RE: https://mastodon.social/@TheDailyPerspective/116224017452343511
When something is called "cheap" and not "inexpensive", I immediately think it is low quality. Is that what you mean, low quality?
#linguistics
linguistics
This morning I'm reviewing applications for a sessional lecturer in Linguistics. The coverletter of the first applicant is for "Police Constables (New Recruits) in Cornwall, Ontario".
I don't really know what to say about that.
"As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% PhD position in English linguistics. The position is intended for further academic qualification and is limited in duration (1+3 years).”
#UniversityOfBasel #EnglishDepartment #Linguistics #Doctorate
"As of August 1, 2026, the Department of Languages and Literatures of the University of Basel (English division, Prof. Miriam Locher) is seeking to fill a 60% post-doc position in English linguistics. The position is intended for further academic qualification and is limited in duration (2+4 years).”
"A position as Professor in English linguistics with a focus on English as a lingua franca in the digital age is to be filled at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Basel beginning on February 1, 2027 or by appointment with the successful applicant.”
#UniversityOfBasel #EnglishDepartment #Linguistics #Professorship
I love how the logo of the recent Manila Spanish Film Festival organized by the #InstitutoCervantes leans into how #Tagalog has nearly ⅓ of its vocabulary coming from Spanish, including the key word “pelikula” from “película”. Even the other “film” loanword “sine” comes from “cine”. (Interestingly, the word “sinehan”, for “theater” or “movie house”, combines the Spanish loanword with the locative Tagalog suffix “-an”.)
🧵 1/3
#SpanishLanguage #linguistics #loanwords #films #movies #Philippines
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Conference on David Bowie takes place here in late September - and it welcomes abstracts from linguistics and discourse analysis (DL: Apr. 1)! #linguistics
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YOU GUYS IT'S HERE!
'Language and Social Issues: An Investigator's toolkit' Valentinsson, Drake and Fountain 2026, Cambridge University Press
yes the cover art is an ai-generated young Black woman who is joyfully puking colors and textures we had very limited options for cover art but at least we did *not* agree to license the content to openAI
#books #linguistics #sociolinguistics #linguisticAnthropology @linguistics
I’m a developer with a degree in philology and linguistics. Here’s how these two passions have shaped each other, and me.
🌐 https://blog.gridranger.dev/intersecting-interests/
This post was inpired by the monthly #indiewebcarnival theme chosen by Zachary Kai.
#writingprompt #blog #post #indieweb #bloggingchallenge #coding #linguistics #creativewriting
Linguists: writing like this (superfluously mixing three languages in one fucking sentence!) does not make you seem like some sort of linguini houdini. It makes you seem utterly unable to communicate
Could anybody help me figure out how the Welsh (?) words Hen Ogledd are pronounced?
Update: got it, thanks!
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Random thought: I find it curious how "oublier" is a normal word in French but its cognates that made it into English ("obliviate" and "oblivion") have very specific and heavy connotations.
Any linguists who teach the role of prosody and intonation in conveying meaning, you might find this a useful demonstration. I think the use of contrastive focus at about 0:48 particularly striking.
Fun exercise! A blog post written in nearly a dozen different snapshots of English.
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english #English #philology #linguistics
Super Fun für Sprach-Nerds, Weird Fiction-Fans und alle, die gerne neue Sachen lernen: Diese Geschichte wird jeden Absatz 100 Jahre älter (& gruseliger), am Schluss sind wir um 1.000 sprachlich angelangt. Bis wann könnt Ihr verstehen, was da steht? Danach erklärt ein Sprachhistoriker die Veränderungen, die ihr da rückwärts mitgemacht habt.
#linguistics #historyoflanguage #language #literature #learning
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
here's a real #introduction
grew up in the #bayarea, studied #computerscience and #math. I'm #southasian #desi and #queer #trans #nonbinary
I work in #maps #gischat:
- #raster #satellite #elevation
- #routing #mobility
- #python #jupyter #typescript
I'm a #radical organizer:
- #union #labor
- #BikeTooter #urbanism #bancars
- #anarchism #dsa #communism
- #decolonize #landback #anticaste
- #climatechange #ecology #sustainability
Interests:
#videogames #history #religion #music #linguistics
Any recommendations for #NativeAmerican #SciFi in the sense of like characters speaking #Navajo or #Lakota on a #space ship? #Bookstodon #Books #Literature #Dystopia #Escapism #Linguistics #Language
Is there ANY way to import a "Traditional Transcript Text" back into ELAN? 😭
#linguistics
Curiosity of the day. What's the origin of the word "groove" in a musical context? For a track to be a groove or groovy, to feel the groove, to be locked into a groove, to be grooving, etc. Does this have anything to do with records, especially vinyl, which stored the music in a literal groove? Or does it predate them? Or did it come about independently?
#English #Linguistics #etymology #showerthought
List of untypeable words:
-lingusitics
-vowerl
-tenuer
and NEW NEW NEW
-intensitification
And by popular request
-langauge
And let us not forget
- cirriculum
#academia #linguistics #lingusitics
(periodic updates as I extend this list)
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One of my students refers to me in her thesis draft as "supervisor and provider of data"
which makes me feel like the sage in a fantasy novel.
I am The Provider Of Data!!!
General #introduction: Hi! 👋🏻
I'm from Germany and my pronouns are he/him. I'm #gay and #ace. I #amReading lots of #Drama (historical as well as contemporary), #Thriller, #SciFi, #Fantasy. I also am interested in #linguistics and #Etymology. I also try to get a little into #screenwriting and #filmmaking as a hobby. Let's see how that goes ...
Oh, and I'm much into data #privacy and #MentalHealth
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New account, time for an #introductions.
I'm a white person, more or less living at the top of Privilege Mountain, trying to learn to dismantle and undermine that privilege.
Things I'm into:
• #Roleplaying
• #Linguistics
• #SocialJustice
• #Software
• #Parenting
• #Reading
• #Videogames
• #Kindposting
• #Lego
• #Comics
• #Argyle
Things I'm (interested in?) learning about:
• #Socialism
• #Coops
• #UrbanPlanning
• And all the stuff above, naturally.
This is, of course, incomplete. 🤷🏻♂️
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New server, new #introduction.
I'm Hugh. I live in south-west #England with my partner and children. I work as a web developer, and contribute to #Rustodon.
I make #music occasionally. I've played bass in bands, but mostly I compose weird music solo on a computer. I contributed a track to the second A Whale's Lantern compilation by musicians of Mastodon, collaborating with Mascha.
I speak some #deutsch, and less #francais.
#typography #linguistics #science #nature #gaming #depression #autism
