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Linguistic anthropologist @ UIUC.
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This seems like a SLIGHT overreaction to some British children saying the word "candy"
A Telegraph headline: "The Americanization of English reveals something dark about society." Subhed: "Many parents are happy to allow their children consume videos made by companies that have no obligation to care for them"
November 8, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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I'm discussing the enregisterment of typefaces in class today, and usually I only talk about people's reactions to Comic Sans, but thanks to some fortuitous timing I have a new example.
A screenshot of a powerpoint slide with a bunch of examples of people judging the new "The Oval Office" sign taped to the White House exterior
November 6, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Urbana, IL
A photograph of people holding protest signs in front of the Champaign County Courthouse
June 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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I can't actually justify including this in the book chapter I am currently writing, so I'll just put it here instead.
Pinocchio sings that he has no strings to “hold him down,” but given that he was a marionette, the strings would technically be holding him UP. Are we to understand this as a purely metaphorical use of “down,” or is there dramatic irony here, wherein Pinocchio misperceives that which animated him as that which held him back?
May 9, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Here's the table of contents:
The table of contents for the special issue of Discourse Studies "Scaling Stories"
March 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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😐
A cropped segment of the previously posted screenshot, showing that the original post tagged "Steven Pinker and 9 others"
March 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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Updated to include stats on exclamation point usage!
The same slide as previously posted, but with added information. 54 out of 429 ADIEU clues contained exclamation points (12.6%). 67 out of 300 ADIOS clues contained exclamation points (22.3%). The venn diagram data is only based on the 30 most popular clues for each word.
March 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Pioneering a new kind of corpus research (crossword puzzle clues) for this slide in my lecture on Mock Spanish. Feel free to use in your own lectures!
A venn diagram titled "Comparing crossword clues for ADIEU vs ADIOS." The intersection includes bye, farewell, goodbye, later, cheerio, so long, parting word, toodle-oo, sayonara, and ta-ta. The ADIEU-only section contains bye-bye, au revoir, and arrivederci. The ADIOS-only section contains ciao, toodles, see ya, catch you/ya later, and I'm outta here.
March 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Instagram advertising doesn't usually work on me, but I couldn't resist this bumper sticker.
A bumper sticker that says "the despair is never ending, yet I remain silly." There is also a drawing of a cat wearing rollerskates and a party hat.
December 18, 2024 at 1:17 AM