#kirby conrod

[kwekstra]

TL;DR: We're looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.

Hello!

Professor Kirby Conrod from Swarthmore College is recruiting participants for a paid interview study (in-person in Philly or on zoom). Anyone who uses neopronouns for themself, is 18 or older, and is fluent in English is welcome to participate. The study will consist of a casual interview between you and a researcher, a similar interview with a friend of yours, and an exit survey for each of you. Each will receive $15 as compensation for their time.

If you're interested in participating, please fill out this form: (https://forms.gle/YajpkjxGYiwL7RLF6). Filling out this form does not require you to participate; it's just an expression of interest.

Even on Tumblr, neopronoun use is relatively uncommon, so it would be very helpful if folks could reblog this post to help it reach as many neopronoun users as possible.

[clairikine]

The goal of any of this is to chase good feelings, and notice bad feelings with a curious mindset. Trying stuff out to see how it feels means you should pay attention to how it feels, and ask what that feeling tells you.

[lizardgoats]

[T]he way that people should try harder is: slow down and think about your words, don’t make excuses for yourself, um, acknowledge corrections but don’t go overboard with apologies. And practice. Practice is gonna go a long way to help.

“Episode 13: Kirby Conrod” on Gender Reveal, with Tuck Woodstock

[gwydionmisha]

We’re looking for English-speaking neopronoun users (aged 18+) to participate in a paid linguistics study.

[superlinguo]

Superlinguo 2023 in review

I spent 2023 on leave to hang out with a new tiny human. I still found time for some linguistics, including regular Lingthusiasm episodes and even some intermittent blogging. I also got to reuse all my linguist pregnancy announcement jokes.

Lingthusiasm

Lingthusiasm turned 7 this year! We celebrated with a dozen main episodes as well as our monthly bonus episodes for patrons. We had some help to get through the year while I was on leave with interviews with linguists from around the world, including Lingthusiasm team members Martha Tsutsi-Billins and Sara Dopierela.

We released our new Etymology isn't Destiny merch, which is available alongside merch for all kinds of linguists and language fans.

Main episodes

Where language names come from and why they change (transcript)

How kids learn language in Singapore - Interview with Woon Fei Ting (transcript)

Bringing stories to life in Auslan - Interview with Gabrielle Hodge (transcript)

Tone and Intonation? Tone and Intonation! (transcript)

Word Magic (transcript)

The verbs had been being helped by auxiliaries (transcript)

Frogs, pears, and more staples from linguistics example sentences (transcript)

How kids learn Q’anjob’al and other Mayan languages - Interview with Pedro Mateo Pedro (transcript)

Look, it’s deixis, a word for linguistic pointing! (transcript)

Ergativity delights us (transcript)

Revival, reggaeton, and rejecting unicorns - Basque interview with Itxaso Rodríguez-Ordóñez (transcript)

If I were an irrealis episode (transcript)

Bonus episodes

Parrots, art and what even is a word - deleted scenes from Kat Gupta, Lucy Maddox and Randall Munroe interviews

Singapore, New Zealand, and a favourite linguistics paper - 2023 Year Ahead Chat

When books speculate on the future of English

Neopronouns, gender-neutral vocab, and why linguistic gender even exists - Liveshow Q&A with Kirby Conrod

2022 Survey Results - kiki/bouba, synesthesia fomo, and pluralizing emoji

Linguistic jobs beyond academia

LingthusiASMR - The Harvard Sentences

How we make Lingthusiasm transcripts - Interview with Sarah Dopierala

Field Notes on linguistic fieldwork - Interview with Martha Tsutsui Billins

Postcards from linguistics summer camp

Linguistic Advice - Challenging grammar snobs, finding linguistic community, accents in singing, and more

Frak, smeg, and more swearing in fiction - Ex Urbe Ad Astra interview with Jo Walton and Ada Palmer

LingComm: 2023 conference

The 2023 LingComm conference happened in February, and was once again in the LingComm conference space in Gather Town. I enjoyed being on the planning committee that put together an amazing event that built on the inaugural conference in 2021. Stay tuned for 2024 lingcomm updates!

