Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics

Linguist | Sinologist
Ideophones, onomatopoeia, iconic words |
@KU_Leuven ➡️ @NTU_TW ➡️ @HKUniversity ➡️ @KU_Leuven and @FWOVlaanderen

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

It's here! Read my #AcademiaWrapped at your own peril! It's funny, I promise.

#AcademiaWrapped2025

https://t.co/baYjdsIJgL

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@freekvdvelde @ManuelSintubin @tijd Les leent zich wel beter tot diminutiefvorming dan college.

Voor de brooddoos is geen excuus, twee keer koud is echt heel Vlaams.

#DekoloniseerMiddageten

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

SPSS? Ben ik wakker geworden in 2006?

[Geert Noels @GeertNoels]

Beste @vrtnws,
Als u uw data over de "Foto van Vlaanderen" echt wil delen, dan zet u ze op een website in een csv, xlsx, pdf, word, sav, en nog een paar andere formaten.
Maar ik kom niet volgende dinsdag om 14h met mijn pc naar Brussel met mijn SPSS licentie.
Dank u voor de parkeerplaats, maar anno 2026 delen we digitaal.
mvg
Geert

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

Great work by @seajayseajay !

[Darin Flynn @phono_logical]

“A first look at the prosody of focus and stress in Yami (Tao) [Austronesian; Taiwan]” by Chun-Jan Young and Argyro Katsika (May ’26) https://t.co/kwSMxcvR6E

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@freekvdvelde I’m a recovering word cloud aficionado.

The year was 2015 and the wordcloud2 package was an easy implementation. There were many websites that allowed you to drop your text in. Digital Humanities still sounded novel. Word clouds were an easy way in for visualization. 🤷‍♂️

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@CiaoCiaota Uhm that’s Picasso

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@CiaoCiaota Oh man this Friday? Can’t make it 😕

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@CiaoCiaota @ccgg31 Also they were catalogued according to size and shelf fit as they came in 🤣

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@CiaoCiaota Great! You’re the best person for that jobke!

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@KULeuven_Korea @dunod_editeur Will we be able to buy the book there as well? It looks pretty interesting!

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@CiaoCiaota Sic paper though!

[anthony k webster 🐿 @ethnopoetics]

One of my favorite things about teaching the introduction to linguistic anthropology class is that I can linger over olfactory ideophones, examples of linguistic diversity and some of the work done by UT Austin PhDs (Susan Smythe Kung and Simeon Floyd)

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@QianGu2021 Wow Agu I didn’t know this!

[Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaltt]

"I'm a doctor in Linguistics"

"my friend is dying"

"Don't you find it fascinating that «die», a telic verb, in the progressive means that your friend is on the path to dying but isn't yet dead? Aspect is so cool"

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

After passing through the focus group, here is the next exciting installment of my blog: Sunsets, spreadsheets, and languishing leaves.

Mostly pictures of the conferences I attended and presented at over the summer. Enjoy!

https://t.co/7aBi2B7GpY

[Edward W. @edwardW2]

朋

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

When I review papers about a Chinese variety and there are no tone marks (and preferably also characters), the best score I give is major revision.

I was trained to not put tone marks on transliterated words and I don’t understand why. It’s a tone language and it’s 2025.

[Gopalakrishnan R @cobbaltt]

Why is Mandarin so often not transcribed with tonal diacritics? Just cuz you're writing a syntax paper doesn't mean you should ignore tones in a tonal language...

[Darin Flynn @phono_logical]

“List of linguistic example sentences” — actual Wikipedia page: https://t.co/orJ1BVxq01

[Thomas Van Hoey 司馬智 Semantics = lexical semantics @Simazhi]

@Dialect_Matt @j_prokic @aronvandepol Nice to see you again @Dialect_Matt !