Mrs Desai Language

Little yellow wug says it's okay to talk

[Fox Lane Books 🦊 @foxlanebooks]

Delighted to be at All Saints School in York with @JamesENicol with all the lovely and well-behaved pupils for an event for the brilliant The Spell Tailors
🧵 🪡🪄

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

@Lallysticks @englangwsfc @Team_English1 Teen speak - introduce concept of Lang and social groups?

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

@Ello_Miss @FunkyPedagogy @Team_English1 @LitdriveUK @SaysMiss We have assessment books that they take from Y7 to Y9 - for key assessed pieces only. It makes them take it seriously, but takes up lots of office space to store them!

[Language & Linguistics @ UoY @UoYLangLing]

On 12th July 2021, the Department of Language and Linguistic Science will launch the third run of the MOOC ‘An Introduction to Sociolinguistics: Accents, Attitudes and Identity’.
👉To find out more about it and to sign up: https://t.co/VXG3Rwtpeg

[Anna Cole @annasiancole]

Yr 7 - that's not how you say it in English
Other Yr 7- at least I don't speak all jenzi like you
Me - Is Jenzi a punjabi word?
Yr 7 - No miss, like talking slang... Like - Gen.... Z....

First time I've heard it used like that

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

@GovTutor This is superb - really interesting read. Some of this is transferable to KS3, but do you have any reading to suggest that particularly focuses on spelling at secondary school?

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

@MissNadin4 What about The Lies We Tell Ourselves? Really powerful. In my head, I have it for Y9, but can't remember why, so you'd need to check if okay for Y8

[SussexLinguist @sussexlinguist]

If you enjoyed Approaches to Meaning you might like to know OUP are recruiting
https://t.co/bxiDifWRJp

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

My husband and I say 'All the best' as a phrase of affection, and a daft person is called a spoon - great article on familect

[Planet Word Museum @PlanetWordDC]

An “idiolect” is your unique way of speaking—the words you choose, how you pronounce them, etc. You likely have a shared way of speaking with those closest to you too; those inside jokes and expressions specific to your pod can be known as a “familect.” https://t.co/nDhaeAmvCX

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

Great thread for language discourses here

[The Layman's Linguist @LaymansLinguist]

SURVEY OF LINGUISTIC PERSPECTIVES (from both linguists and non-linguists please!):

Reply with a common misconception about language change (eg, "kids these days are ruining English"). Bonus points if you include an example or theory that helps debunk one of these misconceptions.

[prof jenny pickerill @JennyPickerill]

The moment British Universities started to rely on student fees is when their recruitment began to determine what disciplines exist as departments. This has been a decades long process coming to fruition 1/7

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

incredible advert from @GreenpeaceUK

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

Instagram offers users a dedicated profile section to share pronouns https://t.co/f5wDzoVtvR #languagechange #languageandgender #Alevel

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

@LibraryPower2 @WaterstonesHud Amazing ❤️

[Sussex Uni News @SussexUniPress]

"More often than not, name changes are benign. The disproportionate public reaction is rooted in a petty bias against superficial change."

@lynneguist of @SussexUniMAH discusses @SLA_plc rebranding to #Abrdn in @guardian

https://t.co/ko7Q1D2gqC

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

@LibraryPower2 I have a big box of books coming your way this week 😁

[Mrs Desai Language @EnglangGeek]

@LibraryPower2 @redbreastedbird @PuffinBooks I like the comment on what it teaches us. Well done Charlotte!

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

The Old English suffix –ock was used to form diminutive words, bearing some sense of a smaller or minor example of something. So a HILLOCK is a little hill; a RILLOCK is a small rill or stream; a BULLOCK was originally a young bull; and a DUNNOCK is a little dun-coloured bird.