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Purrieties of Language

It’s all about cat-inspired language varieties Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community they are in and on the social media platform they are on. Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or X...

I’m a Dialectologist. Get Meowt There!

A dialectological look at how we talk about cats online Get meowt there! Out there is the digital realm of cat-related spaces where I am following cats and their humans, where I see lots of cat photos and cat...

A yawning cat

Some Sound Bites

Edith Podhovnik on her book, Purrieties of Language Looking at language is fun and that we can look at whatever phenomenon we want – as long as we know what we doing and how we are doing it in science....

AI creation (Confused black cat tangled in strings)

“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 is so often misquoted as...