Vanessa
@vrslinguist.bsky.social
Linguistics instructor, PhD Cand, Portuguese & Socioling, Phon/Phon on the sly, pedagogy nerd, baseball and genealogy FTW, oh & crochet
#UnexpectedMormon in Coeds and Cattails.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
#UnexpectedMormon in Coeds and Cattails.
The ridiculous problem with having my Alexa wake-up word as “Computer” is that I’m a huge #Trekkie and Janeway and Uhura and Picard and Geordie send Alexa down A LOT of rabbit holes while I (re)watch.
September 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
The ridiculous problem with having my Alexa wake-up word as “Computer” is that I’m a huge #Trekkie and Janeway and Uhura and Picard and Geordie send Alexa down A LOT of rabbit holes while I (re)watch.
It’s a travesty that they aren’t calling the #AflacKickoff the Poultry Bowl. I mean, it involves 2 bird mascots sponsored by another.
August 31, 2025 at 10:16 PM
It’s a travesty that they aren’t calling the #AflacKickoff the Poultry Bowl. I mean, it involves 2 bird mascots sponsored by another.
August 27, 2025 at 11:08 PM
An accidental lost in translation portmanteau that I think we should invite onto our speech. From
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
August 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
An accidental lost in translation portmanteau that I think we should invite onto our speech. From
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
Latest neologism by a sports announcer: hændkʌftɪɾɪd
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
August 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Latest neologism by a sports announcer: hændkʌftɪɾɪd
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
I suggest the graphic novels La Mort de Staline (Robin, Nury) and the movie adaption, The Death of Stalin.
The only difference is in the capability of our current kakistocracy.
Anyway, the leadership under Stalin was just as craven as ours, but they were better at their chosen jobs.
Gross.
The only difference is in the capability of our current kakistocracy.
Anyway, the leadership under Stalin was just as craven as ours, but they were better at their chosen jobs.
Gross.
How Trumpism is like Stalinism. A thread. 🧵🧵🧵
Many people make valid comparisons of Trumpism to Nazism. But I think MAGA authoritarianism bears more similarities to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union – ruthless, paranoid, dishonest and determined to climb into every aspect of the lives of his people.
Many people make valid comparisons of Trumpism to Nazism. But I think MAGA authoritarianism bears more similarities to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union – ruthless, paranoid, dishonest and determined to climb into every aspect of the lives of his people.
August 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I suggest the graphic novels La Mort de Staline (Robin, Nury) and the movie adaption, The Death of Stalin.
The only difference is in the capability of our current kakistocracy.
Anyway, the leadership under Stalin was just as craven as ours, but they were better at their chosen jobs.
Gross.
The only difference is in the capability of our current kakistocracy.
Anyway, the leadership under Stalin was just as craven as ours, but they were better at their chosen jobs.
Gross.
I’m watching #MallorcaBarça en español and the play-by-play announcer’s ratatatat reminds me of when we’d go visit my grandma at the auction.
August 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m watching #MallorcaBarça en español and the play-by-play announcer’s ratatatat reminds me of when we’d go visit my grandma at the auction.
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This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
August 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen
"Sam Philandering" is the supposed
name of a cartoon show a six-yr-old was describing to her teacher today while walking to their primary class at church.
I'm skeptical, but intrigued.
name of a cartoon show a six-yr-old was describing to her teacher today while walking to their primary class at church.
I'm skeptical, but intrigued.
August 10, 2025 at 10:38 PM
"Sam Philandering" is the supposed
name of a cartoon show a six-yr-old was describing to her teacher today while walking to their primary class at church.
I'm skeptical, but intrigued.
name of a cartoon show a six-yr-old was describing to her teacher today while walking to their primary class at church.
I'm skeptical, but intrigued.
I #crocheted 🧶 myself a Yipyip monster yarn bag holder thingie with a carabiner to thread the yarn.
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
July 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I #crocheted 🧶 myself a Yipyip monster yarn bag holder thingie with a carabiner to thread the yarn.
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
#UnexpectedMormon in Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune series. Although, with the kind of joke that it was building to, it’s more of a *Slightly Expected Mormon*.
#TeamGertie
#TeamGertie
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#UnexpectedMormon in Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune series. Although, with the kind of joke that it was building to, it’s more of a *Slightly Expected Mormon*.
#TeamGertie
#TeamGertie
#UnexpectedMormon and slightly skewampus understanding of Mormon private/public lives re: elders in Douglas Phillips’ Quantum Time. #ExpectedMormon narrator Kirby H.
July 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#UnexpectedMormon and slightly skewampus understanding of Mormon private/public lives re: elders in Douglas Phillips’ Quantum Time. #ExpectedMormon narrator Kirby H.
Sports announcing is one of my favorite places to collect innovations. Sometimes the innovations are one-off unicorns
June 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Sports announcing is one of my favorite places to collect innovations. Sometimes the innovations are one-off unicorns
I’m at church on vacation in Deep South Georgia and the bishop has a pink suit jacket and the woman that gave the opening prayer was wearing fancy black gloves.
True South.
