My newsletter for December 2022: New Zealand and "Uzhe" in The Atlantic https://t.co/P4QFbZJO0v #linguistics
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My newsletter for November 2022: Melbourne and Mastodon https://t.co/3Bzn14bXYT #linguistics
My newsletter for October 2022: Visiting Singapore and Linguist Halloween https://t.co/G43d6sg7FI #linguistics
My newsletter for September 2022: WorldCon, xkcd on Lingthusiasm, and IPA lens cloths https://t.co/XjQBu1US8r #linguistics
It's Randall Munroe of xkcd on Lingthusiasm! https://t.co/oD3uwFkan8 #linguistics
My newsletter for August 2022: redesigning the International Phonetic Alphabet (to put in your pocket) https://t.co/OP7RqZQwdc #linguistics
August 2022: redesigning the International Phonetic Alphabet (to put in your pocket)
This month, we rethought the structure of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Okay, let me explain. The IPA is typically presented in a chart that shows the sounds of languages of the world arrang…
My newsletter for July 2022: In which I get my brain scanned! https://t.co/jQZBQYew3q #linguistics
My newsletter for June 2022: modals and a nifty (spoilery!) linguistics paper https://t.co/os5wVggXfe #linguistics
My newsletter for May 2022: A retrospective on a decade of blogging, a Japanese edition of Because Internet, and more! https://t.co/HvkiFmVB3p #linguistics
I've officially been blogging on All Things Linguistic for ten years now!
Here are some of my favourite posts and other activities from the past year:
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10 years of All Things Linguistic
I’ve officially been blogging on All Things Linguistic for ten years! This boggles my mind so much that I decided to also write a whole decade in review post for tomorrow, but let’s start with looking back at some of my favourite posts and other things that happened in the past year: Projects I started a new project to read one paper per language of the 103 languages reported in a recent paper by Evan Kidd and Rowena Garcia surveying the languages represented in the four main child language acquisition journals. Peeking face, palm up, and palm down - the emoji I proposed with Lauren Gawne and Jennifer Daniel are now officially in Unicode 14.0 and will be coming to your devices in the next few years! Now that Because Internet has been out for two years, I can attest that people have successfully used it as a way of opening up cross-generational conversations about changing texting norms. I set up a survey for anyone who’s been using Because Internet for teaching - put in what you’ve been doing and I’ll compile and share it with other instructors! Interviews and talks How Linguistics Can Help You Learn a Language - talk for Duolingo’s DuoCon I’m quoted in a New York Times Wordplay piece about ending texts with a period Keynote at the Unicode Conference in San Francisco on “Taking Playfulness Seriously - When character sets are used in unexpected ways” (slides here, video here for similar talk at Bay Area NLP) Keynote at Sotheby’s Level Up in Los Angeles (not online) Virtual talk for some internal folks at YouTube (not online) Back-to-school virtual talks: The Internet is Making English Better at Yale with Claire Bowern and about Internet Linguistics and Memes as Internet Folklore with a student at the University of Oklahoma Guest interview about internet language on That Word Chat, an online talk show for editors and word nerds In conversation with Rosemary Mosco about her book, A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching at Argo Bookshop Contestant on Webster’s War of the Words, a virtual quiz show fundraiser for the Noah Webster House Conferences and events LSA 2022, the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America (Washington DC but a last-minute pivot to virtual, judged the Five Minute Linguist competition again) WorldCon in Washington DC Dictionary Society of North America conference the annual meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association LingComm The organizing committee of LingComm21, the International Conference on Linguistics Communication which I co-organized last year, wrote a six-part series on how we designed the conference last year, for anyone else who’s been trying to figure out how to do virtual events that are actually social: Why virtual conferences are antisocial (but they don’t have to be) Designing online conferences for building community Scheduling online conferences for building community Hosting online conferences for building community Budgeting online conferences or events Planning accessible online conferences I’m also very pleased to report that a new organizing committee is making the LingComm Conference happen again, in February 2023. The LingComm Grants returned for 2022, giving out five $500 Project Grants and twelve $100 LingComm Startup Grants. These small grants to help fledgling linguistics communication projects get off the ground were sponsored by Lingthusiasm and several other generous contributors, and you can see the full list of grantees here. Lingthusiasm Lingthusiasm hit its fifth anniversary! I’ve officially been making a podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics with my cohost Lauren Gawne and our linguistically enthusiastic team for five years now! In addition to releasing our usual 12 main episodes and 12 bonus episodes, some Lingthusiasm things that happened this year included: a redesigned Lingthusiasm website (I wrote an incredibly long meta post about the website design process), a Lingthusiasm crossover appearance on the NPR show Ask Me Another (featuring two fun quiz segments, one on accepted or rejected emoji and one on famous book titles), and a Lingthusiasm liveshow, a sweary liveshow about swearing, on the Lingthusiasm Discord. Also, Lingthusiasm now has a LinkedIn page, in case that’s somehow a thing you need in your life. We also released new Lingthusiasm merch! You can now ask people which shape is kiki and which one is bouba from the comfort of your own scarf, tshirt, mug, and other items. And…did we do a whole episode on fricatives just so that we could release “what the fricative” merch? In the immortal sounds of another fricative: Shhhhhhh. Plus, we did a time-limited Lingthusiastic Sticker Pack special offer for people who support the podcast on Patreon. Main episodes: Making machines learn Fon and other African languages - Interview with Masakhane A Fun-Filled Fricative Field Trip Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Theory of Mind That’s the kind of episode it’s – clitics Corpus linguistics and consent - Interview with Kat Gupta Cool things about scales and implicature Where to get your English etymologies Making speech visible with spectrograms Knowledge is power, copulas are fun Word order, we love What it means for a language to be official Tea and skyscrapers - When words get borrowed across languages Bonus episodes: Gotta test ‘em all – The linguistics of Pokemon names Language under the influence Sentient plants, proto-internet, and more lingfic about quirky communication Q&A with Emily Gref from language museum Planet Word Lingwiki and linguistics on Wikipedia Linguistic 〰️✨ i l l u s i o n s ✨〰️ Linguistics puzzles for fun and olympiad glory We interview each other! Seasons, word games, Unicode, and more Emoji, Mongolian, and Multiocular O ꙮ - Dispatches from the Unicode Conference Behind the scenes on how linguists come up with research topics Approaching word games like a linguist – Interview with Nicole Holliday and Ben Zimmer of Spectacular Vernacular What makes a swear word feel sweary? A &⩐#⦫& Liveshow Selected blog posts Communication: It’s Complicated/Because Internet on why teens socialize online Conversation, cooperation, and dementia (from superlinguo) “old people really need to learn how to text” The origin of language and interspecies communication Reduplication Bread Bread Tumblr graffiti Languages: The fight to save Hawaii sign language from extinction A McGill student and professor realized they both speak Mi'kmaq; it changed everything Pitch, intonation, and the role of technology in language description On standard dialects A list of the languages mentioned on Crash Course Linguistics Pronouncing words in English (by Chinese speakers) When your accent is better than your vocabulary Linguist humour: The kiki to bouba pipeline Dinosaur Comics on the “I dunno” hum Kawaii Desu Innit Bruv ancient translation to badger xkcd: neoteny recapitulated phylogeny Experts in a Sci-Fi Fantasy Setting General linguistics: I asked people for their favourite fun fact about linguistics and ended up with a delightful thread of replies Fictional Gestures Greenmeats Peanut cheese Finnish pronouns Stomach is the truest Sundial Eeyore Linguistic Facts The art and science of beatboxing Beatboxing in IPA Linguistic jobs: Technical writer CEO of a SaaS company Impact Lead Social media lead (for NASA) Senior Analyst, Strategic Insights & Analytics Academic linguist Online Linguistics Teacher Customer Success Manager Performing Artiste and Freelance Editor I reposted a classic “how to twitter” (from a social perspective) post of mine from 2016, which people tell me they still refer to occasionally How to write a successful pop linguistics book (an extremely long advice post) Haven’t been with me this whole time? You can see my favourite posts of year one, year two, year three, year four, year five, year six, year seven, year eight, and year nine. For shorter updates, follow me as a person on twitter or instagram, follow Lingthusiasm on twitter or instagram, or for a monthly email newsletter with highlights, subscribe on substack.