ça fait huit ans que je suis venue au québec en tant qu’immigrante et on a *jamais* questionné le fait que je sois ici

on prétend souvent qu’être contre l’immigration c’est pas être raciste, mais j’ai de la misère à imaginer que c’est pas parce que je suis blanche

New on the blog: Oxford University Press is going all-in on surveillance capitalism
ideophone.org/oxford-unive...

Turns out they don't trust authors with offprints anymore, citing "piracy" concerns, and would rather you didn't share your work at all where they can't track it

#academicsky

if anything this is an argument for why GRCs shouldn't be required, not for why trans people should be barred altogether

potentially stupid question, but does anyone know if there's anything about the arabic prepositions most transparently derived from nouns (like ones that just look like the construct accusative of an existing noun) that actually makes them not nouns?

i feel like papers (and other stuff too, for that matter) should link to archived versions of pages so they they're less likely to just end up with dead links within a few years that will just continue to point to nothing for the rest of eternity

I love that الإشمام, which seems to refer to pronouncing /y/ in some contexts, is the verbal noun of 'make sniff/smell'. I never would have thought to describe it that way but it just kinda makes sense