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all things linguistic all things linguistic a blog about all things linguistic by gretchen mcculloch i cohost lingthusiasm a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics i m the author of because internet a book about internet language about favourite posts faq book on internet language lingthusiasm podcast linguistics jobs internet language linguist humour protolinguist language learning intro linguistics wikipedia editathons top posts monthly email updates rss feed follow t f y i s search 1 lordsausage shoutout to the words overmorrow and ereyesterday english losing these words was stupid the day after tomorrow the day before yesterday clunky ass constructions revolting i m bringing overmorrow and ereyesterday back in my idiolect and there is nothing you can do about it 3 sausage 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 14 hours ago 39 104 notes lingthusiasm bonus 115 behind the zines interview with leah velleman lingthusiasm we ve been hearing from people that you re trying to get others to be as enthusiastic about linguistics as you are but it can be sort of ha patreon bonus 115 behind the zines interview with leah velleman we ve been hearing from people that you re trying to get others to be as enthusiastic about linguistics as you are but it can be sort of hard to make the podcasts you re into leap off your phone and into people s hands zines small diy magazines are a cute tactile format currently undergoing a renaissance shoutout to anyone who was around for the nineties zine wave or an even earlier one so we ve made some lingthusiasm zines that you can print off and share with people in your life or scatter around and hope people might pick up links to all the zines so far are below if you want to see them right now but in this bonus episode gretchen and lauren go behind the zines with our technical editor leah velleman you might recognize her name from the end credits about the process behind making the first four lingthusiasm zines we talk about how leah got into linguistics through lord of the rings and conlanging her pivot from phd fieldwork to technical editing and a very brief history of zines we also talk about why leah decided to go rogue with the formatting for her diminuitive zine about diminuitives where the meat clarinet comes from and comedic timing for most effectively offering people zines finally a sneak peek at some future zine topics we re working on and at our upcoming anniversary plans so you can start scheming with us listen to this behind the zines episode with our technical editor leah velleman about the process behind making the first four lingthusiasm zines and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting lingthusiasm on patreon 3 lingthusiasm 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 1 day ago 12 notes goatsandgangsters an interesting linguistics find so i m reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing hp in the context of not being at full hp applying your full hp to a task etc and i m like okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me but i know you don t mean hit points health points which is the first place my brain goes so what are you using hp to mean and it s not explained in text which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience so gotta look elsewhere horsepower turns out it s horsepower and i m absolutely fascinated that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different and yet the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st century reader i could hand this guy my nintendo switch and he d be like ah yes i understand this pokemon loses horsepower throughout the fight language is amazing 3 in silence and at an angle 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 2 days ago 102 547 notes lingthusiasm announcing the linguistics zine challenge alt in honour of the 10th anniversary of lingthusiasm we re launching the linguistics zine challenge make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end of november and you could win prizes there are two ways to enter 1 share an existing linguistics y zine share one or more existing linguistics zines we have several printable pdfs here by both us and other people and share it however you want a few ideas that people have told us about so far giving out zines at picnics making a take a zine folder in a busy corridor at school or work handing out zines at conferences pop a zine in the mail to an old friend using zines as a colouring and folding activity with a linguistics club leaving zines at a local zine store s free shelf stashing some zines in a local little free library you can borrow one of these ideas or come up with your own just share a zine with at least one person 2 make your own linguistics y zine make your own zine about something you love about linguistics and show it to people maybe it s something you learned from a lingthusiasm episode another lingcomm creator a linguistics class a pop linguistics book a wikipedia rabbit hole a research paper your own linguistic research or some aspect of your own linguistic experience you want to tell people about we recommend this minizine style to start out with if you ve never made a zine before but all zine formats are welcome then tell us about it whichever kind of zine you choose to share we want to know how it went tell us your linguistics zine stories through this little webform and you can win prizes we re planning a special bonus episode of lingthusiasm sharing some of your linguistics zine stories and we re also hoping to add some of the new zines to the lingthusiasm zines page so there are options in the form to give us permission for that you can still win prizes either way we also love to see your zine posts on social media just tag lingthusiasm during or after the challenge but prizes are all happening via the form so we don t miss anyone prizes once all the entries are in we ll read them all and award prizes the prize list so far includes keep reading i m really excited to be doing something tactile that people can participate in from wherever you are it feels good in the era of endless scrolling to be like here are real physical prizes for talking with real physical people 3 lingthusiasm 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 3 days ago 101 notes romanceyourdemons love when a rapper ends a line with kind of a weird phrase and i m like okay what s the plan here and then they reveal that they were playing 6d linguistics chess to set up the perfect rhyme for rodya raskolnikov or the treaty of nanking or something like that and i lose my entire mind 3 linguistics reblogs and such 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 4 days ago 10 605 notes lingthusiasm how to fold your mini zine a lingthusiasm zine this month s zine is for everyone not just the linguistics enthusiasts with our editor leah velleman and artist lucy maddox we ve put together a mini zine about how to fold mini zines we always say feel free to share but we extra super mean it this time this is for anyone anywhere who wants to share this cool little art form with any community at all please scan it copy it print it fold it share it rearrange it bundle it with your own zines borrow your favorite bits of it with credit please and give it to anyone you think might find it useful for any reason print cut and fold your own letter paper a4 paper more from lingthusiasm read our zines about linguistics we also make a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics support these zines and more linguistics enthusiasm on patreon i really wanted a zine like this when i started doing zine workshops but i couldn t find one so we ve made this creative commons zine in the hopes that other people will also find it useful 3 lingthusiasm 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 5 days ago 407 notes o craven canto alternate timeline in which all greek and latin roots are swapped catastrophe contraverse cephalopod capitoped chlorophyll viridofolia democracy populimpery homicide anthropoctony homo sexual equi gamic kilometer millimensure interregnum mesarchy magnanimous megapsychic manuscript chirography motor cycle ergato rote microscope parvovisor oxygen acidofex poly amory multi erasty tele vision remoto scope universe monostrophe 3 dr linguo 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 6 days ago 56 733 notes krakenartificer higgledy piggledy olden french bakery storing its loaves in a double doored shed inspector approaching the inner door op ning to find a cow casu lly licking the bread okay i love this poem so much but i need to point out that a double dactyl has quite a complicated fixed structure and this poem doesn t quite meet it in particular one line preferably the second line of the second stanza must be a single double dactyl word also while rhyming extra lines isn t exactly forbidden classically only the final lines of each stanza rhyme with each other fortunately this means that a single tweak can fix both issues thus i present higgledy piggledy olden french bakery storing its loaves in a double doored shed inspector approaching anachronistically to find a cow casu lly li king the bred 3 incorrigible nerd 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 1 week ago 6 920 notes lingthusiasm bonus 116 everything is linguistics the randomest pitches from our inbox lingthusiasm we know you re here for a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics but perhaps you d also be interested in some tax advice or some br patreon bonus 116 everything is linguistics the randomest pitches from our inbox we know you re here for a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics but perhaps you d also be interested in some tax advice or some bridal lingerie or some lithium mining technology okay probably not but that hasn t stopped the lovely folks whose job it is to pitch things from sending us hopeful emails trying to convince us to tell you about these and many more curious topics in possibly the silliest bonus episode we ve ever done gretchen and lauren get enthusiastic about the most deeply irrelevant pitch emails we have somehow ended receiving after almost 10 years of podcasting and find creative ways to make them all somehow about linguistics anyway don t worry we ve redacted all the names of the actual brands so we can poke fun without feeling like we re actually getting salesy on you and so no one sues us listen to this episode about the most deeply irrelevant pitch emails in our inbox and how we make them about linguistics anyway and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting lingthusiasm on patreon i have been waiting to make this episode for years quietly filing away the most wtf emails in our inbox into a worst pitches folder and today is finally the day that i get to share them with you 3 lingthusiasm 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 1 week ago 55 notes alt alt i love this kiki bouba t shirt art 2 twitter t facebook f pinterest p google g 5 copy short url 1 week ago 584 notes newer posts 1 of 368 older posts all things linguistic a blog about all things linguistic by gretchen mcculloch i cohost lingthusiasm a podcast that s enthusiastic about linguistics i m the author of because internet a book about internet language elsewhere t f y i s longform theme by pixel union powered by tumblr