#linguistics is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 179 people shared 594 posts with it — around 20 a day. Activity is down 42% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 22 with 33 posts.

Posts with #linguistics

Starkey Comics

@starkeycomics.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Etymology fact of the week: "calque" is a loanword, while "loanword" is a calque. #etymology #language #linguistics

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Jessi Grieser

@jessgrieser.com

about 2 months ago

Wake up y’all new structure ambiguity exercise just dropped. #linguistics

An image of a Health poster hanging on the wall. It shows a variety of fruit organized in rainbow order. And reads “download advice on feeding newborns to teens”

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Simon Fisher

@profsimonfisher.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

To accompany all those Bluesky science/academia #starterpacks, how about we also share introductions to the literature of our different fields. I present here a handy guide to main types of papers in the language sciences (inspired by the amazing @xkcd.com). #language #linguistics #science #academia

Comic depictions of the first page of research papers in the language sciences, with titles that include the following:
Just what the hell is a word anyway?
See how this single cognitive process or brain area or neural oscillation or gene explains language!
Based on the shapes of these old bones, Homo erectus could sing .... don't @ me.
A baby looked at one thing more than the other, now we know the secret to grammar.
If you think about it, every language is fundamentally the same, amirite?
We taught a load of undergrads a made-up language, lol.
On the staggering diversity of the many languages across the world.
Remember the thing you said only humans could do, here's a video of a monkey / dolphin / corvid / octopus / honeybee doing it.
I trained this AI with 80 billion tweets and it became head-writer for phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz

@ostrichson.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

This is where the expression "go touch grass" comes from. #etymology #linguistics #hulk

Hulk lying on top of some grass and saying: Hulk will sleep now, and maybe when Hulk wakes up everything that has made Hulk tired will be changed!

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Gretchen McCulloch

@gretchenmcculloch.com

over 2 years ago

Since this site is open now, have a greatest hits thread of #linguistics takes on the Roses are Red meme: Roses are red Violets are blue Ideas are green And colourless too

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MJ Guenther

@mjguenther.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

This kills me every time. #language #humor #nerdhumor #linguistics

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Go4Know

@go4know.com

about 1 year ago

🔥 Is There an Archive That Preserves All Known Languages of the World? 👉 Check it out: patreon.com/posts/133360... #knowledge #curiosity #education #ai #aiart #art #language #archive #rosetta #project #linguistics #culture #history #communication #future #diversity #humanity #knowledge #languages

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Marjorie

@coeurrectly.bsky.social

about 1 year ago

I've just learnt that "try harder", which is common in video games, has become a French word. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you "traillarder"(verb) and "traillardeur" (noun). L'académie Française will definetely sulk, but I love it. #linguistics

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Go4Know

@go4know.com

about 1 year ago

🔥 Can We Create a Language That Warns of Danger Across Thousands of Years? 👉 go4know.com/go-131 #knowledge #curiosity #education #ai #chatgpt #bluesky #photo #photography #language #future #warning #design #linguistics #communication #time #radiation #science #symbols #survival #culture #hazard

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Maija Tervola

@maijatervola.bsky.social

25 days ago

Oh hi! This is the level of professional linguistics I’m at these days. #linguistics

A painting with a man holding a goose. The text on the man: I’m a people person. A text on the goose: I’m a geese goose.

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Megan Figueroa

@meganfigueroa.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Being a linguist is inherently political. We know that all language is equal and that being treated differently because of your languaging has to do with the body you inhabit and not the language itself. #linguistics #language

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Gretchen McCulloch

@gretchenmcculloch.com

6 months ago

Roses are red Linguists are in anguish That there aren't many words Which rhyme well with language #linguistics

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