#Caliban Issue 76 is out! Dive into the creative power of instability across #literature, #linguistics, #translation. New insights on #Shakespeare, #Hollinghurst, #Arundhati Roy, Kathleen #Raine, linguistic #hybridity, translation under censorship, #poetry.
👉 journals.openedition.org/caliban/16772

🎓 Stanford Linguistics PhD 2027–28: Fully funded for 5 years!
International students welcome.
Deadline: Nov 18, 2026.
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#hello #HelloWorld #language #linguistics

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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects

So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.com?

And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?

This "naughty" #etymology is all for naught

It may seem obvious but I never noticed that "naughty" comes from a word meaning "zero".

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When we look at a #neography, we're not just looking at art, there is the science of #linguistics and specifically #orthography that must be considered. Fawning over any random creation is ignoring that science. Please don't do that.

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The concept of "glottophobia" captures that particularly well: linguistic prejudice can look like a debate about “correctness” while reproducing much broader social hierarchies underneath.

#langsky #linguistics #language #linguisticdiscrimination

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Linguists quoted in the article challenge the idea that there is only one “proper” form of Portuguese, pointing instead to the normal variation that exists across regions, communities & social groups.

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The piece highlights how language can become entangled with xenophobia, migration & ideas about who is seen as a legitimate speaker.

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This article from @theguardian.com explores reports of linguistic discrimination faced by Brazilians in Portugal, particularly around Brazilian Portuguese.

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As an still undergraduate student, I would gladly hear any criticism of the draft and I would love to hear about potential languages disproving the hypothesis presented in lingbuzz. Any thoughts?
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If you want to learn more about the remarkable story of the Chitimacha language, check out this issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter:

open.substack.com/pub/linguist...

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“Problematises”, to quote from my 2nd-year uni English textbook; there is no verb that can't be nouned.
#linguistics #EvolutionOfLanguage

📚 Linguistics Series #2: Descriptive vs. Prescriptive Grammar

Ever been corrected for saying something that felt totally natural, only to find out it's technically "wrong"? That tension is exactly what today's post breaks down #langsky #linguistics

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