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Masha Esipova
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linguist @ bar-ilan university | 🇷🇺→🇺🇸→🇳🇴→🇩🇪→🇮🇱 | any pronouns | linguistics, semantics, movies, lifting, bouldering, gender, cats | 🩷💜💙 | ☮️✌️
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did nyu linguists make an arrangement with moma for nels56 or something? btw, my talk on friday is entitled 'the loud silence of echo' and is about echo questions, so 🤔 #linguistics
A large electronic display on a wall in a museum. The display is divided into smaller squares with neon texts. Some of the linguistics-relevant ones are: 'REMEMBER YOUR ORIGINAL SYNTAX', 'REMEMBER THE VOICE INSIDE THE ECHO', 'REMEMBER LANGUAGE IS OLDER THAN MEMORY', 'REMEMBER TO LIFT YOUR VOICE'.
October 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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for women who are also bros 👊 #salt35
A bathroom door. On the left there is a sign saying 'BR02 RESTROOM'. On the right there is a sign saying 'WOMEN'S RESTROOM'.
May 20, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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so i take it this is not the salt poster session #salt35
A sign on a metal gate saying 'PLEASE DO NOT POSTER ON THIS GATE Thank you'
May 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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1. dogs always take the widest possible scope
2. OBEY SCOOP 👮
A sign near a water reservoir featuring five prohibitory pictograms. In four of the five, the depiction of what's prohibited is behind the backslash symbol, but in one of them, a depiction of a dog is in front of it. A sign in a park featuring a depiction of a person walking a dog. The text below it says: 'Leash pets. Obey scoop'.
April 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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got it!
A computer monitor showing the cover of the ebook 'Why We Fear AI' by Hagen Blix and Ingeborg Glimmer
April 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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that feeling when you forget to switch languages in google translate and accidentally cause our ai overlords to speak in tongues 👹👹👹
A picture of the back of a washing machine cleaner bottle viewed through Google Lens and ostensibly translated from Spanish to English with the translated text saying: "You are my God To be honest, we are all right. We are all right. We are all right. God, God willing, we will be with you forever. We will be with you forever. God is with you. Let us be the God of the Lord. God is with you: Let us be the God of the Lord. The wind is 60°. Wind! Wind is the wind, the wind is strong, the wind is strong, the wind is strong. Decan-1-ol ethoxylated lactic acid - decan-1-ol ethoxylated lactic acid. Lactic acid; Decan-1-ol ethoxylated God bless you: God bless you. God bless you. God bless you: God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. To the king of the east: To the king of the east. To the king of the east: To the king of the east. God is with you, God is with you, God is with you God God is with you. God is with you: For God's sake/ For God's sake. For God's sake. 500 The price'
April 8, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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motya is friends with liv now (by which i mean he's been pretending to be one of her branches since yesterday)
A curious brown mantis standing in a pot next to a small olive tree growing in this pot. A brown mantis in a small potted olive tree, looking like one of its branches. A brown mantis hanging upside down in a small potted olive tree.
March 26, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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he hung out with me while i drank my coffee for a bit, but then at some point, while i was distracted, he disappeared. i thought he'd flown away. but turns out he didn't and is now hanging out on one of my balcony chairs (still top notch camouflage) 2/2
A brown mantis on a brown wicker chair outside on balcony. In the background, there's a small potted olive tree.
March 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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motya update: i figured he wouldn't survive on my shades, and i didn't want to turn him into an actual pet. so i brought him to the balcony, offering him two flies for the road. he didn't eat the flies, trying instead to climb me (successfully) and drink my coffee (unsuccessfully) 1/2
A brown mantis on the edge of a coffee table outside on a balcony. In the background, you can see a small potted olive tree, a coffee cup, and a tupperware lid. A brown mantis on a brown coffee cup on a coffee table outside on a balcony.
March 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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meet motya* the mantis!

so two days ago i noticed this guy hanging out on the bamboo shades (perfect camouflage) in my living room. and today i decided to feed him. so i gave him a dead fly and he took it and ate it!

*i named him motya because mantis -> matthew/matvey -> motya, i'm bad at this
March 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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the three genders

(🎶 - man to woman or woman to man? - man to woman. - from penis to vaginaaa 🎶)
A shop window saying left to right: 'Man MIMI Woman'
March 8, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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a gift for y'all attitude predicate aficionados: 'don't believe everything you think' 🤔
A text graffiti on a door saying 'dNT BLV VRYTHNG Y THNK'
February 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Two stray cats lying on the ground. One of them has their mouth slightly open and kinda thrust forward and their eyes semi-closed, looking like they are saying some kind of front rounded mid-ish vowel with effort. An arrow is drawn on top of the photo pointing at that cat, and the text next to the arrow says: "me when trying to do danish lessons on duolingo 🇩🇰🦉".
February 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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this is how you do it. everything is clear without the text. (but fwiw, the text does say it's a motorcycle lock, so i say, pee away, dear doggos 🐕 > 🏍)
A sign on a pole depicting a dog peeing on a lock and a prohibitory backslash circle symbol. Below this sign, there's another sign with a downward pointing arrow. The arrow is pointing to a lock chained to the pole.
January 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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pictorial contradiction

fwiw, the hebrew text says, courtesy of google translate:
left pic: waiting area for animals
right pic: bringing in animals is forbidden

