Schnitza Fars
@schnitzafars.bsky.social
pseudonym, here for the snark and the linguistics/philosophy dramaraderie. she/her
"AFK" is an old chatroom acronym for "away from keyboard", describing stepping away from the virtual to attend to the real
but 10yo tells me kids these days use it to describe people who have spaced out of real conversation to type in their phones,
which makes it a brand-spanking new contronym!
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but 10yo tells me kids these days use it to describe people who have spaced out of real conversation to type in their phones,
which makes it a brand-spanking new contronym!
🐦🐦🐦
November 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
"AFK" is an old chatroom acronym for "away from keyboard", describing stepping away from the virtual to attend to the real
but 10yo tells me kids these days use it to describe people who have spaced out of real conversation to type in their phones,
which makes it a brand-spanking new contronym!
🐦🐦🐦
but 10yo tells me kids these days use it to describe people who have spaced out of real conversation to type in their phones,
which makes it a brand-spanking new contronym!
🐦🐦🐦
that's a really pretty face, it'd be a shame if someone smashed it
= compliment you guys
= compliment you guys
November 15, 2025 at 7:20 PM
that's a really pretty face, it'd be a shame if someone smashed it
= compliment you guys
= compliment you guys
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UCLA is *us*: Faculty, students, and staff.
Not administrators.
Not administrators.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
UCLA is *us*: Faculty, students, and staff.
Not administrators.
Not administrators.
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WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!!
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.
wondering if there's a general term for words designed to replace taboo words, and in particular if there's a name for the phonological+ process that has given us shit --> sugar
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November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
wondering if there's a general term for words designed to replace taboo words, and in particular if there's a name for the phonological+ process that has given us shit --> sugar
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we are somehow too neuroatypical to go to the Magic Castle; they have a strict dress code of hard pants and dress shoes ☹️
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
we are somehow too neuroatypical to go to the Magic Castle; they have a strict dress code of hard pants and dress shoes ☹️
well, it finally happened, as I always knew it would. I am so exhausted I looked at the cover of Roald Dahl's "BFG" and ask 5yo if he wanted to listen to the "Big Fucking Giant" audiobook
November 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
well, it finally happened, as I always knew it would. I am so exhausted I looked at the cover of Roald Dahl's "BFG" and ask 5yo if he wanted to listen to the "Big Fucking Giant" audiobook
linguists are used to seeing predicate-marker deletion, but are there languages that delete aux verbs with no semantic consequence? (no, right? as in, this is a universally unavailable reading?)
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sociolinguistics / raciolinguistic ideologies / linguistic racism
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
linguists are used to seeing predicate-marker deletion, but are there languages that delete aux verbs with no semantic consequence? (no, right? as in, this is a universally unavailable reading?)
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🎵These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
LET’S HEAR IT FOR NEW YORK 🎶
Big lights will inspire you
LET’S HEAR IT FOR NEW YORK 🎶
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
🎵These streets will make you feel brand new
Big lights will inspire you
LET’S HEAR IT FOR NEW YORK 🎶
Big lights will inspire you
LET’S HEAR IT FOR NEW YORK 🎶
if your student tells you they want to be an experimentalist when they grow up and you don't immediately follow up by grilling them about how much they enjoy paperwork and following minute often arbitrary instructions, some of which are unknowable, you are doing them a great disservice
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
if your student tells you they want to be an experimentalist when they grow up and you don't immediately follow up by grilling them about how much they enjoy paperwork and following minute often arbitrary instructions, some of which are unknowable, you are doing them a great disservice
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If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits
www.foxla.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
If you see someone stealing food - no you didn't.
have achieved a Buddha-level zen*
*merging from one freeway to another in downtown LA while my kids loudly argue about whether the baby on the Nirvana cover is now 70 or 80 years old
*merging from one freeway to another in downtown LA while my kids loudly argue about whether the baby on the Nirvana cover is now 70 or 80 years old
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
have achieved a Buddha-level zen*
*merging from one freeway to another in downtown LA while my kids loudly argue about whether the baby on the Nirvana cover is now 70 or 80 years old
*merging from one freeway to another in downtown LA while my kids loudly argue about whether the baby on the Nirvana cover is now 70 or 80 years old
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SHAME ON YOU, UC
The University of California has made a last-minute plea to the California Supreme Court, asking it to block a lower court order that UC release a roughly $1.2-billion Trump UCLA settlement proposal to faculty: www.latimes.com/california/s...
