Thinking Linguistically
@thinklinguistic.bsky.social
Thinking Linguistically is a YouTube channel about linguistics, science, nature, language, and the world. Suggestions for videos very much welcome.
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I have just started a YouTube channel about #linguistics!
Thinking Linguistically
A channel about linguistics, language, and what studying them can teach us about our world and the universe. Because there's lots of people analyzing Language using borrowed approaches (social, biolog...
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Oh hey it’s that YouTube channel that I am!
Vowel harmony encounter in the wild
September 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Vowel harmony encounter in the wild
This is what we’ve been busy doing instead of YouTube editing
September 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is what we’ve been busy doing instead of YouTube editing
Long time no videos. They’re still coming, don’t worry.
September 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Long time no videos. They’re still coming, don’t worry.
Is uncompletedly a word?
April 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Is uncompletedly a word?
New video on dog butts and timeslip in communicative systems. Find it here: youtu.be/9Z09SO-hThI
#prattle 💬 #🗣️💬 #dogs #butts
#prattle 💬 #🗣️💬 #dogs #butts
dog butts and temporal relativity in communication systems
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April 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
New video on dog butts and timeslip in communicative systems. Find it here: youtu.be/9Z09SO-hThI
#prattle 💬 #🗣️💬 #dogs #butts
#prattle 💬 #🗣️💬 #dogs #butts
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Abkhaz looking at Central Chadic
April 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Abkhaz looking at Central Chadic
New video up today, featuring some amusing language names and some thoughts on the problem of naming languages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQR...
#linguistics #linguisticshumor #langsky #africansolutions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQR...
#linguistics #linguisticshumor #langsky #africansolutions
Names are stupid: they are all just silly, temporary, confusable, labels
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April 10, 2025 at 12:37 PM
New video up today, featuring some amusing language names and some thoughts on the problem of naming languages.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQR...
#linguistics #linguisticshumor #langsky #africansolutions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QQR...
#linguistics #linguisticshumor #langsky #africansolutions
I think I don’t have the working memory to solve @nytgames.bsky.social #Letterboxed in one word, if that’s ever possible. But two is a fun challenge.
April 5, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I think I don’t have the working memory to solve @nytgames.bsky.social #Letterboxed in one word, if that’s ever possible. But two is a fun challenge.
Is McWhorter the Joe Rogan of contemporary linguistics?
For anyone who needs a reminder about why the linguists want nothing to do with McWhorter
Wild to be up against naked fascism and the dismantling of human rights, separation of powers and free speech and be like man these guys kidnapping people and sending them to camps are making me just as worried as the wokes who hate when you say slurs. American centrism is awesome
April 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Is McWhorter the Joe Rogan of contemporary linguistics?
Gee English has a lot of negation prefixes. Why so many?
un-
non-
ill-/irr-/in-
anti-
a-/an-
Non negating:
re-
locational Latinate ones (circum-, ex-, trans-, etc)
un-
non-
ill-/irr-/in-
anti-
a-/an-
Non negating:
re-
locational Latinate ones (circum-, ex-, trans-, etc)
April 5, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Gee English has a lot of negation prefixes. Why so many?
un-
non-
ill-/irr-/in-
anti-
a-/an-
Non negating:
re-
locational Latinate ones (circum-, ex-, trans-, etc)
un-
non-
ill-/irr-/in-
anti-
a-/an-
Non negating:
re-
locational Latinate ones (circum-, ex-, trans-, etc)
I would also accept studying how humans react to hype
I am *so sick* of generative language models being used for studying anything other than how generative language models work.
April 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I would also accept studying how humans react to hype
Reflecting on Sharpeville for Human Rights Day
youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ
Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service
#youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid
youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ
Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service
#youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid
Reflecting on Sharpeville for Human Rights Day
YouTube video by Thinking Linguistically
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April 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Reflecting on Sharpeville for Human Rights Day
youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ
Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service
#youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid
youtu.be/DA0xNUa2QFQ
Better late than never, just like the South African Postal Service
#youtube #history #humanrightsday #sharpeville #SAhistory #postapartheid
Does anyone else ever randomly match up the meter in a song with an arbitrary phrase from another context? Is it just me?
youtube.com/shorts/2C4o4...
#silly #linguistics #jokes #prosody #syntaxjoke #gender #agreement
youtube.com/shorts/2C4o4...
#silly #linguistics #jokes #prosody #syntaxjoke #gender #agreement
I smell sex and gender agreement
YouTube video by Thinking Linguistically
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April 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Does anyone else ever randomly match up the meter in a song with an arbitrary phrase from another context? Is it just me?
youtube.com/shorts/2C4o4...
#silly #linguistics #jokes #prosody #syntaxjoke #gender #agreement
youtube.com/shorts/2C4o4...
#silly #linguistics #jokes #prosody #syntaxjoke #gender #agreement
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Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
March 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Hey. The fragmentation of the social media landscape has been hard on indie #scicomm 🧪 projects
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
So if you'd like to follow a podcast that's enthusiastic about #linguistics, could you check out @lingthusiasm.bsky.social?
And if you think your followers might like to, could you give this a repost?
Just posted a new short: youtube.com/shorts/jOcW1...
The #shortest #academic #journal paper ever
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March 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Just posted a new short: youtube.com/shorts/jOcW1...
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1000 and 1, this was fun
March 26, 2025 at 3:33 PM
1000 and 1, this was fun
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Pope Francis Flips Off Crowd From Balcony
March 24, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Pope Francis Flips Off Crowd From Balcony
Somehow this has passed 1000 views!😮
Georgian words look so much like pretend African language words that I had to make a video about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7E-...
#georgian #chishona #lingcomm #scicomm #langsky #🗣️💬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7E-...
#georgian #chishona #lingcomm #scicomm #langsky #🗣️💬
Is Georgian an African Language?
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March 24, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Somehow this has passed 1000 views!😮
Georgian words look so much like pretend African language words that I had to make a video about it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7E-...
#georgian #chishona #lingcomm #scicomm #langsky #🗣️💬
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7E-...
#georgian #chishona #lingcomm #scicomm #langsky #🗣️💬
Is Georgian an African Language?
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March 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’m experimenting with different filming options. Expect the next video to be better and/or worse quality. There will probably be awkward jump cuts based on inter-device latency.
March 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I’m experimenting with different filming options. Expect the next video to be better and/or worse quality. There will probably be awkward jump cuts based on inter-device latency.
New video coming about senses, modalities, and which ones are amenable to Language
March 8, 2025 at 10:47 AM
New video coming about senses, modalities, and which ones are amenable to Language
600 people have watched this. 😮
March 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
600 people have watched this. 😮
I’m making a series of short videos about some of my favorite example words. I just finished the first one!
🗣️💬
youtu.be/aSvl3qTrIjs?...
🗣️💬
youtu.be/aSvl3qTrIjs?...
'YOU GATHER(ed) WOOD'
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March 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I’m making a series of short videos about some of my favorite example words. I just finished the first one!
🗣️💬
youtu.be/aSvl3qTrIjs?...
🗣️💬
youtu.be/aSvl3qTrIjs?...