"Very entertaining and informative book that covers everything you'd want to know about cats online! I especially liked the sections on the jargon used in cat communities. Must read for any cat lover!" (Review on Amazon)
🧪 #cats #caturday
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Bookstaversary of my book on this #WorldBookDay: "Purrieties of Language" came out two years ago.

It still does not get old 🐈‍⬛ 🧪 #linguistics

Got a newsletter today from @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social Yule was the very first linguistics book I read back in ---- and I want to get my hands on The Sounds of English, and well Purrieties (no further questions your honour)

Be Optimeowstic

Optimeowstic is s first occurrence for me!

Btw, the artist is really awesome: Limhenswee

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My Italian meowlogism find of today: Sanremiao

🎤 𝗕𝗘𝗡𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗨𝗧𝗜 𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗔𝗡𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗔𝗢! 😻

Anche i nostri mici hanno dato il via al festival più atteso dell’anno… ma in versione felina!

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From ye meowy olde England - Cats in Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary (1898-1905): boar cat (tomcat), scattle cat (thieving mischievous cat), tibcat (female cat), to meowl (to cry like a cat) #dialectology #linguistics 🧪 #caturday

I have made a screenshot of the image in my book (ebook format), I have also included a map of "meow"

Using IPA to transcribe meowing, purring and hissing #phonetics 🧪 #Caturday

When you research something that comes up in the most (un)likely places, you know you have chosen the perfect field: "caligo campurr" in Animal Crossing Pocket Camp. There's cats and cat inspired language in other games too

I love my research ❤️ 🧪 🐦🐦

To be filed under: silly fun linguistics

Cats and memes are often seen as synonymous on the Internet. Yet, as a linguist I would always argue that true synonyms do not exist in a language what with all the different meanings, overtones, and connotations. Happy #Caturday and #SturgeonSaturday to all of you 🧪
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A sciency image for #Caturday: it displays a few moments of Caturday tweets posted on a Caturday, visualised with #Gephi. It shows how pawpular the hashtag is

Well, I did that at the time we could still use the twitter API and collect data. 🧪

Wishing all scientist with cats a Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛ 😻

So this is my favourite graph: the frequency of #Caturday tweets. Incidentally or not, it looks like cat ears, doesn't it?
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Coming this week on my "Purrspectives in Language" newsletter:
🐾 a linguistic view at interspecies family (research paper)
🐾 memes (digital trends)
🐾 meowlogisms (data collection)

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#SciComm #Linguistics 🧪

More on kitty loafs/loaves: here it is "loafers loaves" #cat #CatToys

Is your cat Team Loafs or Team Loaves? 😻🍞🥖

#purrieties found on Instagram

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Stage 2 of zoomies "mothership"

Just in case you're looking for a Christmas purresent for a cat lover, what about my book: Purrieties of Language. How We Talk about Cats Online

It's about cats and language: catt, catte, meowlogisms, LOLspeak. Available on amazon and other bookshops
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#cat #language

Look what I made! 🦋
With help from Scholar Goggler scholargoggler.com

"Meowza hoomans, I have got some #linguistic catnip for you. Get it delivered to your 📦 inBOXes for free. 🐾 Join me in my purr-suit here: steadyhq.com/de/purrspect...

The #newsletter "Purrspectives in Language. Where #language purrs and #cats have accents" is my new project.

I have two cats and I collect #meows