Linguistics Community

Feeling... Restless

I don't have many people in my life who stimulate me intellectually. It can be difficult to find someone who can challenge you but who isn't using you as a means to fan their ego. Where is the community of people who want to help eachother grow? Where is the community of people who are ready to... (edited) read more

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(On second thought, I should have posted this to 'linguistics' universe 🤦) (edited)

Unpopular opinion: Small talk is a societal performance we all agreed to play, but it’s exhausting. Let’s skip it.

Tell me a concept, a personal philosophy, or a niche rabbit hole you’ve been down lately that most people would find totally obscure. I’m talking the kind of stuff that keeps you up at 2 AM. Bonus points if it involves art, linguistics, or a completely alternative way of looking at the world. Drop... read more

A meditation on being misunderstood

I went to college for linguistics. Language is unique to humans. It’s our way of conveying the information gathered by our senses to other minds. Birds chirp to let each other know of their locations here and now. Dogs bark to do the same. But humans live in a world beyond the here and now. We... read more

Share your favorite slang words

I was watching this YouTube video of Ryan Gosling using Gen Z language and it was absolutely hilarious. But what was even more alarming is that I understood everything!! I just find linguistics fascinating. So I'm going to share my favorite slang words: I'm in my soft girl era. Period. He has... read more

Post Hiking Linguistics Lesson: Tamil

Warning: Not really an outdoors posting. Had a wonderful linguistics lesson after today’s hike over breakfast sparking the Geography Undergraduate in me. The teacher was a fellow hiker who immigrated to the US 3 years ago from India. He is of course multilingual. But the one language that caught... read more