https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/l1wioj/does_everyone_in_linguistics_secretly_hate/
Everyone in linguistics openly hates every field they do not work in. Yes. That is pretty much a universal across all scientific fields. Humanities, too. Every logician I knew dismissed aesthetics. Turn around and find plenty of philosophers just giving a passing interest to logical strictures.

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https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210528-the-pervasive-problem-of-linguistic-racism
This is a classic expression of native-speaker privilege: the minority of global English speakers demanding that the majority change. How to chip away at linguistic racism. Linguistic racism needs

https://daily.jstor.org/when-very-bad-words-are-the-shit-linguistically-speaking/
In 1754, Lord Chesterfield noted that women have turned the word "vastly" into an intensifier, having overheard a lady weirdly describe a very small snuff box as "vastly pretty, because it is so vastly little." (And people complain about "literally"!) Scholars of the past noted that ladies (like small children) "are notoriously

https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/linguistic-racism
Linguistic racism occurs when acts of racism are perpetuated against individuals on the basis of their language use. Victims of such racism are generally speakers of languages like Spanish or Arabic, or varieties of a language, like African American Vernacular English. These languages and variations are undervalued and seen as inferior to

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/05/492674820/our-language-has-interesting-little-wrinkles-linguist-says
John McWhorter of Columbia University says the way we use words changes, like how "literally" can now mean "figuratively." That example, he says, is a contronym, a word with two opposite meanings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_discrimination
Linguistic discrimination (also called glottophobia, linguicism and languagism) is unfair treatment of people based on their use of language and the characteristics of their speech, including their first language, their accent, the perceived size of their vocabulary (whether or not the speaker uses complex and varied words), their modality, and

https://theconversation.com/you-cant-even-talk-english-so-dont-talk-how-linguistic-racism-impacts-immigrants-in-the-uk-182173
Accentism sees people suffer comments and ridicule for regional accents and dialects. But as an extension of racism, linguistic racism in the UK centres whiteness by deeming any so-called non

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13670050.2020.1783638
Peter De Costa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Languages and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. His research areas include emotions, identity, ideology and ethics in educational linguistics. He also studies social (in)justice issues. He is the co-editor of TESOL Quarterly.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2020-52225-006
Linguistic racism is magnified when a speaker is multilingual and shuttles between different languages and language varieties. This reality is underscored in this commentary that reviews four empirical studies that comprise this special issue on linguistic racism. We see linguistic racism enacted in different forms and contexts: through racial microaggressions experienced by students who

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01434632.2015.1068782
Attitudes in linguistics. What are we talking about when we talk about attitudes to prescriptivism? Prescriptivism deals with 'the conscious and explicit efforts to regulate the language of others that carry institutional authority' (Curzan Citation 2014, 17).Put simply, whenever one person tells another how to do something with language in such-and-such a way, how to say or write

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261927X20967394
For the last 50 years, research in social psychology and language has focused mainly on subtle forms of language discrimination (Augoustinos & Every, 2007; Maass et al., 2014).In fact, until recently, derogatory language such as "grabbing women by the pussy" or referring to Black citizens as "piccaninnies with watermelon smiles" or as "animals [. . .] that should go back to the zoo

https://theconversation.com/heres-why-people-might-discriminate-against-foreign-accents-new-research-172539
In our we show that people might discriminate against non-native speakers even if they are not prejudiced. That's because it can be harder to process foreign-accented speech - which is

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-linguistics-of-swearing-explain-why-we-substitute-darn-for-damn/
The findings, published on December 6 in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, support the idea that speakers may euphemize swear words, or "mince oaths"—think using "darn" for "damn"—by

https://theconversation.com/why-some-people-lose-their-accents-but-others-dont-linguistic-expert-201986
A strong identity. For others whose accent does not seem to change, it could be because they feel secure in their identity, and their accent is very much part of that identity - or that

https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/04/word-aversion-hate-moist-slacks-crevice-why-do-people-hate-words.html
Word aversion is marked by strong reactions triggered by the sound, sight, and sometimes even the thought of certain words, according to Liberman. "Not to the things that they refer to, but to

https://ling.yale.edu/academics/undergraduate/why-study-linguistics
The major in Linguistics offers students the opportunity to approach human language as an object of scientific investigation. Linguistics is about how language works: what's in our heads, how we use it to communicate, why there are so many different languages, and how it can be modeled computationally. Yale offers a program of studies that leads toward an understanding of phonological (sounds

