So interesting to be learning a #language where pausing or sustaining a sound longer than usual can actually change the word you're saying. I catch myself doing this to give myself a bit of breathing room to aid in language production but of course i'm picking the language where doing that may actually make you unintelligible :) #finnish #suomi #Linguistics
Post-Doc-Stelle in der Germanistischen #Linguistik an der Uni #Mannheim!
Beginn: 1.8.'25
Befristet auf 3 Jahre
E13 TV-L BW
Frist: 9.5.'25
(Ich habe leider keinen Link dafür, sondern nur ein PDF, das ich hier gescreenshottet hab).
Week 15
Root: *ẉ3tru-ṃ ('solemn ritual, solemnity')
- utrum [ 'u.tɾum ] - marriage (noun, PART sg case utruma)
- utrumein [ u.'tɾu.meɪ̯n ] - to marry s.o. (transitive verb, active mode)
aorist: hutrũima
perfect: vetrumu
- intransitive, medium mode form:
utrumethein [ u.'tɾu.me.θeɪ̯n ] - to get married
- utru(gh)ellos [ u.'tɾu.(ɣ)e.lˠos ] - groom
- utru(gh)elmas [ u.'tɾu.(ɣ)el.mas ] - bride
(spelling differs per region)
@conlang #language #linguistics #languages #conlang
This summer semester I'm very excited to teach a brand-new seminar on "Open Science practices in Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition" @UniKoeln! 
Some 20 B.A. and M.A. students studying #linguistics or a Romance language (+ one post-doc) signed up for this rather experimental course, many of whom had never heard of #OpenScience before. For this course, I've ditched the University's learning management system (ILIAS) and opted for a maximally open way to share teaching materials as I go along: https://elenlefoll.quarto.pub/os-linguistics2025/. 
Students are also required to attend at least two #ReproducibiliTea in the #HumaniTeas session and to co-author a blog post about one session. Very curious to see how things will pan out! 
I am a sociolinguist and a lot of our research on real, authentic language usage, especially among young people, depends on web crawlers.
Your anti-crawling activism actively sabotages research about e. g. queer language, gender, racism, hate speech and social structures.
Yeah, consent is the highest authority, and "AI" shouldn't be used to replace or underpay workers.
But at some point some of y'all really just act like anti-organ donation activists.
Hello from Dominica! #HelloWorld #Dominica #language #linguistics
Ever get frustrated trying to quickly look up a word on #Wiktionary on your phone, wading through etymology first? I did too.
So I built Kwiktionary: a fast, mobile-friendly interface for Wiktionary that prioritizes definitions.
Try it out: https://kwiktionary.vercel.app/
It's #OpenSource (built with #NextJs & #FastApi)! Feedback welcome. Boosts appreciated!
This angle on how people talk to animals delights me
Quick question: Is there a specific English-language term for "the cousin of one's father"?
The sound of "kiss" in Serbian!
#language #linguistics #onomatopoeia #maps
Your attention please. Verbing nouns and nouning verbs is common practice, but this should be extended. Your task for this week, class, is to verb a different adjective every day.
#grammar #linguistics #AnnoyingTheSortOfPeopleWhoDeserveToBeAnnoyed
Bonkers for Britishisms: the UK terms Americans have embraced https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/12/uk-british-terms-america-most-used #Linguistics #Language #USnews #UKnews
Ink, angels and hard graft: the artists keeping #Ethiopia’s ancient illuminated manuscript craft alive - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/apr/11/ethiopian-artists-addis-ababa-workshop-preserving-ancient-christian-writing-methods "painstakingly writing out sacred texts in the religious language of #Ge’ez" #linguistics
Die Lautsymbolik beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob die Laute eines Wortes, unabhängig von den einzelnen Morphemen, etwas bedeuten bzw. für etwas stehen und bestimmte Assoziationen auslösen oder Konnotationen aufweisen können.
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#uniinnsbruck #uibk #philkultuibk #sprawiuibk #sprawi #linguistics
Hmm.
We have:
like
dislike
love
But we don't have:
*dislove
LCC11 Intro happening now! #conlang #language #linguistics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uReCpOfr2cM
Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
https://deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-checkmate-how-canadas-quiet
“This was the determining factor in Trump’s surrender. Not the public spats, not the retaliatory tariffs Canada slapped on U.S. autos (though those stung). It was the quiet, coordinated threat of a Treasury bond unwind that bent Trump’s knee.”
Aside: Why are we calling northern countries like Canada, much of Europe, Japan.. the “free world”?
It’s #BarbershopQuartetDay! The history of this musical form is closely connected to the history of Rock & Roll, in spite of its seeming distance from those roots today. Learn more in our video about the history of Rock: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXGubLQcnAg
#Etymology #Video #WordNerd #Linguistics #Words #HistoricalLinguistics #Music #RockAndRoll