UC asks California Supreme court to block release of Trump's UCLA settlement offer
UC on Thursday asked the California Supreme Court to block the release of a UCLA settlement proposal sent by the Trump administration in August. It outlines a $1.2-billion fine and vast campus changes...
www.latimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
SHAME ON YOU, UC
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THIS IS WHY I USE HANDOUTS
trying to prep a talk on high negation, wasted 30 minutes trying and failing to get AI to draw a personified stoned negation symbol
trying to prep a talk on high negation, wasted 30 minutes trying and failing to get AI to draw a personified stoned negation symbol
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
THIS IS WHY I USE HANDOUTS
trying to prep a talk on high negation, wasted 30 minutes trying and failing to get AI to draw a personified stoned negation symbol
trying to prep a talk on high negation, wasted 30 minutes trying and failing to get AI to draw a personified stoned negation symbol
stumbled upon my absolute entire-ass mood on a school wall today
October 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
stumbled upon my absolute entire-ass mood on a school wall today
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The UC Regents have so far refused to release the demand letter UCLA received from the Trump admin. @uclafa.bsky.social sued for its release last week and won. Glad to see that yesterday a judge rejected UC’s appeal of the decision. www.latimes.com/california/s...
October 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The UC Regents have so far refused to release the demand letter UCLA received from the Trump admin. @uclafa.bsky.social sued for its release last week and won. Glad to see that yesterday a judge rejected UC’s appeal of the decision. www.latimes.com/california/s...
ok, here's what I've got so far:
* question-based exclamatives (Bardenstein 2022)
* exclamative rhetorical questions (Rubenstein et al. 2015)
* counterexpectational questions (Bhadra to appear)
* positive-rejecting declarative questions (Repp & Geist 2025)
* emphatic questions (Yoon 2022)
* question-based exclamatives (Bardenstein 2022)
* exclamative rhetorical questions (Rubenstein et al. 2015)
* counterexpectational questions (Bhadra to appear)
* positive-rejecting declarative questions (Repp & Geist 2025)
* emphatic questions (Yoon 2022)
I need help coming up with every term in the semantics literature used to refer to utterances transcribed with interrobangs (?!), ideally with a citation, e.g. "question construction exclamatives," Bardenstein 2022
@denizrudin.bsky.social ?
@haikugoat.bsky.social ?
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@denizrudin.bsky.social ?
@haikugoat.bsky.social ?
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October 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
ok, here's what I've got so far:
* question-based exclamatives (Bardenstein 2022)
* exclamative rhetorical questions (Rubenstein et al. 2015)
* counterexpectational questions (Bhadra to appear)
* positive-rejecting declarative questions (Repp & Geist 2025)
* emphatic questions (Yoon 2022)
* question-based exclamatives (Bardenstein 2022)
* exclamative rhetorical questions (Rubenstein et al. 2015)
* counterexpectational questions (Bhadra to appear)
* positive-rejecting declarative questions (Repp & Geist 2025)
* emphatic questions (Yoon 2022)
I need help coming up with every term in the semantics literature used to refer to utterances transcribed with interrobangs (?!), ideally with a citation, e.g. "question construction exclamatives," Bardenstein 2022
@denizrudin.bsky.social ?
@haikugoat.bsky.social ?
🐦🐦🐦
@denizrudin.bsky.social ?
@haikugoat.bsky.social ?
🐦🐦🐦
October 22, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I need help coming up with every term in the semantics literature used to refer to utterances transcribed with interrobangs (?!), ideally with a citation, e.g. "question construction exclamatives," Bardenstein 2022
@denizrudin.bsky.social ?
@haikugoat.bsky.social ?
🐦🐦🐦
@denizrudin.bsky.social ?
@haikugoat.bsky.social ?
🐦🐦🐦
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Imagine considering doing something USC wouldn't.
October 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Imagine considering doing something USC wouldn't.
celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month the only way my white ass knows how, i.e. walking 10yo line-by-line through Rage's "People of the Sun"
October 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month the only way my white ass knows how, i.e. walking 10yo line-by-line through Rage's "People of the Sun"
it is appalling how much unpaid work the UC Faculty have had to do on behalf of Californians to fight for this ruling, and it's even more shocking to think that the UC will spend even more resources to appeal it
dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...
dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...
Judge rules UC must publicize Trump administration settlement demands - Daily Bruin
This post was updated Oct. 14 at 11:30 p.m. A judge ruled Tuesday that the UC Board of Regents must publicize the Trump administration’s proposed settlement demands to UCLA.
dailybruin.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:53 AM
it is appalling how much unpaid work the UC Faculty have had to do on behalf of Californians to fight for this ruling, and it's even more shocking to think that the UC will spend even more resources to appeal it
dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...
dailybruin.com/2025/10/14/j...
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I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.
One might also say "hiring committees".
October 11, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I wonder if Dutch philosophy departments in the 1630s were only hiring in the philosophy of tulips.