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.

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!

Thanks for the fun birthday in the sun last week, family ❤️ @dalaigrama.bsky.social

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??

Feb 14th, too rainy to go and say hello 🌧️

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))))

Here it is last month:

Leute, wir sind zu spät

This shit makes me SO MAD.

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

Quickly

Tell me

SPECIFICALLY

Fifteen years. Goodbye.

I can tell my German is getting on because I was offended by this change in tone:

Happy to share an abstract for my recent paper “Editorial Over-Reach; Why Early Career Researchers Are Leaving Academia”
#academicchatter