latenight-panic: latenight-panic: deutsche-bahn: dr-drea: Be gay do crime but in Barvaria and we’re putting these everywhere For those of you who don’t know about the current discussions in German politics: German is a heavily gendered language, with distinct female and male forms for a lot of words. While it’s been pretty common to just use the ‘generic male’ term for, say, occupations (i.e. just using the male version of a word to refer to mixed groups of people), there’s been a push in the last few years to use more gender-inclusive (or gender-sensitive, whatever you want to call it ..read more

official-linguistics-post: Gender Reveal: Episode 167: Ariana Steele Linguistics on podcasts! Gender Reveal from March 4, 2024. From the episode description: Tuck chats with linguist Ariana Steele (they/them). Topics include:  Studying ways that Black nonbinary people degender themselves via language Developing a “chill vs loud” nonbinary fashion taxonomy  How Ariana’s autism and gender relate to each other… …and how all this ties into their mixed identity and Aquarius-Pisces cusp Plus: Britney Spears, the “gay lisp,” and doing ethnographies in the club ..read more

superlinguo: This handbook chapter is a behind-the-scenes of how the Crash Course Linguistics video series came together. I’m really proud that this article includes contributions from the linguistics writing team, including my co-writer Gretchen McCulloch, and our fact checker Jessi Grieser, but also from members of the Complexly team, who produced the show, including Nicole Sweeney, Rachel Alatalo, Hannah Bodenhausen and Ceri Riley. As with the actual videos themselves, this was a dream team. Lingcomm that is inclusive doesn’t just happen as an accident - in this article we discuss some of ..read more

lingthusiasm: Bonus 86: Inner voice, mental pictures, and other shapes for thoughts | Lingthusiasm When you think about your daily life – say, going grocery shopping – are your thoughts shaped like an inner voice or music, mental images or video, inner feelings or other sensory awareness, or unsymbolized mental impressions? Most people have some combination of these things, but the degree to which you literally visualize a bright red apple or mentally hear yourself saying “and don’t forget the apples” is something that varies widely from person to person. But until we start asking about it, i ..read more

lingthusiasm: Which of Daniel Jones’s 10 secondary Cardinal Vowels is your favourite? /y/ high front rounded vowel, as in German “über” or French “tu” /ø/ mid-high front rounded vowel, as in SAE “bird”, French peu", German “schön” /œ/ mid-low front rounded vowel as in French “coeur” (Cockney/NZ “bird”) /ɶ/ low front rounded vowel, as in how some Danish speakers say grøn “green” /ɒ/ low back rounded vowel, as in “not” in Received Pronunciation /ʌ/ low-mid back unrounded vowel - historically u in “but” but not common no /ɤ/ mid-high back unrounded vowel as in “foot” in South African En ..read more

nihilisticlinguistics: allthingslinguistic: bougonia: kind of interesting how the boop feature makes tumblr feel so much more active? like idk usually you see people reblogging stuff but you never know if that’s a queue and you forget that there are real people behind the blogs. but if ur getting booped? somebody saw you and acknowledged your existence. wild. the boops are like a pure instantiation of phatic expression and I’m really excited to have a new one! In linguistics, a phatic expression (English: /ˈfætɪk/, FAT-ik) is a communication which primarily serves ..read more

notgreengardens: my theory is that boops are so great because they are fullfilling two very deep-seated desire of tumblr users: 1. being able to interact with your mutuals without actually having to talk to each other and 2. being very annoying boop linguistics post ..read more

eeveestoneson: So this is what would happen if I could click kudos more than once I think the thing that also fascinates me about the boop as compared to the like button, at a communicative level, in a way that evokes the old facebook poke feature, is that the boop is unteathered to the specific post or message, it’s purely sent to the user and you have no idea where people are seeing you to boop you. something about that contextlessness is just. delightful ..read more

bougonia: kind of interesting how the boop feature makes tumblr feel so much more active? like idk usually you see people reblogging stuff but you never know if that’s a queue and you forget that there are real people behind the blogs. but if ur getting booped? somebody saw you and acknowledged your existence. wild. the boops are like a pure instantiation of phatic expression and I’m really excited to have a new one! In linguistics, a phatic expression (English: /ˈfætɪk/, FAT-ik) is a communication which primarily serves to establish or maintain social relationships ..read more

a-book-of-creatures: maniculum: maniculum: galileosballs: I like the expression new-fangled. I don’t know what it means for something to be fangled, but I sure as hell know it was recent It’s from the Old English word feng, which can mean “to take”, or also “to grasp, hold, or embrace”. So something that’s newfangled is something that was taken up recently. The reason it’s using this pretty archaic root is that it’s an older word than a lot of people think. Here it is in the Canterbury Tales. ALT Minutes after posting: “Why did I write archaic when I could have gone with old-fangled?” R ..read more