Bridget Copley PhD
@moppety.bsky.social
Parisienne Buffalonian linguist spoonie mom. http://bcopley.com "The line separating good and evil passes...right through every human heart." -Solzhenitsyn
"Semantically, the two sentences are the same. Yet the shift in syntax subtly, but fundamentally, changes the message being communicated." I know it's not the most important thing here but I'm going to be snarky and wish linguistics were taught in high school.
September 12, 2025 at 7:41 PM
"Semantically, the two sentences are the same. Yet the shift in syntax subtly, but fundamentally, changes the message being communicated." I know it's not the most important thing here but I'm going to be snarky and wish linguistics were taught in high school.
When I grow up I want to be the person who does facts and stats on the Formula 1 site.
July 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
When I grow up I want to be the person who does facts and stats on the Formula 1 site.
"Your admin requires that you sign in to Zoom every 12 hours."
I sure hope this is a "dogs must be carried" case and not a "shirts must be worn" case
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I sure hope this is a "dogs must be carried" case and not a "shirts must be worn" case
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May 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
"Your admin requires that you sign in to Zoom every 12 hours."
I sure hope this is a "dogs must be carried" case and not a "shirts must be worn" case
🐦🐦
I sure hope this is a "dogs must be carried" case and not a "shirts must be worn" case
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The Empire is building an armory in Palmo
May 9, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The Empire is building an armory in Palmo
Yikes. Sounds like they’d get along with whatever’s happening at our kid’s school
March 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Yikes. Sounds like they’d get along with whatever’s happening at our kid’s school
Higher stakes than I expected at the Korean grocery store today
January 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Higher stakes than I expected at the Korean grocery store today
Poster in my child’s classroom. My Irish husband rolled his eyes back so far in his head I think he sprained them @drkevguitar.bsky.social
November 20, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Poster in my child’s classroom. My Irish husband rolled his eyes back so far in his head I think he sprained them @drkevguitar.bsky.social
I was actually just asking, but sure, ChatGPT, I can retcon my question as passive-aggressive if that works better for you #pragmatics #Linguistics
November 18, 2024 at 3:54 PM
I was actually just asking, but sure, ChatGPT, I can retcon my question as passive-aggressive if that works better for you #pragmatics #Linguistics
Hilariously, I had just unfollowed him before returning to the thread and seeing this skeet. Dude sure knows his (non-)audience.
November 16, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Hilariously, I had just unfollowed him before returning to the thread and seeing this skeet. Dude sure knows his (non-)audience.
Ooh! I used to live next to Fresh Pond:
October 25, 2024 at 10:56 PM
Ooh! I used to live next to Fresh Pond:
In other words, no island violations or episodic readings, and the existence of an agent is presupposed
September 23, 2024 at 11:20 AM
In other words, no island violations or episodic readings, and the existence of an agent is presupposed
this is so true that I bought this word to remind me not to sniff too much logic
September 20, 2024 at 5:11 PM
this is so true that I bought this word to remind me not to sniff too much logic
Are ya all right there St. Nicholas
September 18, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Are ya all right there St. Nicholas
I guess I've noticed a difference, especially lately, but a bit surprised to see that I've been around here for an order of magnitude
September 16, 2024 at 10:39 PM
I guess I've noticed a difference, especially lately, but a bit surprised to see that I've been around here for an order of magnitude
I really appreciate @juliusgoat.bsky.social's careful parsing of what fascists are saying.
(and psst, #Linguistics, binding theory Condition C in the news!)
www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-...
For more of this sort of thing, you can buy A.R. Moxon's book Very Fine People:
jgoatpress.com
(and psst, #Linguistics, binding theory Condition C in the news!)
www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-...
