Renjith Pillai
@renjilinguist.bsky.social
Curious about linguistics
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New pet peeve:
Hearing and reading "virtually" used incorrectly.
What's Yours? #writringcommunity #petpeeves #grammarpolice
Hearing and reading "virtually" used incorrectly.
What's Yours? #writringcommunity #petpeeves #grammarpolice
March 15, 2024 at 12:29 PM
New pet peeve:
Hearing and reading "virtually" used incorrectly.
What's Yours? #writringcommunity #petpeeves #grammarpolice
Hearing and reading "virtually" used incorrectly.
What's Yours? #writringcommunity #petpeeves #grammarpolice
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I'm getting ready to again teach our undergrad module 'Exploring Linguistic Diversity' which focusses on typology, using Velupillai (2012) as the main text. I find the links on this website useful, but I'm looking for other recommendations too: humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com/2020/04/onli...
Online resources on linguistic typology and beyond
Many Humans Who Read Grammars are also teachers of some kind, myself included. With the world-wide outbreak of COVID-19, most of this teachi...
humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com
September 2, 2024 at 4:50 PM
I'm getting ready to again teach our undergrad module 'Exploring Linguistic Diversity' which focusses on typology, using Velupillai (2012) as the main text. I find the links on this website useful, but I'm looking for other recommendations too: humans-who-read-grammars.blogspot.com/2020/04/onli...
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Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
August 31, 2024 at 2:00 AM
Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
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I think this is too strict adherence to the rule about articles before vowels. I would have let "such a one" stand, due to the O sounding like a W in "one." #AmEditing
August 17, 2024 at 11:52 PM
I think this is too strict adherence to the rule about articles before vowels. I would have let "such a one" stand, due to the O sounding like a W in "one." #AmEditing
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Academic editors are lonely Cassandras who say perfectly correct things like, “the subject of a gerund must be possessive,” and are treated like lunatics for doing so. #AmEditing
August 19, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Academic editors are lonely Cassandras who say perfectly correct things like, “the subject of a gerund must be possessive,” and are treated like lunatics for doing so. #AmEditing
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My editing advice when writing for online is always cut this/make it shorter. It's not that I think readers are dumb it's that I think everybody online has no functional attention span
August 30, 2024 at 8:47 PM
My editing advice when writing for online is always cut this/make it shorter. It's not that I think readers are dumb it's that I think everybody online has no functional attention span
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Six years ago, literally nobody asked me what my advice would be for new teachers starting in September.
So I told them.
And now, years later, still nobody has asked me.
So here it is again
👇🏽
#uked #ukteaching #edusky
So I told them.
And now, years later, still nobody has asked me.
So here it is again
👇🏽
#uked #ukteaching #edusky
August 29, 2024 at 6:04 PM
Six years ago, literally nobody asked me what my advice would be for new teachers starting in September.
So I told them.
And now, years later, still nobody has asked me.
So here it is again
👇🏽
#uked #ukteaching #edusky
So I told them.
And now, years later, still nobody has asked me.
So here it is again
👇🏽
#uked #ukteaching #edusky
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TEACHING MICRO TIP 12
It’s ok to tell a kid if they’ve got something wrong. You can do this kindly and still have their back. Be clear.
“No that’s not right, but lots of people make that mistake. Let me explain why.”
It’s not kind or helpful to pretend they are right when they aren’t.
It’s ok to tell a kid if they’ve got something wrong. You can do this kindly and still have their back. Be clear.
“No that’s not right, but lots of people make that mistake. Let me explain why.”
It’s not kind or helpful to pretend they are right when they aren’t.
August 29, 2024 at 6:17 PM
TEACHING MICRO TIP 12
It’s ok to tell a kid if they’ve got something wrong. You can do this kindly and still have their back. Be clear.
“No that’s not right, but lots of people make that mistake. Let me explain why.”
It’s not kind or helpful to pretend they are right when they aren’t.
It’s ok to tell a kid if they’ve got something wrong. You can do this kindly and still have their back. Be clear.
“No that’s not right, but lots of people make that mistake. Let me explain why.”
It’s not kind or helpful to pretend they are right when they aren’t.
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Speaking of which, I guess that we're about at the end of the back-to-school book gift season.
In case you still owe someone something.
In case you still owe someone something.
August 30, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Speaking of which, I guess that we're about at the end of the back-to-school book gift season.
In case you still owe someone something.
