andrewcgrant
- I'd love to see more #linguistics content, especially by people who know more about it than me. I'm being intentionally vague about the person since I don't know what they want shared online. They know who they are. #language #factchecking #criticism #mistake #error #wrong #education
- Did you know that #loanwords aren't the only way a #language can borrow from other languages? They can also use a #calque , a loan #translation #linguistics #words #english
- I made a video today about how "house" is pronounced differently in a #Canadian vs. #American #accent My phone keeps crashing when I try to cut it into the 1 minute chunks needed for Bluesky so find the full video on my TikTok: vm.tiktok.com/ZMSJ2Q8YV/
- I stand by what I said, just not how I said it. It seems like it's a common #pronunciation though so the descriptivist in me is screaming. #linguistics #pronunciation #mistake #sapirwhorf #tapir #worf #startrek
- My third favourite #etymology teaches us something about the everyday #sexism underpinning a lot of #language and society. #linguistics #words #english #greek #words
- And the "x" in TEDx means it's not even TED. While #TED is no stranger to #pseudoscience , this is one subject that I actually know a bit about. #linguistics #psychology #economics #behavior #tedtalk