What was language like a year ago? Ten years ago? A hundred? What about before that?
We’re climbing into the Linguistic Time Machine and finding out. Along the way, we’ll explain the resources that linguists use. And we’ll try to get away from English once in a while.
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From the slides
Have we fallen out of love with Wordle?
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64627206
2015 Word of the Year is singular “they”
https://americandialect.org/2015-word-of-the-year-is-singular-they
We Asked Linguists Why People Are Adding -Ussy to Every Word
https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/bussy-trend-linguists-explain.html
[PDF] American Dialect Society Selects “-ussy” as 2022 Word of the Year
https://americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2022-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf
Large language models, explained with a minimum of math and jargon
https://www.understandingai.org/p/large-language-models-explained-with
My AI is racist | Reddit, r/ProgrammerHumor
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/13nnm4o/my_ai_is_racist/
Because Race Car | Know Your meme
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/because-race-car
Nonbinary pronouns are older than you think
https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/705317
Singular ‘they’ voted word of the decade by US linguists
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/04/singular-they-voted-word-of-the-decade-by-us-linguists
Here’s why some LGBTQ youth are now embracing the nonbinary pronoun ‘it/its’
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/heres-why-some-lgbtq-youth-are-embracing-non-binary-pronoun-it-its-223331366.html
The WIRED Guide to Emoji
https://www.wired.com/story/guide-emoji/
Lord’s Prayer/Our Father: A Diachronic Data Set for English
https://www.wtamu.edu/~mjacobsen/lp.htm
Noah Webster’s Spelling Wins and Fails
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/noah-websters-spelling-wins-and-fails
History | Because Language
https://becauselanguage.com/history/
Move over Shakespeare, teen girls are the real language disruptors
https://qz.com/474671/move-over-shakespeare-teen-girls-are-the-real-language-disruptors
Foreign-language influences in English | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-language_influences_in_English
A language family tree – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-language-family-tree-in-pictures
Telling Tales in Proto-Indo-European
https://www.archaeology.org/exclusives/articles/1302-proto-indo-european-schleichers-fable
Not from the slides
The Zanclean megaflood: The largest flood in the history of Earth?
https://www.mbari.org/project/the-zanclean-megaflood-the-largest-flood-in-the-history-of-earth/
Bad Romance: An Introduction to the Appendix Probi
https://dannybate.com/2023/01/21/bad-romance-an-introduction-to-the-appendix-probi/
Why the Australian Labor Party didn’t adopt the spelling ‘Labour’
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-02-07/why-the-australian-labor-party-is-not-spelled-labour/100789310
Norman Conquest | Britannica
https://www.britannica.com/event/Norman-Conquest
Spoken L1 Language: Judeo-Persian | Glottolog
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/jude1257
Tuʻi Tonga Empire | Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuʻi_Tonga_Empire
XKCD #1190 – Time: The Animated Film
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