All Things Linguistic
Shoot for the moon, even if you miss you’ll land among some morphemes
I have been waiting for this book from Kory Stamper since I was a fan of her blog in 2014 and it…
Bonus 109: Skipping rhymes, counting chants, and fortune-telling games - Children’s oral culture
Lingthusiasm Episode 113: Why “it’s a diglossia!” explains so many social dynamics
If you’re a person who enjoys finding things out before other people, this might be a particularly…
When useful folk categories, like “trees” and “fish”, don’t line up with evolutionary taxonomies…
Lingthusiasm Episode 112: When language become-s(3SG) linguistic example-s(PL)
Every two years running the LingComm Grants we find out about so many cool lingcomm projects we…
I’m not watching Heated Rivalry (yet?) but if anything is going to get me interested in it it’s…
2025 year in review
October, November, & December 2025: Plays, poems, and preserves
2025 in review
Lingthusiasm Episode 111: Whoa!! A surprise episode??? For me??!!
I designed these cards because I just wanted to send them to some linguist friends over the…
Day 16
allthingslinguistic:
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” in...
Possibly the most popular bonus episode we’ve done yet, turns out people really like mysterious…
Day 4
July, August, & September 2025: ASL Camp and Arroba Lengua
This is my Jam
World Linguistics Day is in 2 days!
Lingthusiasm Episode 110: The history of the history of Indo-European - Interview with Danny Bate
I don’t exactly know how it happened but this turned out to be one of our funniest episodes we’ve…
I am so incredibly excited to share Miguel’s thoughtful and delightful approach to translating…
Lingthusiasm Episode 108: Highs and lows of tone in Babanki - Interview with Pius Akumbu
April, May, & June 2025: Lauren writes a gesture book!
January, February, and March 2025: 100th Lingthusiasm episode
2024 Year in Review
Lingthusiasm Episode 107: Urban Multilingualism
it is a truth universally acknowledged that a linguist who spots a linguistically interesting street…
Language is mobile and liable to change … a very large number of words have two or more…
Lingthusiasm Episode 106: Is a hotdog a sandwich? The problem with definitions
Lingthusiasm Episode 105: Linguistics of TikTok - Interview with Adam Aleksic aka EtymologyNerd
Bonus 100: Advice #2 - Fun linguistic experiments, linguistic etiquette, and language learning scenarios
Lingthusiasm Episode 104: Reading and language play in Sámi - Interview with Hanna-Máret Outakoski
This is a particularly fun bonus episode and I’ve been enjoying seeing everyone’s comments on it!
October, November, & December 2024: Lingthusiasm Makes the New York Times Word Nerd Top Five
I’m very excited that Lauren has finally written the book I asked her for 7 years ago, when I was…
July, Aug, Sept 2024: Lo! An un-detached Eurotrip!
103: A hand-y guide to gesture
Bonus 98: Linguist Celebrities
Lingthusiasm Episode 102: The science and fiction of Sapir-Whorf
Bonus 96: What makes for beautiful writing, scientifically speaking