How technology shapes our communication

Why we know you’re a cat person the moment you say ‘hooman’ or ‘cattitude.’ We cat owners know that cats are judgmental. Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us, and I don’t think that th...

It’s all about cat-inspired language varieties Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community they are in and on the social media platform they are on. W...

A dialectological look at how we talk about cats online Get meowt there! Out there is the digital realm of cat-related spaces where I am following cats and their humans, where I see lots of cat photos...

An old newspaper adage says “If it bleeds, it leads”. While that may be true for many news stories out there, it does not apply to cats in the news. Mostly cat news are feel-good stories making you ha...

For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it? There are various dates for world cat day, for international cat day, for national cat...

A well-known phenomenon to cat owners is the tendency of their cats to sit in enclosed spaces such as boxes, laundry baskets, and even shape outlines …

Let’s apply some PR (purring relations) to the Meow Factor and come up with catchy slogans to bring the essence of the blog to you, its readers, and to attract new people to linguistics with cats. The...

The Meow-ning of Words: When Linguistics Gets Fur-Midable!

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Just a few cat-inspired words found in April 2025. They are good examples for word formation. The meowpheme (morpheme) is given in <> as is usually done in linguistics. And some days you can use for y...

Purrspectives in Language brings you linguistics with cats — 😻 purrfect for you if you love language and cats and want to discover linguistics with a pawsome feline flair 🐈‍⬛. Click to read Purrspect...

The story you open your social media feed to is this: The cat has been taken to the dreaded V.E.T., the cat gets the cone of shame and even has to stay at the V.E.T’s overnight for observation. What.....

What cat-inspired language says about us

How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder:  community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! But that would not be very social from my ...

Purrspectives in Language 😻 This is the purrfect mewsletter for you if you love language and cats to discover linguistics with a pawsome feline flair 🐈‍⬛. Click to read Purrspectives in Language, by M...

Most cats would rather take the easy route and eat free food, unlike some other animals that will choose to work for it.

The ‘Alley Cats’ card is a feline keepsake card, each illustrated with an arty style or technique, perfect for standing up and admiring its arty ways.Combining a love of cats and a passion for art, il...