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Toni Aittoniemi”Ryssiä”This is a finnish slang verb for failing, to fuck it up.It literally translates: ”to Russian it” <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/folkwisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#folkwisdom</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/finnish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#finnish</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a>

JaneMy phone just autocorrected "the shitposts are" to "the shitpost are" and uhh, are shitpost(s) a plurale tantum? 💩 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurale_tantum" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurale_tantum</a><a href="https://datavis.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

elilla&, travesti ativa antifaWhat they said:<blockquote>There were two made-up Japanese words in my dream. The first one was こむそ pronounced [koms] for some reason. It meant "bean" The second one was ええごむそ pronounced [e:goms] meaning "American bean"</blockquote>My reply: Clearly *komuso is the etym. orthography of dialectal koms, by Kantō elision of unstressed /u/ from intermediary form *komusu, by assimilation of the final vowel. The Kantō nature of the dialect is further evidenced by the modern form ee-goms "good bean" = "American bean", with Eastern ee for ii "good".Having established the reflex, let us turn to the ancestral form. As u/felicaamiko pointed out, the Old Japanese term *komuso "beans" must be related to kome "rice". This is obviously by Proto-J vowel mutation on free -e vs. bound -u < -o, lexicalised (cp. ki/kodama, hi/honoo). The suffix -so is unclear; maybe "rice of the coarse [folk]" (粗/麁), but more likely "rice-ancestor" (祖). Jōmon shamanism, which preceded rice farming, must have relied on wild legumes for protein, granting beans a position of veneration; a remnant of this can be seen in the setsubun practice of bean-throwing to ward off demons. When the Yayoi invasion brought the cultural complex of Japonic, rice, and Buddhism, they would have refereed to the Jōmon sacred bean as *kome-nö-so > *komoso > *komuso, the forebear of the rice.See also the flute-playing Fuke Zen monks, Komusō (a borrow which preserved the OJ vowel mutation well into the 15th century, when they were called komosō). While folk etymology would render it "straw mat monks", this is clearly a Buddhist appropriation of the shamanic tradition, where instead of flutes they would certainly have carried blowpipes to shoot beans at demons with increased efficiency.<a href="https://transmom.love/tags/Japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Japanese</a> <a href="https://transmom.love/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://transmom.love/tags/brainrot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brainrot</a>

Sascha Wolfer<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/jobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jobs</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> Projektgebundene Promotionsstelle- Beginn: 1. Juni 2025 - Bewerbungsfrist: 21. April 2025 - bis zu TV-L 13, 65%, auf 3 J. befristetDrittmittelprojekt "Nutzerfreundliche und auf optimale Vernetzbarkeit angelegte Erschließung des Online-DFWB (= Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch)"Mehr Infos unter <a href="https://www.ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/stellen/stelle7/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ids-mannheim.de/org/karriere/stellen/stelle7/</a>

Anna NicholsonThere are multiple questions in Geoff Lindsay’s short multiple choice questionnaire on the changing use of *multiple* in English.It only took me a couple of minutes.<a href="https://www.englishspeechservices.com/multiple-survey/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.englishspeechservices.com/multiple-survey/</a><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/EnglishUsage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnglishUsage</a>

Stefan BohacekSome light reading for a bit of a distraction, if you will: Vivian Li from <a href="https://vis.social/@thepudding" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@thepudding</a> looked at how "cultures can hear the same physical sounds yet translate them into language so differently".<a href="https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pudding.cool/2025/03/language/</a><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/onomatopoeia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#onomatopoeia</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#data</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#dataviz</a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/ThePudding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePudding</a>

Dr. Linguo<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> Conference <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bingo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bingo</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguisticsmemes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linguisticsmemes</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/linguistics" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@linguistics</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>Source: <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/leftyveggie.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/leftyveggie.bsky.social</a>

Anna PryslopskaThe course is open source: 🔗 <a href="https://github.com/a-nap/Digital-Research-Toolkit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/a-nap/Digital-Research-Toolkit</a>I will be updating it every week with slides, code, and homework assignments. <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AcademicResearch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicResearch</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DigitalHumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalHumanities</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> hashtag <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/DataScience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DataScience</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rstats</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Academic</a>

Eugene Alvin Villar 🇵🇭<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/TIL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TIL</a> that the two forms of the indefinite article, ‘a’ and ‘an’, which are used depending on whether the succeeding noun starts with a vowel sound, also happens with the definite article, ‘the’, via differing pronunciations.“the start“ → /ðəstɑɹt/ “the end” → /ðijɛnd/<a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://en.osm.town/tags/EnglishLanguage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EnglishLanguage</a>

Tatjana SchefflerThe College for Social Sciences and Humanities, University Alliance Ruhr (Ruhr area, Germany) offers 6-month fellowships for senior academics from other countries to come do research here in tandem with local colleagues. The call is now open for fellowships in 2026/27: <a href="https://www.college-uaruhr.de/fellowship/application/call-for-applications" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.college-uaruhr.de/fellowship/application/call-for-applications</a> If anyone from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> is interested, ping me. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#academia</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/fellowship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fellowship</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#germany</a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/rub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rub</a>

