That one Sumerian guy who went on holiday and came back to find everyone staring at cuneiform tablets:

I KNOW a Louisiana crab and Baltimore crab sound different

OK thank you everyone we figured it out: 1) I am autistic and I thought hearing means can you literally hear anything and I said yes, but 2) HOH falls under the deaf category, and 3) I need to navigate identifying as late-deafened and 4) he shouldn't really ask me that question

‘We believe that a child's accent should be accepted, and that to attempt to suppress it is irrational and neither humane nor necessary’.
The Bullock Report, *1975*!

Hi Jan Leeming. I’ve seen the stories doing the rounds today, based on the thoughts expressed here. You’re not alone, but I strongly disagree! Can I politely recommend this book, it might change your mind. Gyles Brandreth has read it, he might lend you a copy 😊 amzn.eu/d/2LXYZq4

The Linguist Formerly Known As Yate Adorable.

Also, is “it quacks” the new “it slaps?” Because I feel like it should be.

We gotta solve all problems of Egyptian historical phonology by then so that we can call the gods properly in their language at the precise exact moment.

I’m just a woman, standing in front of a whole load of PhD applicants, begging them to PLEASE PLEASE STOP ASSUMING I HAVE EXPERTISE IN POSTCOLONIAL THEORY JUST BECAUSE I HAVE A MUSLIM NAME

How to say “sharp knife” in seven different languages…

7. Danish = skarp kniv
6. Dutch = scherp mes
5. Japanese = surudoi naifu
4. Samoan = naifi ma'ai
3. Krio = naif we shap shap
2. Romanian = cuțit ascuțit
1. Latvian = ass nazis

What a defibrillator is called in eight different languages…

8. Defibrillator (German)
7. Defibrillator (Albanian)
6. Defibrillator (Indonesian)
5. Defibrillator (Latin)
4. Defibrillator (Igbo)
3. Defibrillator (Afrikaans)
2. Defibrillator (Hindi)
1. Hjertestarter (Danish)

michael giacchino is an absolutely legendary composer whose score for LOST changed the standard for music in tv forever. he's also addicted to naming every track a stupid pun.

me: wow, the song playing during Boone's funeral is beautiful. i wonder what it's called

giacchino:

'You shouldn't say the N word'

Normal people: ok

Conservatives: what if there was an AI pointing a nuclear missile at us

the uncanny valley that ppl are observing w LLMs saying 'delve' or whatever isn't a vocab thing but a register thing. LLMs aren't using any words that you aren't — they're just not so good at knowing the sociolinguistic contexts where that word won't weird you out. i get it

crush: *showing me pictures of her family* look at my mom when she was 20 omg she slayed

me: *trying to use gay slang so she’ll sleep with me later* yeah she looks like a cunt

New article by Dr. Tasha Austin and me detailing the history of harm against Afrodescendants in US world languages and calling for Black Linguistic Reparations through redistribution, repair, re-creation.

So proud of this work! Read and download FREE!
👉🏿doi.org/10.1111/flan.1…

I had an English teacher in 10th grade who made me redo a paper she claimed I plagiarized. I had to rewrite it in front of her. The 2nd essay was better than the first. She was sick when she read it.

AND YES SHE WAS.

Wonder where she is now?

Unfriendly Black²feet Óṫ’’k̇oaṗi•siak̇īī Along those lines: this will likely have the unattended effect of making students intentionally avoid the more natural and/or accurate terminology in order to avoid this accusation.

It's the exact flipside of awful advice like 'use these 15 (alleged) synonyms to sound smart!'

A very good friend is going to college for the first time at 45 and Intro to Linguistics will be one of the first courses he ever attends 🥹 I'm getting a little verklempt over here

The Layman's Linguist This is allistic propaganda too and I’m only a little bit joking. I get accused of writing “to sound smart” when I’m not all the time. I’m just autistic and very particular about how I say things bc of that and bc I have a pathological issue with being misunderstood