Stan Carey · @stancarey
1267 followers · 1033 posts · Server mastodon.ieIn her book on Buster Keaton, Dana Stevens writes that early TV drew so heavily on vaudeville that a new term was created to describe the phenomenon: VAUDEO
#neologisms #tv #vaudeville #words #popculture
Sascha Wolfer · @sascha_wolfer
544 followers · 403 posts · Server fediscience.orgIn a previous corpus-linguistic study (https://doi.org/10.1093/ijl/ecz033), we found that #neologisms built only with 'native' #language material are accepted faster into the German language than #loanwords from #English.
Back then, we operationalized 'acceptance into the language' by the amount of 'flagging' (use of linguistic markers, e.g. quotes or "so-called").
#English #loanwords #language #neologisms
Sascha Wolfer · @sascha_wolfer
544 followers · 403 posts · Server fediscience.org
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
Tracking the acceptance of #neologisms in #German: Psycholinguistic factors and their correspondence with corpus-linguistic findings
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01977-4
Open access. Code and data here: https://osf.io/uxdcz/
I'll tell you what it's all about below...
#language #psycholinguistics #experiment #linguistics #german #neologisms
1TootMemoir · @1TootMemoir
24 followers · 95 posts · Server mstdn.social
It's a post promoting my latest wacky video! https://daisybrain.medium.com/new-daisybrain-video-e86e5ae3dd18
#comedy #humor #silly #jokes #puns #neologisms
#neologisms #puns #jokes #silly #Humor #comedy
1TootMemoir · @1TootMemoir
24 followers · 95 posts · Server mstdn.social
Attention! New Word Needed!
https://medium.com/@daisybrain/new-word-needed-f2ddf7909909
#english #wordplay #wordhumor #neologisms #philology #neology #semantics #lexicon
#lexicon #philology #semantics #neology #neologisms #wordhumor #wordplay #english
Falco SkyWolf · @falcoskywolf
39 followers · 203 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.orgI'm also prone to coming up with #neologisms and #portmanteaus, like krapitalism, killionaire, and such. Words are one of my favorite art forms and I play with them as loosely as Carroll or Shakespeare.
Bioalchemy13 🇺🇸🇺🇦 · @Bioalchemy13
97 followers · 1704 posts · Server mastodon.sdf.org
I had no idea that the word “embiggen” dates back to a satirical article from the 1880s! https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/58647/10-words-simpsons-made-famous #Neologisms #Cromulent
Joshua McNeill · @joshisanonymous
130 followers · 386 posts · Server h4.io
Spotted the term #illodrama in #Hulk c1965. From what I can tell, this is a word that only #StanLee used to refer to #comicbooks. I'm not even sure what the origin could be. Maybe #Latin? But that doesn't make sense in #translation.
#illodrama #hulk #stanlee #comicbooks #latin #translation #comics #marvel #linguistics #neologisms
Jules · @erasmid
33 followers · 253 posts · Server neurodiversity-in.auI think I just invented a word:
Someone used two bits of punctuation together after a post, and I couldn't find that combo explained online - so I asked " What does (symbol set) mean in your weblect?"
I didn't feel that " dialect" was quite the right word, and "glyphary" was too weird...
