There's no "u" in "solipsism."

 http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/11/why-great-sign-language-interpreters-are-so-animated/264459/ … Best pop linguistics piece I've seen in ages (clear! accurate! not prescriptivist BS!), on Bloomberg's ASL interpreter.

Wait, we can't put IPA characters in a hashtag? But... but how will we imitate muppet accents?

RT @mrtimlong: KNOW YOUR GAY HISTORY: Before the development of 'gaydar', people had to determine gayness by the stars, using a same-sextant

Binary gender expression is hard. Let's do math and then go shopping.

http://t.co/OjUPlXD6 Way to bury the lede. Should be "Racially-motivated attacks with corrosive chemicals reported." Yeesh.

Is there a convenient way to say that? We need a convenient way to say that. Guys? Someone get on this.

And by "overheard" I mean "someone wrote it online, but it was just conversation and not a blog post, so linking to it feels a little funny"

. @powervocabtweet is my new favorite thing in the world.

@chrisamaphone Or I bet parts of Pgh divide into discrete line-of-sight regions. Like watersheds, but for "seeing" & not "flowing downhill."

@chrisamaphone A 2D map with an interactive overlay showing line-of-sight info? E.g. "Highlight all the places you can see my house from."

Why can't you imagine sounds that are higher or lower than your actual range of hearing?  http://ask.metafilter.com/238494/Why-cant-I-imagine-frequencies-outside-of-the-range-of-my-hearing …

I knew that I consistently mis-read "piranha" as "Pirahã." Just noticed I also mis-read "Intuit" as "Inuktitut." #linguisticsproblems

Searchable Kaqchikel/Spanish vocab at the ALMG.  http://www.kaqchikel.almg.org.gt/es/vocabulario.html …

Ooooh. Pretty combinator pictures.  http://binarylambda.blogspot.de/2013/03/lambda-diagrams-lambda-diagrams-few.html … h/t @chrisamaphone

@ant_tea "Guh-WEETH," plus a withering look daring anyone to contradict you.

@infinitebuffalo We haven't "really" met. You just kept retweeting awesome shit that @chrisamaphone said and eventually I went to the source

"Designated male at birth; subsequently too busy to mess with it." "Designated male at birth—and who knows, maybe they were on to something"

@chrisamaphone  http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/reprints/testosterone.pdf … Here's one! Effects of injected testosterone on language use. Tiny sample: one trans guy, one cis guy.

Q: What's so great about Switzerland? A: Well, the flag is a big plus. #prosodichumor