Doveen Mark
@imdm.bsky.social
I’m an applied linguist, a PhD student, & an Education Specialist of the Philippine Government. 🇵🇭 | Academic fellow of University of Nebraska at Omaha #langsky #linguistics
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What's in a name? “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.
Changing the label doesn't solve the problem. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/07/27/l...
Changing the label doesn't solve the problem. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/07/27/l...
Language - kirschner-ED
If neurodiversity is a strength or a unique cognitive profile, why do we intervene? If it’s “not something broken that needs to be fixed”, why are we spending so much time and money to fix it?
www.kirschnered.nl
July 27, 2025 at 6:30 AM
What's in a name? “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”.
Changing the label doesn't solve the problem. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/07/27/l...
Changing the label doesn't solve the problem. #EduSky
www.kirschnered.nl/2025/07/27/l...
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Unequal Englishes with Ruanni Tupas. So enlightening! & definitely resonates.
Also shout out to Nicole Holliday who is so good at making linguistics so engaging & accessible eg speech, prosody & shibboleths 🐦🐦
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/b...
Also shout out to Nicole Holliday who is so good at making linguistics so engaging & accessible eg speech, prosody & shibboleths 🐦🐦
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/b...
103: Unequal Englishes (with Ruanni Tupas and Nicole Holliday)
Podcast Episode · Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language. · 03/08/2024 · 2h 21m
podcasts.apple.com
June 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Unequal Englishes with Ruanni Tupas. So enlightening! & definitely resonates.
Also shout out to Nicole Holliday who is so good at making linguistics so engaging & accessible eg speech, prosody & shibboleths 🐦🐦
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/b...
Also shout out to Nicole Holliday who is so good at making linguistics so engaging & accessible eg speech, prosody & shibboleths 🐦🐦
podcasts.apple.com/nz/podcast/b...
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Old #Uyghur was descended from a vertically written form of #cursive #Sogdian. This #alphabet was used in 8-17 c. CE to write #medieval #Turkic languages, #Chinese, #Mongolian, #Tibetan, and #Arabic.
Full page: tinyurl.com/4nfcp52u
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
Full page: tinyurl.com/4nfcp52u
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
February 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Old #Uyghur was descended from a vertically written form of #cursive #Sogdian. This #alphabet was used in 8-17 c. CE to write #medieval #Turkic languages, #Chinese, #Mongolian, #Tibetan, and #Arabic.
Full page: tinyurl.com/4nfcp52u
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
Full page: tinyurl.com/4nfcp52u
#writingscripts
#linguistics
#history
#art
#map
#matuww
When an assessment outcome is unfavourable, it is imperative to focus on refining the instruction rather than altering the assessment itself.
February 11, 2025 at 11:37 AM
When an assessment outcome is unfavourable, it is imperative to focus on refining the instruction rather than altering the assessment itself.
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I really love this approach by Steve Kaufmann for teaching languages in the classroom. He also speaks to the Canadian education context directly and outlines some solutions to our terrible outcomes in teaching french in our public schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jqs...
How to use YouTube to boost your language skills
YouTube video by Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve
www.youtube.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I really love this approach by Steve Kaufmann for teaching languages in the classroom. He also speaks to the Canadian education context directly and outlines some solutions to our terrible outcomes in teaching french in our public schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jqs...
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The word "fight" comes from a word that used to mean to comb/shear. Since trying to shear a sheep can be tough, the metaphorical meaning took over and people began to use it to first mean struggling in general, then finally combat
#linguistics
#linguistics
January 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The word "fight" comes from a word that used to mean to comb/shear. Since trying to shear a sheep can be tough, the metaphorical meaning took over and people began to use it to first mean struggling in general, then finally combat
#linguistics
#linguistics
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How do Philadelphians pronounce 'Passyunk'? It's complicated.
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
Are we all saying ‘Passyunk’ wrong?
The word Passyunk today is something of a defining Philadelphia word. We found five different pronunciations.
www.inquirer.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How do Philadelphians pronounce 'Passyunk'? It's complicated.
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
Really appreciate how their first reference is to the original Lenape version(s)
h/t @kendraserra.bsky.social
🧪 🐦🐦
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Important work on large language models and discrimination here. Good timing, given yesterday's UK government announcement about the 'mainlining' of AI (🙄).
techxplore.com/news/2025-01...
techxplore.com/news/2025-01...
Bias and discrimination in AI: Why sociolinguistics holds the key to better LLMs and a fairer world
The language "engines" that power generative artificial intelligence (AI) are plagued by a wide range of issues that can hurt society, most notably through the spread of misinformation and discriminat...
techxplore.com
January 14, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Important work on large language models and discrimination here. Good timing, given yesterday's UK government announcement about the 'mainlining' of AI (🙄).
techxplore.com/news/2025-01...
techxplore.com/news/2025-01...
