In April, I made an account on bluesky and enjoyed some wordplay there, which is still (so far) going strong as a twitter replacement.
The main episodes of Lingthusiasm these two months were Bringing stories to life in Auslan – Interview with Gabrielle Hodge, which was our second bimodal bilingual episode, this time in Auslan and English, as well as Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation!
The bonus episodes were When books speculate on the future of English and Neopronouns, gender-neutral vocab, and why linguistic gender even exists – Liveshow Q&A with Kirby Conrod.
I did a fun thread on Bea Wolf, Zach Weinersmith’s retelling of Beowulf as a kid’s graphic novel, analyzing how the alliterative metre works:
Selected tweets, while we’re still doing this thing, I guess:
- Is this SALAMI intelligent?
- Author’s note pronouns part 1 and part 2 from Before We Were Trans by Kit Heyam
- Happy PIE Day! And more on Proto-Indo-European day
- Random language learning phrases
- Madame
- stares in œ
- if and only if
- Snake fight portion of your thesis defense
- English loan words in German
Blog posts:
This month’s image is from the Barbie movie meme generator, but make it bouba/kiki.
Gretchen McCulloch 
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