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linguistics lady, posting about books
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For anyone wondering why I spent so much time baking last summer....here's why!
Airs Feb 1
Airs Feb 1
January 13, 2026 at 6:08 PM
For anyone wondering why I spent so much time baking last summer....here's why!
Airs Feb 1
Airs Feb 1
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Finnish makes regular use of both: "ylihuomenna" for overmorrow, "toissapäivänä" for the day before yesterday. "Ylihuomenna" is very literally over-tomorrow, whereas "toissapäivänä" is more akin to other-day or second-day
Just texted a friend "can you remind me when you're around tomorrow/overmorrow" and I just think if a few of us really gave it a try suuuper casually we could bring back this word for day after tomorrow next year
December 31, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Finnish makes regular use of both: "ylihuomenna" for overmorrow, "toissapäivänä" for the day before yesterday. "Ylihuomenna" is very literally over-tomorrow, whereas "toissapäivänä" is more akin to other-day or second-day
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i almost named this episode “Get A Load Of This Fucking Idiot”
holy shit this guy SUCKS
December 30, 2025 at 6:45 PM
i almost named this episode “Get A Load Of This Fucking Idiot”
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GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
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Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Whenever this is mentioned, it is obligatory to post xkcd 2381, in which @gretchenmcc.bsky.social shares forbidden linguistic knowledge with the masses.
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YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
November 16, 2025 at 11:25 PM
YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????
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Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
November 14, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
as soon as I move I'm gonna start a birdposting account. just postin birds at feeders and whatever
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
as soon as I move I'm gonna start a birdposting account. just postin birds at feeders and whatever
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not to be the average white woman but why is trader Joe's so good
October 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
not to be the average white woman but why is trader Joe's so good
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When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
August 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
When you register your name in the Icelandic phonebook you can choose to state your profession. And they have a pretty loose definition of what exactly a profession entails.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
This person for example has opted for „þjóðhetja“. It means „National Hero“.
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here's the list of book and other recs that we compiled for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social's 100 episodiversary, that's my most current rec list!
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
Lingthusiasm - 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics
lingthusiasm:
101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics
In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguisti...
lingthusiasm.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
here's the list of book and other recs that we compiled for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social's 100 episodiversary, that's my most current rec list!
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
💙📚 just finished Lady Macbeth and I have never seen a supposedly "feminist retelling" flop so hard lol. yeah let's take the badass gaslight gatekeep girlboss and make her a powerless teenager. yeah that's feminism
June 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
💙📚 just finished Lady Macbeth and I have never seen a supposedly "feminist retelling" flop so hard lol. yeah let's take the badass gaslight gatekeep girlboss and make her a powerless teenager. yeah that's feminism
💙📚 struggling to get through Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse; I'm sure it has very interesting things to say but boy have my reading skills left me
March 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
💙📚 struggling to get through Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse; I'm sure it has very interesting things to say but boy have my reading skills left me