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Louis Cotgrove

@leftyveggie.bsky.social

Corpus sociolinguist @ IDS Mannheim in digital youth language & digital infrastructure/Digitale Jugendsprache und digitale Infrastruktur. Join a Union ✊

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Arbeitsgruppen - Programm | Universität Trier

The #DGfS2026 s u u u per awesome programme is awesome!!!11 Check out our AG3, featuring talks by e.g. @stefanhartmann.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @nordemuriel.bsky.social, as well as @leftyveggie.bsky.social & @alexwillich.bsky.social as co-covenors

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www.uni-trier.de/universitaet...

19.12.2025 08:23 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

Absolutely pathetic decision from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social - staff suffer, students suffer

06.11.2025 15:03 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Noch wichtiger als Demokratie - das Wörterbuch war der perfekte Fensterstopper, damit ich nicht in der Süddeutschen Hitze unnötig leide

22.10.2025 17:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Das crazy! Ich wurde für die SZ zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres interviewt - hier ohne Paywall (checke hätte gewonnen 🥀) archive.ph/202510171219...

18.10.2025 15:49 — 👍 16    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 1
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England 33-13 Canada LIVE: Watch Women's Rugby World Cup final 2025 result, latest score & updates as England win Watch live coverage with text and score updates as England face Canada in the final at Twickenham.

World Champions! 💪 🌹

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-...

27.09.2025 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The #IGDD comes to a close and we were able to check off a good few boxes. Thanks to all for playing (whether you were aware or not) #IGDD2025

20.09.2025 12:41 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Day 1 #IGDD - a solid start, will we get house tomorrow? #IGDD2025

18.09.2025 18:22 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Another conference, another speaker (man) who actively ignores the microphone 🥲

18.09.2025 11:00 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Das Thema der Konferenz ist Dialog aber bisher haben nur Monologe stattgefunden 🥁

14.09.2025 17:51 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ich habe 2 von 3 richtig hervorgesagt: das crazy und ich checke 💅 #jugendwortdesjahres

Das crazy sollte gewinnen, goonen wird gewinnen weil masturbieren lustig

14.09.2025 17:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wer ist auch auf der #DGT2025 in Braunschweig dabei?

14.09.2025 17:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Das volle Video zu den Top 10 Jugendwörter des Jahres. Ja, ich muss dringend zum Friseur 🖖
#jugendwort2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1T...

30.07.2025 07:37 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
RON TV - Livestream des RTL Regionalprogramms in der Metropolregion Sehen Sie hier täglich Montag bis Freitags 18:00 Uhr - 18:30 Uhr RON TV im Livestream. RON TV ist das Regionalprogramm von RTL in der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. Hier erfahren Sie immer was in der Me...

Heute Abend cringe unterwegs bei RTL RON (und später RTL) zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres. Das crazy...

Watch me live here um 18Uhr (danach in der Mediathek und auf YouTube verfügbar natürlich)

www.rontv.de/live/

29.07.2025 15:43 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Three Lions Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds · Football's Coming Home - Three Lions · Song · 1996

Coming home status: its

open.spotify.com/track/1b7kLk...

27.07.2025 18:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Digitale Revolution voller Missverständnisse - ORF Topos Emotionen werden seit Menschengedenken in Symbole übersetzt. Aber in kaum einer Epoche haben Bildschriftzeichen die weltweite Alltagskommunikation so verändert und geprägt wie heute Emojis. Obwohl sic...

✨Happy World Emoji Day✨

Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi...

Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...

17.07.2025 09:05 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Another suggestion for linguistics conference bingo: unnecessary AI-generated images in the slides

14.07.2025 12:26 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Ich spreche ohne Mikro, geht das?" Sollte niemals rhetorische Frage sein...

16.06.2025 14:33 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Aaaand at the very next conference: "you can probably understand me better without the microphone haha 🤡"

Microphone training for #mennersofacademia when?

16.06.2025 13:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Join me and the other @ags-gbi.bsky.social and @wigsblog.bsky.social PG/ECA reps online next Tues (17th June), 5-6pm to hear about the types of careers that recent German Studies PhD graduates are pursuing beyond academia.

Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7

12.06.2025 08:36 — 👍 14    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Come and discuss "s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of
iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" with @alexwillich.bsky.social @leftyveggie.bsky.social, Annelen Brunner, and me next year in Trier 👇

11.06.2025 08:23 — 👍 15    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

critics are already calling it "one of the books on DMC and corpus linguistics of all time"

12.06.2025 11:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora Specialized corpora of the language of Computer-mediated Communication and Social Media are increasingly vital for the analysis of the "unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in terms of speakers...

🚨 New book alert 🚨

I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out...

Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

12.06.2025 11:28 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026) (German version below) s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven (Workshop at DGfS Trier, 24.-27.02.2026) The workshop focuses on the formal and functional diversity of intensification, e.g. which strategies and constructions are used in linguistic expressions, in which contexts do they occur, as well as which semiotic elements can be intensified. Intensification is far more diverse than just lexicogrammatical phenomena, with phenomena occurring on on all communicative

Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)

10.06.2025 14:11 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Day 2 after the #IFGT2025 in Jyväskylä - it's House!

Now time for Karaoke with black metal and Finnish covers of Moskau by Dschjingis Khan

05.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Whaaaa...

05.06.2025 07:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

A possible extension for linguistics conference bingo: "I don't need the microphone, you can all hear me, right?"

🙄🙄🙄

05.06.2025 07:07 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1
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Namibia begeht erstmals nationalen Gedenktag für Opfer deutscher Verbrechen Namibia begeht heute erstmals einen Gedenktag, um an die von Deutschen ermordeten Herero und Nama zu erinnern. Doch die Zeremonie wird überlagert von einem Streit zwischen den beiden Volksgruppen und ...

Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia ✊

The German government still doesn't want to pay reparations (instead offering increased "development aid" - a neocolonial term), despite extracting reparations from the Ovaherero and Nama communities

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...

28.05.2025 11:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Sascha Stollhans Inaugural Lecture: Watch your language!
YouTube video by Leeds AHRI Sascha Stollhans Inaugural Lecture: Watch your language!

For anyone who would like to hear me muse about #languages, #education, #linguistics and #penguins, a recording of my inaugural lecture is now available: youtu.be/VACFboUKp_U
Thank you very much to @grabill.bsky.social and @emmacayley.bsky.social for their wonderful introduction and response!

27.05.2025 11:33 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Deutschland ist das neue Belgien 😶‍🌫️ #merz

06.05.2025 09:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren’t Women under the Equality Act 2010 The legal definition of a woman in the UK now excludes trans people: This is what it means for Trans+ rights in the country

My analysis of today's UK Supreme Court judgment.

The UK Supreme Court Rules That Trans Women Aren't Women Under the Equality Act 2010

www.wearequeeraf.com/uk-supreme-c...

16.04.2025 15:23 — 👍 1744    🔁 881    💬 45    📌 231

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