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@lingdiscovery · joined 27 Dec 2020

🗣️ Teaching you about the science and diversity of language 📰 Sign up for my newsletter at https://t.co/s7SfPpkdES! Danny Hieber, Ph.D.

10 555Followers
220Following
5 490Posts total
34.3KViews on collected posts

Latest posts

@lingdiscovery One of the most striking candidates is thalassa, "sea." It has no secure Indo-European etymology and is often assigned to the Pre-Greek substrate. That pattern matters because many suspected substrate words cluster around local plants, animals, materials and landsc 230 views · 7 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Around 1,000 Greek words can’t be traced to any Indo-European language. Where do they come from? In this issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter, we’ll dig through layers of linguistic history to reveal the mystery language that influenced Ancient Greek. 13.9K views · 335 likes · 51 reposts · 12 replies Open on X →
Cool Features in this Issue A custom map of where the Pre-Greek language was likely spoken, based on evidence from toponyms (place names) A big list of English words that ultimately derive from Pre-Greek 1.1K views · 9 likes · 1 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
Did you know that “merry”, “brief”, “embrace”, “brace”, “bra”, and “pretzel” are all related? https://t.co/mbuZ7vXYNJ
7.2K views · 300 likes · 44 reposts · 6 replies Open on X →
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@lingdiscovery What if it was porphura?! 38 views · 0 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
If you want to learn more about a hidden color hierarchy in the world’s languages, also check out this issue of the Linguistic Discovery newsletter: https://t.co/QLvsTfCUzU 404 views · 4 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
The etymology of the primary colors in English, from Starkey Comics https://t.co/PrdNtLCUkc
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Read all the details in the blog post here: https://t.co/eZSocuLOWU 496 views · 6 likes · 3 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
Hi! 👋 Linguistic Discovery teaches you all about the science and diversity of language—a field known as linguistics. I (Danny Hieber, Ph.D.) post daily about how language works and the incredible diversity of the world’s languages. https://t.co/EUHdDd5YQp
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Against accounts of the same size

9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.

Median views496this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %4.70%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %2.78%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
MetricThis accountMedian for 10K–100KRatio
Median views per post4969240.54×
Reach (views ÷ followers)4.70%3.62%1.30×
Engagement rate2.78%1.52%1.83×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

2.8K30 Apr
4966 Sep
7.7K
404
387 Sep
416
7.2K8 Sep
1.1K
13.9K
2309 Sep

Last 10 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

1.18%30 Apr
2.22%6 Sep
2.78%
1.49%
0.00%7 Sep
3.37%
4.91%8 Sep
0.87%
2.93%
3.04%9 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes61.2%877 in total
Reposts9.6%137 in total
Replies1.7%25 in total
Quotes1.2%17 in total
Bookmarks26.3%376 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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