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Secret Panel HERE 💀 tapas.io/episode/3016236

#comics #linguistics #language #language and culture #langblr #lingblr #linguist #language and identity #slang #the youths

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Secret Panel HERE 🧠 tapas.io/episode/2728584

#language #linguistics #comics #language and culture #langblr #lingblr #linguist #language and identity

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Sometimes I feel the need to remind people that there is a pattern of conspicuous consumption to social media that pushes us to think things like, “if they aren’t posting about it, they don’t care about it.”

If you ever have that feeling pop up (and it will, because part of the stimulus-response of social media is that performance/audience aspect of demonstrating concern via posts and engagement), take a breath and remember:

• that blog or poster may have multiple outlets and the one you see as lacking is their self-care distraction account

• that blog or poster may be very active in IRL activist circles and doesn’t want their activity tracked back to their identity via social media

• that blog or poster may have a disability or disorder that makes it overwhelming to engage with these topics at the speed social media demands, and may prefer to engage with them one-on-one in a space no one else can see or comment on

• that blog or poster may be so deeply affected by the topic at hand that they need to process personal feelings about it without displaying those feelings on social media

• that blog or poster may be doing plenty of listening and learning and adapting their IRL behavior but fears the forced permanence of bad-faith screenshots and shares if they do make a mistake in their attempt to be active in a conversation that shouldn’t center them

• any number of other valid reasons that we need to be careful about conflating someone else’s morality or motivations with the way they interact with a highly limited, censored, imbalanced, ad-driven social medium

You’ve seen people who know all the right things to tweet about justice and accountability, then the mask slips and they end up being harmful jerks just exploiting the performance of social justice to get attention. You’ve seen the people who you know in your heart of hearts will unapologetically use at least one slur today, sharing memes about how everyone but them needs to change.

Have faith in the other side — people who are learning and growing and enacting that justice and accountability, just not in an easily shareable format. They’re out there.

#linguistics #language and culture #language and power #intersectionality #activism #intersectional activism #dogpiling creators to push them to speak on something is not good praxis #same with spamming creators who aren’t going well out of their area of expertise #or well out of their communication or social skills #it begets the same ‘you’re either With Us or Against Us’ mentality

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#linguistics #linguist #language #langblr #lingblr #don’t get me started on how every ‘argument’ they make violates so many maxims #gricean maxims #maxims #no terfs #no terves #no radfems #no radsfem #dear terfs #you’re the opposite of feminists #your rationale is straight from pre-First-Wave ‘boys are defined by This and girls are defined by That’ nonsense #I know it makes you feel like you Belong #and that they say it’s Safe #but you’re doing the oppression you don’t want done to you

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It's my 14 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

#14 year tumblrversary #tumblr milestone #HOW #linguistics #language #language and identity #language and power #language and culture #langblr #phonology #phonetics #semiotics #semantics #historical linguistics #neurolinguistics #psycholinguistics #linguist #linguistic anthropology

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Milwaukee’s own Trixie Mattel can now put her linguistics citations on her CV.

"When I heard the TikTok the first time, I immediately recognized the phenomenon being discussed. It was a sound I had heard before and taken note of as different. Revealing this unexpected talent—it turns out not everyone, including many of my friends and one linguist whom I played the video for—to Mielke meant that I was now a valuable resource in the early stages of crispy R research. He asked me to send him any clips I could think of featuring natural crispy R speakers. I sent him an episode of the very good podcast TrueAnon, whose two hosts, Liz Franczak and Brace Belden, both demonstrate the crispy R to varying degrees."

#language #linguistics #english #language and identity #language and power #language and culture #langblr #lingblr #phonetics #phonology #'crispy r' #crispy r #cursive speaking #milwaukee #trixie mattel #rupaul's drag race #this is it #drag

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And now, Winter Hilda with her red long-johns:

#art #hilda #pinup #50s #60s #pinup art #fat women get to just exist and show the beauty in that existence #plus size model #i love her #nsfw

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Autumnal Hilda!

#hilda #pinup #pin up #pinup art #1950s #art #1960s #duane bryers #she’s so gorgeous and expressive and i want to be her someday #plus size art #fat femme #soft tummy #strategically placed leaves #🍁 #🍂 #autumn

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just a little tip from me to you:

Go Listen To The New Måneskin Album

if you want

heartwrenching sad songs

IDLES-esque songs

songs that you can’t not dance to

songs that you can’t understand if you don’t speak Italian but you still ᴜɴᴅᴇʀsᴛᴀɴᴅ

songs that require one brain cell

rhymes that shouldn’t work but do work oh so well

sound that is mixed so well that you can feel the bass drum and the bass at the same time

if none of these have sounded appealing may i suggest ‘because breakaribecca asked nicely’?

#music #maneskin #måneskin #song recs

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I suppose I shouldn’t be that surprised that tumblr has a whole Jon Bois fandom, including anthropomorphic satellite fanart. The man is a master of graphs, shitposting, and obscure facts, which is roughly 85% of this site’s fuel.

#not linguistics #though 17776 had some exciting moments in semantics #jon bois #secret base #dorktown #sports #graphs #jazz #17776 #history of the seattle mariners #history of the minnesota vikings #follow him on bluesky if you can

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Compatible Media: re-watching Daredevil S2, and listening to a lot of Måneskin.

#not quite linguistics #just a brainthought #i may also be devouring a considerable amount of #daredevil x reader #punisher x reader #fan fiction #and it’s better for everyone involved if you don’t ask why

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Hey tumblr,

As you might already know, I'm a PhD student in linguistics and I'm conducting a study that investigates awareness of ongoing sound changes in American English.

If you are an English-speaking adult from the US and have about a half hour to spare, would you mind taking my survey? If not, would you mind reblogging?

The link to the survey is here!

Thank you in advance!

#signal boost #i must support my UW linguistics siblings #linguist #linguistics #perception #language change #us english #american english

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October,

IT’S HERE!

What it’s like experiencing the beginning of fall on tumblr. 

EDIT: I know it’s supposed to be “1st”, I just did a dumb. ;3

#october #halloween #fall #i’m one of those people who leaves spoopy decor up all year #but october 1st is when the good stuff is most available in stores to replenish the hoard

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Today, in “I’ll take any good news I can find”:

A production of Romeo and Juliet with Deaf actors signing their lines has been referred to as bilingual! Not just “accessible” or “diverse” but also BILINGUAL!

This makes me happy because the general idea of ASL (and other signed languages) is that they’re just a manual version of the spoken language. By that logic, Norwegian is just a higher-latitude version of German. Signed languages are languages of their own! With unique vocabulary, grammar, and dialects!

#linguistics #language #language and identity #language and power #language and culture #langblr #asl #american sign language #d/deaf #shakespeare #romeo and juliet #disability #accessibility #wisconsin

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I will not type up multiple paragraphs in response to a rhetorical question just because it’s about language acquisition.

I will not type up multiple paragraphs in response to a rhetorical question just because it’s about language acquisition.

I will not type up multiple paragraphs in response to a rhetorical question just because it’s about language acquisition.

I will not type up multiple paragraphs in response to a rhetorical question just because it’s about language acquisition.

#linguistics #language #langblr #language learning #language acquisition #lingblr #my poor notes app

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((please rb if you vote! obv this is just silly but im curious+wanna see ppls opinions<3))

#visual shorthand is technically semiotics #which is a big ingredient in linguistics #so this is relevant #linguistics #language #visual language #animation #cartoon #trash #and in 1500 years we’ll be sharing cool memes about how our pictograph for ‘trash’ originally resembled [winning item in this poll]

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#ALWAYS REWARD GOOD WORDPLAY WITH REBLOGS #language #linguistics #phonology #phonetics #eggs #hot eggs #physics #what if we try and ostrich egg #remind me to do this next time I have to teach an elementary science class