Linguist Gone Foreign 🌏

linguistgoneforeign@mastodon.social

PhD linguist, serial migrant and curious mind ✨ Currently docked in Bärlin 🐻I doodle big-headed cartoons in my spare time and toot mostly in EN, ES and DE about languages, cross-cultural mishaps, life abroad and whatever keeps me awake at night. 💭This is an inclusive space. Make yourself at home! ☕️Profile pic: Dark-haired, wide-eyed cartoon character holds a magnifying glass.Header: Linguist Gone Foreign runs across a whimsical landscape with famous landmarks.

Posts

Post #4277998
A colación de lo de Ceuta, ¿alguien puede recomendarme algún canal o medio que no presente la migración como “crisis”, “avalancha”, “invasión” o similares calificativos alarmistas? Me gustaría seguir informándome sobre lo que pasa en el mundo sin tener que tolerar constantemente esta narrativa polarizante y deshumanizadora disfrazada de lenguaje informativo. Gracias ✌🏻
Post #4147965
RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116992767597688359 His crime: being in a forest protection group and having a privacy-focused phone. Dystopian times in which we are living.
Post #2536309
Partner: Why is today a day off? Me: It’s Vatertag. Partner: Oh, is that when all dudes walk around with a wagon full of alcohol and some of them end up drowning in the town&#39;s lake after twenty Krombacher and seventeen Jägermeister shots? Me: Correct. So maybe skip swimming today. #Germany #FathersDay
Post #2536308
Looking for recommendations of free, open source PDF readers to substitute the increasingly annoying Adobe Acrobat. It doesn&#39;t need to be anything fancy, just for reading and signing a document / inserting a picture with a signature every once in a while. TIA! :BlobhajHeart: Edit: I&#39;ll be using the Firebox PDF Editor. Once more Adobe product down. Yeeeees! 🎉 Now I just need to get the hang of GIMP and it will be bye bye Photoshop! #OpenSource #Software #FediHelp
Post #2428127
I&#39;m very happy to see how my 3-year journey replacing big tech with privacy-oriented, humane platforms is shaping: Gmail: Tuta and Proton Google Calendar: Fossify Google Maps: Organic Maps Twitter: Mastodon Facebook, Instagram: Pixelfed WhatsApp, Telegram: Signal Android: GrapheneOS Windows: Linux Mint It was overwhelming, it took time and research. But I can tell you that another digital experience is possible. Now I&#39;m thrilled to have devices that belong to ME, like i...
Post #2320073
First try at embroidery. Who knew that unresolved issues could look this pretty. 😊 #Sewing #Patchwork #LimeGreen
Post #2253962
The Meta-stasis of Hypocrisy ☠ #Comics #SocialMedia #ThrowbackThursday
Post #2199517
The last election in #Hungary is a perfect example of a belief I keep coming back to: It&#39;s great that Orbán is out of the picture, but let’s not pretend the replacement is going to lead a workers’ revolution. I understand the whole “lesser of two evils” argument, but it’s a very bleak narrative We don’t deserve slightly less awful. We deserve something more than a lukewarm compromise dressed up as progress. We deserve fucking rainbows.
Post #1820657
The Gender-Revealing Obsession 🧐 #Comics #Gender #ThrowbackThursday
Post #1661901
Let&#39;s have a look at collective nouns today! 🤭 #Language #Comics #ThrowbackThursday
Post #1551821
When you are outside, pause for a minute and bask in the colors of April 💕 #BloomScrolling #Spring #Nature
Post #1419352
What would happen if natural languages behaved like programming languages? I’m no expert in programming languages, but I know enough to realize that the slightest mistake can mess up hundreds of lines of code. Luckily for us, speakers of natural languages are better at deciphering messages, even those abound in morphosyntactic blunders. #Programming #Languages #ThrowbackThursday
Post #1242455
Is there a way to bulk delete posts and replies on Mastodon? It&#39;s time for a spring cleaning. Thanks in advance!
Post #1061260
It&#39;s hanami time! 🌸 #Spring #Sakura #Berlin
Post #1039621
&quot;When we say firefighter instead of fireman, we’re not just tweaking lexical units, (...) we’re challenging the assumption that one identity can stand in for all others. These changes signal something powerful: a willingness to see, to listen, and to evolve.&quot; Read full article: https://bit.ly/LGFinclusive ✨ #Language #Communication #ThrowbackThursday
Post #997415
Interesting how religious folks treat the street like a marketing channel for their god. We heathens don’t go around handing out atheist stickers. Missed opportunity, maybe? #Religion #Christianity #Germany
Post #842777
You know you have left the #Berlin metropolitan area when the toilets go back to gender binary. 🙄