Twitter's very versatile. I resisted for longer than I ought to have: its name and reputation put me off, until I looked more closely. It's a good place for language lovers.
Ah, I'm glad to hear that. I made a list of select language-related accounts; you'll see a few familiar names there, some of which you might be interested in 'following'. (Nope, I still don't much like the terminology.) Many people have similar lists, or ones dedicated to linguists. There's a lot of them on Twitter.
Another option is to just subscribe to feeds without joining the site. This would probably be fine for DARE — it looks like a one-tweet-a-day no-interaction account — but I think for most people the chat is where it's at.
"omg, how did I only just learn about Mr. Verb?" — Lauren, Dec. 9, '08
"Mr. Verb and his minions, few though there seem to be, dislike reading, or dislike reading carefully." — Robert Hartwell Fiske, editor and publisher, The Vocabula Review
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OK, so now's the point where I get Twitter, I guess.
Will you be joining?
Twitter's very versatile. I resisted for longer than I ought to have: its name and reputation put me off, until I looked more closely. It's a good place for language lovers.
Stan, you have convinced me. And we have to keep up with DARE, the measure of coolness around here.
Ah, I'm glad to hear that. I made a list of select language-related accounts; you'll see a few familiar names there, some of which you might be interested in 'following'. (Nope, I still don't much like the terminology.) Many people have similar lists, or ones dedicated to linguists. There's a lot of them on Twitter.
Another option is to just subscribe to feeds without joining the site. This would probably be fine for DARE — it looks like a one-tweet-a-day no-interaction account — but I think for most people the chat is where it's at.
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