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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...

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....

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). Or put differently, the analysis...

Meow #81 – Work in Purrogress

Why has it been so quiet lately on the Meow Factor front? Actually, the research work has continued and the writing has continued, but on a somewhat different scale. A linguistic book project is in the pipeline.