@etymologynerd: responding to language jones

🌌🪐🚀Mars🚀🪐🌌 :

things are getting heated in the linguistics community

lunannova (farcille forever) :

dude if youre disagreeing with THE Sir David Crystal then you're probably wrong

CHEETOS25ひ :

The moment that shook the linguistics community

the majulian 🇵🇸 :

he’s pissed you’re on npr and he’s not

Felix Mynors :

Sounds like he got etymogged icl

human1011 :

Although I agree with some of the criticisms he brings up, it’s hard to take him seriously when he interprets you extremely uncharitably throughout and calls you a charlatan…

D :

I don’t even think his first name is actually language

Kev :

I’m a fan of yours, and definitely respect you as a linguist. That said, I think the political comments you make on occasion take away from your content overall.

Ro :

you should definitely look at publishing the results and making available the methodology of the studies, it totally makes sense to not include them in the actual book for readability but some kind of blog lost is the sort of standard even for "pop" books

Olive 🇵🇱 :

don’t worry we love you and your book

Cursor.HU :

I watched that video, and it seemed like he was just unwilling to understand what you had to say for some reason. but maybe that's just me.

Chode_Slayer69420 :

I used algospeak in my college course of public speaking my topic was about history of communication on the internet

˚✧₊⁎ sig ⁎˳✧༚ :

a moment that shook the deviled egg community

pecry pig :

phone too steady cant trust

karina :

He seemed a bit curmudgeonly. It was fair enough in a research vs pop-science way, until he complained about the use of “ragebait” by comparing it to “sharkbait.” Your use of ragebait is definitely the correct one, so it seems like he just doesn’t consider online shift in language to be valid.

Chemical overreactor :

Beef in the linguistics community?

meyou8042 :

isn't that also the guy argued Hebew is not a constructed and revived language because is was used for religious purposes. Even no one spoke it conversationally for centuries.

Guillermo70 :

the moment that shook thr Linguistics community

Eric Lippe :

Having also read your book, I think the points of his you bring up here are accurate to how you describe them. However, he brings up many more points, especially to do with the rigor of your study, which I can’t help but agree with. If your core argument is language is changing because of the Internet and you mainly discuss Internet phenomena, I don’t think you’ve proven your thesis. Similarly, you argue that the Internet is not only changing language, but changing it in new, previously unseen ways, which I don’t think you do much to prove.

Clam :

am I crazy or is he talking at a noticeably lower pitch

mills :

why didn't you respond to his criticisms on aave? it seems like you only touched on the nit picking he did and not the more substantial arguments.

Daegawd :

Every 7 days :

this "response" is ironically itself a bad faith reply to his video. You intentionally ignored his substantive critiques 😂

swagmoneyera :

luinguistics beef👀 im in the right place