For more of this sort of thing, you can buy A.R. Moxon's book Very Fine People:
jgoatpress.com
![Which is interesting, because in case you didn't click through to read al lthe linked stories, the Haitian immigrants *are* "the people who live there." They're here legally, which I mention only because those who call themselves conservative claim that's what matters to them. [Highlighted text:] They are J.D. Vance's own consituents! They put the spring in Springfield! *They are the people who live there!* They can only be *eating the pets of the people who live there" (they aren't) if they don't live there, or if they aren't people, and that latter formulation is of course what Vance and all these other bigoted thugs are trying to do: dehumanize them, [End of highlighting] in order to further marginalize them, in order to justify violence against them, in order to bolster their case for mass deportations of millions and millions of people—which, again, is the sort of thing that has never failed to lead to mass murder, so the proposal should be taken as the intent.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gn4xbineuwozzwo43c4h2oxh/bafkreicqferanaanvjbyh5egvet66kswzl575h4m5gos56jww7tcggg7tm@jpeg)
September 14, 2024 at 8:55 PM
I really appreciate @juliusgoat.bsky.social's careful parsing of what fascists are saying.
(and psst, #Linguistics, binding theory Condition C in the news!)
www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-...
For more of this sort of thing, you can buy A.R. Moxon's book Very Fine People:
jgoatpress.com
(and psst, #Linguistics, binding theory Condition C in the news!)
www.the-reframe.com/its-time-to-...
For more of this sort of thing, you can buy A.R. Moxon's book Very Fine People:
jgoatpress.com
I guess summer is over, you guys
August 27, 2024 at 4:13 PM
I guess summer is over, you guys
Did not expect this lovely bit of morphopragmatics in this article on Sámi parenting! 🐦🐦 getpocket.com/explore/item...
August 25, 2024 at 5:13 PM
Did not expect this lovely bit of morphopragmatics in this article on Sámi parenting! 🐦🐦 getpocket.com/explore/item...
hope it's ok! avoid the tea tho
August 18, 2024 at 12:49 AM
hope it's ok! avoid the tea tho
Oh sorry I misremembered. Look at me telling lies on bluesky. It's Jacques Chirac. I knew it was someone gross.
July 7, 2024 at 10:08 PM
Oh sorry I misremembered. Look at me telling lies on bluesky. It's Jacques Chirac. I knew it was someone gross.
Good morning France, I’m hopeful that on this day of voting that we can avoid both-sidesing demonization of the left with the far-right and come together in… oh
July 7, 2024 at 10:33 AM
Good morning France, I’m hopeful that on this day of voting that we can avoid both-sidesing demonization of the left with the far-right and come together in… oh
I don't know anything about ancient Hebrew, but please enjoy a recent paper on basic color terms in languages, explaining and supporting a hypothesis from the 70s of an "implicational hierarchy" of color terms: if a language has a color term in the hierarchy, it has all the terms to the left of it.
June 17, 2024 at 6:54 PM
I don't know anything about ancient Hebrew, but please enjoy a recent paper on basic color terms in languages, explaining and supporting a hypothesis from the 70s of an "implicational hierarchy" of color terms: if a language has a color term in the hierarchy, it has all the terms to the left of it.
Despite the far right's success yesterday across France, it didn't crack Paris. The 16th, along with the suburb of Neuilly, is the last bastion of the Républicains (center-right, blue). Then it gets farther left the more east you go... www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
June 10, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Despite the far right's success yesterday across France, it didn't crack Paris. The 16th, along with the suburb of Neuilly, is the last bastion of the Républicains (center-right, blue). Then it gets farther left the more east you go... www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...
Made a cake! First time using isomalt, and let's just say I didn't burn *all* of my fingertips off
May 19, 2024 at 9:31 PM
Made a cake! First time using isomalt, and let's just say I didn't burn *all* of my fingertips off
Hmm. What does “successfully urge” mean? For me it’s that the successfully did some urging, not that they got them to do the thing, but does anyone get the intended reading here?
May 13, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Hmm. What does “successfully urge” mean? For me it’s that the successfully did some urging, not that they got them to do the thing, but does anyone get the intended reading here?
@foxes-in-love.bsky.social My 7yo daughter is a huge fan of Foxes in Love and wanted to send you her fan comic! It’s based on the “orange you glad I didn’t say banana” joke. Thanks for your lovely and kind comics.
May 1, 2024 at 9:20 AM
@foxes-in-love.bsky.social My 7yo daughter is a huge fan of Foxes in Love and wanted to send you her fan comic! It’s based on the “orange you glad I didn’t say banana” joke. Thanks for your lovely and kind comics.