LE TEMPS EST BON

french thing is comment ça pour dire crush on dit pain maintenant et une crush list c'est une boulangerie. je l'ai vu passer que deux fois pour l'instant alors jsp à quel point c'est rentré dans l'argot but this language and it's evolutions will never cease to fascinate me. so silly. here is my bakery of bad bitches. and my fav loaf.

Au lieu du traditionnel "Ça rentre part une oreille et ça ressort par l’autre", mon fils vient de me sortir "Ça rentre dans sa tête mais ça y fait pas grand chose"

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 linguistics nerds hang out and learn things! 

17 podcasts about linguistics

Lingthusiasm — A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! 

The Vocal Fries — Language discrimination and how to fight it

The History of English — From Proto-Indo-European to Shakespeare in 180 episodes (and still running!)

A Language I Love Is — Guests (some linguists, some not) talk about languages they love and why

En Clair — Forensic linguistics and literary detection

Because Language — New guests every episode discuss their linguistic interests

The Allusionist — Stories about language and the people who use it 

Subtitle — A podcast about languages and the people who speak them

Field Notes — Five seasons on linguistic fieldwork 

Tomayto Tomahto — Language meets cog sci, politics, history, law, anthropology, and more

Word of Mouth — A long-running and wide-ranging linguistics program on BBC 4.

Words Unravelled - A new and very well edited etymology podcast with popular creators RobWords and Jess Zafarris

Something Rhymes with Purple — Learn the background behind another word or phrase each episode

Lexitecture — A classic etymology podcast with a huge back catalogue

A Way with Words — A "lively and upbeat" public radio call-in show about language and culture

Språket — A radio program in Swedish answering listener questions about language. We don't speak Swedish, but this was the most-mentioned non-English content in our listener survey!

Living Voices — A podcast in Spanish about endangered languages of the Amazon

12 nonfiction books about linguistics

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch (Amazon; Bookshop) — A linguist shows how the internet is transforming the way we communicate

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die (Amazon; Bookshop) by David Crystal — A journey through the different subsystems of language 

That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships by  Deborah Tannen (Amazon; Bookshop) — A pioneering researcher on conversations gives advice on how they can go wrong

Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self by Julie Sedivy (Amazon; Bookshop) — Scientific and personal reflections on nostalgia, forgetting, and language loss

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building by David J Peterson (Amazon; Bookshop) — an accessible guide to making your own conlang 

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language by Arika Okrent (Amazon; Bookshop) — The history behind English's many oddities

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell (Amazon; Bookshop) — A well-researched pushback on sexist language ideology

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper (Amazon; Bookshop) — A lifelong lexicographer discusses the job and the things she's learned along the way 

Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren (Amazon; Bookshop) — A quick, funny tour of the quirks of 60 European languages

Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New by Felicity Meakins, Gari Tudor-Smith, and Paul Williams (Amazon; Bookshop) — The story of Australian indigenous languages' resistance and survival

Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan (Amazon; Bookshop) — A writers' style and grammar guide focused on real usage, not made-up rules

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles by Alex Bellos (Amazon; Bookshop) — Solve puzzles about writing, grammar, and meaning drawn from real and fictional languages

Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (Amazon; Bookshop) — An anthology of poems in endangered languages, with commentary

6 linguistically-inspired novels

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (Amazon; Bookshop) — Imagine a world where linguistics was as vital — and as ethically compromised — as engineering is in ours

True Biz by Sara Nović (Amazon; Bookshop) — Love, friendship, and struggle at a residential high school for the Deaf

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by by Mark Dunn (Amazon; Bookshop) — "A progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable" full of wordplay and weirdness

Semiosis by Sue Burke (Amazon; Bookshop) — Human space colonists communicate with sentient plants

Translation State by Ann Leckie (Amazon; Bookshop) — What does life look like for a perfectly genetically engineered alien–human translator? (Spoiler: weird, that's what.)

Stories of your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Amazon; Bookshop) — Includes the long short story that became Arrival, plus other reflections on humanity and change

13 linguistics youtube channels

Crash Course Linguistics — A whole linguistics course in 16 videos

Tom Scott's Language Files — Pithy language facts explained quickly and clearly

NativLang — Language reconstruction and the history of writing

Geoff Lindsay — Facts (and some scholarly opinions) about regional English pronunciation

The Ling Space — An educational channel all about linguistics

langfocus — A language factoid channel that digs deeper than many

K Klein — Language quirks, spelling reform, and a little conlanging

biblaridion — Teaching about conlanging and worldbuilding, with lots of linguistics along the way

RobWords — "A channel for lovers and learners of English"

Otherwords — "the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted"

LingoLizard — Widely spoken languages and their quirks, comparisons, and history

linguriosa — Spanish linguistics (in Spanish), including learning tips and linguistic history

human1011 — Quick accessible facts about linguistics (and sometimes other things) 

Simon Roper — Language evolution and historical English pronunciation

10 shortform video channels about linguistics (tiktok/reels)

etymologynerd — Internet speak, etymologies and more! (reels)

linguisticdiscovery — Writing systems, language families, and more (reels)

jesszafaris — Fun facts about words, etymologies, and more (reels)

cmfvoices — An audiobook director talks about the linguistics of voice acting (eels)

mixedlinguist — A linguistics professor comments on the language of place, identity, politics, technology, and more (reels)

landontalks — Linguistic quirks of the US South (reels)

sunnmcheaux — Language and culture from Harvard's first and only professor of Gullah (reels)

dexter.mp4 — Talks about many branches of science, but loves linguistics enough to have a linguisticsy tattoo (reels)

danniesbrain — Linguistics and psychology from a researcher who studies both (reels)

wordsatwork — Quick facts on languages, families, and linguistic concepts (reels)

the_language — The Ojibwe language — plus food, dancing, and more

19th century fashion plates, designs, etc.