In case you still owe someone something.
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I can't believe autocorrect doesn't know "schadenfreude."
August 13, 2024 at 12:42 AM
I can't believe autocorrect doesn't know "schadenfreude."
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“And how are you coping with going back to work next week…?”
…..
Book therapy buys for the autumn term
…..
Book therapy buys for the autumn term
August 29, 2024 at 8:11 AM
“And how are you coping with going back to work next week…?”
…..
Book therapy buys for the autumn term
…..
Book therapy buys for the autumn term
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In Dec 2023, Ricardo Lopes of The Dissenter interviewed me on a range of topics related to language processing. If you want to hear some of my thoughts on linguistics, disfluencies, and comprehension, here's the link!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ri...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ri...
#942 Fernanda Ferreira: Linguistics, Fluency, Speech Disfluencies, and Comprehension
YouTube video by The Dissenter
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August 29, 2024 at 1:54 PM
In Dec 2023, Ricardo Lopes of The Dissenter interviewed me on a range of topics related to language processing. If you want to hear some of my thoughts on linguistics, disfluencies, and comprehension, here's the link!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ri...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ri...
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Well worth a read 👇
If you are looking for a comprehensive and practical guide to applying ideas from and cognitive science to teaching English, my book may be the resource you're looking for
August 28, 2024 at 8:25 PM
Well worth a read 👇
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I’m at #LAGB this week and today I learnt about Sinhala phonology and French gender inclusive doublets and how ‘phonemic fluctuation’ is not a thing (thanks racism) and that you can’t necessarily grind all nouns into gross flesh and people in Whalsey use fancy prepositions and I ate too many crisps
August 28, 2024 at 8:54 PM
I’m at #LAGB this week and today I learnt about Sinhala phonology and French gender inclusive doublets and how ‘phonemic fluctuation’ is not a thing (thanks racism) and that you can’t necessarily grind all nouns into gross flesh and people in Whalsey use fancy prepositions and I ate too many crisps
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The really ridiculous thing about being a linguist is that l’ll get a hangnail or something and immediately be like “ah yes from the Old English agnail meaning 'pain nail’” instead of something useful like “I should trim that before it catches on something”
August 28, 2024 at 9:26 PM
The really ridiculous thing about being a linguist is that l’ll get a hangnail or something and immediately be like “ah yes from the Old English agnail meaning 'pain nail’” instead of something useful like “I should trim that before it catches on something”
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Don't know who needs this reminder at the start of the school year but don't forget this excellent advice from @danidonovan.com as you deal with the overwhelming deluge of start of term email!
August 27, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Don't know who needs this reminder at the start of the school year but don't forget this excellent advice from @danidonovan.com as you deal with the overwhelming deluge of start of term email!
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🤣🤣🤣
There remain many bright spots on Reddit, chief among which is r/linguisticshumor:
www.reddit.com/r/linguistic...
www.reddit.com/r/linguistic...
August 28, 2024 at 2:36 AM
🤣🤣🤣
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It's "like the other girls and not have to take care" or "like the other girls, not having to take care"
November 15, 2023 at 2:24 PM
It's "like the other girls and not have to take care" or "like the other girls, not having to take care"
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I read a fascinating sociology book at one point talking about the concept of "negative politeness" - manners designed to create a fiction that people in public spaces have privacy. Particularly prevalent in England, Japan, and Manhattan - that is, overcrowded islands.
October 6, 2023 at 1:09 PM
I read a fascinating sociology book at one point talking about the concept of "negative politeness" - manners designed to create a fiction that people in public spaces have privacy. Particularly prevalent in England, Japan, and Manhattan - that is, overcrowded islands.
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When you look up a word in the dic•tio•nary, the dots in the middle of the word aren't there to mark out the syllables of the word; they mark where you can put a hyphen if the word doesn't fit on one line. Sometimes that corresponds with syllables, sometimes not. (See "dictionary" above!)
ok i have another quote tweet prompt. what's something, big or small, related to your job or hobby, that most people don't know that you would like to have them know? it can be a concept, a piece of history, some vocabulary, or something else.
June 17, 2024 at 2:43 AM
When you look up a word in the dic•tio•nary, the dots in the middle of the word aren't there to mark out the syllables of the word; they mark where you can put a hyphen if the word doesn't fit on one line. Sometimes that corresponds with syllables, sometimes not. (See "dictionary" above!)