Vanessa
@vrslinguist.bsky.social
Linguistics instructor, PhD Cand, Portuguese & Socioling, Phon/Phon on the sly, pedagogy nerd, baseball and genealogy FTW, oh & crochet
#UnexpectedMormon in Coeds and Cattails.
November 11, 2025 at 8:23 PM
#UnexpectedMormon in Coeds and Cattails.
An accidental lost in translation portmanteau that I think we should invite onto our speech. From
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
August 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
An accidental lost in translation portmanteau that I think we should invite onto our speech. From
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
🐦🐦
PERJUMENTAL!!
Latest neologism by a sports announcer: hændkʌftɪɾɪd
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
August 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Latest neologism by a sports announcer: hændkʌftɪɾɪd
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
I’m watching #MallorcaBarça en español and the play-by-play announcer’s ratatatat reminds me of when we’d go visit my grandma at the auction.
August 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I’m watching #MallorcaBarça en español and the play-by-play announcer’s ratatatat reminds me of when we’d go visit my grandma at the auction.
I #crocheted 🧶 myself a Yipyip monster yarn bag holder thingie with a carabiner to thread the yarn.
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
July 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I #crocheted 🧶 myself a Yipyip monster yarn bag holder thingie with a carabiner to thread the yarn.
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Cro Chet
Crochet!
#UnexpectedMormon in Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune series. Although, with the kind of joke that it was building to, it’s more of a *Slightly Expected Mormon*.
#TeamGertie
#TeamGertie
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#UnexpectedMormon in Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune series. Although, with the kind of joke that it was building to, it’s more of a *Slightly Expected Mormon*.
#TeamGertie
#TeamGertie
#UnexpectedMormon and slightly skewampus understanding of Mormon private/public lives re: elders in Douglas Phillips’ Quantum Time. #ExpectedMormon narrator Kirby H.
July 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#UnexpectedMormon and slightly skewampus understanding of Mormon private/public lives re: elders in Douglas Phillips’ Quantum Time. #ExpectedMormon narrator Kirby H.
Sports announcing is one of my favorite places to collect innovations. Sometimes the innovations are one-off unicorns
June 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Sports announcing is one of my favorite places to collect innovations. Sometimes the innovations are one-off unicorns
My Great Great Great Grandma Malcolm totally prodropping the first person singular at the beginning of her letter to husband (she quickly begins using pronouns and pronoun-ish when clarity seemed necessary). He was at the Chicago World's Columbia Exposition of 1893.
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
June 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
My Great Great Great Grandma Malcolm totally prodropping the first person singular at the beginning of her letter to husband (she quickly begins using pronouns and pronoun-ish when clarity seemed necessary). He was at the Chicago World's Columbia Exposition of 1893.
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
#linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop
I saw a creepy bumper sticker today and didn’t get a pic b/c driving and not wanting to crash. Found it online. Seriously, how wacko do you have to be to stick this on your car?
June 5, 2025 at 11:47 PM
I saw a creepy bumper sticker today and didn’t get a pic b/c driving and not wanting to crash. Found it online. Seriously, how wacko do you have to be to stick this on your car?
#UnexpectedMormon in ~Proto~ by @laurainparis.bsky.social
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
June 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM
#UnexpectedMormon in ~Proto~ by @laurainparis.bsky.social
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.
This book was published in **2015**. What the ever-loving hells bells were the author and editors of WWNorton & Co thinking? “Lol lol racism-ginger joke lol. harmless play on words lol lol lol”???!!!
Yeesh.
Yeesh.
May 23, 2025 at 5:43 AM
This book was published in **2015**. What the ever-loving hells bells were the author and editors of WWNorton & Co thinking? “Lol lol racism-ginger joke lol. harmless play on words lol lol lol”???!!!
Yeesh.
Yeesh.
Go Go Fightin’ Moronis
April 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Go Go Fightin’ Moronis
In this paper, I will…
February 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
In this paper, I will…
Ice storm freezes campus, so I stay home and make various Abbey Road Pessoa Heteronym memes. #fernandopessoa #heteronimos #todosOsSonhosNele #neles?
January 22, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Ice storm freezes campus, so I stay home and make various Abbey Road Pessoa Heteronym memes. #fernandopessoa #heteronimos #todosOsSonhosNele #neles?
Every once in a while you find a pure gem of a neologism (that doubles you over in laughter) in a book you’re listening to.
I present to you, from @peterboland.bsky.social‘s Beach Hut Murders:
FARTLIGHTING
I present to you, from @peterboland.bsky.social‘s Beach Hut Murders:
FARTLIGHTING
January 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Every once in a while you find a pure gem of a neologism (that doubles you over in laughter) in a book you’re listening to.
I present to you, from @peterboland.bsky.social‘s Beach Hut Murders:
FARTLIGHTING
I present to you, from @peterboland.bsky.social‘s Beach Hut Murders:
FARTLIGHTING