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thesistasaurus

There’s a special place in hell for the people who leave the footnotes at the end of a book.

linguisten

That aren’t footnotes then.1

1 but endnotes

geminusrufus

Also endnotes are the superior system for citing and commenting, actually fight me. Nerd.

langsandlit

Endnotes are invalid.1

1 if you use endnotes don’t interact.

culmaer

citations as in-text references¹ and comments as footnotes

____________

1. in the format (Surname, year: page). the full source is indeed listed in the back, but that’s the List of References, not endnotes, which are the worst²

2. it is known

linguisten

@culmaer true.

Furthermore, you’re not being taken serious as a humanities scholar in Germany unless your footnotes occasionally take up two-thirds of the page and sprout meta-footnotes of their own.

kontextmaschine

terrible-tentacle-theatre

SCIENCE FIGHT

@wtf-scientific-papers

i’m in love with her

CLOCKED

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pervocracy

Part of the New Internet Grammar: using question marks not to denote questions, but upturns in voice, so that a tentative statement gets a question mark but a flatly delivered question doesn’t.

argumate

why would you do this

pervocracy

It just seems right?

moniquill

allthingslinguistic

Hey, literature folks. Have y'all noticed that people are using kennings again? I mean, sea pancake, danger noodle, sea roomba.

How’s that different from describing the sea as the whale-road or gannet’s bath?

THIS IS SO FUCKING AWESOME. I love kennings.

- Kylo Bean on twitter

jdvancefreefeetpics

i’m really looking forward to the day when we as a society have removed the gendered and misogynistic connotations from the word “bitch” because sometimes “asshole” or “shit” just doesn’t cut it. “that lying little bitch” carries a much different meaning than “that lying little shit/asshole”

For example, Stephen Sondheim not wanting to do a gay version of Company because of the changes to his deceased collaborator’s book, but being on board with the changes necessitated by the gender-swapped but still heterosexual version is just an example of Steve being a lying little bitch. but is it clear i’m not intimating he’s a woman or weak or anything like that.

tarheelinguist

This is the quality content that I double majored in Linguistics and Dramatic Art for.

frislander-deactivated20220305

I’m a very strange kind of linguist in that I distrust both Chomsky and Everett

gacorley

I think there is healthy skepticism to be had for both, and really dislike seeing people trash Chomsky and then idolize Everett.

Look, there are very legitimate reasons to be skeptical of Chomsky. Now, I work within generative frameworks a bit (within phonology, which is miles away from what syntax does), but I do have my doubts about things like the special language organ, the idea of language evolving for cognition and not communication, and some of his more abstract theories. Luckily, I don’t study syntax or semantics, so I don’t typically have to engage with his work (people in phonology still cite The Sound Pattern of English, but that is not really where the field is anymore). Everett, on the other hand, made his name with big, splashy claims about one language that supposedly upended everything. I’m always going to be skeptical when one analysis of one less-studied language is claimed to invalidate a major theory. Sure, it’s important to look for those counterexamples, but it’s also important to avoid drawing too much from one example that could have been misanalyzed. Also, reading Don’t Sleep, there are Snakes make me kind of question some things about his interactions with the Pirahã (I realize it’s a popular text, but there are things there that seem like exoticism).

Anyway, think critically about everybody’s theory. Especially if you’re an academic linguist in their field, because that’s what academics is about.

linguisten

I am not so skeptical about his claims on Pirahã itself. At least there he knows what he is talking about. But most of his latest publications are watered down theory for public consumption, lacking the accuracy and rigor in methods and terminology. He got sloppy.