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'With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them'. #linguistics 🐦🐦 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
From Igbo to Angika: how to save the world’s 3,000 endangered languages
With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
'With half of all languages predicted to die out in decades, activists are turning to online tools to preserve them'. #linguistics 🐦🐦 www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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New #OpenAccess article in @sociologicalreview.bsky.social >>
Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and John E. Richardson:
Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and John E. Richardson:
Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis - Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey, John E. Richardson, 2025
There has been a dramatic surge in uses of big data analytics and automated methods to detect and remove hate speech from social media, with these methods deplo...
journals.sagepub.com
January 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
New #OpenAccess article in @sociologicalreview.bsky.social >>
Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and John E. Richardson:
Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and John E. Richardson:
Learning from online hate speech and digital racism: From automated to diffractive methods in social media analysis
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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A colleague on X has suggested every linguist should brush up on their von Humboldt, de Saussure, Bloomfield, Boas, Sapir, Harris, and Chomsky.
Who else would you add to the list?
#linguistics 🐦
Who else would you add to the list?
#linguistics 🐦
January 7, 2025 at 1:45 PM
A colleague on X has suggested every linguist should brush up on their von Humboldt, de Saussure, Bloomfield, Boas, Sapir, Harris, and Chomsky.
Who else would you add to the list?
#linguistics 🐦
Who else would you add to the list?
#linguistics 🐦
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I'll be running a professional development workshop for our Linguistics PhDs on non-traditional career paths. What advice should I give them? What resources should I share?
Here's what I shared last time - thanks @hadaskotek.bsky.social!
hkotek.com/blog/altac-j...
www.lsadc.org/AF_MemberCom...
Here's what I shared last time - thanks @hadaskotek.bsky.social!
hkotek.com/blog/altac-j...
www.lsadc.org/AF_MemberCom...
January 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
I'll be running a professional development workshop for our Linguistics PhDs on non-traditional career paths. What advice should I give them? What resources should I share?
Here's what I shared last time - thanks @hadaskotek.bsky.social!
hkotek.com/blog/altac-j...
www.lsadc.org/AF_MemberCom...
Here's what I shared last time - thanks @hadaskotek.bsky.social!
hkotek.com/blog/altac-j...
www.lsadc.org/AF_MemberCom...
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An #article I co-authored w/ @markturin.bsky.social, N̓a̓ṇ̓gáinúx̌v & @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social is live on @theconversation.com!
"Ensuring accurate character #encoding that is predictable on all operating systems is a cornerstone of #language justice"
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so... #langsky
"Ensuring accurate character #encoding that is predictable on all operating systems is a cornerstone of #language justice"
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so... #langsky
Why is it so hard to type in Indigenous languages?
A recent update to the Unicode Standard means that Haíɫzaqvḷa can finally be fully written and read on all digital platforms.
theconversation.com
December 19, 2024 at 5:19 PM
An #article I co-authored w/ @markturin.bsky.social, N̓a̓ṇ̓gáinúx̌v & @kevinkingfontmaker.bsky.social is live on @theconversation.com!
"Ensuring accurate character #encoding that is predictable on all operating systems is a cornerstone of #language justice"
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so... #langsky
"Ensuring accurate character #encoding that is predictable on all operating systems is a cornerstone of #language justice"
theconversation.com/why-is-it-so... #langsky
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Hello resident linguist here and PhD in English. This is true. AAVE as a language has rules that negate the way we are taught to speak and it is culturally specific. You cannot learn AAVE if you did not grow up speaking it. You will not understand the linguistic nuances.
aave really is a hard language to learn
December 14, 2024 at 1:40 PM
Hello resident linguist here and PhD in English. This is true. AAVE as a language has rules that negate the way we are taught to speak and it is culturally specific. You cannot learn AAVE if you did not grow up speaking it. You will not understand the linguistic nuances.
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Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process.
For $250. For her classroom…
For $250. For her classroom…
December 12, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Every time I read the local news and see a teacher who was awarded a $250 grant for her classroom, I understand that she spent hours of her own time applying for it. Writing it. Going through a submission process.
For $250. For her classroom…
For $250. For her classroom…
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Introducing: the Lingcomm Bibliography of research:
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
Lingcomm Bibliography
Lingcomm Bibliography bit.ly/lingcomm-biblio Maintained by: Lauren Gawne & Jess Kruk Last updated: Dec 2024 What is in this bibliography? For the purposes of this bibliography, ‘lingcomm’ is the cre...
