Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc@xoxo.zone

Just finished an advance copy of Because Internet by @gretchenmcc ! It’s all about Internet language and I understand so much more now about why some people use Wildly different styles online, and how the meaning varies depending on when you first started using the Internet . It’s really fascinating! Preorder: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/540664/because-internet-by-gretchen-mcculloch/9780735210936/

@gretchenmcc asked on Twitter what people's favorite Unicode characters are. I couldn't decide between ampersand (&), lowercase esh (ʃ) and cup of tea emoji (🍵) .

What are your favorite #unicode characters?

You know how on they say that all publicity is good publicity, even when it's bad? Well, if you don't want to give a certain character or company the pleasure of knowing that you talk about them, #Voldemorting is the solution. Read @gretchenmcc for WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/voldemorting-ultimate-seo-diss-resident-linguist/

https://www.wired.com/story/voldemorting-ultimate-seo-diss-resident-linguist/

this article by @gretchenmcc is the best

#linguistics #fandom #MastoMeta

This bot wants to sing with you! @singalongbot

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

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

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSejVvGtYMyUxYGfi2YUxKLiTkuLxN9gNb8RDK7LtYrZU7JVsg/viewform

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

i blame @gretchenmcc

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

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

New instance opened: https://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

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.

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.

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

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 https://mastodon.social/users/aparrish/statuses/99162943133463981 and we couldn't come up with anything pre-2012(?!) but figure it's worth asking again