Welcome to Litsy!

Entertaining and educating. If, like me, you've always wanted to know about the 'secret' language spoken in the emergency department of a hospital, or by cricket players, or among sound engineers, or... This book is for you.

#MarvellousMarch #readathon @Andrew65

Well, at almost 50% I‘m tapping out. I can‘t get the 5 hours of my listening life back but I *can* (and did) return this to the library and move on. Here‘s the thing I learned: the author is a skilled linguist and a really, really terrible narrator in equal measure.

This might be a fantastic book in print but it is downright painful to listen to. Later, alligator. 👋

SO INTERESTING. Explained so many things I've just consumed as common sense in my almost 25 years of regular computer/internet/phone use. Definitely will be interesting to reread in another 25 years when the English language will have no doubt changed twice as quickly in the same amount of time.

Read with grace in Austria 💙

Fascinating and enlightening. Some interesting ideas and perspectives. Linguistics is crazy, yall.

Fridland discusses the evolution of spoken language and how various verbal ticks like “um,” and “like” are not the end-all-be-all of English when they‘re actually evidence of growth and evolution.
Very interesting study of language.

Late because the Litsy app would not cooperate and let me add images last night! As an English professor, here are three of my favorite words to say out loud:
* onomatopoeia
* abecedarian
* soliloquy

Any other #TeachersOfLitsy want to chime in?

#TLT @dabbe

Coming from somebody whose primary hill they'd die on is the Oxford comma, I've never wanted to throw hands more in a grammar-related situation than when the douches at Harvard decided to mansplain the "superiority of the masculine pronoun" in the campus paper.

When you love languages and you read a book by a linguist, you start to need 3 different highlighting colours for different informations... I can see myself becoming even more of a geek ;)

Snippets on sixty European languages, like mini-portraits. Closest to root language PIE (Proto-Indo-European), 200 generations of little alteration? Lithuanian. Smallest language w/ Nobel Lit Prize winner? Icelandic. Effects of geography, trade, warfare, intentional language preservation. Belarusian: Cyrillic or Roman alphabet? Would love a similar easy-read on Asian & African language families. 2014

P101 “A language is a dialect with an army.”