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Remember Wegener?! (makingsciencepublic.com)

Today's post is about the past, returning to my work on the history of linguistics and to the work of a linguist I loved, Philipp Wegener who studied speech acts, metaphor, and the co-construction of meaning #linguistics #metaphor #hisphilang makingsciencepublic.com/2026/08/14/r...

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Original post on tooot.im (tooot.im)

Is there any #linguistics discussion of the phenomenon I like to call "the quotation O"? It's how in spoken English, a speaker would place an "O" to signify fictional or hypothetical quotes from a third/second party. E.g., "they'll try to do that, and when they fail they'll say 'O, that's […]

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DECKS.EXE (tonestamp.netlify.app)

If you're studying Mandarin in Taiwan or preparing for official certifications: I built Tonestamp: free interactive Mandarin vocabulary decks aligned directly with the official TOCFL standards. Check them out here: tonestamp.netlify.app/decks