Glyn MoodyThe Deciphering of Linear <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Elamite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Elamite</a>. - <a href="https://languagehat.com/the-deciphering-of-linear-elamite/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://languagehat.com/the-deciphering-of-linear-elamite/</a> an amazing tale <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

Fediverse ChuckHuh? Well, actually it means something. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/huh-the-valuable-role-of-interjections/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/huh-the-valuable-role-of-interjections/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a>

Megan Lynch (she/her)"While acknowledgements have been largely neglected in the EAP literature, they are almost universal in dissertation writing, where they offer students a unique rhetorical space to convey their genuine gratitude for assistance and to promote a favourable social and scholarly character. This article explores the importance of this genre and examines the generic structure and linguistic patterns used to express thanks." <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1473-4192.2004.00062.x" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1473-4192.2004.00062.x</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AcademicChatter</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/academicchatter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@academicchatter</a>

Stefan Müller<a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/HPSG2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HPSG2025</a> is in <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Lisbon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lisbon</a> this year.Deadline March 22snd.<a href="https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/#callmain" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://dkaramasov.github.io/hpsg2025/#callmain</a><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/HPSG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HPSG</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Syntax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Syntax</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Grammar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Grammar</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a>

Joshua Maynard :mapleleaf:Hey <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/linguists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguists</a>: if I have a rule like below, what “category” of language is this? What is it? Pretend I know nothing, cause thats exactly the case 😂Rule: Single consonant is normal but double consonant means ʊ at the end.Example: “fun” = /fʌn/ “funn” = /fʌnʊ/ (think German “Sonne”)<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/conlang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conlang</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/worldbuilding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#worldbuilding</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/help" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#help</a>

Strong LanguageBanning swearing in Formula One could be bad for drivers – a linguist explains <a href="https://theconversation.com/banning-swearing-in-formula-one-could-be-bad-for-drivers-a-linguist-explains-251424" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/banning-swearing-in-formula-one-could-be-bad-for-drivers-a-linguist-explains-251424</a><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/swearing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#swearing</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/profanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#profanity</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/F1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#F1</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/racing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#racing</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/motorsport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#motorsport</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/FormulaOne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FormulaOne</a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a>

Guardian LimericksThere once was a song from Malta's shore, But its title caused quite the uproar, Censored for a word a bit crude, No harm was meant, just a bit lewd, Now it's remembered forevermore.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GuardianLimerick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GuardianLimerick</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Eurovision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Eurovision</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Malta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Malta</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Culture</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Europe</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Switzerland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Switzerland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBC</a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/05/kant-malta-eurovision-entry-censored-title-similarity-c-word" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/05/kant-malta-eurovision-entry-censored-title-similarity-c-word</a>

DW InnovationAfter almost three decades of R&D work, Peggy van der Kreeft, ReCo's grande dame of human language technology, is about to retire. High time for an extensive conversation: <a href="https://innovation.dw.com/articles/interview-peggy-van-der-kreeft" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://innovation.dw.com/articles/interview-peggy-van-der-kreeft</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/interview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#interview</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hlt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hlt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#innovation</a>

elilla&, travesti ativa antifaSomeone asked me what did I mean when I said "Japanese Sign Language has gender, like German, and unlike German Sign Language which is gender-free like Japanese". Answer:It's very interesting—the thumb is the "male" finger, and the pinkie is "female". You commonly use this as a suffix, by signing something like "person" or "doctor" then extending a closed fist with the intended gender finger. This suffix is bound and doesn't occur by itself. Some signs also incorporate it as something akin to inflection or compounding—compare the sign for "lesbian": <a href="https://media.spreadthesign.com/video/mp4/7/339768.mp4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://media.spreadthesign.com/video/mp4/7/339768.mp4</a> with "gay": <a href="https://media.spreadthesign.com/video/mp4/7/350084.mp4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://media.spreadthesign.com/video/mp4/7/350084.mp4</a>I was once with a bigender person and I suggested them that their gender could be represented by extending both fingers in Japanese Sign Language (my flirting technique remains flawless). Alas, in actual JSL, extending both fingers represents "a mixed-gender group", or, often, "a hetero/married couple". So the sign for "society" can be inflected with the thumbs to represent "all men" or with both fingers for "all people", for example. And the individual fingers can be used as sort of little puppets representing someone in particular, as a gendered pronoun, moving through visual space and interacting with one another etc. Check out p. 22-23, fig. 2-12b on Pedersen/Masumi 2019: <a href="https://minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/8323/files/SES101_02.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://minpaku.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/8323/files/SES101_02.pdf</a> for a fascinating example where "marriage" gets modded into "female-dominant marriage" with a submissive little thumb bowing well bellow the proud, tall dominating pinkie.<a href="https://transmom.love/tags/japanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#japanese</a> <a href="https://transmom.love/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sign</a> <a href="https://transmom.love/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

elilla&, travesti ativa antifa<a href="https://twoot.site/@mi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mi</a> reportedly SOV, classifiers, and topic/comment are all common in sign languages. according to Napoli/Spence 2014, sign languages generally accept SOV (even if they're mainly SVO), and generally prefer SVO for reversible sentences with simple verbs. this holds for DSL afaict ("I love you", but "I chocolate love"). for more fun generalisations see doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00376 : <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00376/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00376/full</a><a href="https://transmom.love/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sign</a> <a href="https://transmom.love/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a>

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