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February 2023: #LingComm23 and liveshow
Hello! This month was the second International Conference on Linguistics Communication, #LingComm2023. I was extremely delighted to not be on the…
May 23
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Gretchen McCulloch
January 2023: Denver and deleted scenes
Hello! I started the year in Denver, Colorado at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, where I co-hosted the Five Minute Linguist…
May 22
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Gretchen McCulloch
February 2023
December 2022: New Zealand and “Uzhe” in The Atlantic
Hello! This month, I wrote a piece for The Atlantic for the first time! It’s about when the connection between spelling and pronunciation breaks down…
Feb 23
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Gretchen McCulloch
November 2022: Melbourne and Mastodon
Hello! I spent November in Melbourne, Australia, where I gave a talk about linguistics communication at La Trobe University, did lots of hanging out and…
Feb 22
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Gretchen McCulloch
October 2022: Visiting Singapore and Linguist Halloween
Hello! This month, I went to Singapore! It’s the beginning of my multi-month trip that’ll also take me to Australia in November and New Zealand in…
Feb 22
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Gretchen McCulloch
October 2022
September 2022: WorldCon, xkcd on Lingthusiasm, and IPA lens cloths
Hello! This month, I went to Chicago for WorldCon (ChiCon 8), in which I was on the panels Ask A Scientist, That's Not How That Works!, and Using SFF…
Oct 5, 2022
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Gretchen McCulloch
September 2022
August 2022: redesigning the International Phonetic Alphabet (to put in your pocket)
Hello! This month, we rethought the structure of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Okay, let me explain. The IPA is typically presented in a chart…
Sep 15, 2022
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Gretchen McCulloch
August 2022
July 2022: In which I get my brain scanned!
Hello! This month's Lingthusiasm episodes were a special double feature from my trip to Boston to get my brain scanned and finally discover whether I am…
Aug 24, 2022
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Gretchen McCulloch
June 2022: modals and a cool linguistics paper
Hello! This month I attended a local literary speculative fiction con, Scintillation, where I was on panels about swearing in science fiction and…
Aug 24, 2022
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Gretchen McCulloch
May 2022: 10th blogiversary and Japanese translation of Because Internet
Hello! In May, I hit my 10-year blogiversary on All Things Linguistic. I celebrated with two linkposts, one of the usual highlights from the past year…
Aug 24, 2022
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Gretchen McCulloch
May 2022
April 2022: #103papers, Lingthusiasm liveshow, and LingComm Grantees
Hello! This month, I started a new reading project! It's inspired by a paper by Evan Kidd and Rowena Garcia that came out last year, and which surveys…
May 17, 2022
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Gretchen McCulloch
March 2022: PIE Day and Memory Speaks
Hello! Here are some Pi Day (3rd month, 14th day) facts about the PIE (Proto-Indo-European). Both of these guys were named William Jones, confusingly…
May 16, 2022
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Gretchen McCulloch
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