Meow Factor
@meow-factor.bsky.social
Furensic Linguist | Independent Researcher | 🐈⬛ Writing about Cat-inspired Language | 🐾 Author of "Purrieties of Language" 🎓 PhD in Dialectology | en de it fr ru
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https://meowfactor.hypotheses.org
writing: Edith + Murrli K. for
https://meowfactor.hypotheses.org
A neologist is a lexicographer of new words and expressions.
I am a meowlogist: a lexicographer of new cat-inspired words and expurressions.
I am a meowlogist: a lexicographer of new cat-inspired words and expurressions.
November 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
A neologist is a lexicographer of new words and expressions.
I am a meowlogist: a lexicographer of new cat-inspired words and expurressions.
I am a meowlogist: a lexicographer of new cat-inspired words and expurressions.
"Very entertaining and informative book that covers everything you'd want to know about cats online! I especially liked the sections on the jargon used in cat communities. Must read for any cat lover!" (Review on Amazon)
🧪 #cats #caturday
books.google.at/books?id=MXi...
🧪 #cats #caturday
books.google.at/books?id=MXi...
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 AM
"Very entertaining and informative book that covers everything you'd want to know about cats online! I especially liked the sections on the jargon used in cat communities. Must read for any cat lover!" (Review on Amazon)
🧪 #cats #caturday
books.google.at/books?id=MXi...
🧪 #cats #caturday
books.google.at/books?id=MXi...
Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us. Just like the cats, we, too, judge other people because we want to know who they are in relation to us. That’s psychology. When we form our judgements on the basis of language, that’s sociolinguistics. meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7095 🧪
Judgement Day
Why we know you’re a cat person the moment you say ‘hooman’ or ‘cattitude.’ We cat owners know that cats are judgmental. Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us, and I don’t think that th...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Whenever cats are looking at us, they are judging us. Just like the cats, we, too, judge other people because we want to know who they are in relation to us. That’s psychology. When we form our judgements on the basis of language, that’s sociolinguistics. meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7095 🧪
Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community and on the social media platform. Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, differences are out there waiting to be discovered and described.
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7055
#linguistics 🧪
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7055
#linguistics 🧪
Purrieties of Language
It’s all about cat-inspired language varieties Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community they are in and on the social media platform they are on. W...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Purrieties exist because people talk differently as their cats depending on the cat community and on the social media platform. Whether it’s Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, or Twitter, differences are out there waiting to be discovered and described.
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7055
#linguistics 🧪
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7055
#linguistics 🧪
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September 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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An old newspaper adage says “If it bleeds, it leads”. While that may be true for many news stories out there, it does not apply to cats in the news. Mostly cat news are feel-good stories making you happy.
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7011
#cats #news
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7011
#cats #news
Cats in the News – Cat Mews
An old newspaper adage says “If it bleeds, it leads”. While that may be true for many news stories out there, it does not apply to cats in the news. Mostly cat news are feel-good stories making you ha...
meowfactor.hypotheses.org
September 5, 2025 at 9:05 PM
An old newspaper adage says “If it bleeds, it leads”. While that may be true for many news stories out there, it does not apply to cats in the news. Mostly cat news are feel-good stories making you happy.
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7011
#cats #news
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/7011
#cats #news
#InternationalCatDay #Weltkatzentag
For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it?
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6906
For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it?
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6906
International Cat Day
For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it? There are various dates for world cat day, for international cat day, for national cat...
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August 8, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#InternationalCatDay #Weltkatzentag
For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it?
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6906
For a cat owner, every day is Cat Day. For the media, Cat Day is once a year on 08 August. Or is it?
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6906
Time to prepare for 08 August - International Cat Day. Be in the know and read my book ➡️ www.cambridge.org/at/universit...
Purrieties of Language | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
August 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Time to prepare for 08 August - International Cat Day. Be in the know and read my book ➡️ www.cambridge.org/at/universit...
On my quest to discover research on why cats love cardboard boxes so much, I have come across a research article that looks at how visual illusions affect cats. Cats can perceive shapes even if they are just illusions. 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
If I fits I sits: A citizen science investigation into illusory contour susceptibility in domestic cats (Felis silvestris catus)
A well-known phenomenon to cat owners is the tendency of their cats to sit in enclosed spaces such as boxes, laundry baskets, and even shape outlines …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
On my quest to discover research on why cats love cardboard boxes so much, I have come across a research article that looks at how visual illusions affect cats. Cats can perceive shapes even if they are just illusions. 🧪
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Let’s apply some PR (purring relations) to the Meow Factor and come up with catchy slogans to bring the essence of the blog to you, its readers, and to attract new people to linguistics with cats
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6708
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6708
The Meow Factor in One Line
Let’s apply some PR (purring relations) to the Meow Factor and come up with catchy slogans to bring the essence of the blog to you, its readers, and to attract new people to linguistics with cats. The...
meowfactor.hypotheses.org
July 4, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Let’s apply some PR (purring relations) to the Meow Factor and come up with catchy slogans to bring the essence of the blog to you, its readers, and to attract new people to linguistics with cats
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6708
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6708
Many people have an online account for their cats. I noticed that people pretended to be their cats. As cats, they used their own kind of language with their own words and spellings. As a dialectologist, I went “yes!” straight away.
#GuestNewsletter 🐦🐦 🧪
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#GuestNewsletter 🐦🐦 🧪
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Weekly newsletter - The magic of words: Special Guest
The Meow-ning of Words: When Linguistics Gets Fur-Midable!
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July 2, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Many people have an online account for their cats. I noticed that people pretended to be their cats. As cats, they used their own kind of language with their own words and spellings. As a dialectologist, I went “yes!” straight away.
#GuestNewsletter 🐦🐦 🧪
fedeminozzi.substack.com/p/weekly-new...
#GuestNewsletter 🐦🐦 🧪
fedeminozzi.substack.com/p/weekly-new...
I could not have said it better 😻
Come for the purr, stay for the “Catnipulation.”
Linguistics with Cats: focusing the cat lense on language 🧪
open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
June 14, 2025 at 11:42 AM
I could not have said it better 😻
Linguistics about and for cats 🐦🐦
@meow-factor.bsky.social Josie hasn’t read your book yet but thinks it’s very comfortable 😺
June 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Linguistics about and for cats 🐦🐦
Linguistics with Cats: focusing the cat lense on language 🧪
open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
Linguistics with Cats
Study language with the help of cats 🐈⬛
open.substack.com
June 14, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Linguistics with Cats: focusing the cat lense on language 🧪
open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
There are cats in LOTR 🐈⬛😸😻: the fiddling cat in a song, a cat in Bree, cats jumping on poor mice (Sam pouncing on Gollum), cats of Queen Beruthiel (I still need to check out Queen Beruthiel’s cats). So we have cats in their roles as entertainers and hunters.
am reading LOTR now
am reading LOTR now
June 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
There are cats in LOTR 🐈⬛😸😻: the fiddling cat in a song, a cat in Bree, cats jumping on poor mice (Sam pouncing on Gollum), cats of Queen Beruthiel (I still need to check out Queen Beruthiel’s cats). So we have cats in their roles as entertainers and hunters.
am reading LOTR now
am reading LOTR now
next issue coming on Wednesday. Sign up for linguistics with cats open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
Purrspectives in Language | Meow Factor | Substack
Purrspectives in Language brings you linguistics with cats —
😻 purrfect for you if you love language and cats and want to discover linguistics with a pawsome feline flair 🐈⬛. Click to read Purrspect...
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May 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
next issue coming on Wednesday. Sign up for linguistics with cats open.substack.com/pub/purrspec...
This is why I love my research on cat-inspired language: Luke Skywhiskers, Purrincess Leia, Han Meowlo, Purr2D2, C3Purro, Meowda, Jabba the Cat, Darth Meowder, Empurror PawPawtine on "May the fourth".
This is cats meeting Star Wars meeting cultural meaningfulness
#Caturday 🐦🐦 🧪
This is cats meeting Star Wars meeting cultural meaningfulness
#Caturday 🐦🐦 🧪
May 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
This is why I love my research on cat-inspired language: Luke Skywhiskers, Purrincess Leia, Han Meowlo, Purr2D2, C3Purro, Meowda, Jabba the Cat, Darth Meowder, Empurror PawPawtine on "May the fourth".
This is cats meeting Star Wars meeting cultural meaningfulness
#Caturday 🐦🐦 🧪
This is cats meeting Star Wars meeting cultural meaningfulness
#Caturday 🐦🐦 🧪
in time for Meowther's Day on Sunday, here are some #catspeak words for my cat friends to use for their hoomans
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6027
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6027
Catspeak Selection: April 2025
Just a few cat-inspired words found in April 2025. They are good examples for word formation. The meowpheme (morpheme) is given in <> as is usually done in linguistics. And some days you can use for y...
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May 8, 2025 at 6:58 PM
in time for Meowther's Day on Sunday, here are some #catspeak words for my cat friends to use for their hoomans
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6027
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/6027
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Wenn du jede Woche denkst: „So geht’s nicht mehr“ – dann ist das nicht Jammern.
Das ist der Anfang von Klarheit. Webinar für alle, die aus der Wissenschaft raus wollen, aber (noch) nicht wissen, wie.
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#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia
Das ist der Anfang von Klarheit. Webinar für alle, die aus der Wissenschaft raus wollen, aber (noch) nicht wissen, wie.
https://leavingacademia.my.canva.site/plan-statt-panik
#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia
May 6, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Wenn du jede Woche denkst: „So geht’s nicht mehr“ – dann ist das nicht Jammern.
Das ist der Anfang von Klarheit. Webinar für alle, die aus der Wissenschaft raus wollen, aber (noch) nicht wissen, wie.
https://leavingacademia.my.canva.site/plan-statt-panik
#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia
Das ist der Anfang von Klarheit. Webinar für alle, die aus der Wissenschaft raus wollen, aber (noch) nicht wissen, wie.
https://leavingacademia.my.canva.site/plan-statt-panik
#ichbinhanna #ichbinreyhan #leavingacademia
Doing #linguistics with cats on #Caturday: New blog post out on the Meow Factor focussing on small stories as part of #SocialMedia communication 🧪
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5975
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5975
Smol Stories
The story you open your social media feed to is this: The cat has been taken to the dreaded V.E.T., the cat gets the cone of shame and even has to stay at the V.E.T’s overnight for observation. What.....
meowfactor.hypotheses.org
May 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Doing #linguistics with cats on #Caturday: New blog post out on the Meow Factor focussing on small stories as part of #SocialMedia communication 🧪
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5975
meowfactor.hypotheses.org/5975
Friday is Caturday eve 😸
It’s Caturday eve at least
May 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Friday is Caturday eve 😸
"purring" in Ukrainian: муркотіння ( murkotinnya) 🐈⬛
April 27, 2025 at 8:14 PM
"purring" in Ukrainian: муркотіння ( murkotinnya) 🐈⬛
