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All Things Linguistic

A blog about all things linguistic by Gretchen McCulloch. I cohost Lingthusiasm, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. I'm the author of Because Internet, a book about internet language!

  • By Gretchen McCulloch
  • Based in United States of America
  • Roughly two posts per week
  • First post on

Posts per month

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per month
Month starting Posts
Aug 2022 8
Sep 2022 4
Oct 2022 5
Nov 2022 4
Dec 2022 3
Jan 2023 2
Feb 2023 9
Mar 2023 4
Apr 2023 3
May 2023 5
Jun 2023 4
Jul 2023 3
Aug 2023 5
Sep 2023 2
Oct 2023 2
Nov 2023 4
Dec 2023 3
Jan 2024 7
Feb 2024 7
Mar 2024 0
Apr 2024 20
May 2024 2
Jun 2024 2
Jul 2024 7

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

Here’s the classic tumblr no punctuation swift like a jungle river text post on the real physical…
dashboarddiaries:Every Tumblr user knows that we Tumblrinas use language a little differently. We’re not like other social media users. We’re weird. We’re weirdos. And this month, we have actual linguist Gretchen McCulloch (@allthingslinguistic) on to …
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“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)
vevader3:ofishal-fish-posts:official-linguistics-post:questbedhead:adhd-languages:questbedhead:“fish don’t even know theyre wet” and? you don’t even know youre luft (air equivalent of wet)This is a really good example of how we can just make up words that work. “Luft” is a …
On , 249 words
you know what? accents are actually lovely. like you can learn all the languages in the world and…
official-linguistics-post: buginettez:you know what? accents are actually lovely. like you can learn all the languages in the world and you still have a part of your own with you. that’s cute official linguistics post
On , 52 words