I recently discovered the song "Saskia Hamilton" (Ben Folds's music to Nick Hornby's words). Do #linguists and #poets known about this song?

There can't be very many rock songs with words like "sibilants" and "hard consonants" and "bilabial plosives" in the lyrics. Plus, you don't even have to strain much to hear the chorus as "Suck It, Hamilton."

PSA: How writing your own linguistic example sentences can go wrong...

Listen to more of 'Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences' here https://lingthusiasm.com/post/723422789301829632/episode-82-frogs-pears-and-more-staples-from
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#Lingthusiasm #Linguistics #Language #Linguists #LinguisticsMajor #LinguisticsNerd #Podcasts #ExampleSentences #FieldWork #Syntax #Phonetics #TheFrogStory #PSA

Oh and in case any of my #linguistics friends need a little booster, it might help to see this pretty bad picture of Leanne Hinton and Shobhana Chelliah petting one of Susan Penfield's #sheep last summer in Montana

#linguists #sheep #sheepOfMastodon #linguistsOfMastodon

If anyone here may have known Muriel Fisher or her husband Paul, there's a lovely story on their passing from the local news:

https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/tucson-couples-bodies-pulled-from-rio-grande-in-new-mexico?fbclid=IwAR14MfmrduFYK6m0j_c3Fu6ib5zbeTd6emFlgOAtMAeg2V65pA5GqyWpJnA

#news #scotsGaelic #linguists

But!!! Because observations of language usage trends are notoriously sensitive to personal availability bias, I checked and it seems the emotional/psychological sense of the term “trauma” has been in use since the time of Freud (1890s) — but it really feels like the physical-wound sense was much more common a few decades ago. Can any #linguists confirm or deny my biased impression of the relative strength of the two? 2/2

I have quite a lot more followers than I did when I first wrote my introduction, so it’s only fair that I’m writing a new one, bump up the major version.

#introduction #intro #introductions

Hi! o/

I am Ștefan (ș as sh, I also accept Stephan or the equivalent in your language). I’m 21 years old, ♑, he/him, proud #leftist and soon to graduate CS @ UVABc. Sort of proudly living in #romania. My native language is Romanian, fairly proficient at English, slowly learning #finnish (and #italian).

Tried a lot of programming languages in my childhood up until now, a non-chronological list of ones that stuck with me for one reason or another being: VB6 (that’s what I started on at 8 years old), #pascal (+ #freepascal and #delphi), #perl (+ #raku), #tcl #tcltk, #lisp (usually #scheme, on a good day #elisp #emacslisp and #commonlisp), #elixir, #php, #forth, #lua, #oberon, #modula-2, #cpp #c++, #ocaml, #fsharp, #smalltalk (+ #squeak #pharo #self), #ada, #powershell, #dart, #matlab, #rlang, #zig, #nim, #cobol and #julia. I don’t claim full proficiency in all of these, but I’m familiar enough with these (+ some others not mentioned here) that I could get along just fine with 2 weeks at most of studying and looking through cookbooks and examples). I’m flexible in learning new languages and technologies if needed.

I also do #sudoku and #math for fun (especially functional equations and number theory problems, sometimes calculus and geometric algebra). I am interested in #linguists, #conlangs (#lojban and #esperanto) and #nlp, contemporary (post-‘45, usually post-‘89 for me) history, #balkan history, lower-level stuff (I like to learn about how tools around me work, I’m most interested in #compilers, #emulators and #microcontrollers), #typography and #latex, #linux + #bsd, #msdos, #amiga, #oberon, #plan9, #philosophy, #astronomy (especially in a worldbuilding context) and #philosophy, along with other less notable interests.

I engage in #politics relatively often irl, although I’m not inserting it in absolutely every scenario in my life. As I mentioned, I’m a #leftist and #progressive (or… um… #woke) (Nazis and fascists can have a merry fuck off, DNI with me). I am also a spiritual person, a #deist (if you really want to put it that way, an agnostic, although it’s not quite true) and I find #astrology and #tarot interesting (I’ll let you guess my moon and ascendant, let’s see how close you are).

With that being said, I hope I’m welcome here, you can pick your subset of things that interest you from this list, you have plenty of options. :P Quite a bit longer than last time, but oh well…

Sharing this here as I haven’t seen many #forensic #linguists around. If you’re interested in forensic linguistic research, this is such great work and available for free for a few more days only👇
https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/elements/forensic-linguistics#

The unsolved mystery of Europe’s oldest language.

For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/basque-euskara-spain/

#Europe #Basque #BasqueCountry #Euskadi #Spain #France #Euskara #Languages #Linguists

Dear #linguists who see this: how important are citation metrics in your field?

@CultureDesk

Okay, so the word picked by me and a comfortable plurality of other humans is *not* the one generated by the stochastic model, while the computer's choice has the fewest human votes (currently 10%). Coincidence? 🤔

I feel like this grad student should have consulted with some #linguists instead of a computer. Even I know enough #linguistics to recognize that those are the wrong consonants for English swear words, and I am only an amateur.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-022-02202-0

Any #language lovers, #linguists, curious #travellers out there?
You might find this interesting:
caribbean-beat.com/issue-176/caribbean-…

Any #language lovers, #linguists, curious #travellers out there?
You might find this interesting:

https://www.caribbean-beat.com/issue-176/caribbean-mother-tongues-backstory

Interesting stuff 🤔

#Linguists have identified new #English #dialect emerging in South #Florida - UPI.com

https://www.upi.com/Voices/2023/06/12/New-English-dialect-South-Florida-Spanish/9091686574541/
#Miami

Slang words that can mean ‘nothing’ or ‘anything at all’ such as ‘jackshit’, ‘bugger-all’, ‘sweet fanny adams’, and ‘diddly-squat’ are known as ‘vulgar minimisers’ and they mean fuck-all to linguists.

#slang #words #linguistics #linguists #nothing #jackshit #vulgarminimisers #vulgar #facts

All the #linguists want time travel.

I'm noticing a trend over on the #linguistics subreddit where people keep asking if #AI is gonna replace #linguists, which seems to suggest that many people don't understand either AI or linguistics or both. I don't think getting better at generating text will ever cross a threshold into the creative thinking and introspection needed to do #research. Does this keep coming up in other fields?

#science #ChatGPT

A group of #linguists is called a lapsus.
A lapsus of linguists.

#TermsOfVenery #GroupNames #english #GroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #CollectiveNouns #linguist #linguistics

#Linguists may study the canon, but we should not be bound by it.

#linguistics #CorpusLinguistics

I should clarify that I’m a weirdo and a linguist, may or not be cunning sometimes (don’t be cute), so half of what I like about these words is the way they feel. So, what other words are really fun to say and long and intricate? Then, likely, they’ll be interesting conceptually.

#Economics #EconTwitter #Law #LawFedi #Linguistics #Language #Linguists #Words #Finance #Statistics

ok, let’s see who can do better head to head Twitter v. the fediverse on this one. #EconTwitter #Economics #Finance #Statistics #Linguists

hello my economics, econometrics, finance, & statistics ppl:

given that I love the words—

heteroskedasticity
&
stochasticity

(although I’m more confident in my conceptual understanding of the latter than the former)—

what other words can you teach me that I might enjoy? 🤓

#WordOfTheDay