Just created an international linguistics starter package. Includes linguists (all languages) and (English-speaking) linguistic institutions on Mastodon.

https://fedidevs.com/s/Njkx/

If you speak German you might also want to follow the package "Linguistik-Institutionen im DACH-Raum"

In case you are not yet included and would like to be added, let me know! (There are some accounts who commented, that I couldn't add because of their account settings)

#linguistics #linguists @linguistics

Just created an international linguistics starter package. Includes linguists (all languages) and (English-speaking) linguistic institutions on Mastodon.

https://fedidevs.com/s/Njkx/

If you speak German you might also want to follow the package "Linguistik-Institutionen im DACH-Raum"

In case you are not yet included and would like to be added, let me know! (There are some accounts who commented, that I couldn't add because of their account settings)

#linguistics #linguists @linguistics

Do #linguists note the word "Boycott" as an interesting curiosity in how we didn't have a word for this concept, then your man Boycott comes along and the word got sucked into not just English, but also every other language. Almost as if the thing couldn't exist properly without the word first being invented.

Are there other examples of words being invented and being so aggressively adopted into many other languages? "Orange" maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycott#Etymology