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John Beavers
@jbeavers.bsky.social
Father, Professor and Chair of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin, Editor of Language, a journal of the Linguistic Society of America, syntactician, semanticist, guitarist, politics junkie (he/him/his)
Man, I could really go for some shepherd’s pie right now.
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
I do that regularly, but somehow missed that cue!
January 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I gardenpathed so hard on this sentence like three times before I realized you weren’t talking about architecture in Helsinki but rather Architecture in Helsinki.
January 15, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Thanks, that helped a bit! A fixture of my childhood, and a cool, unique bit of Longview. We had similar nicknames, and every time we drove past headed to Lake Cherokee (also a place with a complicated history) my dad would tell the only blue joke he ever told: “That’s where Dolly Parton is buried!”
January 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Also from Longview. Never heard about such things until I went to college and took a class on US history and it was included on a list of cities that experienced race riots. You would have thought that would be a part of history we were all made aware of, but, well, Longview.
January 11, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Do it on paper, but several years ago I did a family Christmas gift draw by going back to my 1990s-era pre-linguistics days as a computer programmer and wrote a C program to do the matching. Really, you should do that.
January 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Then clearly you should accept it!
January 19, 2024 at 12:18 AM
BTW Stephan Oepen is amazing at spotting stuff like this. If your \baselinestretch is anything less than 1.0 he will notice it.
January 19, 2024 at 12:06 AM
I knew I forgot something before I submitted that
January 18, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Oh good so it’s not just me. Maybe we’re all in luck!
December 21, 2023 at 5:48 AM
Beat you to it. My professors used to tell me my handouts were hard to read and I was always like "Whatever, I've been wearing pretty significant glasses since I was 12 so don't tell me about bad eyesight" and then I turned like 43 and I was like "Oh, wait. It gets worse." So I'm a 1up guy now, too.
October 11, 2023 at 3:13 AM
*goddammit
October 3, 2023 at 8:15 PM
Not seeing the problem
September 15, 2023 at 4:27 AM