Lauren Gawne

a man with a mustache wearing a hat and a suit Alt: Paul Newman's character from The Sting sliding a finger along the side of his nose (which is a secret way for con men to recognise each other in the movie).

When somebody says they're listening to the most recent episode of @lingthusiasm.bsky.social.

Merry/marry/Mary Holidays! by Lingthusiasm | Redbubble Want to congratulate a linguist? This card is here to help! With the word "congrats" transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet surrounded by a cheerful, confetti-like design of reds and yel...

We've also made a new greeting card design that says {Merry/marry/Mary} Holidays!

Whether you say these words the same or differently, we hope this card leads to joyful discussions of linguistic variation

www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/1728...

New Logo - White by Lingthusiasm | Redbubble We’ve made a special jazzed-up version of the Lingthusiasm logo featuring fun little drawings from the first 100 episodes of enthusiasm about linguistics! There’s a leaping Gavagai rabbit, bouba and k...

People have responded super enthusiastically to the jazzed up version of our logo! So we’ve now made this design available on some very cute merch:

This is one of my favourite Lingthusiasm episode genres: Find one topic that lets us traipse through a whole heap of different subfields of linguistics.

The nose takes us through etymology, phonetics, sign phonology, idioms and gesture. It's a very fun episode.

The linguistics of hyperlinks Hyperlinks are a ubiquitous feature of the internet, but unlike other elements of internet language use, there hasn’t been a lot of published work that considers the linguistics of hyperlinks. Or real...

My priors on thinking too much about hyperlinks: www.superlinguo.com/post/6431298...

The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

Link to the post: www.wheresyoured.at/the-ai-bubbl...

First four paragraphs of an ed zitron post, at least 25% of text is hyperlink

Excited for the approaching future where @edzitron.com's blog posts are 100% hyperlinked.

If you're looking for people who love language and linguistics, @superlingo has a starter pack for that!

You just missed proposal season! unicode.org/emoji/propos...

Not sure you'd have luck with demonstrating Multiple Uses, but that might be my lack of imagination

always touched when a shitposter from another domain makes jokes about my own special interest, but extra delighted that Foone knows how to linguistics shitpost

Linguistics and Language Podcasts Looking for podcasts about language and linguistics? Here’s a comprehensive list with descriptions! I’ve also mentioned if shows have transcripts. If there are any I missed, let me know! If you woul...

Wow, the latest edition of @superlinguo.bsky.social's Linguistics and Language Podcast list has over 100 different shows! I've been watching this list grow since it was just a dozen or so podcasts, so great to see! www.superlinguo.com/post/1584480...

Aww yeah, love the running dolls. I've seen talks from this team where they show the stimulus being made and there's just this suitcase full of dolls 😂

Happiest of book birthdays!

Where does the alphabet come from? And why does English use it so strangely? A new book takes us on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet

Where did we get the letters of the alphabet from?

And why does English use them so strangely?

Here’s an excerpt from the new book, “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, which takes you on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet:

All I can think of with that packaging is margarine🌻

Expression of Interest: Community of Practice to Prevent Bullying of Autistic Students Please use this form to express your interest in joining a community of practice to help end the bullying of Autistic students in Australia. There are 11 questions on this form. 10 are compulsory a...

I'm helping to set up a community of practice to end the bullying of autistic students in Australian schools. If you'd like to participate, please get in touch using the form below. Further details in the thread following.
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A small piece of good news in the world: the Australian National Dictionary Centre has secured a source of funding, and forced redundancies are not being pursued.

Absolutely everyone on that panel works have 100% agreed with you

Happy to announce that the La Trobe Working Papers in Linguistics are now hosted on the @latrobeuni.bsky.social library repository, which means there's now a DOI for every article in the collection:

doi.org/10.26181/c.8...

LTU WPL was published between 1989 and 2001, there's 90 articles available.

I endorse this nefarious scheme for my own self-interested reasons.

Politely request you update your bsky profile to: "on the tasteful end of the Baroque scale"

Congratulations! What a beautiful space!

It was fun having someone turn the tables on you!

I mean, this type of detective work is why you're the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Routledge Handbooks.

The good news is a fresh batch of emoji (fingerprint, harp, barren tree, root veggie, tired face, shovel, splatter) just landed on your device earlier this year!! They’re still new! Go play with them!! 🫩🫆🪾🫜🪉🪏🫟

And before you know it, hairy creature will be entering the group chat. 🫈

I'm really excited for trombone too!

THIS is a wasted loot crate opportunity

treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, bigfoot, bulging face, bust up cloud, orca

Happy Unicode 17.0 Day!

Includes seven new emoji that are rolling out on your phones and computers in the coming year:

treasure chest, trombone, avalanche, big foot, bulging face, fight cloud, orca

@jenniferdaniel.bsky.social has the lowdown:
jenniferdaniel.substack.com/p/tomorrows-...

A pack of Assorted Cream biscuits with 4 of the 5 orange creams left

I appreciate life's certainties.