Alicia Brown
@lasjoakinotas.bsky.social
Sociolingüista, ABD @ Univ of Arizona & Faculty @ Univ of the Virgin Islands. Bilingualism, Language Contact.
Q: Why is it a bad idea to eat a hammer?
January 9, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Q: Why is it a bad idea to eat a hammer?
Random play pulled up a song with "skabarnak" in it and it was a real coin toss for me as to whether they were Canadian or Basque
January 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Random play pulled up a song with "skabarnak" in it and it was a real coin toss for me as to whether they were Canadian or Basque
That one music app says I listen to ska, punk, cumbia, and video game music, and tbh.... yeah
December 18, 2024 at 12:57 AM
That one music app says I listen to ska, punk, cumbia, and video game music, and tbh.... yeah
Reposted by Alicia Brown
On the basis of "Reading Rainbow" alone LeVar Burton deserves a Nobel
November 25, 2024 at 3:27 PM
On the basis of "Reading Rainbow" alone LeVar Burton deserves a Nobel
If there's a singular 'este' there oughta be a plural 'estes', can we please regularize the paradigm already
November 25, 2024 at 3:12 AM
If there's a singular 'este' there oughta be a plural 'estes', can we please regularize the paradigm already
"CBS presents this program in color."
Me, every single time: oh, that's nice of them.
Me, every single time: oh, that's nice of them.
November 25, 2024 at 2:30 AM
"CBS presents this program in color."
Me, every single time: oh, that's nice of them.
Me, every single time: oh, that's nice of them.
It is unsurprisingly hard to find merch online for the bands you like when those bands are called things like "One Man Army," "Dead to Me" and "Vendetta."
November 24, 2024 at 7:44 PM
It is unsurprisingly hard to find merch online for the bands you like when those bands are called things like "One Man Army," "Dead to Me" and "Vendetta."
Reposted by Alicia Brown
Beautiful, powerful, new documentary by Ana Carvalho on the experiences of Uruguayan Portuguese speakers, "Vozes das Margens"
Trailer shown at #NWAV52
youtu.be/_uwgktEs_F8?...
Most Spanish-speaking Uruguayans don't even know there's Uruguayan Portuguese.
#Teaching #Linguistics #Multilingualism
Trailer shown at #NWAV52
youtu.be/_uwgktEs_F8?...
Most Spanish-speaking Uruguayans don't even know there's Uruguayan Portuguese.
#Teaching #Linguistics #Multilingualism
Vozes das Margens (Trailer Oficial)
YouTube video by Incógnita Multimedia
youtu.be
November 8, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Beautiful, powerful, new documentary by Ana Carvalho on the experiences of Uruguayan Portuguese speakers, "Vozes das Margens"
Trailer shown at #NWAV52
youtu.be/_uwgktEs_F8?...
Most Spanish-speaking Uruguayans don't even know there's Uruguayan Portuguese.
#Teaching #Linguistics #Multilingualism
Trailer shown at #NWAV52
youtu.be/_uwgktEs_F8?...
Most Spanish-speaking Uruguayans don't even know there's Uruguayan Portuguese.
#Teaching #Linguistics #Multilingualism
According to a guide floating around on how to make the transition over, you're encouraged to repost your things from before, which I'm glad about because I make myself laugh, which is my whole goal, really
November 17, 2024 at 7:11 PM
According to a guide floating around on how to make the transition over, you're encouraged to repost your things from before, which I'm glad about because I make myself laugh, which is my whole goal, really
Putting that new socio-syntax textbook on my Christmas list
December 5, 2023 at 1:47 AM
Putting that new socio-syntax textbook on my Christmas list
These are the types of conversations that I have with myself:
Me to me: Nola esaten da «savoir» en español?
Me back to me: Stener
Me to me: Ah yes, per descomptat
Me to me: Nola esaten da «savoir» en español?
Me back to me: Stener
Me to me: Ah yes, per descomptat
November 10, 2023 at 5:47 PM
These are the types of conversations that I have with myself:
Me to me: Nola esaten da «savoir» en español?
Me back to me: Stener
Me to me: Ah yes, per descomptat
Me to me: Nola esaten da «savoir» en español?
Me back to me: Stener
Me to me: Ah yes, per descomptat
Watching old cop shows on Hulu, and Bobby Goren, who knows the most obscure things, has to go check with his buddy at Princeton while I'm screaming at him IT'S LADINO, SHE SPOKE LADINO, THAT'S NOT SPANISH
November 3, 2023 at 4:40 AM
Watching old cop shows on Hulu, and Bobby Goren, who knows the most obscure things, has to go check with his buddy at Princeton while I'm screaming at him IT'S LADINO, SHE SPOKE LADINO, THAT'S NOT SPANISH
reading papers and seeing things like "Wilk's Lambda" makes me think of long-lost artifacts, like they should be on a pedestal in a tomb surrounded by traps in an attempt to dissuade Indiana Jones
November 1, 2023 at 8:14 PM
reading papers and seeing things like "Wilk's Lambda" makes me think of long-lost artifacts, like they should be on a pedestal in a tomb surrounded by traps in an attempt to dissuade Indiana Jones
Had a wonderful convo today with another Alicia at NWAV51 about the implications of the pronunciations of our name and what each indexes, about the legitimacy needed to claim one or the other, about how far we go to insist on a pronunciation that some can't or won't produce
October 16, 2023 at 12:19 AM
Had a wonderful convo today with another Alicia at NWAV51 about the implications of the pronunciations of our name and what each indexes, about the legitimacy needed to claim one or the other, about how far we go to insist on a pronunciation that some can't or won't produce