Sam Hellmuth @samhellmuth@qoto.org

The {ngramr} #rstats 📦 is a wrapper for Google's Ngram Viewer to easily see how often phrases are used in its book corpus over time. By Sean Carmody.
#dataviz @rstats
Example:
ggram(c("hacker", "programmer"), year_start = 1950,
geom = "line", geom_options = list(size = 1)) +
ggplot2::theme_classic()

The most recent episode of @lingthusiasm, on mapping language, featured a wonderful discussion during the last ~5 minutes or so comparing Earth's linguistic diversity with naked-eye stars. Worth a listen!
#linguistics #astronomy #space

@linguistics

For all those interested, the University of Texas at Austin has a fantastic open-access website on Indo-European languages such as #Tocharian, #Gothic, #Hittite, Old Nordic, #Sanskrit, #Greek, etc., including grammar points and examples.  It  really offers a huge amount of information, particularly for fans of ancient languages. https://lrc.la.utexas.edu/eieol  #utaustin #Indoeuropean #languages #linguistics

my Likert scale:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: lovert
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️: likert
⭐️⭐️⭐️: whatevert
⭐️⭐️: dislikert
⭐️: hatert

POLL: If you've been on #Mastodon for over a week and used it each day, how likely are you to go back to using Twitter on a regular basis?

Boost for a larger sample size please.

I have encountered more image descriptions on Mastodon in 24 hours than I have in Twitter in a couple of years. Seriously. I'm not exaggerating.
As a blind person, this means a lot to me. If you read this and you describe your images, thank you so, so, so much on behalf of all of us. If you don't, now you know you'll be helping random Internet strangers make sense of your posts by typing in a few more words than usual.

2 #post-docs sought for the ESRC-funded project "Generations of London English: Dialect and Social Change in Real Time" w/ PI Devyani Sharma at QMUL: https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/7788.html #sociolinguistics #jobs

Inspired by @kbmcgowan:
If I were queen of #phonetics for a day, I would remove #GlottalStop from the plosive row of the IPA chart. We could just put it it in the chaotic "Other Symbols" category and call it "glottalization segment" until we convincingly figure out what the damn thing actually is.

https://lingo.lol/@kbmcgowan/109326400847461550

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

Hello, this is my introduction toot! 😃 I'm an academic who uses #sociolinguistics to understand #lgbtq+ young people's experiences and identities, and what this tells us about structural inequality and #intersectionality. I also lead on #EDI at Uni of Nottingham. I live in Sheffield with my wife and two cats and am slowly beginning my #twittermigration to this much nicer, bigot-free place 💜

Doing that happy dance when you find out you've got more time to write your #ICPhS2023 paper

#phonetics

Time for a short #introduction as part of the #TwitterExodus : I work on #historical #linguistics mainly on language contact and syntactic change in Late #Antiquity and the Early #MiddleAges .

My focus lies on #Iranian, #Armenian, #Latin and #AncientGreek and morphosyntactic alignment and relative clauses, (largely) using #CorpusLinguistics .

I teach at the University of #Lausanne .

Thoughts, suggestions, questions? Hit me up!

@linguistics

This is what I have learned. Physics is not difficult. More often than not, the students don't have a good physics teacher.

Time for an #introduction! We're the Oxford #Medieval Graduate Conference, an annual conference for graduate students (and those recently completing graduate courses).Whether you're a #histodon (or #histodons) or interested in #literature, #arthistory / #visualculture, or medieval #linguistics we're a great place to present your work! This year our conference is themed on 'Names and Naming', will take place in Oxford and Online on the 20th and 21st of April, 2023! Keep your eyes peeled for a full Call for Papers in the comming weeks!!

Some Mastodon thoughts, for bird-site expats (which include myself). I'm aggregating these from posts I've boosted before, so little of this is my own brain.

- There's no algorithm here. That means favoriting/liking doesn't do anything except communicate approval to the OP and others (which is still nice!).

- No algorithm means boosting ("retweeting") is the true method to increase a post's visibility. Do that more than you did on birdsite.

- There's no post-quoting here, and that's by design. Look at quote-tweets on the birdsite; it's a feature primarily used for toxicity.

- There's no direct word-search here either; that means you want to use hashtags to make posts more searchable. This is also intended, since word-searching posts was often used to harass/stalk on the birdsite and elsewhere, so that was left by the wayside here. This also means hashtags are much more a thing here than any of the algorithm-powered sites.

- It's encouraged to put in text descriptions when you post images; a lot of Mastodon users use screen-readers due to various disabilities, and getting an image description read out loud helps them immensely.

- Speaking of screen-readers: using capitalization in your hashtags allows the screen-readers to read them more easily, especially if you're smashing multiple words together. #rockmusic = unreadable. #RockMusic = readable.

- The best way to make threads is to make set your first post as public, but "unlist" all of your replies. This prevents your whole thread from clogging up feeds.

- Content Warnings should be used more liberally here. If you haven't gotten the impression yet, much of Mastodon was built and populated by marginalized groups who were harassed/bullied off of other platforms. This is the culture they built, to respect each other's mental health. It's not a rule, but it's well-appreciated.

- Consider chipping a few bucks towards whomever runs the server you're on; the strain is real, and most server admins were likely paying out of pocket before so don't have an existing donation base. The growth here has been extremely fast, and that means money's needed.

- DMs are just posts with privacy settings. So if you @ someone in a DM, you pull them into the thread. That could be embarrassing.

- Also, no, DMs aren't end-to-end encrypted, but they aren't on Twitter either. Don't use either if you want true privacy.

- Including your Mastodon handle in your birdsite profile will help people find you here; there's a tool (pruvisto.org/debirdify/ is one of them that's used) people can use to pull Mastodon handles from Twitter profile.

- Use the blocking and reporting features liberally, if needed. This should go without saying, but they work, and work well!

- If there's an entire Mastodon server you don't want to hear from, you can block the whole thing too.

- Preferences -> Appearance -> "Slow Mode": this can make larger "Local" feeds and any "Federated" feed much more readable.

I'll reply with some more as I see them, or reply here too. I've only been here 4 days but I'm loving it so far.

How do we reach the new folks coming in. A lot of them seem confused. Well, boost the heck out of this post! I will be making more videos this weekend on the app and webapp to help people out. Here is my intro to Mastodon video that seems to be making people happy.

https://youtu.be/mrsiej2dpBY

#newtomastodon #newuser #migration #twittermigration #help

Follow me for notifications across instances on new videos when I release them! (And some art too)

I wonder if this service named after the great confession of Bertie Wooster’s: “As a rule, you see, I'm not lugged into Family Rows. On the occasions when Aunt is calling Aunt like mastodons bellowing across premieval swamps … the clan has a tendency to ignore me.”

#Introduction Hi, I'm Ethan. I do research on #reading, #dyslexia, and #autism at #AarhusUniversity in #Denmark. According to a project my son made for school, I
- am happy
- program computers
- care about my students
Which pretty much sums it, really.

hello world!

I do research in formal #linguistics, studying syntax, prosody, and the syntax-prosody interface (mostly on English, but other lg.s too)

much of current work is about:
• pronouns (especially reflexive pronouns),
• stress placement (especially focus stress), and
• intonation (especially intonational meaning)

my #linguist toots will probably be about my work and other linguistic fun, but I'm also a whole person so I'll be tooting other stuff too