Top Superlinguo posts in 2022

This year was a chance to reflect on the decade since I graduated, and to articulate the important role my main supervisor had in shaping my career.

After wrapping up the linguistics jobs interview series last year, this year was a chance to share some aggregated resources from 8 years and 80 interviews.

I also got to read a couple of great linguistics books for kids, keep up to date with linguistics podcasts, share some of my favourite linguistics books and check in on some things happening online.

General posts and reviews

10 years of a PhD

Barb Kelly

Gender Variations for Person in Suit Levitating Emoji - Emoji Proposal

Linguistics and Language Podcasts (2023 update)

Language Books for Kids: Highly Irregular, Arika Okrent & Sean O'Neill

Linguistics books for kids: Once Upon a Word - a Word-origin Dictionary, Jess Zafarris

Linguistics Jobs resources

Linguistics Jobs Interviews - directory of posts and resources

Linguistics Jobs resource set

Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews full list

Linguistics education and its application in the workplace: An analysis of interviews with linguistics graduates (new publication in Language)

Information and advice

hapax legomenon and automated email replies

Lingthusiasm guide to pop linguistics books

Hello Grambank! A new typological database of 2,467 language varieties

What we can accomplish in 30 years of lingcomm: Opening keynote of #LingComm23

Australian Linguistic Society’s Accredited Linguist program

Academic articles in 2023

Although I was on leave, things that I was working on earlier made it through to publication. I like that there was one paper on lingcomm, one on gesture (including emoji!) and one on the linguistics job interviews, it feels like a nice mix of some of my current interests. Just a pity there wasn't a Tibeto-Burman paper in there!

Gawne, L. & A. Cabraal. 2023. Linguistics education and its application in the workplace: an analysis of interviews with linguistics graduates. Language, 99(1), e35-e57. [doi][Superlinguo post]

Freestone, P., J. Kruk & L. Gawne. forthcoming. From Star Trek to The Hunger Games: emblem gestures in science fiction and their uptake in popular culture. Linguistic Vanguard, 9(3), 257-266. [doi][Superlinguo post]

Gawne, L., & McCulloch, G. (2023). ‘Communicating about linguistics using lingcomm-driven evidence: Lingthusiasm podcast as a case study’, Language and Linguistics Compass, 17/5: e12499. DOI: 10.1111/lnc3.12499 [doi][Superlinguo post]

The year ahead

I'll be back to work full time. I've found the low-key level of blogging I managed this year to be sustainable, so expect it to be business-as-usual here. Lingthusiasm will also continue with monthly main and bonus episodes, thanks to the patrons who support the show and ensure we have a team that can keep everything rolling while begin to take on more administrative responsibilities in my job.

I'm looking forward to sharing some things that are in the final stages of peer-review and copy editing, and I'm excited to be spinning up some new projects.

Browsing old Superlinguo content?

I have a welcome page on the blog that points you to aggregate posts, and series of posts I've done over the years, as well as themed collections of posts that have appeared on the blog in the last twelve years.

Previous years

Superlinguo 2022 in review

Superlinguo 2021 in review

Superlinguo 2020 in review

Superlinguo 2020 (2019 in review)

Superlinguo 2019 (2018 in review)

Superlinguo 2018 (2017 in review)

Superlinguo 2017 (2016 in review)

Superlinguo 2015 highlights

[bookgeekgrrl]

My media this week (22-28 May 2022)

📚 STUFF I READ 📚

😊👂 Black Coffee (Hercule Poirot #7.5) (Agatha Christie, playwright; Charles Osborne, adapter/novelization; John Moffat, narrator) - you can definitely tell that the bones of this were a play; still an entertaining listen/read

😍 Differently Okay Local Idiots series (One-EyedBossman (desert000rose), SecretFandomStories) - 137K series, Stucky no powers D/s AU - absolutely LOVED this!!!! both are recovering vets with many jagged edges and they see how they fit together - the narrative structure on this was great: dual POV, very tightly overlapping/interlocking (which could gone badly so easily but I really think these authors pull it off). Can't wait for more.

