#linquistics — Public Fediverse posts

Is it just me and my neurodiverse brain, or does everyone notice minutiae like this – and then feel compelled to blog about it?
👉https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/26/enough-anough-and-the-archaeology-of-small-mistakes/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
What sorcery is this? 🪄 I often catch myself typing 'anough' for 'enough'. It's also closer to how I pronounce it. I may adopt this spelling out of spite. Does this happen in other languages?
#language #forensics #linquistics #phonetics #archaeology #cognition #signals #writing #prescription #english #ghoti #spelling #orthography #typos #enough

#AmReading Bellos' "Is that a Fish in Your Ear?" and being reminded of my lowbrow tastes. In a passage about the impact of non-L1 poetry learned long ago, he cites Rilke's "Wer, wenn ich schriee, hörte mich denn aus der Engel Ordnungen?" - while I went straight to German too -Morgenstern's
"Es war einmal ein Lattenzaun, mit Zwischenraum, hindurchzuschaun" which I especially love for the 'punchline' at the end. 😀
@bookstodon #poetry #translation #nonfiction #linquistics

"This Piss Time" vs "These Piss Times", Discuss.

#linquistics #language #shitpost #memes #funny

Question for those who know #asl or other forms of #signlanguage, and especially those who are also familiar with #linquistics and #phonetics... presumably there are dialects in sign languages, but are there accents? Shibboleths, localized mannerisms, subtle differences in how far or vigorous motions are made, or how they're combined with other attributes of body language?