Smol Stories
The story you open your social media feed to is this: The cat has been taken to the dreaded V.E.T., the cat gets the cone of shame and even has to stay at the V.E.T.’s overnight for observation. What...
Linguistics with Cats
The story you open your social media feed to is this: The cat has been taken to the dreaded V.E.T., the cat gets the cone of shame and even has to stay at the V.E.T.’s overnight for observation. What...
How about this? I give you a handful of words and just leave you to ponder them on your own: community, identity, status, names, sociolect, cats, sociolinguistics. So there! You can certainly figure them out. But that would not be very...
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....
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...