A Cupid for the major cities in Canada! Since we are only a few days away from Valentine's Day, here is a fun thread to enjoy as the weekend arrives :) 15. Halifax, NS

#linguistics I slipped a poem by #ChatGPT in with a selection of poems (authors redacted) for my English students to analyze. Happily, they quickly suspected it was somehow inauthentic. The prompt: "write a postmodern poem". The title was "Echoes in the Digital Haze".

While living here in the UK I'm binging #SilentWitness (27 series) and the sheer rate with which main characters get run over by cars is simply astounding. It's like at least once a series. #LookBothWays

Ayo Edebiri just gave the best answer any celebrity has ever given to a reporter

#cbbuk Does anyone else get the creeps from Louis Walsh, insofar as every time he discusses a woman or anyone around him mentions any female he specifically, immediately (and often only) comments on her looks.

#linguistics Morphology that keeps me up at night.

An open letter setting out the importance of linguistics in UK universities. UCGAL: University Council of General and Applied Linguistics linguistics.ac.uk/university-of-…

Happy Jesus Christ Superstar weekend to all that celebrate.

This is a friendly reminder of the visiting lecture organized University of Helsinki : Dr. Matt Hunt Gardner 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈 will be talking on the topic "Old Areal Feature, New Social Meaning: The Balto-Atlantic Ingressive yup↓ in Canadian Maritime English" on April 18, at 14.15 at Metsätalo Lect. Hall 6

If you’re in Oxford on Wednesday, come to my talk on language change! 🙂

Looks like Dr Adam Rutherford’s been in the pedantry journey 😁

My analysis of MLE discourse in 200 newspaper articles is out now, and it's open access! 'Learn Jafaikan in two minutes': Multicultural London English, enregisterment and ideology in English newspapers #MLE #enregisterment #Londondialects #Londontalks sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

📋 If you have a spare 5-10 mins, a student on my undergraduate LVC module is conducting a survey about attitudes towards youth language use in the UK: forms.gle/N6vmLQ4EZf4UEB… RTs appreciated!

#linguistics theconversation.com/no-more-bad-ac…

Linguists, are we ok?

#CelineDion !!

Hi, linguistics professor here! Free lesson for you that I cover in my intro course: This is actually very normal. Everyone adjusts their language use based on their audience! Please look up sociolinguistics, register, code switching, and style shifting for more information.

New article alert. doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.7… Looking at an old variable using a new-ish tool. #sociolinguistics #linguistics #Maritimes #slx

Most English speakers accept the fact that the language changes over time, but don’t accept the changes made in their own time.