I was one of the people reading his drafts of “Cognitive Fire” (a.k.a. “Language the Cultural Tool”; 2012) and it hurts me to see how many mistakes, inaccuracies, unfounded claims (especially on fields outside his expertise, like hominin evolution) ended up in the book. My favorite example is the bad Latin -or parody thereof- presented as the inversion of “e pluribus unum”. He stuck with “e unibus pluram” (p. 325; though he did remove another occurrence of it from the heading of chapter 11) despite being told many times and not only by little old me that that’s rubbish. That is exactly the same kind of disregard for details and facts that he so criticizes in Chomsky.

esoanem

I’m still skeptical about his claims with Pirahã; his claims have evolved substantially (not itself a bad thing) and the language has barely been studied first hand by other scholars so it’s hard to be too confident in any of his conclusions (particularly the more outlandish ones)

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Linguistics and Language Podcasts

Looking for podcasts about language and linguistics? Here’s a comprehensive list with descriptions! I’ve also mentioned if shows have transcripts. If there are any I missed, let me know!

Linguistics

Lingthusiasm A podcast that’s enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne (that’s me!). Main episodes every third Thursday of every month, with a second bonus episode on Patreon. (Transcripts for main episodes)

Talk the Talk Every week Daniel, Ben, and Kylie cover the news in linguistics and tackle a particular topic.

The Vocal Fries Every episode Carrie Gillon & Megan Figueroa tackle linguistic discrimination in relation to a particular group. (Transcripts for some episodes)

Language

The Allusionist Stories about language and the people who use it, from Helen Zaltzman (Transcripts for all episodes) (my review)

Grammar Girl Episodes are rarely longer than 15 minutes, but they’re full of tips about English grammar and style for professional writing, and more! (Transcripts for all episodes).

The World in Words From PRI, The World in Words has been delivering wonderful interview-drive stories about language and life since 2008.

Conlangery Particularly for those with an interest in constructed languages, they also have episodes that focus on specific natural languages, or linguistic phenomena.

Subtext a podcast about the linguistics of online dating.

English

History of English Meticulously researched, professionally produced and engaging content on the history of English. I have already reviewed it three times (episodes 1-4, episodes 5-79, bonus episodes).

Lexicon Valley Hosted by John McWhorter, with a focus on English.

That’s What They Say Every week linguist Anne Curzan joins Rebecca Kruth on Michigan public radio for a five minute piece on a quirk of English language.

A Way With Words A talk-back format show on the history of English words, cryptic crosswords and slang.

Dictionaries

Word For Word From Macquarie dictionary, with a focus on Australian English.

Fiat Lex A podcast about making dictionaries from Kory Stamper & Steve Kleinedler.

Words/etymology

Words for Granted In each episode Ray Belli explores the history of a common English word in around fifteen minutes.

Very Bad Words A podcast about swearing and our cultural relationship to it.

Lexitecture Ryan, a Canadian, and Amy, a Scot share their chosen word each episode.

Animology Vegan blogger Colleen Patrick Goudreau uses her love of animals as a starting point for exploring animal-related etymologies.

Translation

Speaking of Translation A monthly podcast from Eve Bodeux & Corinne McKay.

LangFM Stories of people from the world of language, including interpreters, translators, dialect coaches and many more.

Troublesome Terps The podcast about the things that keep interpreters up at night.

Back catalogues and Odds & Ends

There are also a number of podcasts that have only a few episodes, are no longer being made, or are very academic in their focus:

Language Creation Society Podcast (8 episodes, 2009-2011)

Given Names (four part radio series from 2015, all about names. My review)

Speculative Grammarian Podcast (from the magazine of the same name, about 50 episodes from Dec 2009-Jan 2017)

Linguistics Podcast (on YouTube, around 20 episodes in 2013 introducing basic linguistic concepts)

Evolving English: Linguistics at the Library (8 episodes 2018), from the British Library.

