“There’s Method in My Madness”
It’s Pawlonius’s in William Shakespurr’s Hamlet who says, well, something like that. The correct line is actually “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t. (Polonius, Act 2 Scene 2)” . Yet, this...
Category: language
Meowlogism Encore
Just a quick research note as an add on. So nothing fancy, just a list of my latest finds of meowlogisms. котомодель (ukr. kotomodel’): Ukrainian meowlogism for “model”; used in an Instagram post by...
Cat-related Keywords and Platforms: The Excel Sheets
Where do cat afficionados use which feline-inspired words?Here’s a roundup – based on the surveys I did for my book “Purrieties of Language: How We Talk about Cats Online” (due out in February 2023)....
Cat-related Keywords
A Wordlist for Linguistic Material For my analysis of cat-related linguistic data, I compiled a list of keywords to look for. This approach is similar to the surveys in dialectology for which we use...
