Alicia Chatten
@alchatten.bsky.social
data scientist in ad tech, loves music, speculative fiction. recovering phonologist. #FreePalestine #BlackLivesMatter
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Clocks go back in the UK tonight. They change in the US on November 2nd. Welcome to the Week When No One Knows What Time It Is 😆
October 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Clocks go back in the UK tonight. They change in the US on November 2nd. Welcome to the Week When No One Knows What Time It Is 😆
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If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”
October 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If English were head final the childrens’ joke would be “why is 5 afraid of 6?”
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And if you're reading this and you're thinking "hmm, that's not so bad" -- please, tell me, what stops them from declaring YOU a "migrant"?
(I've given up trying to convince people to care about others, but please, do care about yourself.)
(I've given up trying to convince people to care about others, but please, do care about yourself.)
ICE can enter anyone’s home, and abduct and deport them to a foreign prison indefinitely because the DOJ says they can ignore the 4th, 5th and 15th amendments.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
If there’s no due process or protections against illegal search and seizures, none of us are safe.
April 26, 2025 at 5:43 AM
And if you're reading this and you're thinking "hmm, that's not so bad" -- please, tell me, what stops them from declaring YOU a "migrant"?
(I've given up trying to convince people to care about others, but please, do care about yourself.)
(I've given up trying to convince people to care about others, but please, do care about yourself.)
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We’re still not shopping at Target.
March 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
We’re still not shopping at Target.
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You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie.
This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.
This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.
February 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
You can make whatever campaign promises you want, but budgets don’t lie.
This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.
This is the middle-finger Trump gave to 99% of Americans tonight.
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In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguistics nerds hang out and learn things!
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
Lingthusiasm - 101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics
lingthusiasm:
101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics
In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguisti...
lingthusiasm.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In honour of Lingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary, we’ve compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguistics nerds hang out and learn things!
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
lingthusiasm.com/post/7741520...
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If you have ever received treasury payments - tax returns, student loans, financial aid, social security, etc. Call your bank, mortgage company, credit card company, university. Express concerns about the federal personal data breach. Ask how they will protect your information. Put on the pressure!
February 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
If you have ever received treasury payments - tax returns, student loans, financial aid, social security, etc. Call your bank, mortgage company, credit card company, university. Express concerns about the federal personal data breach. Ask how they will protect your information. Put on the pressure!
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RIP any human subjects methods section: women, gender, female, excluded
RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive
RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural
This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB
RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive
RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural
This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:49 AM
RIP any human subjects methods section: women, gender, female, excluded
RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive
RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural
This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB
RIP math/stats: biases, marginalise, equality, inequality, group, inclusive
RIP social sciences: status, systemic, political, group, socioeconomic, institutional, cultural
This is not just evil it is also SO VERY DUMB
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“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher
Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.
www.thepinknews.com
December 18, 2024 at 8:04 PM
“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”
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Remember to take him at his word, even (especially?) when it's completely batshit.
The Canadian public and especially political class should understand the US President is explicitly declaring economic war on Canada with the goal of ruining & then annexing it. This is not merely a tariff war and the political class shouldn’t treat it as merely that: Deal with the intent to annex.
February 2, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Remember to take him at his word, even (especially?) when it's completely batshit.
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Stop saying “DEI hire”. Don’t repeat it when others use it. Don’t use it mockingly against those using it. Don’t use it to refer to practices that were implemented to attempt to counteract discrimination and even out the playing field. Don’t give credibility to a euphemism. Make people be specific.
February 2, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Stop saying “DEI hire”. Don’t repeat it when others use it. Don’t use it mockingly against those using it. Don’t use it to refer to practices that were implemented to attempt to counteract discrimination and even out the playing field. Don’t give credibility to a euphemism. Make people be specific.
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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
February 3, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.
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Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.
February 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.
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“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2024 at 1:50 PM
“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
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Bill Labov made it possible for John Rickford and therefore Renee Blake and therefore me, to have a rich life in linguistics. He knew that Black students and speakers had so much to contribute. We will forever owe him a debt of gratitude for his contributions to the field, but also to all of us ❤️
December 18, 2024 at 12:58 AM
Bill Labov made it possible for John Rickford and therefore Renee Blake and therefore me, to have a rich life in linguistics. He knew that Black students and speakers had so much to contribute. We will forever owe him a debt of gratitude for his contributions to the field, but also to all of us ❤️
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Vale William Labov.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
December 18, 2024 at 9:14 AM
Vale William Labov.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
Inspired by a colleague on X, I think my favourite Bill Labov quote is:
“I have resisted the term *sociolinguistics* for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.”
Thank you for everything, Bill.
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Carnegie built those libraries (and invented the modern concept of philanthropy) specifically to distract the public from his fraud, monopoly and theft. And he taught the following century of billionaires how to do the sane. youtu.be/0Cu6EbELZ6I?...
December 8, 2024 at 7:08 PM
Carnegie built those libraries (and invented the modern concept of philanthropy) specifically to distract the public from his fraud, monopoly and theft. And he taught the following century of billionaires how to do the sane. youtu.be/0Cu6EbELZ6I?...
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ChatGPT seems to think "rhoticity" can be parsed as "r-hot-icity" 🤣
November 17, 2023 at 3:43 PM
ChatGPT seems to think "rhoticity" can be parsed as "r-hot-icity" 🤣
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queering the kiki/bouba dichotomy
September 18, 2023 at 11:29 PM
queering the kiki/bouba dichotomy
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New favourite example of structural ambiguity
September 17, 2023 at 3:06 AM
New favourite example of structural ambiguity