Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.social🦊.quiet.ink @quiet.ink · 5h"i used chat gpt to apologize to my wife and buy a gift for my child, both of whom i inexplicably hate" yeah well i dont even use autocomplete when i tell my girlfriend i love her because i want every button press to contain the maximum amount of love and it's not nearly enough 1148975
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 7h@alexandraerin.com once observed that to trump, words don't mean things, words *do* things it's true of fascists generally. if you ask "what do they mean" you are already misunderstanding. you need to ask "what are they trying to do" 03013
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Jcx...m.youtube.comCalculate your pet's HP with my 100% legitimate formula | UnraveledYouTube video by Polygon 121
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialLingthusiasm @lingthusiasm.com · 09/10/2026Announcing the Linguistic Zine Challenge! Make or share a linguistics zine and tell us about it by the end of November, and you could win prizes! (oooh, prizes~~) Thread, or here's a link for the blog fans: lingthusiasm.com/post/8299478... 56736
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026basically noam, people should not be scared of these hiring committees, and the hiring committees should treat applicants like people :) and if they don't, they should face appropriate consequences :) 000
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026perhaps you would agree: we can pursue that goal, but it's circulating maps for a system that remains labyrinthine. we can also work to change the fundamental hiring practices. the latter without the former *might* not fully succeed, but the former without the latter *cannot* fully succeed! 000
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026ok but please recognize, this means there are secret requirements. if they're not secret they need to be in the job ad we would think. secret website must exist, AND it must have certain secret information. how is that supposed to be accessible? or is it *meant* to act as a secret barrier? 100
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026yeah they should either email you personally, or else they should post in their job ad that they require you to have a website. death to all gatekeeping 100
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026radical idea: read the material they wrote for you, as opposed to random search results. if there's something missing, perhaps the scholar has an email address? and can be asked? 100
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026academics: hello please include A, B, and C in your job application applicant: (includes A, B, and C) academics: fool that you are, you did not also take steps D and E. how can we hire you now? 110
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialAnon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 01/10/2026If you've got some free time on your hands one of the best things you can do is to learn a language. It doesn't matter which language it is, learning any language makes the world a smaller place and brings you closer together with people you wouldn't otherwise speak to. 1616510
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialLara San Mamés @laratraduce.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Feliz día de la traducción, chiquis. Resistimos ✊🏻 0134
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026It is so good to see @reportermatt.bsky.social, who was in like 80% of my classes in college, become the most influential reporter in Massachusetts. He just loves the place, and you can tell in everything he does. A truly wonderful man making the whole state better. 511865320
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.sociallatina belt sprachbund🇲🇽🇵🇸🎃 @languagespeaker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Love posting this videoyoutu.beJoseph Muscat making a scene at the European ParliamentYouTube video by Gorg Sciberras 162
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026claiming to be a linguistics nerd but they still need to learn about *loanword phonology* 1310
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026there are some useful algorithms out there but as for the LLM, it is a waste of time :) we can chop up the data centers with axes 011
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026every penny spent on LLMs should be spent instead on high quality professional human translation & interpreting work 110
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialAlex Wenzel @alexwenzel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026“Office of Remigration” and “Office of Ethnic Cleansing” are synonyms. That’s not a rhetorical point, it’s a fact that everyone who used that word before this year would agree with. 426289
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialDr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The fact that every major news outlet includes vocal tics and hesitations when it’s a woman saying “like” and not when it’s a man saying “um” is itself wicked telling. 33928778
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialGretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 20/09/2026I have been reading the Anne McCaffrey Pern novels for the first time yeah I don't know why I hadn't read them before and I don't know why I'm inhaling them so fast now BUT importantly I know they're not trying to actually do linguistic worldbuilding but BOY do I have linguistics thoughts anyway 1333835
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026arguably missing are 1. the ongoing violence of standardization, 2. the alternatives that we have, and 3. how to get there. (but it's ok, those things are neither the topic nor the style they were going for) 000
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026this is great :) m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX21...m.youtube.comWhy a Language Map of the World is ImpossibleYouTube video by Map Men 100
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialalj8.bsky.social @alj8.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Hell simply isn’t hot enough 5588143
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialKieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 13/09/2026tbh I’d have said this was most German words, which is why it’s German and not some other language 1142650
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialGerald Roche @geraldroche.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Reactionary settler colonial discourse 101. It's from Canada, but uses identical tropes to Australian anti-language revitalization discourse. 3157
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialScotty B @scottyb.bsky.social · 11/09/2026No one I know in real life, and almost no one I know online, is talking about the profound generational evil of flying people to torture prisons in countries they've never had a connection to and where they have no protections from the monsters who do this kind of thing. 1016366
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialHelen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026As both an academic and a writer, I am repelled by the "this looks like a long document. Would you like me to summarize it for you?" that seems to appear at the top of every pdf viewer now. NO. The *entire point* of good writing (either books or journal papers) is that every sentence has a purpose. 1344042792
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading. 795166653669
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026also somebody was doing jurassic park and mentioning "zoo animals," nah, here's jurassic park: Scientists take on extra work over the weekend. 000
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026okay this one has some pretty good langywangy: A rural kid gets in trouble because of a courier message. 120
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.sociallangywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 21/02/2026what's up with "destandardization" is this being theorized with a coherent definition or um... is it vibes? 101
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialDan Conway @magisterconway.bsky.social · 29/08/2026It’s not just the South: I was in speech therapy as a kid for having trouble with /ɹ/ and other consonants, and while they were in there they sanded down most of my Pittsburgh accent. I remember specifically them telling me not to pronounce “out” as [aːt]. It’s unfortunate 272
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialChaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The meaning of the word "terrorism" continues to get more blatantly ridiculous. Terrorist graffiti. Terrorist digging up of turf.theguardian.comSeven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti 1527375
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialSociety for Linguistic Anthropology @soclinganth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The Department of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor in Language and Wellbeing, expected to start on September 1, 2027. careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista...careers.umass.eduAssistant Professor - Department of Anthropology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United StatesTitle: Assistant Professor - Department of Anthropology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: Social & Behavioral Sciences Department: Anthropology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: ... 012
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Early this America, taking my America for a walk, I saw a gorgeous full America setting in the west just as America started to rise in the east. Not a cloud in the America. We got back inside and I put some America on the stove for a hearty America. Overall one of my better Americas. 110
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026probably gotta start by working on consciousness? so what tools do we have for that? 👹🎭📽️🖼️🪕🌸 000
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026how do you begin to dismantle an oppressive system that doesn't have any coherent opposition? 100
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026in a lot of cases it's totally dominant, totally hegemonic, no opposition, nobody questions it. "oh, i need to fix my accent" "oh, we just need to violently insist on uniformity so we can Communicate" 🙄 100
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026how can we destroy language standardization? 110
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026language oppression, glottophobia, linguistic profiling... these all mean different things but come along on a little journey. we're gonna say they all fit in the umbrella of language standardization. ok? imposing uniformity through various kinds of pressure and violence, yeah? 110
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026When we talk with one another, we’re not only exchanging information. We’re enacting and reaffirming our connections to one another, and demonstrating that we see each other’s humanity. A chatbot lacks all of that. And between parent and child, that sends a devastating message. 28116
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026is it enough to describe the action alone? if we want to describe what practitioners think is happening, what do we call that (and what would the 'unit' be)? belief, feeling, ideology... a lot of ink has been spilled about this, for at least 100 years 😮💨😩📚📚📚📚📚 110
langywangy.bsky.social @langywangy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026being a foreigner, no comment on those particulars, but yeah "practice" is how many anglophone anthropologists would call these 'units.' that doesn't necessarily cover the psychological & social semiotic side of things, though 110
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialMꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Patriotic English be like We must cast off the shackles of our Norman oppressors and start calling beef cow again and patriotic Britons are all like wtf man you came from Denmark! 914420
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialAlex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 17/08/2026Bro he dropped the BENGALI version on Instagram today. What's he gonna do, make a Ukrainian video next? 711029
Reposted by @langywangy.bsky.socialkobayashi ḫamṭu @mattboot.bsky.social · 17/08/2026so these people are poking fun at the (English-influenced) retroflex "r" associated with certain speakers from Guaynabo, PR, and LOOK HOW THEY ARE SPELLING IT! 3211