rest of the sentence is likely to be followed by a pause, no? Linguists like Patrick McConvell at Australian National University and Laura Michaelis-Cummings at the University of Colorado have found that the stressed _is_ , coupled with the break immediately after, sounds awkward to speakers’ ears, since it’s unlike the general patterns that stresses and pauses typically follow in English." The resulting "is is," according to Michaelis-Cummings, is something of a "workaround." Teachers explain grammatical rules. Photo credit: Canva, Pressmaster (left, cropped) / pixelshot (right, cropped) ## If you say "is is," you probably have good intentions In other words, you’re probably using "is is" for the sake of clarity—even if some find it annoying. Speaking of which: One user created a thread about this topic in the r/grammar subreddit, and multiple people replied by theorizing about the concept. "The unnecessary 'is' comes from the fact that people often don't speak grammatically, but often speak in sentence fragments, especially when they're still figuring out what they want to say," one Redditor suggested. "I used to have to transcribe recordings of conversations, and it really struck me just how much people tend to stammer, use filler words, or change tacks in mid-sentence." Others chimed in while also playfully using "is is." This comment wins the thread: "What the meaning of 'is is' is is not so clear." In response to one breakdown, someone replied, "This is very clear and actually helpful," highlighting the key difference between the written and spoken word. (But as another person noted, some examples in the thread are grammatically correct, and others aren’t. Confusing stuff!) In summary: The thing is, is that words are weird. - YouTube www.youtube.com

Recently, Jean Berko Gleason gave the keynote address at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development. Here it is, #linguists #wugtest www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC3v...

🦋 #bskySPEECHIES #slpeeps

Canadian Linguists Rise Up Against the Letter ‘S’

🇨🇦 Canadian #linguists rise up against the letter ‘S’ nytimes.com/2025/12/16/w...
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Attention #linguists!

#syntax #whIsland #languageAcquisition #linguistics

Hey #linguists check my silly multilingual Gregorian new year song about climate change lol

#linguists call a ‘babbling’ or ‘nursery’ word for a variety of care-givers: #Welsh nain, grandmother, #Persian nana, mother, #Greek νάννα (nanna), female cousin or aunt, #Russian няня (njanja), nanny, nurse or babysitter, and even #Sorbian nan, father. But this also gave #Latin #nunnus and
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Fictional Languages You Can Learn Most folks stream films or series without ever wondering about fake tongues on screen. Yet a few dive deeper – some pick up Klingon, others tackle Elvish rules, while a handful rehearse Dothraki…

"J.R.R. #Tolkien was a philologist & lexicographer who invented #Elvish languages before he wrote The Hobbit or The #LordOfTheRings. He didn’t create languages for his #books. He created books for his #languages. The difference matters.": buff.ly/N7uDXlh

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#linguists #LanguageLearning

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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape

#Linguists start compiling first ever complete #dictionary of ancient #Celtic
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Ger. #Lerchen, etc., as well as #lõo and #leevike (see #Leevikese) and does not appear to exist as a standalone word anymore. #Estonian #diminutives are to #linguists what “the one that got away” is to anglers, magnifying (or minimizing) with each telling, in which another level of diminution
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Examples of Rongorongo script, which may or may not be an writing system that was used on the island of Rapa Nui.

Question for any #anthropologists or #linguists who might see this: Rongorongo, the possible Rapa Nui writing system, has always reminded me of dancing. Dance is a very important way for Polynesians to transmit information. Could that be the inspiration?

Hey what's up anthropological #linguists, are there any good documentaries about early Internet chat language influencing the popular language/culture?

Hello #linguists I use feature films to help students acquire English. I’m looking for fact-based evidence that quantifies the role of listening in SLA -research that supports the claim that listening can account for 40-70% of input. 🙏

@celiagr.bsky.social

@ciol-linguists.bsky.social

#linguists, probably, #PhonoSemanticMatching, accounting for its shift to the more #Estonian-sounding #vere. In the 600-odd years since its existence, its name has routinely mutated from #Randyfer through Randele, Raudever, Randever, Randeuere, Randaver, Randeuer, Randyuer, Randel, Randeuver,
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Upping for the day #linguists

Mariana #Münning on #Chinese #linguists in #Paris

It has taken me a while (longer than I care to admit) but I finally ditched Duolingo and am on the hunt for a better, non-AI-using replacement to primarily continue Spanish, but previously dabbled in Welsh, French, Scots Gaelic, and Japanese.

Hit me with your iOS app recs. #langsky #linguists

If any cunning #linguists want to help me in developing Universal Common,

Developed in Universal Meaning Language it'd be greatly appreciated
This allows universal translation and machine readable text. We can even break text down to base meaning and reconstruct in other languages
#Translator