August 25th, 2019

AllieSeverin I just married the best person a linguist could ask for. My non-linguist spouse let me have this as our cake: pic.twitter.com/Myi0un2u5i

11:12 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:29 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

MarchForScience 🚨 We urge the scientific community to stop work for a day, leave your labs, classrooms & fieldwork sites, & join our inspiring youth leaders at the Global #ClimateStrike on Sept 20 🚨

@GretaThunberg @Fridays4future @FutureCoalition @350
#ScienceStrike marchforscience.com/events/scienti…

9:33 PM, Aug 20th, 2019 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 10:13 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

HyenaGrin People who think billionaires are okay have no frame of reference. pic.twitter.com/1QXveeYgyh

11:00 PM, Aug 23rd, 2019 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 9:07 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

dk_munro No, but it is immoral to have climate change in the era of babies. twitter.com/ottawacitizen/…

1:55 PM, Aug 24th, 2019 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 9:03 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

fMRI_guy TWITTER POLL CHALLENGE OF THE CENTURY:

Use your vote to recreate the percentages listed below, then RT

CAN WE DO IT? CAN WE DO THIS TOGETHER? PROBABLY NOT.

12:20 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 8:33 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

arnewisQue Habt ihr früher auch gedacht es heiße "sitcom", weil da in der Regel Leute auf einem Sofa sitzen?

9:54 PM, Nov 24th, 2018 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 8:28 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

emilymbender This.

I ask people I’m writing for to send me their application materials (resume/CV/research statement as appropriate) so that I can be sure to write a letter that is consistent with what they are highlighting. But writing that letter is my job. twitter.com/sarahshulist/s…

8:00 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 8:06 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

baudrillardbae angela merkel als das kapital (cursed thread) pic.twitter.com/JGUBbjrldA

6:48 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 8:02 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

dalcashdvinsky 'The rules of standard English are not legislated by a tribunal of lexicographers but emerge as an implicit consensus within a virtual community of writers, readers, and editors.' (Pinker, A Sense of Style) twitter.com/sapinker/statu…

6:03 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 7:58 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

bunnibytz This keypad can randomize the numbers so noone figures out the password from your hand movements. Why aren't there more of these? pic.twitter.com/G4VvUDwyhE

8:52 AM, Aug 24th, 2019 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 7:57 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

brynguist Suddenly remembered a beautiful thing relevant to the discussion below re: how to call cats in different languages. In ECLinG's Tsova-Tush corpus (archive.mpi.nl/islandora/obje…) the top 4-word ngram (quadrigram?) is /ps ps ps ps/ 'here kitty kitty' b/c a cat was present in 1 recording twitter.com/limetom/status… pic.twitter.com/UbxnvUC9fc

4:15 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 4:34 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

hllizi Politiker müßte man sein. Nichts muß einem peinlich sein und nichts hat Konsequenzen.

m.manager-magazin.de/politik/deutsc…

3:40 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 4:31 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

brynguist Sociolinguists, does my claim that "literally" is stereotyped as a feature of young women (at least when people are bemoaning its "overuse") hold any water? Or is this only anecdata on my part? Anyone know of good, solid research on "literally"? I admit, I'm out of my depth twitter.com/thomas_wier/st…

12:18 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 12:23 PM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

zeitonline Seit 2017 arbeiten Angestellte von @pixelkoenig fünf Stunden am Tag – bei vollem Gehalt. Aber dafür musste sich im Büro einiges ändern: bit.ly/323cHyC pic.twitter.com/H6S2EaFssO

9:13 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via SocialFlow (retweeted on 9:30 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

brynguist young woman celebrity under intense scrutiny: *shares details of struggles with mental health*

pinker: WOW what a DOLT, using a word in a sense it's only had for about 400 years. AWFUL

6:38 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 8:20 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

TheWeirdWorld We should change LOL to NE (nose exhale) because that’s all we really do when we see something funny online.

10:44 PM, Aug 6th, 2017 via Buffer (retweeted on 4:01 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)

texttheater Meine Lieblingsgermanizismen im Niederländischen: "überhaupt" bedeutet "überhaupt" und "sowieso" bedeutet "auf jeden Fall".

1:17 AM, Sep 25th, 2014 via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 2:59 AM, Aug 25th, 2019 via Twitter for Android)