How Brands are Build (season 1 of this show focuses on brand naming)

The Endless Knot is not strictly a language podcast, but they often include word histories, fans of the Lingthusiasm colour episode may find their colour series particularly interesting

Word of Mouth (BBC 4, also available as a podcast)

LingLab (very occasionally updated podcast from graduate students in the Sociolinguistics program at NC State University)

Silly Linguistics (ad hoc episode posting, but episode 7 is an interview with Kevin Stroud for History of English fans)

WACC Podcast (guest lectures at Warwick Applied Linguistics)

Sage Language and Linguistics

Let’s Talk Talk

Queer Linguistics has a couple of episodes, with a bit of classroom vibe

This is a completely revised listing from June 2018. The March 2017 list kept growing (yay!) so I’ve now completely restructured it based on themes. I’m always excited to be able to add more podcasts to the list, so if you know of any linguistics/language podcasts not here, please let me know! (I usually wait until a show has at least 3 episodes before I add it to the list)

allthingslinguistic

This is a very useful list that I keep coming back to and it’s great to see that @superlinguo is still keeping it updated!

learninglinguist

An informative thread on meme semiotics by Daniel Ginsberg on Twitter.

learninglinguist

Linguistics alignment chart from Nathan Sanders on Twitter.

transliterations

How far do you have to move our slider to hear one name or the other?

magicademical

If I start from the laurel end, I hear laurel nearly the whole way along.

If I start from the yanny end, I hear yanny nearly half the way along.

linguisten

I don’t hear an /n/ at all there, even with the slider all the way through to “Yanny”, I hear “Yelly” or “”Yerry”

rewordfully

you know how mathematicians have the journal of recreational mathematics, right? where they publish stuff like, ‘oh i found this cool property of this one seemingly boring number’, or, ‘this is literally nonsense but it sounds ~scientific~’ and it’s all great fun to read?

well

behold, the journal of recreational linguistics

with such delightful papers as ‘tennis puns’, ‘animals in different languages’, and ‘gifts from a homonymous benefactor’

excuse me while i go read all 50 volumes in one sitting

deliriumcrow

In which a thing can be simultaneously the worst and best things. This is how I shall waste my time now.

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The Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews master list

To celebrate 3 years of running these interviews, I’ve created a master list of all of the interviews. There are over 30 interviews to date, with people who studied linguistics and then gone on to careers outside of academia.

Although I ask the same questions each time, I get very different answers. For some people, linguistics is directly applicable to their daily work, while others find that the general skills they learnt can transfer to other careers.

I’ll update this list at least once a year. Otherwise, you can browse the Linguistics Jobs tag on the blog!

The full list of Linguistics Job Interviews (to April 2018):

Interview with a university course coordinator

Interview with a think tank researcher

Interview with a Museum Curator

Interview with a Communications Consultant

Interview with a Linguistic Project Manager at a Language Tech Company

Interview with a Data Scientist

Interview with a Librarian

Interview with a Text Analyst

Interview with a User Experience (UX) Researcher

Interview with a Study Abroad Facilitator

Interview with The Career Linguist

Interview with a local radio Digital Managing Editor

Interview with an educational development lecturer (and linguistic consultant)

Interview with a senior content project manager at Transparent Language

Interview with a freelance translator and editor

Interview with an apprentice mechanic

Interview with an educational development lecturer (and linguistic consultant)

Interview with a client services manager

Interview with an English foreign language teacher

Interview with a speech pathologist

Interview with a computational linguist

Interview with a tour company director

Interview with a copywriter and brand strategist (and fiction author)

Interview with a language revitalisation program director

Interview with a media language researcher

Interview with an editor and copywriter

Interview with a humanitarian aid worker

Interview with a high school teacher

Interview with an interpreter

Interview with a journalist

Interview with a data analyst

anarchapella

Unpopular opinion: straight people using “partner” to refer to their SO actually helps normalize the term so that lgbt folx can use it without automatically outing themselves to strangers. It also helps other straight ppl get comfortable with the fact that strangers aren’t entitled to information about other people’s gender or sexuality.

lesserkiwi-deactivated20180504

Give op their hard-earned notes

#this goes for everyone in het-passing relationships

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