#sociolinguistics
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sociolinguistics from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:32 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
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measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:32 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:32 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~10355 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 16:00
Languages: English (39) · Portuguese (1)
Avg boosts / post: 1.6
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A comment on my post describes users of this slang as lazy simpletons with a limited vocabulary. (I was having none of it.) I see linguistic shortcuts – abbreviations and the like – more as efficiencies. They're the verbal equivalent of des
Interesting piece on why accents can change in adulthood, touching on geography, identity, prestige, intelligibility, professional status, and other social forces [gift link] https://www.theatlantic.com/family/2025/12/accent-dialect-acquisi
@serpicojam Most of the arguments for "y'all" that I've seen over the past ten years are based on the perception that "you guys" is sexist. Weird that nobody in the article mentions that. My dad was from Texas, and he maintained some of his
What “sociolinguistics” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediasociolinguistics/ˌsəʊsi.əʊlɪŋˈɡwɪstɪks/
- nounThe study of social and cultural effects on language and vice-versa.
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive and scientific study of how language is shaped by and used differently within any given society. The field largely looks at how a language varies between distinct social groups and under the influence of assorted cultural norms, expectations, and contexts, including how that variation plays a role in language change. Sociolinguistics combines the older field of dialectology with the social sciences in order to identify regional dialects, sociolects, ethnolects
“Sociolinguistics” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sociolinguistics across platforms
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