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TechCat How technology shapes our communication

With our mobile phones, PCs, tablets, laptops, and whatnots, we all use technology to talk about our cats and to share cat images with people from around the world. Our gadgets together with the platforms we are on shape the way we communicate
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A neologist is a lexicographer of new words and expressions.

I am a meowlogist: a lexicographer of new cat-inspired words and expurressions.

"Very entertaining and informative book that covers everything you'd want to know about cats online! I especially liked the sections on the jargon used in cat communities. Must read for any cat lover!" (Review on Amazon)
🧪 #cats #caturday
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Judgement Day Why we know you’re a cat person the moment you say ‘hooman’ or ‘cattitude.’ We cat owners know that cats are judgmental. Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us, and I don’t think that th...

Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us. Just like the cats, we, too, judge other people because we want to know who they are in relation to us. That’s psychology. When we form our judgements on the basis of language, that’s sociolinguistics. meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7095 🧪

Purrieties of Language It’s all about cat-inspired language varieties Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community they are in and on the social media platform they are on. W...

Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community and on the social media platform. Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, differences are out there waiting to be discovered and described.
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#linguistics 🧪

Thank mew 😸

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I’m a Dialectologist. Get Meowt There! A dialectological look at how we talk about cats online Get meowt there! Out there is the digital realm of cat-related spaces where I am following cats and their humans, where I see lots of cat photos...

I’m a Dialectologist. Get Meowt There! meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7032

#cats #linguistics

Cats in the News – Cat Mews An old newspaper adage says “If it bleeds, it leads”. While that may be true for many news stories out there, it does not apply to cats in the news. Mostly cat news are feel-good stories making you ha...

An old newspaper adage says “If it bleeds, it leads”. While that may be true for many news stories out there, it does not apply to cats in the news. Mostly cat news are feel-good stories making you happy.

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#cats #news

International Cat Day For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it? There are various dates for world cat day, for international cat day, for national cat...

#InternationalCatDay #Weltkatzentag
For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it?

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Time to prepare for 08 August - International Cat Day. Be in the know and read my book ➡️ www.cambridge.org/at/universit...

cool research 😻

That's interesting. Perhaps it's therefore in their memory/DNA to look for shapes and boxes.

Do you remember the channel the show was on?

If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus) A well-known phenomenon to cat owners is the tendency of their cats to sit in enclosed spaces such as boxes, laundry baskets, and even shape outlines …

On my quest to discover research on why cats love cardboard boxes so much, I have come across a research article that looks at how visual illusions affect cats. Cats can perceive shapes even if they are just illusions. 🧪

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

That is pawsome 😻

The Meow Factor in One Line Let’s apply some PR (purring relations) to the Meow Factor and come up with catchy slogans to bring the essence of the blog to you, its readers, and to attract new people to linguistics with cats. The...

Let’s apply some PR (purring relations) to the Meow Factor and come up with catchy slogans to bring the essence of the blog to you, its readers, and to attract new people to linguistics with cats

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Weekly newsletter - The magic of words: Special Guest The Meow-ning of Words: When Linguistics Gets Fur-Midable!

Many people have an online account for their cats. I noticed that people pretended to be their cats. As cats, they used their own kind of language with their own words and spellings. As a dialectologist, I went “yes!” straight away.
#GuestNewsletter 🐦🐦 🧪
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I could not have said it better 😻

That could be my new slogan 😻

Linguistics about and for cats 🐦🐦

Aaaw ❤️ That is exactly why I wrote the book. I am glad that she finds it comfortable

Linguistics with Cats Study language with the help of cats 🐈‍⬛

Linguistics with Cats: focusing the cat lense on language 🧪
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There are cats in LOTR 🐈‍⬛😸😻: the fiddling cat in a song, a cat in Bree, cats jumping on poor mice (Sam pouncing on Gollum), cats of Queen Beruthiel (I still need to check out Queen Beruthiel’s cats). So we have cats in their roles as entertainers and hunters.

am reading LOTR now

aaaaaaaw

Purrspectives in Language | Meow Factor | Substack Purrspectives in Language brings you linguistics with cats — 😻 purrfect for you if you love language and cats and want to discover linguistics with a pawsome feline flair 🐈‍⬛. Click to read Purrspect...

next issue coming on Wednesday. Sign up for linguistics with cats open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...

That as well 😸

Ameowdala

This is why I love my research on cat-inspired language: Luke Skywhiskers, Purrincess Leia, Han Meowlo, Purr2D2, C3Purro, Meowda, Jabba the Cat, Darth Meowder, Empurror PawPawtine on "May the fourth".

This is cats meeting Star Wars meeting cultural meaningfulness

#Caturday 🐦🐦 🧪

Catspeak Selection: April 2025 Just a few cat-inspired words found in April 2025. They are good examples for word formation. The meowpheme (morpheme) is given in <> as is usually done in linguistics. And some days you can use for y...

in time for Meowther's Day on Sunday, here are some #catspeak words for my cat friends to use for their hoomans

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Das ist der Anfang von Klarheit. Webinar für alle, die aus der Wissenschaft raus wollen, aber (noch) nicht wissen, wie.
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#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia