Conor Houghton
@conjh.bsky.social
I find language confusing.
conorhoughton.github.io
conorhoughton.github.io
Often it's the elections you think you've won that end up making you saddest.
November 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Often it's the elections you think you've won that end up making you saddest.
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#OTD 89 years ago, Suzette Haden Elgin (1936–2015) was born 🎉 Best known for her work on verbal self-defence and for the conlang Láadan from her Native Tongue series. The Elgin Award for the best sci-fi poetry collection is named in her honour.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
November 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
#OTD 89 years ago, Suzette Haden Elgin (1936–2015) was born 🎉 Best known for her work on verbal self-defence and for the conlang Láadan from her Native Tongue series. The Elgin Award for the best sci-fi poetry collection is named in her honour.
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx
So does anyone understand how to make indirect relative clauses in Irish, in present and past, or even, maybe how to recognise an indirect relative clause.
November 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
So does anyone understand how to make indirect relative clauses in Irish, in present and past, or even, maybe how to recognise an indirect relative clause.
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📣MY FIRST BOOK OUT!📣
Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it?
🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it?
🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Constructions and Compositionality
Cambridge Core - Grammar and Syntax - Constructions and Compositionality
cup.org
December 18, 2024 at 9:37 PM
📣MY FIRST BOOK OUT!📣
Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it?
🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
Does language rely solely on rules, or is there more to it?
🔎Explore the interplay between compositionality and analogy from a constructionist view in this New Cambridge Element (Elements in #ConstructionGrammar)
👉Download for free: cup.org/41DP95c
⚠️Available just for 4 weeks!
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I think in general I have a fairly high “politician forgiveness” threshold because I understand they face a firehose of shit everyday and also in a democracy they have to comprise all the time, but Simon Harris not standing up for immigrants in this moment feels like one that crosses that threshold
November 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I think in general I have a fairly high “politician forgiveness” threshold because I understand they face a firehose of shit everyday and also in a democracy they have to comprise all the time, but Simon Harris not standing up for immigrants in this moment feels like one that crosses that threshold
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Bród! (Fógra i Hong Cong)
May 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Bród! (Fógra i Hong Cong)
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Highly improbable and unexpected.
May 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Highly improbable and unexpected.
14 years the British Labour party spent dreaming of power! Was this their dream, to pour bile on migrants and trans folk and mimic the monsters they replaced. Is it for this activists walked door to door, filled envelopes, sat in stuffy council chambers instead of enjoying the evening light.
May 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
14 years the British Labour party spent dreaming of power! Was this their dream, to pour bile on migrants and trans folk and mimic the monsters they replaced. Is it for this activists walked door to door, filled envelopes, sat in stuffy council chambers instead of enjoying the evening light.
It turned out the UK Labour Party has asshole views on migrations as well as on gender identity.
May 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
It turned out the UK Labour Party has asshole views on migrations as well as on gender identity.
I hope the response to all this will be to get rid of single gender toilets.
April 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I hope the response to all this will be to get rid of single gender toilets.
Adding "Equalities" Minister Bridget Phillipson to my shit list.
April 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Adding "Equalities" Minister Bridget Phillipson to my shit list.
At least the pope is in an open coffin; I was shocked to learn the English were making such a massive fuss about walking past a closed box.
April 22, 2025 at 11:07 AM
At least the pope is in an open coffin; I was shocked to learn the English were making such a massive fuss about walking past a closed box.
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I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
April 16, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I think it’s fine to bully people for reading Harry Potter in 2025 actually
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
If you want to read your old Harry Potter books, you should do it in secret and shamefully - you know, in the way that J.K. Rowling wants to force trans people to live.
I see the discovery of chemical correlates of life on another planet has slipped below Monty fucking Don's dog on the BBC news.
April 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I see the discovery of chemical correlates of life on another planet has slipped below Monty fucking Don's dog on the BBC news.
It is so disturbing to see these pictures of people outside the court happy and pompously pleased with themselves for doing something that makes no material improvement to anyone's lives and makes the lives of some so so much worse.
April 17, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It is so disturbing to see these pictures of people outside the court happy and pompously pleased with themselves for doing something that makes no material improvement to anyone's lives and makes the lives of some so so much worse.
An emotion exquisite since so faint and pure is the regret that you'll never meet the person, doubtless now dead, whose choice of books, name and date inside the cover and now on sale in Oxfam, suggest they were once a kindred soul.
April 16, 2025 at 7:38 PM
An emotion exquisite since so faint and pure is the regret that you'll never meet the person, doubtless now dead, whose choice of books, name and date inside the cover and now on sale in Oxfam, suggest they were once a kindred soul.
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I am sorry for all our troubles today, those we share and those particular to our selves or our locations.
In the case of those making the news, the common thread is institutions empowered to harm individuals will eventually do so.
This seems like a significant problem now and later.
In the case of those making the news, the common thread is institutions empowered to harm individuals will eventually do so.
This seems like a significant problem now and later.
April 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I am sorry for all our troubles today, those we share and those particular to our selves or our locations.
In the case of those making the news, the common thread is institutions empowered to harm individuals will eventually do so.
This seems like a significant problem now and later.
In the case of those making the news, the common thread is institutions empowered to harm individuals will eventually do so.
This seems like a significant problem now and later.
The remaining two years of Trump's presidency will be awful.
April 16, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The remaining two years of Trump's presidency will be awful.
It is with great regret that I add the UK Supreme Court to my shit list.
April 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
It is with great regret that I add the UK Supreme Court to my shit list.
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In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
‘Natural Neuroscience,’ an excerpt
In his new book, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
www.thetransmitter.org
April 15, 2025 at 1:11 PM
In his new book, published today, Nachum Ulanovsky calls on the field to embrace naturalistic conditions and move away from overcontrolled experiments.
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
#neuroskyence
www.thetransmitter.org/systems-neur...
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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
April 15, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
April 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked,
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
"If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?"
Allow our scaled diagram to explain...