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A call for papers for an edited volume on the language and linguistics of monsters/the monstrous.

Call for papers! I'm putting together an edited collection with @hedahlbergdodd.bsky.social on "Monstrous Language": studies of the language of monsters, "others", and the in/unhuman.

Please share with any interested scholars! Abstracts are due end of May, with the goal of a complete draft in Dec.

AI bros have a universally problematic understanding of consent, sex, sexuality and gender, and its honestly terrifying how little they care

This is a thing that fascist regimes always do, and it’s specially designed to terrorize brown people here. I spoke about it on TikTok www.tiktok.com/t/ZP821vydf/

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500 Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

In case you havenʼt seen it yet, this website is such a great resource for all of us researchers and teachers working on and discussing technology and society:

Calculating Empires – A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500
calculatingempires.net

The man trying to capture the internet before it disappears The Trump administration is purging some government websites. The director of the Wayback Machine explains what we can do about it.

"Last year, there was a big news story that MTV News was shut down.... And I [said], 'Hi, um … check the Wayback Machine.' They were like, ‘Oh my God, you guys got it all. What did you do?’ We didn’t do anything when the site went down because we’ve been doing our job all along."

Opinion | America Has No Official Language. Instead It Has Hundreds. These languages and their speakers revitalize the profound social experiment that is America.

Ayer Trump firmó una orden que hace del inglés el único idioma oficial de EE. UU., revocando el acceso a servicios para quienes no lo dominan. Esto perpetúa la exclusión de 197 lenguas indígenas y refuerza la supremacía anglosajona.
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Not sure if anyone from the linguisticsy side of tiktok is trying out bluesky today, but in case there's anyone who could use it, here's one linguistics starter pack and feel free to add more in the comments!

Dictionary.com's 2024 Word of the Year is... Each year, Dictionary.com’s Word of the Year and short-listed nominees capture pivotal moments in language and culture. Find out which word had people searching for it 200 times more than normal on ou...

Now Dictionary.com's WotY: demure.

We've got a theme going...
In a year of big elections, dictionaries are sticking with pop culture.

Not to mention a big year of dictionary.com laying off all its lexicographers.

www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-th...

The hero we need

Advanced Lingít This page is designed to help students and followers of the class, Advanced Lingít at the University of Alaska Southeast. Classes can be viewed here on YouTube and the handouts for t…

Did you know that fewer than 20 people could hold conversations about daily topics in the Lingít language? That there are six remaining master-level birth speakers?

That you can take Lingít classes for free at UAS and through Haa Tóoch Lichéesh and Tlingit & Haida?

You can watch online, too.

La France aime la diversité linguistique… chez les autres.

Today in "linguists are NOT KIDDING when we say that your language ability enables you to understand sentences that have never before been said" (even if it was over a hundred years ago)

Emoticons have been around for longer than you may think ~ here’s some prototypes from the US satirical magazine Puck in 1881, and from a Polish publication just two weeks earlier, covering happy, bored, indifferent, surprised, happy, dismal, indifferent and surprised

I've updated and considerably expanded my Linguistics Starter Pack for anyone new to bluesky or if you just want more linguistics in your feed!

Still likely missing some people so let me know about other linguistics-related starter packs or accounts!
go.bsky.app/UUM7Gcx

Dé-vendeur, dé-civilisation, dé-commémoration : mais pourquoi tant de « dé » ? Dans la presse, les sciences, chez les militants, le préfixe connaît un succès grandissant, pour exprimer la nécessité qu’il y aurait de modifier nos comportements. Deux lettres pour inverser l...

Loin d’appauvrir la langue française, la multiplication des mots en « dé- » est un signe de sa vitalité : avec la contribution du linguiste atterré Gilles Siouffi

www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/arti...