Hello, Ace Linguist readers! Can you believe yet another year has gone by? It hasn't been as active as the last year, but still a lot of good content. And new types of content, too! Some of my favorite posts from last year:
- The three dialect dissections: on the Beatles, Marina and the Diamonds, and Britney Spears.
- Some smaller scale posts on current or past sound changes in English: the Tripping-Dripping Merger?, the Colt-Cult merger?, From Glide to Fricative, Stop-Affrication, and the HURRY-FURRY merger. There's been some really interesting discussion happening in the comment sections of these, too!
- Long-form posts that are more loosely structured, like Bay-zhing or Bay-jing and the Frequency Illusion.
Perhaps my favorite part of 2019 was the increased visitor interaction with the posts. Many thanks to everyone who has commented!
I'd like to ask y'all what kind of content you'd like to see more of on Ace Linguist.
- More Dialect Dissections? Change in focus in Dialect Dissections?
- More posts on sound changes in English?
- How about posts about languages other than English?
- More opinion-type posts?
- General linguistics stuff?
- Other?
Here's to a great 2020, with more linguistics content along the way!
- Karen
All of the above :-)
ReplyDeleteI know they're more intensive for you to work on, but my favourite posts are your Dialect Dissections.
ReplyDeletePosts about languages other than English sound interesting! I enjoy the stories on Language Log about English and Chinese languages interacting.
Happy New Year Karen! Can't wait to see what you write about in 2020 :)