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

Nerd alternative history linguistics thought

So, as a Slav, a Pole, I am able to understand West Slavic languages to a decent degree. Czech and Slovak sound outright funny to a Polish person, with no offence to our friends from the south. I am also able to understand East Slavic languages, even Russian, without learning it, while Belarusian... 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

Why girl

Why do people, particularly men, use girl to refer to an adult female instead of woman? For example, I see so many men make posts like "I'm looking for a loyal girl" or "hey girls let's talk". But the ladies will say they are looking for a man, not a boy. Is this just a weird linguistics phenomena... read more

Doodling during uni class ✨️

One of my pen and paper characters just disocciating next to my linguistics notes.

8 types of intelligence - no one is "dumb"! ไม่มีใครโง่ในความฉลาด 8 ประเภท

(Thai version below 🇹🇭 v) 🇺🇸 If you are amongst the countless people who aren't straight As students in school, there are actually 8+3 types of intelligence that you might excel at! These are: • 💬 Linguistics intelligence - good w words & language • 👀 Spatial & dimensional intelligence-... read more