#neologisms #linguistics #www #websymbols
beSpacific · @bespacific
839 followers · 1569 posts · Server newsie.socialThe Radical #Reinvention of the #EnglishLanguage #Neologisms, #slang, #jargon, #acronyms and #loanwords are reshaping the language right before our eyes. https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blogs/higher-ed-gamma/2023/04/20/radical-reinvention-english-language
#reinvention #englishlanguage #neologisms #slang #jargon #acronyms #loanwords
Jules · @erasmid
31 followers · 106 posts · Server neurodiversity-in.au
@azforeman Vorpal swords are well known in role playing and some card-based fantasy games - can kill immaterial beings. Probably as a result, vorpal is in more than one online dicrionary, see https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/vorpal#:~:text=Definition%20of%20'vorpal'&text=1.,bringing%20ruin%3B%20disastrous for example
#Linguistics #JabberwockySpawn #Neologisms
#linguistics #jabberwockyspawn #neologisms
· @infryq
55 followers · 484 posts · Server social.wub.siteobsolith, n. - a device which, having been forcibly superseded by newer tech or the company having gone destructively out of business, may as well be a brick
A Way with Words · @wayword
400 followers · 35 posts · Server mas.toOur other Mastodon instance is still in limbo, so here's a new reintroduction. “A Way with Words” is an upbeat and lively public radio show and podcast about language examined through culture, history, and family. You can hear it coast-to-coast by radio in the United States, in every major podcast app, and on our website https://waywordradio.org. #language #linguistics #sociolinguistics #etymology #neologisms #slang #folklore #newwords #dictionaries #radio #publicradio #podcasts #podcasting
#podcasting #podcasts #publicradio #radio #dictionaries #newwords #folklore #slang #neologisms #etymology #sociolinguistics #linguistics #language
Tech news from Canada · @TechNews
293 followers · 7486 posts · Server mastodon.roitsystems.caKotaku: Paper Mario-Like Game Dev Yanks Own Game Offline In Legal Fight https://kotaku.com/paper-mario-outbound-ghost-digerati-lawsuit-dmca-1850142651 #gaming #tech #kotaku #theswitzerlandbasedstudioconradicalgames #singleplayervideogames #technology2cinternet #consoleversions #internetculture #conradborrell #windowsgames #videogames #linuxgames #neologisms #undertale #computing #software #nintendo #digerati #thewell #kotaku #borell #mario #steam #sony #rpg
#Gaming #Tech #kotaku #theswitzerlandbasedstudioconradicalgames #singleplayervideogames #technology2cinternet #consoleversions #InternetCulture #conradborrell #windowsgames #videogames #linuxgames #neologisms #undertale #computing #software #nintendo #digerati #TheWELL #borell #mario #steam #sony #rpg
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
97 followers · 231 posts · Server mstdn.social
Benito’s refusal to speak a #language other than his own is a highly political move. Not only does he unabashedly and unapologetically speak in #Spanish, but he does so in the ever-maligned Caribbean Spanish, full of so many skipped consonants, #Spanglish, #neologisms and #argot that it borders on #Creole. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/opinion/bad-bunny-non-english-grammys.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#creole #argot #neologisms #spanglish #spanish #language
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
94 followers · 226 posts · Server mstdn.socialBenito’s refusal to speak a #language other than his own is a highly political move. Not only does he unabashedly and unapologetically speak in Spanish, but he does so in the ever-maligned Caribbean Spanish, full of so many skipped consonants, #Spanglish, #neologisms and #argot that it borders on #Creole. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/11/opinion/bad-bunny-non-english-grammys.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#creole #argot #neologisms #spanglish #language
Ginny Battson · @Ginbat
128 followers · 200 posts · Server mas.toPatomichor, the smell of a river, and more. #neologisms #nature https://seasonalight.com/2023/02/07/potamichor-and-more/
Nancy Friedman · @Fritinancy
452 followers · 239 posts · Server mastodon.socialOn “enshittify” and “enshittification,” coined recently by @doctorow to fill a lexical gap. My new post for the Strong Language blog: https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2023/02/01/enshittification/
#language #neologisms #scatology
Jane Rosenberg LaForge · @JaneRLaForge
80 followers · 200 posts · Server mstdn.social
The Bureau of #Linguistical Reality is making the new #words we need to describe the climate crisis. In business since 2014 and using non-English inspirations. #language #linguistics #neologisms
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230125-why-we-need-new-words-for-life-in-the-anthropocene
#neologisms #linguistics #language #words #linguistical
Institut für Deutsche Sprache · @ids_mannheim
338 followers · 21 posts · Server wisskomm.social
Neu erschienen: #Lexicography of #Coronavirus-related #Neologisms, hrsg. von Annette Klosa-Kückelhaus, Leiterin des Programmbereichs "Lexikographie & Sprachdokumentation" am IDS, und Ilan Kernerman (K Dictionaries), Band 163 der Reihe Lexicographica. Series Maior, De Gruyter, #OpenAccess 👉 https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110798081.
Gefördert durch Publikationsfonds für Monografien der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft und des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache.
#linguistics #sociolinguistics #lexikographie #linguistik
#lexicography #coronavirus #neologisms #openaccess #linguistics #sociolinguistics #lexikographie #linguistik