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1000 Followers, My Goodness!!

Thank you so much to everyone who has followed this blog over the past year. I can’t believe I have 1000 people following me! To celebrate, I will be doing... something. Is there anything you’d particularly like to see on the blog? Let me know! As it stands, my current plan is to do name etymologies for people, but if anyone has a more exciting idea, please let me know! 

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An Announcement

Hey, so recently, I’ve been posting on the weekends, because that’s when I have the most time. I already mentioned that I will be very busy next weekend because of a music festival and will probably miss a post. However, I didn’t realize that the weekend after that is also going to be extremely busy because of a school tradition that involves trying to give first-years alcohol poisoning. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem: I could find time to post something during the week inbetween. However, next week is known as “Week Five” and is the week when all the arts students, including me, have our assignments due. Needless to say, this is a very hectic time. Because of this, the Linguistics Bunker will be pausing in our operations for two weeks while all of this happens, and resuming transmissions sometime after October 24th. 

The ask box is still open, and I will still probably be online from time to time. But there will be no new posts unless something strange and miraculous happens. 

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Linguistics Bunker Season Four

Very few of you were here for the beginning of season three, as most of you arrived in the middle of it. Now, however, it is time for a new season of the Linguistics Bunker. Fall 2017 will be an exciting time for life outside the bunker as I settle into life at university in Scotland. While I will always do my best to make time for the bunker, I cannot promise that there will be a post every week. At some point, there may be a formal shift to every-other-week posts, but for now I will attempt the once a week school-year schedule. 

Season Four will be bringing back some old favorites, including THE BIRDS and Flower Power, and the ever popular Language Breakdown, but it will also have some new faces, including some Scotland-centric etymology posts and perhaps some new mini-series. 

I hope everyone is excited for Season Four, and I hope you all had a good summer. As always, questions and suggestions are greatly appreciated. Welcome to the Bunker!

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A Message to the Reader

As a general rule, I have avoided putting anything on this blog that could be regarded as political, and I have done my best not to share my personal opinion about major issues. I understand that yesterday’s post was a divergence in many ways, and that it had nothing to do with linguistics and possibly cluttered up the dashes of some people with no interest in it. I cannot promise that I’ll never post anything like that again, but I know most people come here for the amateur linguistics and the bad jokes, so I don’t want people getting worried that I’ll suddenly be flooding their dashes with rants about the public school system. In the future, however, I will be posting any such posts with the tag Off Topic, so if you have a blocker that picks up on tags, that’s the one to add. 

There will be more linguistics coming up next week, so look out for that!

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An Announcement

We will be returning to our regularly scheduled programming shortly (the next language breakdown will be about Turkish) and I hope to establish a summer post schedule some time in the next few weeks. However, until then, I have something to tide you over, if you wish. 

My last paper of high school was about factors that influence loanword adoption, namely, arguing that cultural ties have more influence on loanwords than linguistic similarities or differences between the languages in question. I’m considering writing a post summarizing the main points of the paper. However, if anyone is interested in the full text of the paper, please message me with your email address. Otherwise, you will see a post on that some time in the next week or two, as well as a continuation of the series I am currently working on. 

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Hiatus Annoucement

So, as some of you might have guessed from the lack of posts in the last two months, The Linguistics Bunker is officially on hiatus. I don't have the time or resources to post every week or even every two weeks if the posts are going to be of decent quality. Therefore, in addition to the hiatus annoucement, I'd like to ask:

Would people be okay with only one post a month if this post were longer and better-researched?

Regardless of the answer, I will be doing my best to get the blog running again in September, when I have access to all my university resources.

Until then, best wishes to everyone!

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Linguistics Bunker Season Five

Hello, good morning, and welcome to Season Five of the Linguistics Bunker!

We are back and better than ever with the full weight of a university library behind us. Last semester got a little rough, in that I had to stop posting a couple times to do my actual work, and that is probably going to happen again, but for the first few weeks, at least, there should be weekly posts! 

This season will feature a mini-series on translation, the long awaited international names post, and some Arabic and Persian fun. (Sorry, I’m learning them now, so that’s what I’m talking about.) 

I hope you have all had a lovely Christmas/Winter Holidays and are ready for a new year of linguistics fun!