but like... at least add arrows or something?
Two signs next two each other. The left one depicts a dog. The right one is the exact same depiction of a dog, but under a prohibition backslash circle symbol
January 25, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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not only isn't liv dead yet---somehow, miraculously, knock on wood---but she's sprouting new leaves (it's been a mild winter so far)
A close-up of the top of a potted olive tree, with a bright light green new leaf contrasting with the darker old ones
January 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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last week in my 'linguistics beyond language' class we were discussing text modifications & a student told me about the multigender hebrew font: multigenderhebrew.com yesterday i was at a fair & the font's creator was selling merch there, so i got this tee saying ≈'all people are equal' in this font
A person wearing a navy T-shirt with a text in multigender Hebrew that can be roughly translated as 'all people are equal'
December 21, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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i'm a tree parent now! they are an olive tree, and their name is liv 🌳🫒🕊 coincidentally, i picked them up from the nursery today, and also today we started drawing trees in the syntax module of my introling class 1/2
A small cute olive tree in a pot on a sunny balcony
December 3, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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another update from my intro to #linguistics students. they were doing a morphology exercise on meadow mari today, and one of the groups submitted their responses with what i first thought was the word 'anguish' written at the top. but at second glance, i think this was meant to be 'linguistics'
A piece of paper with some handwritten Meadow Mari morphemes and their English translations. At the top of it, there is a handwritten word that could be read as 'anguish', but was probably meant to say 'linguistics'
November 14, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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new wugs just dropped! i'm teaching intro to #linguistics & just had the students create wug tests in their languages in groups. they didn't have to create drawings, but some still did. here's a plinnaya zavipka & a palpaka (a regular one & a pink one; the latter has had a drastic effect on oleg)
A piece of paper with a handwritten "wug" test paradigm in Russian: Plinnaya zavipka obitaet v lesu. plinnaya.adj.nom zavipka.noun.nom inhabit in forest 'Plinnaya zavipka lives in forest.' Susanin hochet na niyo posmotret'. Susanin wants on her look 'Susanin wants to look at her.' Na kogo hochet posmotret' Susanin? on who wants look Susanin 'Who does Susanin want to look at?' Susanin hochet posmotret na _____. Susanin wants look on _____ 'Susanin wants to look at _____.' A drawing for the "wug" test in the previous picture: an angry-looking cat-like creature and another fluffy creature with horns and a curly tail and six feet. A handwritten caption says: "Susanin and cosmic horrors beyond comprehension". A piece of paper with another handwritten "wug" test in Russian: Oleg kupil palpaku (Russian) Oleg bought palpaka 'Oleg bought a palpaka.' Ona rozovogo tsveta. she pink color 'She is pink.' I teper Oleg gulyaet s rozovoy _____ [the anticipated form 'palpakoi' is added by a different group of students]. And now Oleg walking with pink palpaka.instr 'And now Oleg is walking with a pink palpaka.' A drawing for the "wug" test from the previous image. In the top row, a stick figure person is drawn with hair on their head, this is "Oleg". Next to Oleg, a cat-like creature is drawn, this is an "average palpaka". In the bottom row, another schematic person drawing, but thicker, with no hair, and three circles on their body. This still "Oleg". Next to Oleg, a creature shaped like a heart with a face, arms, and legs is drawn. This is a "pink palpaka".
November 9, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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you've heard of presuppositions of prohibitory signs (if not, i'm taking this personally: doi.org/10.5334/gjgl...), but have you heard of their implicatures? this was the only painting i saw yesterday at the tlv museum of art that had a 'do not touch' sign next to it
A description of a Monet painting on a wall in a museum in Hebrew, English, and Arabic, with a prohibitory sign below it depicting a hand under a circle-backslash symbol.
October 11, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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went to the tel aviv museum of art earlier today, fell in love with the series 'the great smoker' by avi sabah

(alternative caption: 'the lotr trilogy -- the rings of power')
A collage of two photos of two paintings side by side. Both depict a hellish nightmarish surrealist landscape, somewhat evoking Mordor. In the first painting, there is an eye-like shape piercing through the dark sky and emanating light. In the second painting, there is a pair of white buttocks doing the same. The added caption above the first painting says 'The Eye of Sauron'. The one above the second one says 'The Ass of Sauron'.
October 10, 2024 at 9:17 PM
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the campus board in one of my bouldering gyms reminding me today of how fucking amazing 'agatha all along' has been so far (i wanted to wait until all episodes are out, but then binged the first four episodes the other day as a palate cleanser after the frustrating s02 of 'the rings of power') 🧙‍♀️🔥
A slat from a campus board with the word 'Witch' in a witch-y font on it
October 7, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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i reached 1000 elo on chess.com today! here's the recording of the game that brought me over: youtu.be/Fs0asmxqOyM

i then asked chatgpt to generate an image of a cartoon version of my profile pic on chess.com reaching 1000 elo in chess, and it got a bit overenthusiastic, but i'll take it
An AI-generated cartoon image of a person with short brown hair and glasses, wearing a tank top saying 'STRONGER THINGS' and a little crown. They are standing on a chess board and raising their arms in a celebratory fashion. Behind them in the background, there's text saying '10000 ELO'.
September 24, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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it's time again. time for me to make a delicious dinner (pan-fried chicken hearts and oven-roasted fennel, paired with an italian rosé) and start rewatching the best tv show ever made, the show about LATE GREAT HANNIBAL LECTER and love 🍽🍷🫀
In the foreground: a small black coffee table with a plate of roasted fennel and chicken hearts and a glass of rose wine on a cork coaster saying 'with love ❤️'. In the background: a black desk with a screen featuring Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter about to eat a cherry tomato.
August 8, 2024 at 5:15 PM