Schwa Fire

Stories about language & life: how Accent Tagging got started, the Nicaraguan canal's impact on a small language community, & doctors who deny ASL interpreters.

[Schwa Fire @SchwaFire]

Saddened to learn that Schwa Fire contributor @EMLiedel's husband passed away recently. Raising $ for final wishes: https://t.co/QrG7U02kmD

[Linguistic Society of America @LingSocAm]

Emoji are not hieroglyphics, emoji are not a universal language, and other myths dispelled by @visual_linguist: https://t.co/fCy0lqL6yl

[Schwa Fire @SchwaFire]

Schwa Fire founder, editor @michaelerard to receive Linguistics, Language, and the Public award from @LingSocAm https://t.co/VhSC7sv29o

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@SchwaFire: @SchwaFire writer @jessweiss1 will be on @wnyc today at 11:50 EST to talk the whys and hows of the secret languages of girls.

[Linguistic Society of America @LingSocAm]

Our LJA winner, @arikaokrent, has written for @mental_floss, @SmithsonianMag, @SchwaFire, etc in the last year alone https://t.co/c0Ypnwe2pO

[Matt Adler מטע אדלר @MatahAdler]

"There are political consequences for Jews’ forgetfulness of their languages" #Yiddish #Ladino https://t.co/Eh6wSC7Vqy @jdforward @SchwaFire

[Julie Sweetland @jsw33ts]

If you love #sociolinguistics or just like to talk about accents, this @schwafire article's for you: http://t.co/DnHk1MqGje

[The Associated Press @AP]

Navajo Nation loosens requirement for top elected officials to speak the tribe's language: http://t.co/PFjjwO3b4E

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@MooseAllain @missisrt @Babelzine Originally in @SchwaFire!

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Here's @debbienathan2's fabulous piece: https://t.co/cGyOyLvwON

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@schwafire writer @debbienathan2's piece on accent tagging mentioned on @pritheworld http://t.co/MePL10XdY1

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Shout out to @DebbieNathan2 for her @pritheworld spot on accent tags, which she first wrote about for Schwa Fire in April!

[Gretchen McCulloch now at @gretchenmcc.bsky.social @GretchenAMcC]

New rule: anyone who wants to say that emoji are language must make that assertion entirely in emoji. Should be no problem if they're right.

[Schwa Fire @SchwaFire]

ICYMI: How the Nicaraguan canal will *actually* affect the Rama language. http://t.co/Mmvocm8sTW #endangeredlanguages #linguistics

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ICYMI: When doctors don't provide ASL interpreters. http://t.co/0g7OCBvR2k

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#language #journalism: To report piece on nail salon labor, @NYTimes used translators in 4 langs & article is available in 4 langs.

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#language #journalism in service of democracy: @froomkin on the NSA's speech recog & search technology https://t.co/9eLGGoLwTM

[Barbara Clark @drjavafox]

The brilliant @careerlinguist has written a book! To fund her publishing, go to https://t.co/docnotnflN