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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 11d

World Champions! 💪 🌹

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England 33-13 Canada LIVE: Watch Women's Rugby World Cup final 2025 result, latest score & updates as England win

Watch live coverage with text and score updates as England face Canada in the final at Twickenham.

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 18d

The #IGDD comes to a close and we were able to check off a good few boxes. Thanks to all for playing (whether you were aware or not) #IGDD2025

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 20d

Day 1 #IGDD - a solid start, will we get house tomorrow? #IGDD2025

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 20d

Another conference, another speaker (man) who actively ignores the microphone 🥲

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 24d

Das Thema der Konferenz ist Dialog aber bisher haben nur Monologe stattgefunden 🥁

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 24d

Ich habe 2 von 3 richtig hervorgesagt: das crazy und ich checke 💅 #jugendwortdesjahres

Das crazy sollte gewinnen, goonen wird gewinnen weil masturbieren lustig

Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · 24d

Wer ist auch auf der #DGT2025 in Braunschweig dabei?

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jul 30

Das volle Video zu den Top 10 Jugendwörter des Jahres. Ja, ich muss dringend zum Friseur 🖖
#jugendwort2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1T...

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jul 29

Heute Abend cringe unterwegs bei RTL RON (und später RTL) zum Thema Jugendwort des Jahres. Das crazy...

Watch me live here um 18Uhr (danach in der Mediathek und auf YouTube verfügbar natürlich)

www.rontv.de/live/

RON TV - Livestream des RTL Regionalprogramms in der Metropolregion

Sehen Sie hier täglich Montag bis Freitags 18:00 Uhr - 18:30 Uhr RON TV im Livestream. RON TV ist das Regionalprogramm von RTL in der Metropolregion Rhein-Neckar. Hier erfahren Sie immer was in der Me...

www.rontv.de

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jul 27

Coming home status: its

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Three Lions

Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds · Football's Coming Home - Three Lions · Song · 1996

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jul 17

✨Happy World Emoji Day✨

Ich durfte mit ORF Topos über Emoji und Emoticons reden: topos.orf.at/emoji-geschi...

Dieses Jahr kommen auch 9 neue Emoji - ich tippe auf Apfelkern als Emoji des Jahres 2026 blog.emojipedia.org/draft-emoji-...

Digitale Revolution voller Missverständnisse - ORF Topos

Emotionen werden seit Menschengedenken in Symbole übersetzt. Aber in kaum einer Epoche haben Bildschriftzeichen die weltweite Alltagskommunikation so verändert und geprägt wie heute Emojis. Obwohl sic...

topos.orf.at

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jul 14

Another suggestion for linguistics conference bingo: unnecessary AI-generated images in the slides

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 16

"Ich spreche ohne Mikro, geht das?" Sollte niemals rhetorische Frage sein...

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 16

Aaaand at the very next conference: "you can probably understand me better without the microphone haha 🤡"

Microphone training for #mennersofacademia when?

Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 5

A possible extension for linguistics conference bingo: "I don't need the microphone, you can all hear me, right?"

🙄🙄🙄

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Katherine Calvert @katherine-calvert.bsky.social · Jun 12

Join me and the other @ags-gbi.bsky.social and @wigsblog.bsky.social PG/ECA reps online next Tues (17th June), 5-6pm to hear about the types of careers that recent German Studies PhD graduates are pursuing beyond academia.

Free to attend. All welcome. Register here: shorturl.at/KdDL7

Association of German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland @ags-gbi.bsky.social · Jun 11

📯Aufgepasst alle #PGR und #ECA Mitglieder der AGS!

Next week, our brilliant PG & ECA reps, @katherine-calvert.bsky.social & Joe Prestwich, will be talking-alongside their @wigsblog.bsky.social counterparts-to recent German Studies PhD graduates about careers beyond academia...

Details below👇👇

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Katja Politt @lingucat.bsky.social · Jun 11

Come and discuss "s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of
iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven 😎🤩" with @alexwillich.bsky.social @leftyveggie.bsky.social, Annelen Brunner, and me next year in Trier 👇

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Jun 10

Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)

(German version below) s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven (Workshop at DGfS Trier, 24.-27.02.2026) The workshop focuses on the formal and functional diversity of intensification, e.g. which strategies and constructions are used in linguistic expressions, in which contexts do they occur, as well as which semiotic elements can be intensified. Intensification is far more diverse than just lexicogrammatical phenomena, with phenomena occurring on on all communicative

dlvr.it

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 12

critics are already calling it "one of the books on DMC and corpus linguistics of all time"

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 12

🚨 New book alert 🚨

I heard you were wondering when the next edited collection on digitally-mediated communication/corpus linguistics would come out...

Pre-order this chunky mf for your library (30.6. is the release date btw) or read it for free #openaccess

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

Exploring digitally-mediated communication with corpora

Specialized corpora of the language of Computer-mediated Communication and Social Media are increasingly vital for the analysis of the "unparalleled and rapidly evolving diversity in terms of speakers...

www.degruyterbrill.com

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Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Jun 10

Confs: Intensification Workshop (DGfS 2026)

(German version below) s u u u u u p e r awesome patterns of iNtEnSiFiCaTiOn!!11eleven (Workshop at DGfS Trier, 24.-27.02.2026) The workshop focuses on the formal and functional diversity of intensification, e.g. which strategies and constructions are used in linguistic expressions, in which contexts do they occur, as well as which semiotic elements can be intensified. Intensification is far more diverse than just lexicogrammatical phenomena, with phenomena occurring on on all communicative

dlvr.it

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 5

Day 2 after the #IFGT2025 in Jyväskylä - it's House!

Now time for Karaoke with black metal and Finnish covers of Moskau by Dschjingis Khan

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 5

Whaaaa...

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · Jun 5

A possible extension for linguistics conference bingo: "I don't need the microphone, you can all hear me, right?"

🙄🙄🙄

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · May 28

Genocide Remembrance Day in Namibia ✊

The German government still doesn't want to pay reparations (instead offering increased "development aid" - a neocolonial term), despite extracting reparations from the Ovaherero and Nama communities

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/afri...

Namibia begeht erstmals nationalen Gedenktag für Opfer deutscher Verbrechen

Namibia begeht heute erstmals einen Gedenktag, um an die von Deutschen ermordeten Herero und Nama zu erinnern. Doch die Zeremonie wird überlagert von einem Streit zwischen den beiden Volksgruppen und ...

www.tagesschau.de

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Sascha Stollhans @saschastollhans.bsky.social · May 27

For anyone who would like to hear me muse about #languages, #education, #linguistics and #penguins, a recording of my inaugural lecture is now available: youtu.be/VACFboUKp_U
Thank you very much to @grabill.bsky.social and @emmacayley.bsky.social for their wonderful introduction and response!

Sascha Stollhans Inaugural Lecture: Watch your language!

YouTube video by Leeds AHRI

youtu.be

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Louis Cotgrove @leftyveggie.bsky.social · May 6

Deutschland ist das neue Belgien 😶‍🌫️ #merz

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