Tessera
Folgen

Gretchen McCulloch

@gretchenmcculloch.com

Internet linguist. Wrote Because Internet, NYT bestseller about internet language. Co-hosts @lingthusiasm.com, a podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics. she/her 🌈 Montreal en/fr 🇨🇦 gretchenmcculloch.com

11610 Posts25771 Follower4629 Folgt
Dr. Vespeto, researcher in Atlantis 🇧🇷💌🕴️🌻@violetters-zye2.com.br · 1h ago

With the popularization of mobile phones and higher internet speeds, language immersion in English has become a bit easier for Brazilians than it was a few decades ago. At a click's distance, one can find hundreds of websites, podcasts and courses for beginners and lower-intermediate students. +

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 13h ago

It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them

Spencer McDaniel@spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have a master's degree in Ancient Greek and Roman Studies, I've studied the 'Odyssey' in Ancient Greek, and I've been writing about the ancient world for over a decade. This is my exhaustive review of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'. #Odyssey #classics talesoftimesforgotten.com/2026/07/23/a...

An Ancient Historian's Breakdown of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' - Tales of Times Forgotten

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is perhaps the most highly anticipated new film of the 2020s. It has already received near-universal acclaim from film critics and earned more at the box office in its ...

talesoftimesforgotten.com

@wombatarama.bsky.social · 4h ago

oh jeez yeah, there are like dozens of websites and apps for learning Japanese when back in the day I was making my own flashcards on actual little paper cards

Beanedict Cumbfurbatch@beanedictc.dftba.social · 13h ago

I was able to take inexpensive online Irish courses taught by a human instructor in Ireland without having to leave my home in Massachusetts, alongside students from Belgium all the way to the western US! My "textbook" was able to include pronunciation tracks without having to skip ahead on a CD!

Word Family Friday@wordfamilyfriday.bsky.social · 11h ago

25 years ago, when I wanted to know the etymology of a French word, I had to order a hard copy of an etymological dictionary in French from France.

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 13h ago

It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · 13h ago

It's gotten so much easier to start learning so many more languages, you used to be limited to the 3-5 major languages that a local bookstore or educational institution had decided it was worth making available, and now you can just like, look things up in hundreds of them

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 15h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

dorian @doriantaylor.com air travel is one of those experiences that has gotten monotonically worse over my entire lifetime question though: has *anything* in the last 40+ years genuinely gotten *better*? like, there's *more* stuff, sure, but is any of it *better*? 2:58 PM Aug 4, 2026
Lingthusiasm@lingthusiasm.com · 4d ago

Why does "ie" turn "dog" into itty bitty "doggie"? In this Lingthusiasm zine, Leah Velleman gets enthusiastic about diminutives. Yes, this one is extra tiny, it's a diminutive zine about diminutives! A zinelet? Or zineling? For more lingthusiastic zines: lingthusiasm.com/zines

Endangered Languages Project@e-l-p.bsky.social · last wk.

It is instead a question of whether you agree that a few people should get to choose who lives or dies. It is a question of whether you, or anyone, wants to accept a world where a handful of powerful men can choose to “put out of their misery” entire cultures, ways of being, human existences.

Endangered Languages Project@e-l-p.bsky.social · last wk.

“How sad should we [unspecified audience of people not connected to Indigenous or endangered languages] be when a language dies?”, asks this article. From Indigenous perspectives, we know this is not the question that needs to be asked.

Endangered Languages Project@e-l-p.bsky.social · last wk.

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

New Yorker article title "Sometimes It's Okay to Let a Language Die" with "Sometimes It's" crossed out in red ink and "IT'S NOT" written above it. To the right is text "A Response to The New Yorker" and the ELP logo.
The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2w ago

The idea that we have a special duty to prevent the death of languages is instantly compelling to anyone who loves languages. But is it true? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Gretchen McCulloch@gretchenmcculloch.com · last wk.

I've met several linguistics students who've gotten into linguistics because of Arrival (and even more from Lord of the Rings, but give it time!)

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Some academics turn up their noses at movie adaptations or popular history books, but I call them "gateway drugs" into deeper scholarship. How many of us fell in love with history because a movie (or book) sparked our curiosity first? For me, it was Amadeus - it sent me down an 18thC rabbit hole.

A screenshot of a headline that says: A Penn professor thought she'd sell 1000 copies of her 'Odyssey' translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.
Damián Blasi@damianblasi.bsky.social · 2w ago

How many languages have existed over the Holocene—and what does that reveal about the design space of languages and cultures? Now out in @science.org www.science.org/eprint/QDZNY....

The rise and fall of language diversity through the Holocene

Characterizing the factors that have shaped linguistic diversity is fundamental for understanding human history, culture, and cognition. In this study, we combined statistical and social computational...

science.org