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.04257
Hate Lingo: A Target-based Linguistic Analysis of Hate Speech in Social Media. Mai ElSherief, Vivek Kulkarni, Dana Nguyen, William Yang Wang, Elizabeth Belding. While social media empowers freedom of expression and individual voices, it also enables anti-social behavior, online harassment, cyberbullying, and hate speech.

https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/why-is-latinx-still-used-if-hispanics-hate-the-term/
It seems like there's a new word for Latin American heritage every couple of decades—and it never seems to fit just right. "Hispanic" was brought into common parlance in the early 1970s, but was later challenged by "Latino" and its feminine partner "Latina.". Now comes the rise of the divisive—but gender-neutral—"Latinx

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09579265221126599
This article is a systematic review of previous research on hate speech in discourse studies indexed in the Scopus database in the last five years, from 2015 to 2021. This review aims to map the main topics and methods used in hate speech studies and then provide critical remarks related to the methodological issues.

https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/bitstream/handle/10822/1056009/Marsters_georgetown_0076D_14371.pdf?sequence=1
WHEN HATE SPEECH LEADS TO HATEFUL ACTIONS: A CORPUS AND DISCOURSE ANALYTIC APPROACH TO LINGUISTIC THREAT ASSESSMENT OF HATE SPEECH A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Georgetown University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Linguistics By

https://ebelding.cs.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/publications/hate-lingo-target.pdf
make statements and explicitly uses words to hinder the action of the target (e.g. calling the target a retard). In contrast, Generalized hate speech is dominated by quan-tity words such as million, all, many, religious words such as Muslims, Jews, Christians and lethal words such as murder, beheaded, killed, exterminate.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1754073917751229
Abstract. We offer a functional perspective on hate, showing that hate has a unique pattern of appraisals and action tendencies. Hate is based on perceptions of a stable, negative disposition of persons or groups. We hate persons and groups more because of who they are, than because of what they do. Hate has the goal to eliminate its target.

https://www.goodto.com/family-you-only-have-18-summers-3-reasons-why-i-hate-this-meme
18 summers: 3 reasons why it's a harmful myth. I'm not buying the silly notion that we have to make the summers count before it's all over once they turn 18. Here's why. 1. 18 summers is a scarcity thing. No one explains scarcity better than Brene Brown. She writes: 'Scarcity thrives in a culture where everyone is hyperaware of lack. Everything

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/trump-biden-debate-expectations-analysis/index.html
After months lampooning President Joe Biden as a cognitively impaired "brain-dead zombie" who can't finish a sentence or navigate off a stage, former President Donald Trump and his campaign

https://www.businessinsider.com/american-employees-disengaged-work-meaningless-fake-email-jobs-2024-6?op=1
That could explain why more people are setting out on their own. From 2020 to 2023, the number of self-employed workers in the US rose by about 400,000. And Americans are filing 59% more

https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/how-can-you-hate-on-lakers-drafting-bronny-james-heres-why-its-one-of-my-favorite-picks-of-2024-nba-draft/
2. Donovan Clingan to the Blazers with the 7th pick. There were reports leading up to the draft that multiple teams -- among them the Grizzlies-- were interested in moving up to No. 3 or No. 5 or

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-1920s-debate-explains-why-so-many-americans-hate-the-news-media/
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson was having trouble ginning up support for the U.S. entry into the Great War. He found it nearly impossible to reach Americans with his message, distracted as they

https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2024/06/27/why-do-delawareans-hate-delaware-social-media-im-from-delware-tiktok/74230593007/
But, maybe Delawareans don't really hate the state that much. A 2022 ranking of most-hated states puts Delaware at 39. Pennsylvania was slightly more hated by its residents, coming in at 24.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-26/why-liberals-loss-in-canada-election-was-such-a-blow-for-justin-trudeau
For eight years, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — himself the son of former prime minister, Pierre Trudeau — has managed to keep his Liberal Party in power while navigating his share