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a linguistics student trying to figure things out. he/she/they



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ringroundrobin.bsky.social
as i read more linguistics research papers i'm getting better at deciphering academia speak, which means it's really hilarious when i get to a section where it's clear the authors of the research paper are very fed up and dissing other papers
February 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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zevhandel.bsky.social
Happy New Year, everyone. May the Year of the Snake bring prosperity and an end to evil times.

I have good news and bad news about my forthcoming book, Chinese Characters Across Asia.

Good: It is completely done and in production!
Bad: The official publication date has slipped to March 4.
Book cover of Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese by Zev Handel (University of Washington Press, 2025)
January 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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kerrycamp.bsky.social
Have you ever read something in Irish and thought "how the hell do I pronounce that?" Well you can type any sentence in Irish into this site and hear it back in 3 different dialects! So bloody cool it's helped me a lot lately. www.abair.ie/ga

#Gaeilge #Ireland #langsky #polyglot #irish
ABAIR
Irish Speech and Language Technologies
www.abair.ie
February 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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michaelerard.bsky.social
Bye Bye I Love You is the #1 new Kindle release in Communication Reference, was #1 in Linguistics (now #6)
a screenshot. on the left, the cover of my book, a white background with the words Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words. on the right, the cover description, but what's important is the text at the top: #1 new release in communication reference
February 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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fletcherdurant.bsky.social
A good reminder that centralized digital collections present new, major security risks for organizations. Digitization is not preservation.
October 27, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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stancarey.bsky.social
"super mario level ass geological formation"
languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=66602
cc @stronglang.bsky.social #linguistics
October 27, 2024 at 9:19 AM
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kslivensky.bsky.social
3yo, playing hide and seek: "Now we all hide!"

Both me and his dad: "But who will find us?"

3yo, pensively, after much thought: "We will find ourselves."
October 26, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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ygrene.bsky.social
[sword swallowing class]

me: (struggling to swallow sword)

instructor: try turning it the long way
October 27, 2024 at 3:18 PM
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joshuaraclaw.com
After nearly a lifetime of not speaking Yiddish, my ninety-year-old grandfather remembered the following very useful words and phrases:

- “Nu, vos den?” YEAH, SO WHAT, WHAT ABOUT IT

- How to count from one to five

- The word for CANDY STORE
October 26, 2024 at 8:04 PM
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joshuaraclaw.com
Kadya Molodosky’s “God of Mercy,” 1945, translated from the original Yiddish
God of Mercy By Kadya Molodovsky Merciful God, Choose another people Elect another. We are tired of death and dying, We have no more prayers, Choose another people Elect another. We have no more blood To be a sacrifice. Our house has become a desert. The earth is insufficient for our graves. No more laments for us, No more dirges In the old, holy books. Merciful God, Sanctify another country, Another mountain. We have strewn all the fields and every stone With ash, with holy ash. With the aged, With the youthful, And with babies, we have paid for every letter of your Ten Commandments.
October 26, 2024 at 11:46 PM
ringroundrobin.bsky.social
October 27, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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symbolicstorage.bsky.social
I have a joke about research funding but you wouldn't get it
hollysully.bsky.social Holly Sullivan-Toole @hollysully.bsky.social · Oct 26
I have a joke about academic head shots but it’s like 15 years out of date
drbarner.bsky.social David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Oct 25
I have a joke about infant research but it’s not fully developed yet
October 26, 2024 at 7:57 AM
ringroundrobin.bsky.social
Update! It’s pronounced motorpɪ́t instead! Still no concrete info on the origins, but now the leading theories are that it’s from the Dutch motorfiet (with a substitution of fi to p because fi doesn’t exist in Chinese) or that it’s onomatopoeic to the beep of a motorcycle (pɪ́t, pɪ́t)!
ringroundrobin.bsky.social robin @ringroundrobin.bsky.social · Oct 22
#linguistics #langsky twitter: odd question, but does anyone know where the word motorbik (pronounced motor-beek or bɪ́k) come from? It apparently refers to motorcycle in Medan Hokkien but doesn’t seem to come from Teochew, Hokkien, Indonesian or Malay — or even Dutch.
October 26, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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rikker.bsky.social
Each class I ask my Intro Ling students to share tasty linguistic morsels they notice around them. One from today was a student observing that W and L usage moving from nominal ("take the L") to more adjectival ("that's a W car")
October 25, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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bergelsonlab.bsky.social
#CogSciSky & #PsychSciSky peeps: any1 use CogLabs for class & want to tell me pros/cons? planning a new cog class; looks like a good way to show students relevant phenomona [@michaelanes.bsky.social i see you mentioned it but i'm sure there are others!] coglab.cengage.com/labs/labs.sh...
coglab.cengage.com
October 25, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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gretchenmcculloch.com
I have one request and it is for everyone to read @bluejo.bsky.social's Lifelode so that I can use the word "raensome" and everyone will know what it means

www.jowaltonbooks.com/books/lifelo...
Just raensome,” she says, smiling fondly. They are all gathered around the kitchen table, they have been discussing who will help with the harvest. Jankin looks up from his plate. “Ransom?” he asks. “What someone pays for their release?” “Not that kind of raensome,” six-year-old Hodge jumps in before the adults can speak. “The other kind. The one that means someone being very characteristically themselves.” “However did the word come to mean that?” Jankin asks. “That’s fascinating. I’ve never heard that before.” “Maybe from someone making an offering of who they are, for you to like?” Chayra suggests. She is making eyes at Jankin. Taveth notices and sighs a little, inwardly. Chayra thinks she is subtle, but to Taveth, seeing her younger selves within her, trying too hard. Chayra is young and pretty, but Jankin doesn’t pay any attention, he’s too fascinated by the new word. “Or maybe the thing that redeems them in your eyes?” “Raensome,” he murmurs. “I need my books.” “We say ‘rendsome’ in the East to mean someone remaining themselves, holding on to who they are,” Hanethe says. “That’s undoubtedly where it comes from, someone being their essential selves. Taveth is using it loosely to mean someone doing something she likes, but–” “I meant just what Hodge said,” Taveth interrupts, stung, as Hanethe stings so often. “Raensome means someone being characteristically themselves, here or in the East.”
October 26, 2024 at 5:13 AM
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A bit grim / for dark humor though

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October 26, 2024 at 1:31 AM
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nickfleisher.bsky.social
Don't have a screenshot but at one time ESPN had a columnist whose title was "senior fantasy writer"
October 25, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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gretchenmcculloch.com
New favourite example of structural ambiguity
gregolear.bsky.social Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · Oct 28
That’s a long time for scientists to hide beneath ice.
October 28, 2023 at 3:55 PM
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gretchenmcculloch.com
New favourite example of structural ambiguity
September 17, 2023 at 3:06 AM
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anids.bsky.social
Linguist friends, do you happen to have fun screenshots of attachment ambiguity in the wild? Prepping something for high schoolers and I have a few but would like many more 🐦🐦🐦
October 25, 2024 at 10:46 PM
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emmz.bsky.social
does everybody know about my favorite website, the embroidery tips page that forgot to close its <h3> tags
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Page
Embroidery Trouble Shooting Answers to all your questions about Embroidery problems
web.archive.org
October 25, 2024 at 3:39 PM