Assignments in his classes tended to look like this.

HOW could I forget all the little Plotnik bells and whistles?! “This is the Plotnik lion, or maybe it’s supposed to be me.”

I have to focus on the lighthearted moments in my six years studying with Bill to keep from feeling too sad. Here we are in 2009 at a ceremony at the Penn Museum where I received a teaching award. When I invited him: "I wouldn't miss it! I've already got it on my calendar." Classic Bill.

Maybe I was primed to see it, but this typo jumped out at me in a paper I was reading just now :)

Found a good deal on an #nwav52 hotel!

#tbt, from when Twitter was fun

Sometimes I miss British English noun pileups and then I get an email with a subject line like this

Love seeing a counterexample to Labov 2012 (image 1) in today’s NYT (image 2)!

Me too! And yet this “y axis is where x=0” definition actually seems to be pretty common

Very basic math q! See screenshot: we teach that the y-axis is at x=0, but in Fig. 4.2b, what I'd call "the y-axis" (the vertical line labeled "Response") is at x = -2. So like... what do we call that line at x = -2? Is the line at x=0 the true y-axis, and the one at x = -2 just a cosmetic one?

Walter was on our shortlist for baby #2! We definitely prefer names with this diachronic profile

Doing a study of academics and Linguistics wasn't listed among the possible fields to choose from. Finally found it, as a subfield of Philosophy 😑

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ChatGPT seems to think "rhoticity" can be parsed as "r-hot-icity" 🤣