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Vanessa
@vrslinguist.bsky.social
Linguistics instructor, PhD Cand, Portuguese & Socioling, Phon/Phon on the sly, pedagogy nerd, baseball and genealogy FTW, oh & crochet
An accidental lost in translation portmanteau that I think we should invite onto our speech. From
@ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram
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PERJUMENTAL!!
August 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Latest neologism by a sports announcer: hændkʌftɪɾɪd
🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.
August 17, 2025 at 1:29 AM
#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
July 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
#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
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
#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.
June 5, 2025 at 9:30 PM