Update - December 7, 2018

17008 words for NaNoWriMo! And that's not even counting the entire article I apparently lost! Bring on the confetti!

Retrospective

I wrote about Cardi B disliking her New York accent. Also, in response to some questions about why almost all the examples on my Indie Girl Voice articles were women, I wrote an Addendum on the Methodology to explain why that happened.

This week in tweets - fashion people destroy bound morphemes:

Linguists: "Pant-" is an example of a bound morpheme in English! You can say "pant leg", "pants", and "pair of pants," but you can't say "*a pant"! #linguistics

Fashion people: pic.twitter.com/ZJ21nGhKHJ

— Ace Linguist (@acelinguist) December 5, 2018

"aiaλu" is not actually "aialu" but "aiyau."

A neat case of sensational spelling - using the Greek lambda (λ) as an upside-down Y. A little disappointed this brand isn't called 'aialu'! Apparently 'aiayu' means 'soul' in Aymara, and they source textiles from Bolivia, so it's still linguistically interesting. #linguistics pic.twitter.com/fXdSGBNbk6

— Ace Linguist (@acelinguist) December 5, 2018

@anoniscoding created a programming language in Yoruba called Yorlang! Here's why that matters:

Programming languages written in a non-English language are a great way to teach the fundamentals of programming to non-English speakers (especially young ppl!). Once you learn the concepts, it's easy to move to different languages. Excellent work! #linguistics #compsci https://t.co/z0bG8UdMZT

— Ace Linguist (@acelinguist) December 5, 2018

Finally, some fun with the pin-pen merger. Do "Nguyen" and "win" sound similar to you?

The pin-pen merger at work! #linguistics pic.twitter.com/4eRcs7VU5W

— Ace Linguist (@acelinguist) December 7, 2018

What's Cooking?

Getting permissions from Facebook to get my social media presence ~on fleek~ has proven to be an enormous drag. My next Dialect Dissection is also taking longer than I expected. I don't want to make more statements saying "expect this by this date!" because I inevitably end up not doing that, but my personal goal is to have the final Dialect Dissection of the year released this month. I'll be taking a short break from Dialect Dissections after that to start finding new examples to write about. There's going to be all sorts of content coming your way, from the micro-sized Tweets to more casual think pieces to the fully researched long reads.