The Map Men tackle #linguistics! 🐦🐦
Well done! 🫡 @jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social

The Map Men tackle #linguistics! 🐦🐦
Well done! 🫡 @jayforeman.bsky.social @markcooperjones.bsky.social
Everybody knows this, but nobody knows that they know it.
Explore the open access articles published in Annual Review of Applied Linguistics:
📚 https://cup.org/4sNi1Dp
🎉 Congratulations to Alex Dornburg & Kristin Davin on winning the Best Cambridge University Press ReCALL Paper 2026 for their article titled: 'ChatGPT in foreign language lesson plan creation: Trends, variability, and historical biases'
Read it for free https://cup.org/3TGBA3q
🔍 New review article!
In the review article, published in Language Value, Anna Majer examines the book’s contribution to research on the recontextualization of expert knowledge and its digital dissemination.
#linguistics #research #science #article
I am thrilled to be a co-author on the paper "Kinematics of Negative Headshake in Seven Sign Languages"! 🎉
A big thank you to my colleague Vadim Kimmelman for the fantastic collaboration! 🙌
doi.org/10.1162/OPMI...
#SignLanguages #Linguistics #ComputerVision #Negation #Headshake
Look what I found in a flower bed as if it had sprouted there. A set of teach-yourself Italian vinyl records.
Salt Spring Island, BC. #linguistics
The World Language's 3 primitives (I, you-one, it/that)
can pluralize and compound,
plus four special cases,
yielding a total of 30 World Language pronouns
that translate to 126 English forms
— and a whopping 324(!) German ones!
#conlang #linguistics #grammar
Yessss! Another entry for the collection. I love these so much. (Please join me in calling them "Outerbridges".) #linguistics
yw
Although here it's kinda the reverse, which is cool!
Eggcorn: you got the sound approximately right in way that makes a bit more sense of the meaning
Reverse eggcorn: you got the spelling approximately right in a way that makes more sense of the meaning
Don’t be a grammar snob.
Learn to appreciate the wonderful messy diversity of language.
Just re-upping this review on Nerds of a Feather by @stewarthotston.com, which led me to start reading Republic of Memory by Mahmud El Sayed. It is so far exactly as good as Stew says. (Really good one for the linguistis among us, btw)
I wrote a tiny essay about the wordiness of a non-word
#LingSky #Linguistics
moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2026/09/19/r...
Native speakers often invent post-hoc rules to justify choices that are just raw intuition. The hard reality for learners: there is no clean algorithm to memorize, just endless edge cases around whether an object is already mutually understood. #linguistics 4/4
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