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Linguist Twitter had a lot of fun with #SpookyTalesForLinguists. Go check them all out, or read last year’s Linguistics Gothic. 

This is your annual reminder that, if you come up with a linguistics-themed Halloween costume, please do post a photo/description and alert me to its existence so it can be added to the archives. 

I don’t often see abuse posts about the opposite spectrum of post-abuse behavior, and it’s. Kind of a bummer bc those are still things people experience.

So shout out to :

people who feel like they have to aggressively defend the things that are important to them because they’re so used to it being torn down and taken from them - even if a friend was just kidding, it’s so hard to see it as just kidding.

People who are constantly on high alert for a fight and had to learn to treat everything like a debate because it was the only way they could stand up for themselves. People who have a hard time rationalizing not everything is an attack because everything used to be an attack.

People who are mad and furious over what happened and get completely consumed by rage no matter how hard they try to let it go. And who have to deal with people telling them they’re making it bigger than it was.

People who have to constantly front as being a badass or aloof because they can’t be seen as vulnerable in any way.

People who constantly fear they’re just like their abuser because they lash out at a moment’s notice to defend themselves

There’s a ton more things but I’m on my break and these are just things I experience that I know a lot more people relate to omg. It’s hard to unlearn aggressive means of self preservation and it hurts to hurt people after you’ve had to experience that hurt and it seems impossible to get over or unlearn those things but you’ll do alright it just needs time and patience and there’s nothing wrong with being angry.

Above: The Standard Lexical Sets for English as emoji.

These terms were introduced by John C. Wells and are often used when people talk about specific vowel sounds.

Different English varieties split or merge these distinctions in different ways, for example, the 🕳/🛁 split, and the 💡/🍔 merger.

For more see Lexical Set on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_set

Make your own set!

(via superlinguo)

I’ve put these on the vowel trapezoid, for ease of reference! 

Note that all positions are approximate because the lexical sets (by design) vary across English dialects. 

(via allthingslinguistic)

would anyone like to explain what’s going on on irish facebook

We’re all of work having a mad one

one of my friends is a very pregnant dog and like 3 times a day i say to her “hello! you are full of several other smaller dogs!” and she wags her entire body at me like “it’s true!!! i contain multitudes”

i love that ur friend is the pregnant dog. what a nice friend to have.

ya she’s my buddy i love her!

update: there were five (5) smaller dogs inside my dog friend, but now they are all outside of her instead (!!) 

GREAT UPDATE NOW YOU HAVE SIX FRIENDS!!!

ya they’re my buddies i love them!!!!!

‘Damn the boy’

#have you ever been so annoying you caused the reinvention of an entire literary genre