Posting an Old English word and its meaning every day, also sometimes related images or topics.
Fediverse address:
@OEWordhord@mastodon.social
Tagged: Languages
Evangelia (Lila) Adamou
Senior Researcher in Linguistics at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France and member of the Academia Europaea. Particular interests language contact, bilingualism and endangered languages spoken in the Balkans and Latin America.
Fediverse address:
@Lila@scholar.social
The Vulgar Tongue
Bot posting excerpts from “Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue”, a collection of 18th Century English popular slang (sometimes crude).
Fediverse address:
@TheVulgarTongue@zirk.us
Grammle
German-language free open source app helping people with their grammar and proofreading.
Fediverse address (in German):
@grammle@bildung.social
Linguistics Guppe Group
A Fediverse discussion group about Linguistics. (Click here ⧉ for more about how groups work.)
Fediverse address:
@linguistics@a.gup.pe
Language Lovers Guppe Group
A Fediverse discussion group about languages, learning languages and related topics. (Click here ⧉ for more about how groups work.)
Fediverse address:
@languagelovers@a.gup.pe
Journal of Linguistics
Peer-reviewed academic journal covering theoretical linguistics, published by the Cambridge University Press.
Fediverse address:
@JoLinguistics@mastodon.world
Babel: The Language Magazine
Print and digital magazine for people interested in languages and linguistics.
Fediverse address:
@babel@masto.ai
Gaidhlig Guppe Group
A Fediverse discussion group about Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig), for posts in the language or discussing it. (Click here ⧉ for more about how groups work.)
Fediverse address:
@gaidhlig@a.gup.pe
Dr Sascha Wolfer
Linguist at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache in Germany. Interested in quantitative linguistics, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, text comprehension & comprehensibility, data visualisation, Rstats.
Fediverse address:
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org
Esperanta vortaro
Bot posting a random word every hour from an Esperanto-English dictionary.
Fediverse address:
@vortaro@bots.petras.space
Furensic Linguist
Linguist and cat enthusiast, author of “Purrieties of Language” exploring online cat-inspired words, memes, hashtags and other sociolinguistic phenomena.
Fediverse address:
@meow_factor@fediscience.org
Translate Science
Initiative to promote translation of scientific articles, books, papers etc.
Fediverse address:
@TranslateScience@fediscience.org
Alliterative / Endless Knot
Videos about the etymology of the English language, presented by the historian Dr Mark Sundaram.
Fediverse address (main):
@AllEndlessKnot@toot.community
Fediverse address (videos):
@alliterative@tilvids.com
Shaw Alphabet
Dedicated to posting about the Shavian alphabet, an attempt to give the English language a more phonetically logical character set. Named after George Bernard Shaw, who funded it in his will.
Fediverse address:
@shavian@polyglot.city
Minimus
Mouse that helps people learn Latin, with really cute photos featuring Latin vocabulary.
Fediverse address:
@Minimus@archaeo.social
A Way with Words
Fun US-based public radio show and podcast about the English language, looking at etymologies, linguistics, slang etc.
Fediverse address:
@wayword@mas.to
Mapologies
Blog combining maps with geography and other topics such as language, history, art etc. to produce interesting presentations of information.
Fediverse address:
@mapologies@mastodon.social
DiscourseNet
Non-profit association for discourse studies run by its members.
Fediverse address:
@DiscourseNet@fediscience.org
Vicky R.
Linguist interested in forensic linguistics, cognitive semantics, authorial attribution, threat assessment and stylistics.
Fediverse address:
@vilyrou@mastodon.social