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Florent Moncomble
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Senior Lecturer in English linguistics, Université d'Artois | morphosyntax, pragmatics, corpus linguistics | Linguiste atterré @tract-linguistes.org | VP & webmaster @saesfrance.org | disability, autism | 🚴 | ☘️
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Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org · 1d
📣 Major update to X-Scraper, which enables users to create corpora of tweets without the need for a subscription to X's unaffordable API: each tweet's full data/metadata is now available to include in the output file (except for TXT files, for now).

fmoncomble.github.io/X-scraper/

#linguistics
A screenshot of X-Scraper's interface superimposed on a page of search results from X. A message reads: "Your are currently limited to 44 request(s) by the 𝕏 API: to avoid blocking, scrolling will be staggered by several seconds if you scrape more than 880 tweets. Your rate limit will be restored to 50 requests at 09:54:38." Below is a box where the user can set a limit to the number of tweets to scrape, anad a button that reads "Start scraping" A screenshot of the dialog which offers the possibility to select the data/metadata the user wants to include in the output file. Each tweet's full text, author's screen_name and URL are selected by default. There is a checkbox to anonymize teets, a dropdown menu to select a file format and a download button. When you choose XLSX as the output format, a checkbox can be ticked to format the worksheet as a table in Excel.
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fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
📣 Major update to X-Scraper, which enables users to create corpora of tweets without the need for a subscription to X's unaffordable API: each tweet's full data/metadata is now available to include in the output file (except for TXT files, for now).

fmoncomble.github.io/X-scraper/

#linguistics
A screenshot of X-Scraper's interface superimposed on a page of search results from X. A message reads: "Your are currently limited to 44 request(s) by the 𝕏 API: to avoid blocking, scrolling will be staggered by several seconds if you scrape more than 880 tweets. Your rate limit will be restored to 50 requests at 09:54:38." Below is a box where the user can set a limit to the number of tweets to scrape, anad a button that reads "Start scraping" A screenshot of the dialog which offers the possibility to select the data/metadata the user wants to include in the output file. Each tweet's full text, author's screen_name and URL are selected by default. There is a checkbox to anonymize teets, a dropdown menu to select a file format and a download button. When you choose XLSX as the output format, a checkbox can be ticked to format the worksheet as a table in Excel.
January 14, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Caveat: because it works by scrolling the page to intercept incoming tweets as they are being displayed, it is wayyyyy slower than what the API can offer. But unless you have $5,000 a month to spend on a subscription to a *limited* version of the X API, this is as good as it gets!
A screenshot of X's API subscription tiers: - for free, you get 100 tweets a month; - for $200 a month, 15,000 tweets a month; - for $5,000, 1 million tweets a month — still less than what the free Twitter API used to offer before Musk's takeover.
January 14, 2026 at 9:06 AM
fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org
📣 Major update to X-Scraper, which enables users to create corpora of tweets without the need for a subscription to X's unaffordable API: each tweet's full data/metadata is now available to include in the output file (except for TXT files, for now).

fmoncomble.github.io/X-scraper/

#linguistics
A screenshot of X-Scraper's interface superimposed on a page of search results from X. A message reads: "Your are currently limited to 44 request(s) by the 𝕏 API: to avoid blocking, scrolling will be staggered by several seconds if you scrape more than 880 tweets. Your rate limit will be restored to 50 requests at 09:54:38." Below is a box where the user can set a limit to the number of tweets to scrape, anad a button that reads "Start scraping" A screenshot of the dialog which offers the possibility to select the data/metadata the user wants to include in the output file. Each tweet's full text, author's screen_name and URL are selected by default. There is a checkbox to anonymize teets, a dropdown menu to select a file format and a download button. When you choose XLSX as the output format, a checkbox can be ticked to format the worksheet as a table in Excel.
January 14, 2026 at 9:06 AM
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Ah oups 😅🫣
January 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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C’est la vue depuis la distillerie Depaz au-dessus de St Pierre ? (C’est sans doute pas ça mais dans mon souvenir ça y ressemble !)
January 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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Et les commentaires en mode « il oublie de dire qu’elle était veuve et ancienne combattante » tombent dans le piège de la justification, juste dans l’autre sens… 😩
January 8, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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Non mais la paresse argumentative abyssale d'Eugénie Bastié ce matin sur Europe 1, c'est une masterclass. Elle critique la décision du Conseil d’État concernant l'écriture inclusive.
Contexte : une association a attaqué une plaque commémorative au motif qu'elle ne serait pas écrite en français. ⬇️
January 7, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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arnaudhoedt.bsky.social
Où on apprend pourquoi Alain Bentolila raconte n'importe quoi.
👇🏻📻👂🏻@tractlinguistes
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Combien les Français utilisent-ils de mots ?
Combien de mots possède un Français moyen ? Peut-on les compter ? Les idées reçues sur le vocabulaire des jeunes sont-elles fondées ou simplement le reflet d’une panique morale ? Arnaud Hoedt décortiq...
www.radiofrance.fr
January 4, 2026 at 9:27 AM
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🤣
January 2, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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‘Expert’ should be on a universal all-time list of banished words
January 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM
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Since the web app is easier to keep up to date, I will soon no longer maintain the plugin. Already, the web app has functionalities that the plugin does not have, such as anonymisation, metadata selection and better .xlsx file creation.
A screenshot of RedditScraper, showing the search interface with various fields, dropdown menus and the search button. At the bottom are citation guidelines. A screenshot of the metadata selection dialog, with checkboxes to choose which metadata to include in the corpus file. Post author and creation date are checked by default. There is checkbox to anonymise posts. A dropdown menu to select file format, and a download button.
December 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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📣 RedditScraper, already a browser plugin, now also lives as a web app to help you build corpora of Reddit posts for discourse analysis.