(with late 18th and early 20th century plates)

Tagged by decade:

1790s | 1800s | 1810s | 1820s | 1830s | 1840s | 1850s | 1860s | 1870s | 1880s | 1890s | 1900s | 1910s | 1920s | 1930s | 1940s

Check out today’s plates.

Favorite 2024 reblogs.

Favorite 2024 posts.

Or check out the art, design, and fashion posts I reblog

Publications:

La Mode illustrée | La Mode nationale | Le Petit écho de la mode | La Mode | Journal des Dames et des modes | L'Art et la mode | Revue de la mode | Illustrirte Frauen-Zeitung | Les Modes | Beaux-arts des mode | The Delineator | La Mode Pratique | Harper's Bazar

Plates from this collage.

Moi: J'ai amélioré ma playlist ! :D

Tous mes amis (effrayés): Comment ça "amélioré" ???

On ne me laisse toujours pas la sono...

Si vous habitez en France et etes autiste, svp prenez 3 secondes pour aider des étudiant.es en socio mdr

(shooting my shot, just in case any of my followers can answer, even if you dont understand this post since its in french please share so it can reach more people!)

Dans le cadre d’un cours de Sociologie de la Santé, nous cherchions à enquêter des personnes autistes pour comprendre dans quelle mesure elles sentent que faire partie d’une minorité influence le processus de diagnostic officiel de l’autisme. Si vous pouviez prendre 5 minutes pour répondre (ou le partager à quelqu’un qui pourrait se sentir concerné) ça serait trop sympa ^^. On sait bien qu'en France, c'est assez difficile d'obtenir un diagnostic officiel, et encore plus quand on est pas un homme cisgenre/quand on est une personne racisée/d'un milieu social moins favorisé. Avec cette enquète on cherchais à mettre en avant le ressenti des personnes autistes à ce propos ("miorisées" ou non, d'ailleurs).

Google Docs

Questionnaire sur les facteurs influençant le diagnostic et la prise en charge de troubles du spectre autistique.

Dans le cadre du cours Domaines de recherches spécialisés en Santé de l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, nous réalisons une étude porta

Si vous répondez et voulez voir les résultats de notre petite enquète, vous pouvez laisser votre mail dans la dernière case de "choses à ajouter", à part ça, toutes les réponses sont anonymes.

Aussi si vous etes pas personnellement concernés mais connaissés des personnes qui pourraient l'etre svp partagez svp svp :).

Proposition à tous les gens qui giffent des trucs français : est-ce qu'on se ferait pas un tag spécifique ?

Il y a plusieurs tags pour suivre des trucs français (what the france, frenchblr, upthebaguette, french side of tumblr) mais tous les gifsets ne se retrouvent pas dedans et il faut passer pas mal de memes et autres avant de tomber sur des gifsets.

Ça nous permettrait de découvrir de nouveaux blogs à suivre et de découvrir des films/émission TV/séries françaises. Et ça permettrait de nous donner de la visibilité les uns et les autres pour partager plus facilement les gifsets, comme il y a des tags "tvarchive", "dailytvedit", etc. Mais c'est très utilisé pour tout plein de choses et pas facile de s'y retrouver pour voir des gifs de kaamelott, du bureau des légendes ou de la cité de la peur par exemple.

Ça pourrait être "frenchtv", "frenchfilm", "frenchtvfilm" ou "cinebaguette", "tvbaguette" pour décliner upthebaguette.

Ça vous tente ? [hésitez pas à partager même si vous faites pas des gifs pour que ça atteigne des gens qui font des gifs]

I think one of the Worst Things about wanting to find period clothing from other cultures, is trying to find fucking casual/work clothes. Like no, I do not want to see all these fancy intricate kimonos, I want to see jinbei, and field work outfits so I don't put a damn obi on this poor boy so he has a belt to hang his knife from.

Do it for the meme. http://blinkingguy.com

En plus, parce que c’est l’univers de Saiki K je voudrais que vous pouvez voir tous les femmes sont intelligentes jusqu’à elles sont dans un rayon de cinq mètres de Light où leurs QIs ses diminuees inexplicablement comme il y a une barrière de magique autour de lui

J’aime l’idée d’un crossover entre Saiki K et Death Note parce que j’imagine une scène avec Light et L à l’université dans un cours fairent leurs monologues longs sur si Light semble comme Kira et la caméra faire un zoom avant l’arrière de l’amphi où Saiki à dit mentalement «TAISEZ! VOUS!»