Lauren Gawne

People are being significantly more excited about this Voynich manuscript episode than a typical bonus episode and it's just really fun to see!

If you've been on the fence about subscribing to the Lingthusiasm Patreon maybe this is your sign to go for it 👀

Prosody in spoken language is a more technical linguistics term for intonation, the way the voice moves up and down across extended bits of speech.

Marianne Mithun in a lecture theatre with the slide saying: The place of prosody in the greater scheme of things

Marianne Mithun: The place of prosody in the greater scheme of things

"No excuse" to ignore prosody in documentation, revitalisation, theories

Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam!

Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy.

A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @juliesedivy.bsky.social's relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more

The experimental perception task used to understand social salience is sali-CAT, in honour of Felicity's (recently passed) cat of 17 years. We got to see some very cute photos, sorry I missed the chance to snap.

Felicity Meakins speaking in a large lecture theatre. Slide says Social salience as a driver of language change

Opening plenary of #als2025

Felicity Meakins: Social salience as a driver of language change

I also, unsurprisingly, have a lot of opinions about making public engagement visible in academia.

My collection of Academic Research/Admin tools Over the years I’ve build myself a little collection of tools and resources to manage the weird and messy work of being an academic. I thought I’d compile them all here in case any of them are useful ...

Conveniently, I just blogged about the tools I use: www.superlinguo.com/post/7997721...

And in the last year I've used them as the basis to successfully apply for Higher Ed Academy Senior Fellow, academic promotion, uni research impact award, and national grant (this one pending)

Happy World Linguistics Day! ⭐🎉🎊

Happy World #Linguistics Day! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/ho...

Happy World Linguistics Day 🎉

Not Saussure how to celebrate? Episodes 12 and 13 of our podcast will give your plans some structure...

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🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2021/03/01/p...

#LinguisticBirthdays #LinguisticQuotes #Histlx #WorldLinguisticsDay

World Linguistics Day is on the 26th of November because that's de Saussure's birthday. It's a great opportunity to celebrate linguistics.

If you want more linguistics in your feed, here's a linguistics starter pack from @gretchenmcc.bsky.social

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#WorldLinguisticsDay

Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!

Green background with three white globes showing different aspects of earth (top to bottom Asia/Oceania, North and South America, and Africa and Europe). Around each globe are the words 'Happy World Linguistics Day! November 26th'.

Happy World Linguistics Day! Celebratory days take off when groups of people decide to make them happen so... let's see how many different locations we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!

Happy World Linguistics Day from Montreal, Canada!

(I wonder how many different places we can get world linguistics day wishes from this year!)

depending on phase and type of analysis
1) if the analysis is enriching the transcription of gesture features
1) if there are few enough tokens that I am doing something more qualitative
1 & 2) if there's something more quant I'm doing with the finalised scripts

We strongly encourage you to borrow any anecdotes from the show for conversational small talk!

(we also love it when educators tell us that they take inspiration from the show!)

World Linguistics Day is on the 26th of November because that's de Saussure's birthday. It's a great opportunity to celebrate linguistics.

If you want more linguistics in your feed, here's a linguistics starter pack from @gretchenmcc.bsky.social

bsky.app/starter-pack...

#WorldLinguisticsDay

Happy World Linguistics Day from Melbourne, Australia!

Innovations in Linguistics Education is a new Diamond Open Access journal, is dedicated to the teaching of linguistics.

journals.ed.ac.uk/innovations

I'm really excited to see a new journal in this space!

110: The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate Before there was English, or Latin, or Czech, or Hindi, there was a language that they all have in common, which we call Proto-Indo-European. Linguists have long been fascinated by the quest to get a

How are we still making discoveries about the 5000-year-old ancestor to English, Latin, Czech, Hindi and many other languages?

In our latest episode we get enthusiastic about figuring out Proto-Indo-European with @dannybate.bsky.social!

I'm sorry, I knew that and yet can never help just pointing out how the process works 😅🫣

There was a declined proposal in 2018: unicode.org/emoji/emoji-...

Hard to see how it would meet multiple concepts/use in combination critera

None! From Unicode's perspective anyway. Once something is in Unicode, it's there forever, which is why the process is so slow.

Going to be so useful!

How's the snow going this week?

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So excited that @amythunig.bsky.social is launching season two of Blacademia on December 7th. If you haven't caught up on the original season, now's a great time to start!

www.instagram.com/blacademia/

Yeah, this is why the documents being searchable is so useful, because Chomsky replies to everyone but he doesn't hang out with them

You would have thought that the 2008 conviction might have put an end to it, but apparently not.

fwiw it's an open joke amongst linguists that Chomsky will reply to every email he gets, so this isn't immediately surprising news