#linguistics #discourseanalysis
RedditScraper
A web app for collecting corpora of Reddit posts for discourse analysis
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
December 30, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Ach.
Screenshot of the NY Times Spelling Bee. The word entered is ‘delulu’, but the game rejects it: ‘not in word list’
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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paulecohen.bsky.social
Paul Cohen has published his Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education:

DON'T USE IT

FOR ANYTHING

EVER
historians.org American Historical Association @historians.org · Aug 5
The AHA has published Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education, offering a disciplinary approach to AI that focuses on the specific needs and challenges of history educators. 🗃️
Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education
These 14 foundational principles are meant to assist educators and administrators in crafting AI policies suited to local circumstances and the specific needs of students.
www.historians.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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saesfrance.org
Veille documentaire novembre 2025

https://saesfrance.org/veille-documentaire-novembre-2025/
December 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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yvanspijk.bsky.social
The French word ‘employer’ (to emploi) has the same origin as ‘impliquer’ (to imply).

The former was inherited from Latin, while the latter was borrowed from it later.

They’re called doublets.

Stay tuned for doublets in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, Galician, Dutch and English.
December 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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Marronnier n.m. (journ.) Bouleau abattu à la chêne pour des feuilles sans charme dont c'est la raison d'hêtre.
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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That’s a whole nother thing… ou pas !
'Whole Nother': Wrong or Right?
The history of 'nother' goes back longer than you'd think
www.merriam-webster.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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anneabeille.bsky.social
Scène de la vie de linguiste:
Lui: ....et puis je me suis en allé
Moi: ??
Lui (gêné): ça ne se dit pas?
Moi: Si, puisque tu viens de le dire...
Lui: Mais est-ce que c'est correct?
Moi: Je suis linguiste, je ne réponds pas..
Mais si tu veux savoir pourquoi ça m'intéresse:
December 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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medericgc.bsky.social
Derniers cadeaux ?
N’oubliez pas de mettre au pied du sapin le Cahier d’activités des Linguistes atterrées !
(Regardez où Momo crèche…)

@tract-linguistes.org
Cahier d’activités avec la tête de Molière qui tire la langue en couverture posé sur une crèche avec des santons bergers en bas
December 20, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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cbenzitoun.tract-linguistes.org
Celui-ci, celle-ci ou lui, elle ?
De l'emploi d'elle et lui comme pronoms renvoyant à des objets et non à des humains.
C'est l'occasion aussi de faire un tour sur le blog bling, lequel regorge de trouvailles linguistiques en tous genres.
Bonne lecture !
bling.hypotheses.org/8528
Laver elle, préférer lui
On entend, de la part de (plus ou moins) jeunes locutrices : E., 4 ans (en désignant un feutre) : “Tu peux prendre lui.” I., 6 ans (en parlant de robes) : “Je veux que tu laves elle, mais elle je vais...
bling.hypotheses.org
December 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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jessesword.com
Swearing makes you stronger!

Richard Stevens (of the "swearing makes you more resistant to pain" study) is back, with a study showing that swearing helps you release your inhibitions and give it your all.

Attn @stronglang.bsky.social

psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
APA PsycNet
psycnet.apa.org
December 18, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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'Because we're not brilliantly good at speaking other languages, a lot more people want to come here than Brits are able to go there.' The irony.

Maybe, just maybe, ditch the 'value for money' rhetoric, maintain the provision of modern languages and work on incentives for Brits to learn them? 🤔
December 18, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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#UK #Erasmus

Hillman: 'Will we get value for money from it?'

'Value for money' talk is what is closing humanities and modern languages departments across UK universities.
If you think broadening your young people's cultural horizons isn't worth the money, you're welcome to the Ignoramus programme.
Photo of a TV set showing the BBC News "The Context" programme. The bottom banner says "Erasmus allows students to study in Europe". Anita McVeigh, the anchor, is sitting on the left, her guest Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute, on the right of a round glass table.
December 18, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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La dernière mise à jour de l'année du Corpus Académie française est en ligne sur #Ortolang :
www.ortolang.fr/market/corpo...

#linguistique #linguistics #AcadémieFrançaise
December 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM