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any pronouns. professional lover of linguistics, language preservation and social justice. semi professional lover of bad TV and hockey. 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇲🇺🇦
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February 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Did you know? All three basic Mandarin pronouns have irregular historical developments.

More interesting: All three give the appearance of being frozen in time — preserving ancient pronunciations.

Let’s check it out!

(Reposting a 🧵 from Twitter here to get some content onto my Bluesky account.)
November 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM
i cant stop thinking about the "what were YOU doing at the devil's sacrament" linguistics post on tumblr. valley girl accent but for tumblrinas...
November 25, 2024 at 3:06 PM
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first post on bsky, why not make it rockstar lestat

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November 17, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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November 24, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.

This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!

What more could you want?

#langsky 🀄️📚
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November 25, 2024 at 6:06 AM