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official linguistics posts of tumblr official linguistics posts of tumblr 1 5m ratings 277k ratings see that s what the app is perfect for sounds perfect wahhhh i don t wanna official linguistics posts of tumblr i have a broad definition of what constitutes linguistics don t send me asks about the praat logo posts faq archive frequently asked questions please check these items before you send an ask icon it s the old logo for the speech analysis software praat pronouns they them why can t i find your ask box it s probably temporarily closed so i can pretend i didn t accidentally start a semi popular blog where can i start learning about linguistics i recommend crash course linguistics as a good entry point for more thorough coverage essentials of linguistics is an open access textbook how do i major in linguistics how do i get a graduate degree in linguistics go to a school that has a major or graduate program in linguistics then do well in classes sorry y all i m not an admissions consultant how many languages do you know english arguably possibly more no i will not specify further thoughts on chat bro being pronouns they re not fourth person pronouns don t exist in english conlangs not my area can you answer my really specific question i try not to act authoritative about topics i m not actually an authority on which is most of linguistics i can offer my educated thoughts but please don t use me as a formal source unless you ve magically hit on the single minuscule topic i know like the back of my hand in which case i ll swear you to secrecy and then send you my citations what s your subfield i generally cite it as being historical linguistics but that s kind of just my umbrella under that my primary research has touched on morphology sociolinguistics and epigraphy are you insert real person statistically no are you really a linguist i have a ba ma and phd in linguistics linguistic anthropology you re a loser you don t know the half of it pinned post will be updated as necessary 1 509 notes may 9th 2024 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink official linguistics post official linguistics post uh oh etymologynerd is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact but there s also a serious problem with the linguistics in a video shared on may 16 adam aleksic begins by saying i think we have to accept the fact that the r word retard retarded is permanently coming back and it s functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points this word never went away what we re seeing now is an attempt at re normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term we actually don t have to accept its return to mainstream use for decades disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term the harm has not disappeared and neither will this advocacy and its impacts now i m just mad how tf does it not refer to disabled people the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person group etc the assertion that the r word has changed meanings is categorically false at most its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference he goes on to refer to the euphemism treadmill another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative to quote once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead which what what the fuck is he talking about the words he uses as examples idiot imbecile and moron are definitely still offensive if perhaps less impactful just becomes colloquial instead is a nonsense phrase are offensive words not colloquial the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is nice which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term he ends by saying it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r word right now are going to get old and die out while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from again fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time it rests on the assumption that we re all going to start or re start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words you think i m just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long term semantic change tl dr etymologynerd is wrong we do not have to accept that the r word is coming back and we all need to read more crip linguistics official linguistics post after continuing to stew about this during my lunch break i d also like to point out that framing this sort of thing as inevitable is some fascist bullshit don t fall for it this goddamn video is ruining my whole day 2 911 notes may 18th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink uh oh etymologynerd is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact but there s also a serious problem with the linguistics in a video shared on may 16 adam aleksic begins by saying i think we have to accept the fact that the r word retard retarded is permanently coming back and it s functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points this word never went away what we re seeing now is an attempt at re normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term we actually don t have to accept its return to mainstream use for decades disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term the harm has not disappeared and neither will this advocacy and its impacts now i m just mad how tf does it not refer to disabled people the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person group etc the assertion that the r word has changed meanings is categorically false at most its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference he goes on to refer to the euphemism treadmill another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative to quote once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead which what what the fuck is he talking about the words he uses as examples idiot imbecile and moron are definitely still offensive if perhaps less impactful just becomes colloquial instead is a nonsense phrase are offensive words not colloquial the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is nice which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term he ends by saying it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r word right