Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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To "throw a rock in a haystack". This is a new for me, and I can't find any references to it in Google books or on the web in general. is from , so maybe it's a saying in considering the states activities. It implies to me that one is making a commotion to get whatever it is one wants to come out of talk.

youtu.be/0at0kzeiPKA

#saying #crawford #omaha #nebraska #agriculture #linguistics #semantics #languagevariation #dialectology #boxing

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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Spotted in c1966: "shall waken". We can suppose this in variation with "awaken" and take into account to an extent if we compare only when preceded by "shall". Unsurprisingly, "awaken" has always been more common in American when (books.google.com/ngrams/graph?), although these sort of pairs where the standard version is used intransitively could be interesting to look at further

#xmen #style #literature #intransitive #transitive #marvel #comics #socioilnguistics #languagevariation #Morphology #syntax

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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I don't know anything about as it's spoken in , so I was a bit surprised to find "peoples" and "people's" in the speech of this man. (Me and my wife just got a , BTW, so if anyone has good tips, lemme know!)

youtu.be/XJN5FGVJdqI?t=387

#english #Oklahoma #uromastyx #lizard #languagevariation #sociolinguistics #Morphology #lizards

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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where the only are so I'm as I go. So slow that I'm not sure this is better than listening back a second time to do the annotations instead.

#transcribing #interviews #annotations #pronouns #annotating #linguistics #methods #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #corpuslinguistics

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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Ok people who use , how do you store on the participants you're ? Seems the devs suggest CMDI files, but that seems overly complicated (unless there's some benefit for exporting afterward).

#Corpus #elan #metadata #transcribing #linguistics #corpuslinguistics #sociolinguistics #languagevariation #psycholinguistics #transcription

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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@grvsmth @maitxinha @linguistics It wouldn't be hard to quantify for the features that have been studied -- just count how many times the conclusion has been that it's a change from below vs not -- but it would be difficult to generalize to all from there since /#sociolonguistic studies pretty much never use random sampling. But when the conclusion is the same for feature after feature in community after community, it becomes easier to say the claim is accurate

#languagechange #languagevariation

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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makes it hard to study in , but some features would be difficult even with very large due to being homophonous with a more frequent feature. One I've come across lately is "I hate it" where the "that" is more common, e.g. in response to seeing a scary clown image.

#zipfslaw #Lexical #variation #language #corpora #demonstrative #linguistics #languagevariation #syntax #Morphology #pronouns

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Query for friends. Favorite citation for the idea that varieties associated with marginalized communities change more rapidly, because they function in part to prevent understanding by outsiders?

#lazyweb #linguist #linguistics #sociolinguistics #languagevariation

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Alon Lischinsky · @alischinsky
365 followers · 425 posts · Server sciences.social

TIL that some speakers inflect the “on X's behalf” construction for plural, labiodental voicing and all, and it's truly blown my mind

never ceases to amaze

#britishenglish #morphology #syntax #dialectology #languagevariation #linguistics

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Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith · @grvsmth
372 followers · 1077 posts · Server lingo.lol

Doing a singer hangout on Zoom. My teacher, who's from western Pennsylvania, is asking people "Want spotlit?" and I love it!

#linguistics #dialect #languagevariation #syntacticvariation

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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Spotted "inventor extraordinary" rather than "inventor extraordinaire" in c1965. I was quite surprised to see there was a shift to the latter in American and that it was relatively recent (books.google.com/ngrams/graph?). Interesting case of where the borrowing lagged behind the post-nominal placement.

#spiderman #literature #syntactic #borrowing #Lexical #languagechange #languagevariation #languagecontact #syntax #marvel #comics

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
107 followers · 237 posts · Server h4.io

Spotted "inventor extraordinary" rather than "inventor extraordinaire" in c1965. I was quite surprised to see there was a shift to the latter in American and that it was relatively recent (books.google.com/ngrams/graph?). Seems like a good example of via borrowing given the post-nominal placement but dropping the form.

#spiderman #literature #syntactic #borrowing #Lexical #french #languagechange #languagevariation #languagecontact #syntax #marvel #comics

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Jo Ran🥑 · @joran
202 followers · 391 posts · Server mstdn.social

En México, parece haber ganado (por uso) la forma "chocolatín" sobre "pain au chocolat. Aunque a veces, puedan coexistir. No es sorprendente, dado que "chocolatín" es más transparente y "adaptable" a la fonología del ESP.
Y si quieren saber más sobre este eterno debate de formas, y la variación lingüística, por aquí les hablo al respecto. Por cierto, yo soy team por la variante de francés que hablo.
youtu.be/RyQX8wwzTIk


#linguistics #languagevariation #painauchocolat

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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The amount of by commentators in the is fascinating. This fight with Mark is no exception. I've watched upwards of 50 fights where this is the commentary style. I'm not familiar with the linguistic behavior there outside of this domain, so I'm really curious how this works in other contexts.

youtu.be/U5xmNR2q-l0

#codeswitching #boxing #philippines #magsayo #languagevariation #sociolinguistics #languagecontact #borrowing #tagalog #discourse

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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"We've too many" spotted in c1965, as opposed to "we have too many". This might just be part of 's . The former has never been more common in American (books.google.com/ngrams/graph?), which could be a prescriptive aversion to contractions, but it also shows far fewer results in a Google search.

#avengers #stanlee #idiolect #literature #marvel #comics #linguistics #languagevariation #languagechange #Morphology #syntax

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Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
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