🥰 Daddy Issues (His Boy Next Door #39) (RJ Moray) - novella - the next chapter in Jack & Channon's story

😊 K'diwa: A Steamy Novel of Interspecies Romance, by Jim Kirk (branwyn) - 103K, Kirk/Spock - tagged 'Jim is a sweet sad bottom and Spock can't stand it' and that's really what you need to know

💖💖 +128K of shorter fic so shout out to these I really loved 💖💖

It's A Very Distinctive Family Resemblance (copperbadge) - Leverage, MCU: Gen, 1.6K - I love every iteration of 'Eliot Spencer is related to Bucky Barnes'

Put It on Repeat, It Stays the Same (giselleslash) - MCU: Stucky, 20K - reread; love this story of these two pining FWB getting stuck together by a snowstorm and then ~~feelings~~

Rockin' and Rollin' (musette22) - MCU: Stucky, 3K - shout out to Minnie for taking up the challenge and writing some fucking delicious fic inspired by that mechanical bull riding video

fish in the sky (alby_mangroves, chaosmanor) - MCU: Stucky, 37K - http://ao3.org/works/27969167

📺 STUFF I WATCHED 📺

Legends of Tomorrow - s4, e6-16; s5, e1

The Great Pottery Throw Down - s5, e6-10

Supergirl - s5, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part One"

Batwoman - s1, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Two"

The Flash - s6, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three"

Arrow - s8, e9: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four"

Legends of Tomorrow - s5, e0: "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Five"

🎧 PODCASTS🎧

Lingthusiasm - #25: Every word is a real word

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Carhenge

99% Invisible - #492- Inheriting Froebel's Gifts

Partners - Sarah Schneider & Chris Kelly

Richmond Til We Die: A Ted Lasso Podcast - Ted Lasso S2E8, Part 1: This Was Not A Date

Hit Parade - The Lullaby of Broadway Edition

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Ghosts in the (Hit) Machine

Still Processing - Sweat Equity

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - The Livestock Living at the End of the World

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Leaning Tower of Niles

The Atlas Obscura Podcast - Père Lachaise Cemetery

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Copyrights & Wrongs

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Stop… Collaborate & Listen

This is Good for You - Ep 32: Romance Novels Are Not a Guilty Pleasure

Strong Songs Bonus Episodes - Sonny with a Side of Max

Lingthusiasm - Bonus 9: Is X a sandwich? Solving the word-meaning argument once and for all

Twenty Thousand Hertz+ - Progression Obsession

Hit Parade - The B-Sides Edition

Lingthusiasm - 43: The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod

Hit Parade - The Feat. Don’t Fail Me Now Edition

Lingthusiasm - Bonus 17: Homonyms, homophones, and homographs

🎶 MUSIC 🎶

Doo-Wop

The Essential Kenny Loggins

Presenting The Go-Go's [The Go-Go's]

Beauty and the Beat [The Go-Go's]

Vacation [The Go-Go's]

Talk Show [The Go-Go's]

God Bless The Go-Go's [The Go-Go's]

Peaceful, Easy Feeling

The B-52's

Best of Rent: Highlights from the Original Cast Album

Broadway's Biggest Hits

The Wrecking Crew

Presenting Depeche Mode

The Very Best of Pure Prairie League

The World of Journey

[kaftan]

Really good blog post from linguist Kirby Conrod [link to their twitter] about pronouns as linguistic care work, aka the linguist pov on how you can use people’s pronouns to strengthen your relationships with them. I know an overwhelming majority of my followers are trans so you may be thinking: “duh, obviously respect people’s pronouns,” but 1) there are still some great insights in here (incl. about the intersection of transness and disability) and 2) it’s always good to pass on these articles to the well meaning cis people in your life. Kirby (who is themself nonbinary) is really good at reaching that audience!