now are going to get old and die out while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from again fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time it rests on the assumption that we re all going to start or re start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words you think i m just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long term semantic change tl dr etymologynerd is wrong we do not have to accept that the r word is coming back and we all need to read more crip linguistics pissed me off so much i opened tumblr for the first time this month and wasted an hour of my workday linguistics language etymologynerd 2 911 notes may 18th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink datasoong47 datasoong47 sweat hole body pipe official linguistics post official linguistics post sometimes historical linguistics is cursed but not the way people expect 1 791 notes apr 14th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink pinyatapix furryprovocateur boobs is better than titties as a word because boobs is bouba while titties is kiki pinyatapix read this post and this is all i can ever imagine from it official linguistics post official linguistics post 42 423 notes mar 31st 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink emglots real language facts i shot and killed a wug and cooked and ate it and it tasted like bad emglots now there are one of them official linguistics post official linguistics post 1 615 notes mar 13th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink peregrineggsandham anonymous asked a verb just jumped out of my trash and bit me im really scared do i need to get tested for conjugation real language facts answered verbs don t carry a lot of diseases actually if it was a noun then you d have to get a vaccine or risk getting a bad case of the cases official linguistics post while nouns do carry a risk of cases please do not dismiss a verb bite depending on species they can carry inflection such as conjugation as anon mentioned or worse derivation peregrineggsandham 100 agree remember you may not see symptoms of inflection right away but the early stages aren t usually physical there are a lot of aspects to watch out for if you experience mood swings or start feeling tense those can be early signs 10 781 notes mar 10th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink real language facts anonymous asked a verb just jumped out of my trash and bit me im really scared do i need to get tested for conjugation real language facts answered verbs don t carry a lot of diseases actually if it was a noun then you d have to get a vaccine or risk getting a bad case of the cases official linguistics post while nouns do carry a risk of cases please do not dismiss a verb bite depending on species they can carry inflection such as conjugation as anon mentioned or worse derivation 10 781 notes mar 9th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink catilinas catilinas sending him on an etymological journey official linguistics post official linguistics post 2 313 notes feb 17th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink official linguistics post official linguistics post i hope everyone is enjoying themselves here on official linguistics post official linguistics post i have also been enjoying myself albeit not often on official linguistics post this is what fulfilling full time work does to a person i m afraid 882 notes feb 12th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink i hope everyone is enjoying themselves here on official linguistics post this gotdamn url i keep mistyping both official and linguistics 882 notes feb 12th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink sandersstudies sandersstudies i think a fun way to have he she pronouns would be by helping other avoid the ambiguous antecedent problem and taking on the pronouns that are less represented in the current group sandersstudies neopronouns more like nemopronouns am i right official linguistics post official linguistics post 13 613 notes feb 5th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink synticity luggifer4 asked are there any modalities of natural language other than speech and signing synticity answered in intro to ling classes we sometimes talk about whistled languages as another modality or drummed languages ¹ but i think in actuality most linguists you ask would say that those modalities are a language technology just as writing is writing is a technology that enables us to language through an alternative modality but it s vanishingly rare or maybe nonexistant for anyone to acquire writing as their first language modality signed and spoken and tactile signed languages however are acquired by babies as their first languages 1 this wiki article is not very well cited and could be improved official linguistics post official linguistics post 717 notes jan 31st 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink distinguishedbaloney distinguishedbaloney official linguistics post official linguistics post i know i ve reblogged this before and i ll do it again 75 518 notes jan 28th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink synticity bisexualcreature deactivated202 lvl 1 the plural of octopus is octopuses because the plural version of a word is the word with an s at the end lvl 2 the plural version of octopus is octopi because if a word ends with us the plural version replaces the us with i e g cactus cacti and fungus fungi lvl 3 actually that rule is only for latin words octopus is a greek word and the correct plural is octopuses or octopodes lvl 4 actually language is descriptive not prescriptive since enough people over time have used octopi as the plural for octopus it s a valid plural lvl 5 the plural of octopus is octopeese like geese official linguistics post official linguistics post and the singular of sheep is shoop big fan of goose geese sound change over here at olp 64 318 notes jan 27th 2026 open in app facebook tweet reddit mail embed permalink ricekrispyjoints ricekrispyjoints oh yes of course my mistake official linguistics post official linguistics post hey what 2 077 notes jan 19th 2026 open in app facebook tweet pinterest reddit mail embed permalink next