Aaron Broadwell
abroadwell.bsky.social
Aaron Broadwell
@abroadwell.bsky.social
Linguistics, language documentation, Native American languages and their histories. Univ of Florida Anthropology and Linguistics. Unitarian Universalist.
Miss Manners, answering the question of whether a bride may wear white to her third wedding:
January 1, 2025 at 3:21 PM
On (de-)cluttering and its connection to other forms of hostility to the untidiness of life.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 17, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Our UU society has a peace pole out front, and they asked me to translate "May peace prevail on the earth" into Timucua, the traditional Native language of this part of North Florida.
This is my best attempt.
(See some thoughts on the ethics of such translation in the response...)
December 8, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Some fun Choctaw dictionary entries. I particularly like the entry for pillih 'we are dead'. #chahta #choctaw
November 30, 2024 at 8:44 PM
I have a chapter on Muskogean languages in this edited volume. See the flyer for a discount code.
[Non-linguist friends, clause-chaining is the way languages link clauses together into larger sentences. Languages like Choctaw and Muskogee have complicated grammatical structures for this purpose.]
November 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM