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Madeleine Clews 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 ⚓️
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PhD in Linguistics, recovering ex-public servant, professional worrier. Fremantle ⚓️💜 tragic. Seeking consilience
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It's been a big week at the office. And quite a journey
#linguistics
#lingcomm
#historicallinguistics
Screen shot of message reading "The Board of the Graduate Research School has now considered the examination record for your thesis ""our own familiar English": A historical sociolinguistic study of the shaping of Australian English through the lens of Western Australia" and has resolved to classify your thesis as 'PASSED. The thesis be passed with no requirement for correction or amendment and the student be awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy"
August 1, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Happy #CanadaDay to every #Canadian on this side of the international dateline

Possibly the politest people on earth

#AustralianCanadian
#politeness
#lingcomm
A Canadian flag with a penguin instead of a maple leaf bears the text: "2 people arguing over a parking spot...'you were here first' 'no you were' 'well I am leaving
July 1, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Public domain
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Text of poem “The Summer Day” by Mary Oliver is in a white box placed on a background of green grass. It reads: Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
June 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Did a thing
#lingcomm
#linguistics
#PhinisheD
May 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Flotsam from a great election result watching party. What a night
#auspol
Election night “bingo sheet”
May 4, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Good morning
An 18th-century painting depicts a woman ironing, with the caption “Today I noticed that the cover of my ironing board was wrinkled and I laughed at the irony. Then I laughed again because of the word ‘irony’."
April 27, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Appreciating this celebration of a beautiful moment. Captured from #FremantleFC's facebook posts
💜 Dockers Indigenous players
#afldockerscrows
Four Indigenous AFL players from the Fremantle Football Club are pictured together smiling and laughing
April 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Voting felt good this morning , reassuring that we still have healthy democratic principles in this part of the world at least. Everyone is cheerful and respectful. Inflation has hit the democracy sausage market though
#democracysausage
#auspol
A blackboard sign listing prices for democracy sausages, cake, coffee and biscuits at $4, $4, $4 and $3 respectively
March 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Screaming front page of The West Australian yesterday. Sub-head "Don't xxxx it up - Australia holds its breath for make-or-break call". I don't read The Worst but wtaf is going on with the media in this country?
Print newspaper front page dominated by photo of Prime Minister Albanese on cell-phone with smaller inset photo of Donald Trump, with 72-point headline ALBO, YOU GOT THIS and sub-head Don't [*@! it up - Australia holds its breath as PM prepares for make-or-break Trump call
February 11, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Cat and husband tend to follow the same pattern
January 29, 2025 at 3:24 AM
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Better yet the sleek lines of a Mini Moke
January 27, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Pitchfork at half-mast (but wavering). It is a thing of beauty
January 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Just tried again, still getting the block notice. Am I doing something wrong?
January 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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My Australian husband's name is Hugh and it became family folklore when our French sister-in-law, on first being introduced to him, said 'I shall call you Hugues'
January 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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Worth a moment's reflection
Source is facebook: www.facebook.com/share/p/fJiE...
December 7, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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The heart of Melbourne surely
December 2, 2024 at 9:12 AM