Dr 〽️elody Ann Ross
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Dr 〽️elody Ann Ross
@melodyannross.bsky.social
Linguist, long storyteller. Ask me about stuff, but flee immediately if I say “how much do you want to know about this?”
Before I sign off for a little while, a little view of my #Linguisticlandscape as I waited for a tram (yes, heading to work on my week off for more post #LL16 cleanup 😂)

Middle sticker (überklebt) basically says ‘stickered over, MFer’ - a direct nod to the discursive nature of sticker graffiti.
September 8, 2025 at 12:31 PM
And not just the city, but retailers are getting in on it too! See my recent photo from an IKEA sign in Essen- the whole text below is in Ruhrdeutsch!
July 30, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Thanks for the fun birthday in the sun last week, family ❤️ @dalaigrama.bsky.social
June 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I really need to know more about these waterfalls

-Schlangen (snakes, ok, yeah, probably shape-related, not too many snakes in Germany)
-Langer (long, ok normal)
-Kleiner (short, yep makes sense)
-Kuhflucht (cow… escape?? And its PLURAL??)

Wtf are these cows getting up to in Bavaria??
April 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Feb 14th, too rainy to go and say hello 🌧️
April 1, 2025 at 7:24 AM
My baby (4;9) made her Bestie an Eid card because I bought too many dates (and I’m apparently the only one who will eat them plain (so I had to make date brownies (and then give a bunch away (and Eid is a convenient excuse))))
March 31, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Here it is last month:
March 13, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Leute, wir sind zu spät
April 9, 2024 at 6:50 AM
This shit makes me SO MAD.

Where, specifically, does the egg come out of his body

Quickly

Tell me

SPECIFICALLY
December 8, 2023 at 3:25 PM
Fifteen years. Goodbye.
November 16, 2023 at 7:14 PM
I can tell my German is getting on because I was offended by this change in tone:
October 9, 2023 at 11:50 AM
Happy to share an abstract for my recent paper “Editorial Over-Reach; Why Early Career Researchers Are Leaving Academia”
#academicchatter
October 3, 2023 at 10:06 AM