Catbirding: catfishing someone who is flying.

#puns #lexicography

The Delicacy of Captain Grose: Jonathon Green on the excised notes of a slang lexicographer

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2014/12/17/the-delicacy-of-captain-grose/

#slang #lexicography #euphemisms #FrancisGrose

Help revise The F-Word: @jessesheidlower is looking for suggestions, quotations, antedatings, and anecdotes for the fourth edition of his dictionary of "fuck"

https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/03/22/help-revise-the-f-word/

#fuck #dictionary #lexicography

You may have heard of this new data model for #lexicography called DMLex (if not then you have now!) and you may be wondering what it’s all about. So, here’s a video of my presentation from this year’s eLex where I’m answering exactly that question. https://youtu.be/b6Lkv-3D5C0

Will, some day 60 years hence, or maybe 100, the words of "The Lost Words Blessing" be understood by most listeners as gibberish, as pleasant nonsense sounds with no referents?

https://youtu.be/Hg1xFYpXuWA

In city and in forest, let the larks become your chorus....
If there be larks left, I think the unspoken part of the song is saying. It is part of a project about lost words, words from nature.

#Music #Lexicography

Does someone know if #lexonomy, the tool for #lexicography created by Elexis, is still developed ? No change on the git since 1 year...
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Quelqu'un sait si l'outil de #lexicographie développé par Elexis, #lexonomy est encore développé ?

Cf :
http://lexonomy.elex.is / https://www.lexonomy.eu

Book launch to end the #CL2023 conference: a corpus-based dictionary of Shakespeare! Two volumes out today, three more to come. Information about which plays certain words occur more in, which kinds of characters that use it more often, etc.
wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang
#englishliterature
#shakespeare2023
#shakespeare
#lexicography
#corpuslinguistics
#VARD2
@corpuslinguistics

Multi-level hierarchies of senses, subsenses and subentries are cool to look at if you’re a #lexicography nerd, but hard to work with when you’re the IT guy on a dictionary project. Here’s a recent article where I’m proposing a less painful alternative. https://academic.oup.com/ijl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ijl/ecad012/7193796

Virginia Woolf: Lexicographer – a paper exploring her association with dictionaries
https://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/fowler2002.pdf

#VirginiaWoolf #dictionary #OED #lexicography #language #literature

How old is "verse" (in the sense "universe; one of many universes in a multiverse")? @jessesheidlower's Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction dates it to 2002, in Firefly, but it may be older:
https://sfdictionary.com/view/2753/verse

I introduced the HD/SF here, btw:
https://stancarey.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/historical-dictionary-of-science-fiction/
#SF #SciFi #ScienceFiction #dictionary #lexicography #words #etymology

Are there any researchers in the Fediverse that also join the #elex2023 conference in Brno next week?

#elexicography #conference #lexicography

[Doctoral thesis 👨‍🎓] Digital thesauri as semantic treasure troves: a Linguistic #LinkedData approach to "A #Thesaurus of Old English"

by Sander Stolk (Uni Leiden)

https://scholarlypublications.universiteitleiden.nl/handle/1887/3619351

#OldEnglish #linguistics #semanticweb #Lexicography #DigitalHumanities #OpenAccess

As a still practicing academic, I don’t quite know how to formulate my tech interests just yet — so here’s a disorganized hashtag list of such things I tend to like thinking or learning about:

#csv #linux #archlinux #bsd #datalog #dlv #naturallanguageprocessing #functionalprogramming #rustlang #rustlings #python #javascript #portability #unicode #lexicography #obsidian #postgresql #gis

(Not linking there) but this is the kind of fun stuff #etymology / #lexicography Twitter has going on

How have I gone 40 years without having heard of the word "adnoun"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnoun

#lexicography (well, that's an empty hashtag, but I'm struggling to think of a better one) #semantics (not much better, to be honest, and a worse fit) #words (yeah, let's talk about words!) #English (well, it's certainly part of English) #language (you can't say it's not)

Just learned that "tarp" is short for "tarpaulin". Who on Earth says that latter?? As far as #English #literature is concerned, almost no one these days: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=tarp%2Ctarpaulin&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019&smoothing=3

#linguistics #lexicography #languagevariation #morphology #languagechange

Came across my first pseudo-#eggcorn on Mastodon: "precedence" for "precedent" in the #legal sense when talking about #ClarenceThomas and the #SCOTUS.

#linguistics #morphology #phonetics #phonology #lexicography #Thomas

RT @AtClariah
Democratizing Digital #Lexicography:
The project is looking for candidates who have curated dictionary or glossary data in any file
format & need help with rendering them in digital form. Priority will be given to low-resource language projects:
👉 http://digitallexicography.wixsite.com/digital-lexicography/call

That rarity: a cracking-good novel about #lexicography ! 😊

I'm a third of the way through "The Dictionary of Lost Words" by Pip Williams and am really enjoying it. #BookRecommendation

If you like words and stuff, #ThatWordChat is on Mastodon as @ThatWordChat. Follow for updates from the show and live tweets of every episode. #words #lexicography #editing #writing