@thinklinguistic.bsky.social
Thinking Linguistically is a YouTube channel about linguistics, science, nature, language, and the world. Suggestions for videos very much welcome.
Label says lition instead of lotion
Vowel harmony encounter in the wild
20.09.2025 17:53 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0This is what weโve been busy doing instead of YouTube editing
20.09.2025 17:49 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Long time no videos. Theyโre still coming, donโt worry.
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Is uncompletedly a word?
Is uncompletedly a word?
22.04.2025 22:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
New video on dog butts and timeslip in communicative systems. Find it here: youtu.be/9Z09SO-hThI
#prattle ๐ฌ #๐ฃ๏ธ๐ฌ #dogs #butts
Abkhaz looking at Central Chadic
10.04.2025 01:23 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
New video up today, featuring some amusing language names and some thoughts on the problem of naming languages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQR...
#linguistics #linguisticshumor #langsky #africansolutions
Slow ๐ clap ๐
05.04.2025 19:59 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
{rmb}{tph}{ayd}{sco}: a word game where the goal is to use all the letters without ever having two adjacent ones from the same subset. The solution shown here is Champs -> storyboard
I think I donโt have the working memory to solve @nytgames.bsky.social #Letterboxed in one word, if thatโs ever possible. But two is a fun challenge.
05.04.2025 19:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Is McWhorter the Joe Rogan of contemporary linguistics?
05.04.2025 19:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Gee English has a lot of negation prefixes. Why so many?
un-
non-
ill-/irr-/in-
anti-
a-/an-
Non negating:
re-
locational Latinate ones (circum-, ex-, trans-, etc)
I would also accept studying how humans react to hype
03.04.2025 11:51 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Chat gpt is asked for all states with the letter r. It responds with a list of 29 states, including Connecticut, Iowa, Hawaii, Kansas
03.04.2025 11:49 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Reflecting on Sharpeville for Human Rights Day
youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ
Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service
#youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid
Does anyone else ever randomly match up the meter in a song with an arbitrary phrase from another context? Is it just me?
youtube.com/shorts/2C4o4...
#silly #linguistics #jokes #prosody #syntaxjoke #gender #agreement
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm ๐งช projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
Just posted a new short: youtube.com/shorts/jOcW1...
30.03.2025 11:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 21000 and 1, this was fun
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Pope Francis Flips Off Crowd From Balcony
Pope Francis Flips Off Crowd From Balcony
24.03.2025 20:00 โ ๐ 5131 ๐ 320 ๐ฌ 80 ๐ 27Somehow this has passed 1000 views!๐ฎ
24.03.2025 04:18 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Georgian words look so much like pretend African language words that I had to make a video about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7E-...
#georgian #chishona #lingcomm #scicomm #langsky #๐ฃ๏ธ๐ฌ
Senses are complicated and I made a video to prove it.
youtu.be/Eotlqi4cYw8
Iโm experimenting with different filming options. Expect the next video to be better and/or worse quality. There will probably be awkward jump cuts based on inter-device latency.
08.03.2025 11:15 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Might want to double check this one
08.03.2025 10:50 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0New video coming about senses, modalities, and which ones are amenable to Language
08.03.2025 10:47 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0600 people have watched this. ๐ฎ
06.03.2025 18:43 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Iโm making a series of short videos about some of my favorite example words. I just finished the first one!
๐ฃ๏ธ๐ฌ
youtu.be/aSvl3qTrIjs?...
New video is up!
youtu.be/SGj8DP33Mxs
Do not put in โfat roll tan lineโ though
23.02.2025 21:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0New video almost done! It will go up tomorrow I think
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