🚨 The deadline for abstract submission for the Second Workshop on Replication in the Language Sciences (sites.google.com/view/worela2) taking place on 8–9 July 2027 in Cologne has been extended to 15 September 2026 (final extension). 🚨

We invite submissions from all subdisciplines of #linguistics and related fields and explicitly welcome submissions from qualitative researchers, ECRs, and work-in-progress (the latter as posters). So far, we have received a range of very promising abstracts, including reports of #replication attempts, the use of LLMs in linguistics research, and teaching initiatives, as well as larger methodological frameworks and more fundamental metascientific questions, which is very exciting!

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#OpenScience #ReproducibiliTea #DigitalHumanities #Romanistik #Metascience

The lost golden age of language diversity

Tens of thousands of languages may have existed between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago - and their decline began well before European colonial expansion

by Damian E. Blasi, Claire Bowern, Russell D. Gray and Sandra Jacob

mpg.de/26871018/the-lost-golde…

Books about Comparative linguistics at PG:
gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/1…

#books #linguistics #antropology

Fun fact: The #German word for hangover is "Kater". But "Kater" has a second meaning: tomcat, i.e. a male cat.

What does a hangover have to do with a cat?

Nothing.

It's kind of a malapropism for "Katarrh" (engl. "catarrh"), a similar-sounding word that was once used for all kinds of inflammations, from before medical science was a thing.

For the same reason German speakers use "Muskelkater" ("muscle tomcat") when they mean muscle soreness, especially DOMS.

#linguistics

Each time we have an influx of users from a particular region over at Stoat, I notice small interesting messaging behaviours. I’ve documented interesting ones I’ve noticed across Stoat as a whole: vale.rocks/micros/20260818-045…

#Language #Linguistics

From *Goat* to *Despite*: How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed, and What That Says About Us.

Linguistic scrollytelling by Jasmine Nackash for The Pudding:

pudding.cool/2026/07/essential…

#DDJ #dataviz #linguistics

I have a question specifically for people from the British Isles. What do you think about the final "t" in the word "restaurant" being silent or audible?

A — must be silent; that's just the way it's pronounced correctly
B — silent is posh, audible is normal
C — silent is British, audible is non-British (North American, for example)
D — something else (please add comment to elaborate)

Boosts appreciated!

#AskFedi #Linguistics #Pronunciation #Accents

• A (12%, 5 votes)
• B (58%, 24 votes)
• C (12%, 5 votes)
• D (17%, 7 votes)

Super Fun für Sprach-Nerds, Weird Fiction-Fans und alle, die gerne neue Sachen lernen: Diese Geschichte wird jeden Absatz 100 Jahre älter (& gruseliger), am Schluss sind wir um 1.000 sprachlich angelangt. Bis wann könnt Ihr verstehen, was da steht? Danach erklärt ein Sprachhistoriker die Veränderungen, die ihr da rückwärts mitgemacht habt.

#linguistics #historyoflanguage #language #literature #learning

deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-…

@mattly @chris

How does #amusia work in cultures with tonal languages? (Any #linguistics folks know? This must have been studied.)

If as many people were truly “tone deaf” as claim to be, and if the proportion were the same in China, then there’d be at least a hundred million Chinese people unable to speak intelligibly or understand speech well. So it must be either much less common or much less of an obstacle.

Neuer Beitrag auf Lingdrafts - Linguistische Werkstattberichte:

Carolin Müller-Spitzer, Samira Ochs und @notesjor waren "Auf der Suche nach Genderzeichen: Die Hamburger Volksinitiative 'Schluss mit Gendersprache' und die Verwendung von Genderzeichen auf der Webseite der Stadt #Hamburg" @ids_mannheim #linguistics #gender #genderlinguistik

lingdrafts.hypotheses.org/2671

#LEPONTIC, the (almost) forgotten, written language of the #Celts

Long before the #Roman #Empire and #Caesar's conquest of #Gaul, #Celtic tribes living on the southern edge of the Alps, through contact with the #Etruscans, adopted the #Alphabet and adapted it to their own language, giving rise to the ‘#Lugano’ alphabet – also known as the ‘Lepontic’ alphabet.

➡️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepontic…
➡️ blog.nationalmuseum.ch/en/2018…

#Archaeology #Linguistics #Runes #Pagan #Druid #Druidry