True South.
June 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I’m at church on vacation in Deep South Georgia and the bishop has a pink suit jacket and the woman that gave the opening prayer was wearing fancy black gloves.
True South.
True South.
My Great Great Great Grandma Malcolm totally prodropping the first person singular at the beginning of her letter to husband (she quickly begins using pronouns and pronoun-ish when clarity seemed necessary). He was at the Chicago World's Columbia Exposition of 1893.
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
June 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My Great Great Great Grandma Malcolm totally prodropping the first person singular at the beginning of her letter to husband (she quickly begins using pronouns and pronoun-ish when clarity seemed necessary). He was at the Chicago World's Columbia Exposition of 1893.
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
I saw a creepy bumper sticker today and didn’t get a pic b/c driving and not wanting to crash. Found it online. Seriously, how wacko do you have to be to stick this on your car?
June 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I saw a creepy bumper sticker today and didn’t get a pic b/c driving and not wanting to crash. Found it online. Seriously, how wacko do you have to be to stick this on your car?
#UnexpectedMormon in ~Proto~ by @laurainparis.bsky.social
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
June 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#UnexpectedMormon in ~Proto~ by @laurainparis.bsky.social
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
About a half dozen times a year, I have dreams where I get to visit & visit with my friend & her husband that died of covid.
In the dream I know sometimes that they died of covid, that the dream is impossible, but the dream keeps going because I want to talk to them.
In the dream I know sometimes that they died of covid, that the dream is impossible, but the dream keeps going because I want to talk to them.
June 5, 2025 at 12:08 AM
About a half dozen times a year, I have dreams where I get to visit & visit with my friend & her husband that died of covid.
In the dream I know sometimes that they died of covid, that the dream is impossible, but the dream keeps going because I want to talk to them.
In the dream I know sometimes that they died of covid, that the dream is impossible, but the dream keeps going because I want to talk to them.
My nephew: “Daddy, you can squooshen this!”
Fantastic double-verben-ing, kid.
Fantastic double-verben-ing, kid.
May 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
My nephew: “Daddy, you can squooshen this!”
Fantastic double-verben-ing, kid.
Fantastic double-verben-ing, kid.
Fascinating #sociolinguistics moment at church in Eastern Pennsylvania:
Over the pulpit, man asks congregation rhetorical question, uses “you all”. (not y’all)
Then says, “Sorry, I lived in Texas for a little while.”
🐦🐦
#LDS
Over the pulpit, man asks congregation rhetorical question, uses “you all”. (not y’all)
Then says, “Sorry, I lived in Texas for a little while.”
🐦🐦
#LDS
May 25, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Fascinating #sociolinguistics moment at church in Eastern Pennsylvania:
Over the pulpit, man asks congregation rhetorical question, uses “you all”. (not y’all)
Then says, “Sorry, I lived in Texas for a little while.”
🐦🐦
#LDS
Over the pulpit, man asks congregation rhetorical question, uses “you all”. (not y’all)
Then says, “Sorry, I lived in Texas for a little while.”
🐦🐦
#LDS
This book was published in **2015**. What the ever-loving hells bells were the author and editors of WWNorton & Co thinking? “Lol lol racism-ginger joke lol. harmless play on words lol lol lol”???!!!
Yeesh.
Yeesh.
May 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This book was published in **2015**. What the ever-loving hells bells were the author and editors of WWNorton & Co thinking? “Lol lol racism-ginger joke lol. harmless play on words lol lol lol”???!!!
Yeesh.
Yeesh.
Generally I’m very forgiving of sketchy pronunciations in audiobooks. (Why would a Brit know that it’s ˈQuantico and not Quanˈtico?).
But how do you not know how to pronounce Bette Davis?
But how do you not know how to pronounce Bette Davis?
May 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Generally I’m very forgiving of sketchy pronunciations in audiobooks. (Why would a Brit know that it’s ˈQuantico and not Quanˈtico?).
But how do you not know how to pronounce Bette Davis?
But how do you not know how to pronounce Bette Davis?
Go Go Fightin’ Moronis
April 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Go Go Fightin’ Moronis
I can’t believe they still have this open, & that the email addy doesn’t have to be real.
Anyway, I’ve been complaining about campus protests advocating giving clothes to DEI house elves.
If you’re in the mood to submit a *very real* complaint so they have their *very real* proof…
enddei.ed.gov
Anyway, I’ve been complaining about campus protests advocating giving clothes to DEI house elves.
If you’re in the mood to submit a *very real* complaint so they have their *very real* proof…
enddei.ed.gov
Department of Education FormLock
enddei.ed.gov
March 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I can’t believe they still have this open, & that the email addy doesn’t have to be real.
Anyway, I’ve been complaining about campus protests advocating giving clothes to DEI house elves.
If you’re in the mood to submit a *very real* complaint so they have their *very real* proof…
enddei.ed.gov
Anyway, I’ve been complaining about campus protests advocating giving clothes to DEI house elves.
If you’re in the mood to submit a *very real* complaint so they have their *very real* proof…
enddei.ed.gov