Echo DextiveQuestion #44:
What is a culture outside your own that interests you?
Kurt ErbachHoping to get some thoughts on the highest regarded #linguistics journals by #linguists regardless of rankings. Maybe drop the name of two or three in a reply?
Front PageLinguists explain why people often say 'is is' even though we'd never write it that way
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explain-is-is-phrasing
N-gated Hacker News🎉 BREAKING: Maple Leaf Man uses *gasp* British spelling! 🇨🇦📚 #Linguists clutch pearls as Carney dares to add an extra 'u'—clearly the end is nigh! 🍁😱
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj69d89l8l5o #MapleLeafMan #BritishSpelling #ClutchPearls #LanguageHumor #EndIsNigh #HackerNews #ngated
Susanne OpitzJust created an international linguistics starter package. Includes linguists (all languages) and (English-speaking) linguistic institutions on Mastodon.
If you speak German you might also want to follow the package "Linguistik-Institutionen im DACH-Raum"
In case you are not yet included and would like to be added, let me know! (There are some accounts who commented, that I couldn't add because of their account settings)
LakeswimmerHey masto #linguists: any idea why I can remember all the lyrics to a German song that I've been listening to a bit lately (my German is VERY rusty), but I get lost trying to remember the lyrics to songs in English and Swedish?
Swedish is my first language, and English is my second. I consider myself close to native-speaker level in both.
Wondering if there's some weird brain-link here that I can tap in to for getting better at remembering things.
Court Cantrell does not comply#TIL that ἀδελφός isn't the only Ancient Greek word for "brother."
There was also
βρά.
So when Kids These Days call you "brah," just assume they've been keeping up on their #AncientGreek
Martin Owens 
Do #linguists note the word "Boycott" as an interesting curiosity in how we didn't have a word for this concept, then your man Boycott comes along and the word got sucked into not just English, but also every other language. Almost as if the thing couldn't exist properly without the word first being invented.
Are there other examples of words being invented and being so aggressively adopted into many other languages? "Orange" maybe?
the Stripey GoodnessPretty sure there are some #linguists on Mastodon.
Possibly weird question: the voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate sound in North American English: I notice sometimes that it has found some adoption for initial word sounds where there's no spelling indication that sibilance is part of the word, and indeed where my own pronunciation would not include sibilance.
Is there an accessible paper or anything discussing this phenomenon that might explain theories of its origins in a way a layperson might casually absorb?
I'm really just interested, and cannot even figure out appropriate search strings which might be responsive to this request.
Possibly weird question: the voiceless alveolar sibilant affricate sound in North American English: I notice sometimes that it has found some adoption for initial word sounds where there's no spelling indication that sibilance is part of the word, and indeed where my own pronunciation would not include sibilance.
Is there an accessible paper or anything discussing this phenomenon that might explain theories of its origins in a way a layperson might casually absorb?
I'm really just interested, and cannot even figure out appropriate search strings which might be responsive to this request.
x0#linguists, riddle me this. Splice two words together. Terrible and horrific. You get, terrific? Which is a completely opposite vibe! Now clearly ific is some kind of suffix and probably doesn't carry it's own meaning that much, so let's ignore horrific for a second, but then how is that that the terr root of terrible, which is also used in terrify, became that meaning in terrific? Terrify and terrific are seemingly ridiculously close in the semantic tree, ify and ific I think being effectively variant forms for different parts of speech, and yet the actual meaning is completely opposite! Contrast with horrific and horrify, which are clearly related, one being an adjective and one being a verb, both meaning the same basic concept. Something horrific horrified you. But something terrific doesn't terrify you.... How does that make sense⁉️ How did that happen? Did the meaning used to be different? Was there some kind of morphing of the spoken or written form over time that ended up fudging one of those into that position? Am I incorrect about my preliminary analysis of the morphemes and their semantics? #linguistics #english