🥰 Yay! Tell them they belong and we want them back!

I just looked up and saw this and it is very funny.

Oh I do see the purpose and appreciate them. It's just extra funny when the only thing on the ballot is a school district millage. I just can't imagine very many people are out here making *this* the very first ballot they ever cast! Though there are probably some frequent voters who have moved.

NPR 's facebook comments section is actually where it's at!

Hah yes I suppose. (I don’t want to well actually you,so I hope you recognize the Labov quote!)

‘Twas truly unbelievable.

Both common things to hear in a department mailroom…

I think any time any of us denounce McW we should always begin with "as a linguist." My dude, you being a kinda linguist has absolutely no bearing on what you're saying and if you *were* a better linguist, you'd know when not to evoke certain kinds of epistemic stances...

If a student tells me there's a grade mistake and I agree, I tell them not to worry and I'll fix it on Wednesday. If somebody hands me a scheduling poll, I tell them I'll complete it on Wednesday. Then I send it to myself and it's gone until Wednesday.

The next step is to not be my own assistant.

The NYC Mayoral race is an object lesson in exactly why we wound up handing the entire country to a fascist megalomaniac. The left is literally fiddling while Rome burns/is torn down by excavators.

Right?

Sociolinguistics also. "So... bear with me but language has this relationship to society and culture...."