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Gretchen McCulloch

Anyway, hi, I'm an internet linguist!

You might know me from writing linguistics articles at The Toast (RIP)

These days I cohost a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics (lingthusiasm.com) and I'm writing a book in defense of internet language which'll be out with Penguin in 2019 gretchenmcculloch.com/book

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DialMforMara

wired.com/story/voldemorting-u

this article by @gretchenmcc is the best

#linguistics #fandom #MastoMeta

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Janelle Shane

This bot wants to sing with you! @singalongbot

A post-XOXO project by @gretchenmcc , Kate Compton, and me.

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Gretchen McCulloch

A portion of the section at MIT libraries in my August linkfest and monthly summary post!

gretchenmcculloch.com/2018/09/

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Janelle Shane

RT @gretchenmcc Please provide your catchiest songs, for Science*

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

*and by Science, I mean a late-night internet social experiment that we dreamed up at #xoxofest

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Gretchen McCulloch

(I just want people to come, so also feel free to drop by if you just want a guaranteed location to find me and say hi! It's a big conference!)

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Gretchen McCulloch

Language meetup at @xoxo!

Do come even if you aren't sure if you qualify as languagey enough (there may be word games!) & feel free to drop by for just a bit!

2-5pm on the Friday social day

See the social spreadsheet or the language channel in slack for location

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ranjit

linguistics / star trek joke Show more

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Gretchen McCulloch

We generally think about language as a THING: letters, sounds, signs. But little bits of silence or invisibility are found surprisingly often in language.

Episode 23 of Lingthusiasm, the podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics, is a tour through the various kinds of linguistic nothings 🎧💚🕳️

Listen here or on your favourite podcast app soundcloud.com/lingthusiasm/23

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Dan Bruno

This is the “don’t @ me” of footnotes (Word by Word by Kory Stamper)

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Darius Kazemi

Here's a #ff

@explainjojo - the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure podcast I do with @elizsimins and @courtney
@tommchenry - excellent cartoonist
@gretchenmcc - linguist extraordinaire
@roseveleth - rad future thinker
@ingrid - thinking about the infrastructure that underpins life
@nervous_jessica and @nervous_jesse
- makers of nature-inspired computer-generated 3D-fabricated dresses, jewelry, and other things

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Taru Luojola

New instance opened: polyglot.city

Polyglot City is the right instance for you, if you're interested in languages, language learning and translating, or if you are multilingual or polyglot. All languages are allowed to flourish on our timelines. Welcome!

#instances

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Gretchen McCulloch

I started fact-checking a book about emoji and the book was so hilaribad it turned into a thread-review (birdsite x-post) Show more

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Janelle Shane

This is an unusual formation - some huge nodes with bristles of related words. Can't figure out what the big nodes have in common:
ryryryryryry, winair, monechma, jiwamol, thongrung, zety, rungfapaisarn, manxamba.
And their related words are weird too. Related to "manxamba": nephrotoxicity, bellbottoms, pilfers, xenomorph.

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Janelle Shane

More nebulas in word vector space. They turn out to be Latin names of birds (upper), mollusks (lower right) and other invertebrates (lower left). Gauzy satellite blobs are dinosaurs and taxonomists.

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Taru Luojola

Is there yet a Mastodon instance themed around language learning, multilingualism and polyglot people?

I could be interested in opening one, if this niche is not filled yet.

#Mastodon #instance #multilingualism #polyglot #languages

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Allison Parrish

what's the earliest creative project using computation that you can think of that makes use of Project Gutenberg as a corpus?

previously asked here mastodon.social/users/aparrish and we couldn't come up with anything pre-2012(?!) but figure it's worth asking again

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Gretchen McCulloch

tired: choose your instance based on the moderation policy

wired: choose your instance based on the custom emoji

:xoxo: : :yay:

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All Things Linguistic

A daily toot every time the blog at allthingslinguistic.com updates!

For a curated tour of older blog posts: allthingslinguistic.com/top

For my upcoming book in defense of internet language: allthingslinguistic.com/book

For linguistics in monthly audio chats, listen to me on Lingthusiasm, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! lingthusiasm.com

[#linguistics bot account, talk to @gretchenmcc for replies] #introductions

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Gretchen McCulloch

Trying my hand at an automated account!

You can now follow @allthingslinguistic for an interesting thing about every day from my blog!

Thanks to @KelsonV for a helpful blog post on getting this set up with IFTTT hyperborea.org/journal/2017/12

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Rachelskirts

This site feels OVERWHELMINGLY populated by men. Ladies, where you at?

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