I had forgotten what it was like to ask MS Word to do something perfectly reasonable and have it jump up and run away with its pants on its head. Bah.

@leemurray.bsky.social 🙊

🤣😂 I love it

I wish I could find a copy of the ad I saw somewhere that said, "SOLVE ALL YOUR PROBLEMS: EAT A SNICKERS"

...I'm allergic to peanuts.

Syntax tree of the week

(h/t @lawandlanguage.org)

I love it

A black and white cat sits with his back to the camera, staring intently at a TV playing a video of mice running around.

Research assistant takes a lunch break.

undercaffeinated thought of the day:

a tiny part of me wants a double mastectomy so that when people ask me what happened, I can look back deadpan and say "the front fell off"

syntax tree of the week

(h/t @lawandlanguage.org)

straight to the pool room

A National wildlife federation job post advertises a position opening for “beaver conflict resolution technician”

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

text reads: You think you've seen it all and then your 13-year-old blind beagle throws up the French flag in the middle of the night. There are two photos below the text: a beagle with severe cataracts, and a dirty, crumpled French flag sitting on a tile floor.

syntax tree of the week

pouring one out for all those still experiencing Frenchness

@DawgBelly: A small joy in my life is that my sis is dating a guy with tteh same name as her cat & human Nigel hates that we all call him human Nigel.

syntax tree of the week

Your instincts are perfect, kiddo. We just accidentally messed up the whole orthography because we invented the printing press in the middle of a giant sound change.

A thin white person with a dark mullet hairstyle, glasses, and a party hat stands in front of a PowerPoint projection that reads: "The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out".

The pool room definitely expands to fit its contents.

😆

straight to the pool room with that one

Carrots Can't Help You See in the Dark. Here's How a World War II Propaganda Campaign Popularized the Myth The British government claimed that eating carrots helped its fighter pilots shoot down German planes at night. In truth, the Royal Air Force relied on top-secret radar

source: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/carr...

Black text on a white background reads: “Somewhere on the journey, the message that carrots are good for your eyes became disfigured into improving eyesight,” Stolarczyk said. His digital museum, full of surprising and obscure facts about carrots, investigates how the idea became so dominant, tracing its roots to propaganda shared by the British government during World War II.

This paragraph just gets better with every line

awkward

Woman slams selfish paragliders who 'made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster'. A woman panicked her village near Doncaster was under attack when she spotted a number of paragliders flying over her home and thought they were from Hamas

syntax tree of the week: two trees for the price of one

#linguistics #syntaxtreeoftheweek

International Phonetic Alphabet, spooooky edition!

Halloween is on the way!

Do you like the International Phonetic Alphabet but wish it was... spooOOOoookier?

I present...

The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹
r.jyu.fi/IPAspooky

Free to use/adapt! (@creativecommons.bsky.social)

Repost or I will send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟‍‍ 🧠🍽️

The logo for the social media platform Threads, in white on a solid black background. The logo looks like the "at" symbol with a schwa in the middle instead of a lowercase letter A.

I hereby name this symbol "the schwat".

I will be taking no questions.

#linguistics #phonetics #threads #schwa #schwat

Headline reads "Are you missing underwear?"

#syntaxtreeoftheweek

After [mumble] years of teaching linguistics, writing "ɐpdɔg" in the corner of the board has finally paid off

So cute! With the buzz cut, I would absolutely not have thought that was the face shape of a poodle

Photo is an extreme close-up of a tuxedo cat who has his face inches away from the camera. He is so close to the camera that only one eye, one ear, and his nose are in frame. Behind the cat is a computer screen with multiple windows/programs open.

I have been informed that I and my lap are expected in the loungeroom, post-haste