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December 5, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Introducing: the Lingcomm Bibliography of research:
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
bit.ly/lingcomm-bib...
I've been tinkering on this project with Jess Kruk. Hoping we'll be able to keep adding existing work as well as new things coming out. #lingcomm
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As Kate Price, a Brit living in Berlin, explains about speaking German:
“There is definitely a parabola – one drink, getting more confident; two drinks, feeling eloquent; but three drinks, probably starting to slide down the other side of the curve”. 😊🍷🍷
#polyglot #LangSky
“There is definitely a parabola – one drink, getting more confident; two drinks, feeling eloquent; but three drinks, probably starting to slide down the other side of the curve”. 😊🍷🍷
#polyglot #LangSky
December 13, 2024 at 2:34 AM
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#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Language and Place
Cambridge Core - Sociolinguistics - Language and Place
www.cambridge.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:14 PM
#linguistics Blue Sky-ers -- check out my book with Paul Reed, 'Language and Place', coming out *OPEN ACCESS* Jan 16, 2025! It's part of the Cambridge Elements in Sociolinguistics series, & offers advice to sociolinguists looking to engage more with place theory www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Captions confer comprehension advantages up through advanced levels of L2 proficiency - only at highly-advanced levels (C2 in the Common European Framework) does this advantage seem to dissipate.
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pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ss...
When to switch captions off? Exploring the effects of L2 proficiency and vocabulary knowledge on comprehension of captioned and uncaptioned TV
| Studies in Second Language Learning and Teach...
pressto.amu.edu.pl
December 12, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Captions confer comprehension advantages up through advanced levels of L2 proficiency - only at highly-advanced levels (C2 in the Common European Framework) does this advantage seem to dissipate.
pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ss...
pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/ss...
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Linguists, is there actually work on this kind of unconventionalized onomatopoeia? 🐦🐦
The weirdest thing about writing comics is having to sound out special effects so I can write them in the script. Sitting at my little laptop muttering “zzzzzzzhhhhhh-krk” to myself and wondering if that’ll read enough like Blast Of Electricity
December 1, 2024 at 4:39 AM
Linguists, is there actually work on this kind of unconventionalized onomatopoeia? 🐦🐦
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congrats to bluesky team for building such a successful social media network! i can tell they're succeeding because the numerosity and overall tedium of my reply guys are beginning to resemble height of twitter
November 15, 2024 at 11:26 PM
congrats to bluesky team for building such a successful social media network! i can tell they're succeeding because the numerosity and overall tedium of my reply guys are beginning to resemble height of twitter
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This was quite good fun to do
youtu.be/mey9EsOwhDo?...
youtu.be/mey9EsOwhDo?...
Linguist Answers Word Origin Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
YouTube video by WIRED
youtu.be
October 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM
This was quite good fun to do
youtu.be/mey9EsOwhDo?...
youtu.be/mey9EsOwhDo?...
I paid a respect to the shaman, elders, and chieftains of Higaonon #tribe, an ethno-linguistic group in the #Philippines, through a ritual and conducted a community-based theater production to show their almost forgotten traditions.
For the Lumads of Mindanao 🇵🇭
#culture #linguistics
For the Lumads of Mindanao 🇵🇭
#culture #linguistics
November 16, 2024 at 12:13 PM
I paid a respect to the shaman, elders, and chieftains of Higaonon #tribe, an ethno-linguistic group in the #Philippines, through a ritual and conducted a community-based theater production to show their almost forgotten traditions.
For the Lumads of Mindanao 🇵🇭
#culture #linguistics
For the Lumads of Mindanao 🇵🇭
#culture #linguistics
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theconversation.com/words-such-a... In case you haven't read it. #Linguistics
Words such as racist slurs can literally hurt – here’s the science
Research has disproven the saying ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me’.
theconversation.com
November 16, 2024 at 10:43 AM
theconversation.com/words-such-a... In case you haven't read it. #Linguistics
While promoting ind. lang. thru signages is beneficial to the vitality of an ethno-ling group, here is a case from the #linguisticlandscape of Chiapas, Mexico 🇲🇽 that shows otherwise. Coca-Cola weaponized language and hijacked culture. Now, these IPs became loyal to the brand. #langsky #linguistics
January 21, 2024 at 6:47 AM
While promoting ind. lang. thru signages is beneficial to the vitality of an ethno-ling group, here is a case from the #linguisticlandscape of Chiapas, Mexico 🇲🇽 that shows otherwise. Coca-Cola weaponized language and hijacked culture. Now, these IPs became loyal to the brand. #langsky #linguistics