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I was and continue thus.

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Lots of white, monolingual English-speaking people have gotten tattoos in languages other than English. I got a degree in linguistics earlier this month, so instead of another language I got a tattoo in phonetic transcription.
June 29, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I'm glad my team isn't going to be invited to the White House anytime soon.
April 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Any other linguistics nerds with a side interest in journalism on here? Check out what I just got.
March 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
In honor of the beginning of the Lenten Season.
March 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
One of these will be my next tattoo.
February 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
One of my local grocery stores had key limes, so I made pie.
February 4, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Potential future tattoo: a vowel space chart representing the California Vowel Shift.
January 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The sequel to Untitled Goose Game should be set in Vichy France.
January 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My friends and I have totally normal conversations.
January 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
January 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Petition to replace the English word "food processor" with a calque of the French. I want a culinary robot.
January 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Have I mentioned that I'll be studying forensic linguistics next semester? My professor is letting me borrow this bigass book for the class. Yay for not having to purchase a textbook!
December 14, 2024 at 3:43 PM
That just seems wrong to me. I feel like that /d͡ʒ/ ought to be a /g/.
November 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM