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Sophie Frankpitt

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a poem about who we are (not)

To get the forecast wrong is deep within human nature:

May 11

May 11

a poem about semantics

I wrote this poem two years ago during my Morphology and Semantics class in the Netherlands, to try to figure out how on earth any of us…

Mar 21

Mar 21

Using language for feminism in our everyday lives

Thinking about and using language with intention can be an entry into feminism. We can learn so much about power structures and…

Mar 7

Mar 7

Why we change how we speak when we’re with different people

Linguists spend a lot of time trying to understand how we change the way we speak when we’re with different people or in different contexts…

Feb 26

Feb 26

a poem about us

My friend told me that the sea reflects the sky — an overcast day means we see all the dirt, the bottles, the wrappers, ruining the still…

Jan 18

Jan 18

a poem about hope

Butterfly wing to hurricane, paint and paintbrush to painting, lost places to poems, book reading to escape the evening, music playing to…

Jan 1

Jan 1

resistance will always rise — a poem

We’re woken by the sound of (rape) alarms from the ironically called land of the free

Dec 9, 2024

Dec 9, 2024

Ways we talk about women and men — and how this relates to the US election and far-right politics

Language is more important than ever before. Through language, we construct and normalise our cultural and societal beliefs. In the rise…

Dec 8, 2024

Dec 8, 2024

Differences between “language” and “dialect” — and why everyone has a dialect

There are lots of public misconceptions about what languages and dialects are. Part of our work as linguists is to do some myth-busting —…

Oct 31, 2024

Oct 31, 2024

horizons yet risen — a poem

we wait for summer solstice lost in dusk and fading light we wonder if horizons yet risen will one day rise

Oct 28, 2024

Oct 28, 2024

Sophie Frankpitt

Sophie Frankpitt

she/her

Linguist, researcher & poet. Using language for social justice, joy and hope. I write about culture, politics, and cognition through a language lens.

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