Yesterday I got an email from a member of a committee that I chaired, thanking me for my "horrific leadership." The person writing it is not a native English speaker, and the tone of the rest of the email, and the whole thread, was positive. I'm pretty sure the person meant "terrific." The more I think about it, how should anyone be able to remember that "terror" turns into a positive thing in one of its adjective forms, but "horror" doesn't? #AcademicChatter #Linguistics

I MEAN IS MY SOFTWARE TRYING TO TROLL ME? #linguistics #lingusitics

Yesterday I got an email from a member of a committee that I chaired, thanking me for my "horrific leadership." The person writing it is not a native English speaker, and the tone of the rest of the email, and the whole thread, was positive. I'm pretty sure the person meant "terrific." The more I think about it, how should anyone be able to remember that "terror" turns into a positive thing in one of its adjective forms, but "horror" doesn't? #AcademicChatter #Linguistics

ö, ü - Ümlaut 🤘 Woher kommen die eigentlich? Warum gibt es sie nicht überall? Im neuen #DGfS macht Schule-Video erklärt Dennis Beitel, was es damit auf sich hat. Schaut rein 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfb9gSRfLR8
#BLinguistik #linguistics #Sprachwissenschaft

ö, ü - Ümlaut 🤘 Woher kommen die eigentlich? Warum gibt es sie nicht überall? Im neuen #DGfS macht Schule-Video erklärt Dennis Beitel, was es damit auf sich hat. Schaut rein 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfb9gSRfLR8
#BLinguistik #linguistics #Sprachwissenschaft

Second guessing myself bc Powerpoint is red-underlining the word "Linguistics" I mean thanks for digging into our known insecurities I guess? #lingusitics #linguistics #academicChatter

"If we have the authors' data, surely we can get the same results?!" My contribution to this year's ❤️ Love Data Week ❤️ on Wed 11 Feb. 14–15:30 CET is an online presentation and discussion on the #reproducibility of #linguistics studies. Two of my students, Ali Yıldız & Marie Klünter, will be reporting on their attempts to reproduce two published studies based on the authors' original data. Did they succeed? Why or why not? Come and find out!

Further information and sign-up link: https://fdm.uni-koeln.de/en/news-events/international-love-data-week/ldw2026

#LDW2026 #OpenScience #replication #ReproducibiliTea

"If we have the authors' data, surely we can get the same results?!" My contribution to this year's ❤️ Love Data Week ❤️ on Wed 11 Feb. 14–15:30 CET is an online presentation and discussion on the #reproducibility of #linguistics studies. Two of my students, Ali Yıldız & Marie Klünter, will be reporting on their attempts to reproduce two published studies based on the authors' original data. Did they succeed? Why or why not? Come and find out!

Further information and sign-up link: https://fdm.uni-koeln.de/en/news-events/international-love-data-week/ldw2026

#LDW2026 #OpenScience #replication #ReproducibiliTea

Something extremely surprising when one becomes familiar with Japanese culture and its language is that the names of days of the week are oddly similar to some European languages. Here is why.

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https://davidbilla.net/why-are-the-days-of-the-week-similar-in-many-unrelated-languages/

#linguistics #history #Japanese #Latin

🎉 New publication!
Our team member Karolina Ryker explores professional vs. consumer online music reviews in a new paper in *ELAD-SILDA*. The study reveals that critics explain art while consumers emphasize evaluation.
#linguistics #evaluation

🔗 https://digespedi.us.edu.pl/index.php/2025/12/30/new-article-on-professional-vs-consumer-online-music-reviews/

🎉 New publication!
Our team member Karolina Ryker explores professional vs. consumer online music reviews in a new paper in *ELAD-SILDA*. The study reveals that critics explain art while consumers emphasize evaluation.
#linguistics #evaluation

🔗 https://digespedi.us.edu.pl/index.php/2025/12/30/new-article-on-professional-vs-consumer-online-music-reviews/

🎲 In the spirit of its CRC1646, Bielefeld is going to get creative at #DGKL2026 with a linguistic games exhibition ✨🐲🎲 The call for games is open for all kinds of games that engage with linguistic topics! Do you have something you want us to try? https://smplu.link/9IbcP

#linguistics #Linguistik #Games #Sprachwissenschaft #SpracheundSpiel

I built a #bot that posts 10 new German words once per day: @neuewoerter_bot

The bot uses a few RSS feeds of German news media to look for new words.

'New' means that they're not on a list of approx. 39 million old words and have not yet been discovered by the bot itself. More info in the bot's bio. ... and please feel free to ask me anything.

#linguistics

Hi Mastodon,

Here is a bit about me if you want to follow:

I am a student of linguistics at #Bogazici University. I am interested in topics related to #linguistics #sociology, #sociolinguistics, & #discourse.

I built a #bot that posts 10 new German words once per day: @neuewoerter_bot

The bot uses a few RSS feeds of German news media to look for new words.

'New' means that they're not on a list of approx. 39 million old words and have not yet been discovered by the bot itself. More info in the bot's bio. ... and please feel free to ask me anything.

#linguistics

Hi Mastodon,

Here is a bit about me if you want to follow:

I am a student of linguistics at #Bogazici University. I am interested in topics related to #linguistics #sociology, #sociolinguistics, & #discourse.

An der Ruhr-Uni Bochum ist zum 01.08.2026 (oder später) eine PostDoc-Stelle (100% E-13) für Linguistik zu besetzen (Schwerpunkt in Syntax/Semantik/Pragmatik), 3 Jahre, evtl. Verlängerung. Bewerbungsfirst: 01.03.2026.

https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/ecdcf2760ae0cbbcc7d543307c62d2092d4dde540

#Sprachwissenschaft #linguistics #Jobs #Bochum