language

Engaged Reading Digest: a changing language, unfluencers and dodging state surveillance Members Public

Some interesting reading on how the internet is changing language, reverse influencer psychology and apps in pretests.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
chat apps

Your work is better than "content" Members Public

Anything truly creative is more than just content.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
content

A plural of emoji - linguistically speaking Members Public

The linguistics behind a plural form of “emoji” [http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2016/01/japanese-and-the-trouble-with-pluralizing-emoji/422967/] This is a fascinating account of count and non-count nouns – and how they’re assimilated into English: > An example is “water,” which has no plural form. To count water, you must refer

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
emoji

We Blog. And weblog posts. Members Public

This is a post or entry on a blog. This is not the latest blog on a blogsite. I am the blogger. If you leave a comment below, you are the commenter. Leaving comments on a post does not make you a blogger… Now, you’ve probably had one of

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
ablogisnotapost

Random Use of CAPITALS Members Public

Random linguistic psychology thought of the day*:* Why do some people randomly capitalise technology-related words they aren’t very familiar with. Some examples include MAC for Apple’s Mac computers and, pretty frequently, BLOG, from new bloggers. It’s common enough that there must be a root behind it somewhere.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
english