[raspberrytaegi]

one more thing, shoutout to kirby conrod you should definitely google them and look at their blog

[linguistlist-blog]

TOC: Canadian Journal of Linguistics Vol. 67, No. 3 (2022)

ICYMI: Pronouns Elizabeth Ritter, Dennis Storoshenko 139-142 Some structural disanalogies between pronouns and tenses Bronwyn Bjorkman 143-165 Second chances in antecedent retrieval: The processing of reflexives in two types of reconstruction environments Cassandra Chapman, Keir Moulton 166-193 On the structure of (personal) pronouns in Inuktut Richard Compton 194-215 Abolishing Gender on D Kirby Conrod 216-241 Morphosemantic features in Universal Grammar: What we can learn fro http://dlvr.it/Sc19KV

[lingthusiasm]

Bonus 83: Themself, Basque ergativity cartoons, and bad swearing ideas - Deleted scenes from Kirby Conrod, Itxaso Rodriguez-Ordoñez, and Jo Walton and Ada Palmer

We've interviewed lots of great people on Lingthusiasm, and sometimes there's a story or two that we just don't have space for in the main episode, so here's a bonus episode with our favourite recent outtakes! Think of it as a special bonus edition DVD from the past year of Lingthusiasm with director's commentary and deleted scenes.

In this bonus episode, Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic about some of our favourite deleted bits from recent interviews that we didn't quite have space to share with you. First, we go back to our online liveshow with fan-favourite guest Kirby Conrod, previously seen talking about singular they and other language and gender topics, about reflexive pronouns (themself vs themselves) and people who use multiple pronouns in fiction and real life. Then we go back to Itxaso Rodriguez-Ordoñez, previously talking about Basque language revival, about how Basque people feel about the famed ergativity (hint: there are cartoons!). Finally, we go back to authors Jo Walton and Ada Palmer, previously talking about swearing in science fiction, fantasy, and history, about bad swearing ideas in fiction and why acronymic etymologies should be viewed with deep suspicion. Listen to this episode of deleted scenes from recent interviews, and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon.

[allthingslinguistic]

April 2020: expletive infixation and singular they

My newsletter April 2020: expletive infixation and singular they (and a photo of a bookstore from the beforetimes)

We put up many posts on Mutual Intelligibility, the new newsletter that I’m producing with Lauren Gawne with resources for people who are teaching (or self-teaching) linguistics online (thanks to our contributors Liz McCullough and Katy Whitcomb!). Here are a few of them:

3 links for sociolinguistics

3 links for semantics and pragmatics

3 links for field methods

Resource Guide for IPA vowels

Reso…

[lizardgoats]

Kirby: And [laugh] um, and this sort of thing of just it’s— it’s very alienating. You know, I…I feel a lot like there’s this whole world that I can never really be a full participant in. And then there’s this like little private world that I have with my friends where I can be completely comfortable and not have to worry about, you know, explaining myself and people understand my feelings because they feel the same way. We don’t have to go through “feelings Kindergarten” as much— Tuck: Mhm. Kirby: Um, the way that I have to do in professional contexts or with like sometimes family members who just don’t have a lot of experience. And so I feel like I am, you know, sometimes walking them through this like stuff that…I don’t wanna call it like extremely beginner level because definitely there was a time in my life where I didn’t know this stuff but I didn’t go read a book to learn this stuff. I just kind of observed the way that people around me were finding themselves and finding their place in the world and I said, “Ah. So that’s a possibility.” And it’s weird to try and like explain it to people who don’t have those friends, you know. Tuck: Yeah. Kirby: If they… if their social world doesn’t have many other people like me then I’m gonna necessarily be an oddity in their landscape. And it’s hard to feel close or intimate when…when I feel like there’s just this basic part of me that they can’t wrap their heads around.

“Episode 13: Kirby Conrod” on Gender Reveal, with Tuck Woodstock  

[adozentothedawn]

Hey! So I’m writing a paper about the use of “they” as a singular epicene pronoun from a grammatical perspective, just generally how is it used and how did that develop. Does anyone have a title suggestion? I want a pun of some sort or just generally an interesting phrase and am currently brainstorming a bit. Kirby Conrod for example titled one of their papers “We Who Are About To Die” which is such a great title, I love it. xD The best I came up with for now is a Good Omens reference, “The Them”.

