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#linguist

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+ 33% vs last week

#linguist is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 6 people shared 13 posts with it — around 0 a day. Activity is up 33% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 23 with 2 posts.

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Jeff, Stopping by Woods
@jeffontherock.bsky.social
8 months ago
The letters aren’t formed all that well, but a pretty good effort for a slime mold. There’s a couple of special characters in there so I suspect it’s a password. (Species name, Physarum bivalve) #myxo #slime #fungifriends #language #linguist
Photo of a slime mold fruiting on a dead wild rose stem. The slime mold sporangia sort of look like letters from the Roman Alphabet (c r u u etc.) arranged as a “word”.
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Craftlingua by SP Digital LLC
@craftlingua.bsky.social
4 days ago
The Grimoire export produces a complete reference document for your conlang: phoneme inventory, morphology rules, core lexicon with IPA transcriptions, and grammatical paradigms. Everything needed to understand and use the language. craftlingua.app #conlang #linguist #indydev #indiedev #Indygame
A screenshot of the Grimoire Exporter in Craftlingua.app
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Gareth Roberts
@garicgymro.bsky.social
6 months ago
You'd think that, as a #linguist who's lived a decade and a half in the northeastearn US, I'd have learnt before now that Americans use "sleet" for ice pellets (what I grew up calling "hail") rather than partly melted falling snow.
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Kami Anya (they/them) 🏳️‍⚧️♿️✡️
@kamianya.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Hi, #Linguist here, chiming in because I have seen multiple claims that origins don't matter and/or the words are being used differently and/or words can't do that kind of harm. Here's the thing: words carry connotations, which both origins & current usage contribute to/create. 1/3

I’m seeing the word used with much higher frequency since the election so, just throwing it out there, the word “moron” has an absolutely horrific racist, antisemitic, ableist backstory that includes forced sterilization and it’s worth considering removing it from your vocab. (Source in next post)

An astounding number of states (more than half) passed laws calling for sterilization of the "unfit," resulting in an estimated 60,000 involuntary surgeries. The early 20th century was also a time of record-high immigration to the United States, with new arrivals hailing mostly from southern and eastern Europe.
American eugenicists worried about the influence of these unfamiliar people. For his part, Goddard wanted to ensure there were no "morons" among them.
In 1913, he sent female assistants to Ellis Island to recognize the "feeble-minded" by sight (women were more intuitive at this, he thought) and administer his tests.
Immigration officers had performed cursory physical and mental health screenings for years, but Goddard's methods revealed an astounding result: 40 percent of the Jews, Italians and Hungarians tested qualified as
"morons." He noted in his report, "Doubtless the thought in every reader's mind is the same as in ours, that it is impossible that half of such a group of immigrants could be feeble-minded, but we know that it is never wise to discard a scientific result because of apparent absurdity."
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Timo B. Roettger
@timoroettger.bsky.social
over 1 year ago
Excited to see the community growing. To all you new folks: Welcome!👋 I am a quantitative #linguist working on human speech. I'm currently interested in #iconicity and #deception. I also actively advocate for reflections on how we do science and how we communicate it via #rstats #dataviz
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