Mastodawn

Y’all, I love an interesting #crossword #clue, but this one befuddles me.

“What’s everyone **soup** in arms about?”

Is this an actual #English language phrase? I’ve heard and used “up in arms” but never “soup in arms”. Is there a #linguist or #historian who might provide some context for this bizarre statement? 🥣

Tatjana Scheffler Apr 7

Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom visual communication research cluster!
Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #academicChatter
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it's B! Cavello 🐝Apr 5

Am I missing something obvious here? #linguist fedi, steer me right
As I understand it: orality vs literacy is about our ability to record concepts and transmit them, with relatively little proximity/relation between the person communicating and the person receiving the information. Like the golden records on Voyager and the audio we sent from Earth… that’s literacy culture! Right?? Just because it’s audio doesn’t change that!

Front Page Mar 6

A linguist from Alabama explains the surprising origin story of the Southern word ‘y’all’

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/a-linguist-from-alabama-explains-the-surprising-origin-story-of-the-southern-word-yall/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-linguist-from-alabama-explains-the-surprising-origin-story-of-the-southern-word-yall

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Kaveinthran (no longer here)Feb 28

There are also many AI TTS created by folks at 11 Labs and other open source implementations that support speech to text and text to speech. But I'm looking for traditional formant synthesis implementation. Do we have existing phonemizer or any sort of that that can aid Tamil TTS creation? #tamil #tts #linguist #language #formant (2/2)

Dallman Ross Feb 21

#Linguist Dr. Taylor Jones gets into it. He manages to coalesce many of my thoughts on this in ways I couldn't hope to have done.

6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh22m1QG6i4

6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns

Everybody is arguing about pronouns, and everybody is wrong. In this video I explain 6 reasons why you (yes you!) are probably wrong about pronouns, and give...

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Front Page Feb 8

27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/english-words-that-are-the-hardest-to-properly-enunciate-even-for-native-speakers-ex1

Gareth Roberts Jan 25

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.

Front Page Jan 12

Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1