meanwhile the dept that received a mellon grant to become more ungovernable
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meanwhile the dept that received a mellon grant to become more ungovernable
tbh I'm not 100% sure how "Mexican-American and Latina/Latino" gets categorized as 'Other' in
**checks notes**
Texas
ok google, I know you think AI summaries are helpful, but....this layout led to some extremely fallacious presuppositions.
Label says lition instead of lotion
Vowel harmony encounter in the wild
This is what we’ve been busy doing instead of YouTube editing
Long time no videos. They’re still coming, don’t worry.
Is uncompletedly a word?
Is uncompletedly a word?
New video on dog butts and timeslip in communicative systems. Find it here: youtu.be/9Z09SO-hThI
#prattle 💬 #🗣️💬 #dogs #butts
Abkhaz looking at Central Chadic
New video up today, featuring some amusing language names and some thoughts on the problem of naming languages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQR...
#linguistics #linguisticshumor #langsky #africansolutions
Slow 👏 clap 👏
{rmb}{tph}{ayd}{sco}: a word game where the goal is to use all the letters without ever having two adjacent ones from the same subset. The solution shown here is Champs -> storyboard
I think I don’t have the working memory to solve @nytgames.bsky.social #Letterboxed in one word, if that’s ever possible. But two is a fun challenge.
Is McWhorter the Joe Rogan of contemporary linguistics?
Gee English has a lot of negation prefixes. Why so many?
un-
non-
ill-/irr-/in-
anti-
a-/an-
Non negating:
re-
locational Latinate ones (circum-, ex-, trans-, etc)
I would also accept studying how humans react to hype
Chat gpt is asked for all states with the letter r. It responds with a list of 29 states, including Connecticut, Iowa, Hawaii, Kansas
Reflecting on Sharpeville for Human Rights Day
youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ
Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service
#youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid
Does anyone else ever randomly match up the meter in a song with an arbitrary phrase from another context? Is it just me?
youtube.com/shorts/2C4o4...
#silly #linguistics #jokes #prosody #syntaxjoke #gender #agreement
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
1000 and 1, this was fun
Pope Francis Flips Off Crowd From Balcony
Pope Francis Flips Off Crowd From Balcony
Somehow this has passed 1000 views!😮
Georgian words look so much like pretend African language words that I had to make a video about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7E-...
#georgian #chishona #lingcomm #scicomm #langsky #🗣️💬
Senses are complicated and I made a video to prove it.
youtu.be/Eotlqi4cYw8
I’m experimenting with different filming options. Expect the next video to be better and/or worse quality. There will probably be awkward jump cuts based on inter-device latency.
Might want to double check this one
New video coming about senses, modalities, and which ones are amenable to Language
600 people have watched this. 😮
I’m making a series of short videos about some of my favorite example words. I just finished the first one!
🗣️💬
youtu.be/aSvl3qTrIjs?...
