In this post I study 'going rogue' as a dominant/hegemonic metaphor and some counter- or polemic metaphors - contains blenders, Glocks, robot dogs and some serious metaphor debunking #AI #linguistics #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/02/r...

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How a font is helping revitalize hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓

#Musqueam adopted NAPA in 1997 for accuracy. Only one font was able to display it but even it had limitations. So they made a new one.

#Linguistics #WritingSystems #IndigenousLanguage #TruthAndReconciliation

Your brain doesn't think in left and right, it thinks in north, south, east, west. At least, if you speak Guugu Yimithirr, it does. What's a direction that blew your mind?

#languagefacts #linguistics #worldlanguages #languagenerd #didyouknow

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one of my own favorite papers is my 2019 article in Glossa. it uses cognitive linguistic principles to explain the gradient nature of collocations, fingerspelling, and complex words in ASL. you’d be surprised how often these come up and how tricky they can be... #linguistics doi.org/10.5334/gjgl...

My conlang (Spimplaerra/Giuco) cases with cats

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first year seminar group has decided on the group project topic: we'll be looking at Louis Tomlinson, comparing his sung and interview speech during his One Direction era and his solo career to see if/how his Yorkshire features have waxxed or waned over time. STAY TUNED #linguistics

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For all the details on how these words came to be, check out this (free) issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter:

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Archaeoethnologica: Tocharian and Indo-European - Book / Tocariano e Indo-Europeu - Livro

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/09/toca...

#IndoeuropeanStudies #indoeuropean #Linguistics #paleolinguistics #tocharian #comparativelinguistics #books #thesis #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Tocharian and Indo-European - Book / Tocariano e Indo-Europeu - Livro

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Archaeoethnologica: Tocharian and Indo-European - Book / Tocariano e Indo-Europeu - Livro

+INFO in: archaeoethnologica.blogspot.com/2026/09/toca...

#IndoeuropeanStudies #indoeuropean #Linguistics #paleolinguistics #tocharian #comparativelinguistics #books #thesis #openaccess

Archaeoethnologica: Tocharian and Indo-European - Book / Tocariano e Indo-Europeu - Livro

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🎉Congratulations to Marit Westergaard for receiving her honorary doctorate from Uppsala University 🎉
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