And I mean, I could just give it a boring title, but if I have to write about grammar I want at least something funny in there. xD

[superlinguo]

2022 LingComm Grantees: New linguistics projects for you to follow

The 2022 LingComm Grants awarded twelve $100 (USD) Startup Grants and five $500 (USD) Project Grants to support linguistics communication projects bringing linguistics to new audiences in engaging ways. Each grant also included support in the form of a mentoring meeting. The 2022 LingComm Grants received more than 80 applications.

Ten Startup Grants and one Project Grant were funded by Lingthusiasm, thanks to the kind support of the show’s patrons. Two Startup Grants were funded by contributions from donors.  Four additional Project Grants were funded by Manish Goregaokar, Rob Monarch, friends of Kirby Conrod, and one anonymous donor. Grant applications were judged by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne.

LingComm Project Grants

Carolina Rodriguez Alzza and Gesica Perez Rodriguez, Living voices: a podcast of endangered languages in the Amazon (podcast, in Spanish)

Christian Brickhouse, Language Lab (videos, in English)

Eleonora Marocchini, PragmaticaMente (videos, in Italian)

Joyeeta, Nidhi, Sayan, Sruthi, Teesta, and Vrinda, Aaina (images, in English)

Kirby Conrod LingComm Project Grant

Ben Papadopoulos, Gender in Language Project (website resources, in multiple languages)

LingComm Startup Grants

Ai Taniguchi, Introduction to linguistics: a graphic novel (graphic novel, in English)

Asociación Civil RELIF (Red de Lingüistas en Formación), Language: a roadtrip to our human nature (workshops in high schools, in Spanish)

Elen Le Foll and Verónica Lasarte Prieto, Corpora to the rescue! Bitesize corpus linguistics for language teachers and learners (podcast, in English)

Grace Elizabeth Dy and Ellen Perleberg, Yallah, Y’all: A Toolkit for LGBTQ-inclusive Jewish Language in the Synagogue and Beyond (resource sheets, in English)

Jackie Friedman Mighdoll, Linguistics! Around the World in Facts and Puzzles (children’s book, in English)

Kathleen Oppenheimer, Erika Exton, Craig Thorburn, and Lauren Salig, The Language Scientists (videos, in English)

Lisa Dücker, Ausgeschrieben – ein Podcast darüber, warum wir so schreiben, wie wir schreiben (podcast, in German)

Mike Mena, The Social Life of Language (videos, in English)

Nicky Macias, Trans Linguistics in ASL (videos, in ASL)

Rebekka Puderbaugh, Sound Bites (live show at festival, in English)

Renat Galeev and Deyanira Romano Álvarez, Se Lengua la Traba (podcast and blog, in Spanish)

Riva Quiroga, Chamullo (zine, in Spanish)

Commendations

Ashley McGraw

Daniella Simon

Danny Hieber, Linguistic Discovery

Luca Dinu, Some Stutter, Luh!

Saima Malik Moraleda

Wesley C. Robertson and Jess Birnie-Smith, Lingua Brutallica

Yenny Saldaña and Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo

You can learn more about the LingComm grants and other LingComm projects at lingcomm.org.

[kavka--esque]

Hey everyone! I would like to tell y’all about this podcast that I’ve been listening to for a few months now.

It’s called Lingthusiasm, it’s a linguistics podcast talking about all kinds of things. I first encountered Lingthusiasm when i was first following linguistics blogs on tumblr, and tumblr recommended the blog @lingthusiasm to me. I looked at a few posts, followed them, and then mostly forgot about it. I saw one of their posts on my dash once in a while, like you do when you’re following someone.

The first episode I listened to was The grammar of singular they. This one caught me during the time when I had already started questioning my gender, so it pulled me in quite easily.

Some time later, I started listening to podcasts, so I decided to revisit Lingthusiasm. About a month ago I finished listening to all of the episodes.

As it is their anniversary month, I have decided to share my two favourite episodes with you - one of them is the first one I ever listened to, 34: The grammar of singular they - Interview with Kirby Conrod, and the other would be 26: Why do C and G come in hard and soft versions? Palatalization.

I recommend y’all to check this podcast out, if not for the linguistics, listen to the interview because of Cool Pronoun Stuff™. I hope you enjoy.