Construction Grammar challenges traditional linguistics by treating language as stored patterns rather than abstract rules. Explore this very different approach.

open.substack.com/pub/linguist...
#Linguistics #grammar

He stripped linguistics down to science. No introspection. Just patterns, data, and rigour.
Was he brilliant, or blind to meaning?
Read more 👉
Leonard Bloomfield: Describing Language Without Meaning open.substack.com/pub/linguist...
#Linguistics #Bloomfield #Language

The book i bought and what it actually is! What happened?!

why does it need announcing?
odd sense of importance?

We are rehoming a cat that was left on the doorstep of a local vet. Not sure her age. She is TV obsessed, news, movies or YouTube videos for cats. Never had this before we our previous cats. She even prefer TV to a salmon and shrimp dinner! Anyone else with a cat like this?

Our little monster is not more! We were at his beck and call for nearly 18 years!
We have so many memories and he will be missed.

My bookshelves have collapsed!!!!

Do some people think it is real?

Someone who cannot read slid in my DM to offer me the chance of joining the illuminati.....
🤣🤪

I would recommend reading Alastair Pennycook "Language Assemblages" on crítica applied linguistics

Brunch with husband: egg benedict and nean Mojitos!

Still am for a while. I keep going back to show people the chrome extension that helps finding Twitter user on bsky and follow them easily

@bsky.app Hi! wondered why my profile on Bluesky mobile app an BlueSky web are not quite the same
Screenshots taken at the same time,
1.4K/2.3 followers/following on my phone but 1.3k/2.2k on my desktop browser. 100 difference
Flags showing on phone, only one flag showing on desktop.
just curious!

Obviously the real thing 🙄

How likely is it that Angelina Jolie is following me!?