Not to give other scammers ideas, but if you're phishing humanities/social sci faculty at public university in a red state, an email with an attachment purporting to be a letter from a parent of a student received by the dean's office can be pretty effective. Don't ask how I know.
Not to give other scammers ideas, but if you're phishing humanities/social sci faculty at public university in a red state, an email with an attachment purporting to be a letter from a parent of a student received by the dean's office can be pretty effective. Don't ask how I know.
Ad from Microsoft encourages me to celebrate Earth Day with "art" created using their image generator. cool cool cool
This is certainly true, but I think many are attracted to the idea of having "secret" knowledge that challenges straightforward explanations (as with conspiracy theories). E.g. those people who love to share how "Black Friday" comes from an accounting usage ("in the black").
New excuse for being late to meetings: Sorry but I just saw a looksmaxxing influencer get brutally frame-mogged & I had to give a witness statement to Chad Protective Services
the discussion did make me wonder if Tolkien's use was another example of his incorporating archaisms (like aux. BE for the perfect aspect constructions with motion verbs) rather than some comment on the sociolinguistics of LESS + pl. noun in the 20th cen.
I guess my point is that LESS has always been used with plural nouns in English and the proscription against it (like so many of these "rules") are modern attempts to impose distinctions that don't have any solid basis in history. The classic case is WILL vs SHALL.
You might say the same about King Alfred the Great.
Heartbreak here too. He inspired so many students, including me, to pursue sociolinguistics by his brilliance and just by being a joy to hang with. I'll raise a glass and a diphthong to Jack!
fyi, i have a podcast and it's really great and fun. and there are a lot of super-smart people who've been on to talk about not just the Middle Ages but how and why it's studied here in the USA. please give it a listen.
AmericanMedieval.com
Thanks for this reminder to check the forecast so I'll know whether to leave the kitchen faucet dripping to avoid frozen pipes and subsequent burst
If they're going to refer to the area as "Dallas-Fort Worth", I really must insist that the one on the left/west be Dallas (see, e.g., Minneapolis-St. Paul). Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Tonight it might be “portrait” > “paroletrait”
Stay unaslept!
The accessibility tracker in Canvas won't accept alt text descriptions of images that are longer than 120 characters. I've never encountered this limit in other contexts. How is it useful if it leads to very short descriptions?
The accessibility tracker in Canvas won't accept alt text descriptions of images that are longer than 120 characters. I've never encountered this limit in other contexts. How is it useful if it leads to very short descriptions?
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"enamored with" instead of "of" - if you're going to use a fancy word, use its obscure prepositional complement and don't analogize to "in love with".
You can tell he's crazy by his misuse of Cyrillic
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a grave mistake
Yes, great points! When I asked students about this a few weeks ago, they noted those phono features and one mentioned the word "gagging" which made me hopeful that "gag me with a spoon" might still be alive in the stereotype but probably not
This is interesting since it seems to ignore the class associations of "Valley Girl", right? Californians don't think of Bakersfield, Fresno, etc. as bastions of upper middle-class entitlement, do they?
I've recently heard 2 folk interpretations of the "valley" in "valley girl" as it relates to a speaking style/persona. A (northern) Californian said it referred to the Central Valley (e.g. Fresno). A St. Louisan believed it was about some valley in west county STL. Anyone have other examples?
"Since the bandages used in this trial contain silver threads, shouldn't lycanthropy be an exclusion criterion?" My latest attempt to get invited to step down from the IRB.
For non-dialectologists, "sick at the stomach" in the US was the usual form in the South and much of the Midland regions while the preposition used most commonly today, "sick to the stomach," was a Northern form (per Kurath 1949).
I've had the luxury of mostly avoiding listening to Jimmy Johnson (football coach of teams I hated), but it warmed my dialectologist's heart to hear him, in a recent documentary, say "sick at my stomach".
just wait till they fire him and we still have to pay him as well as his replacement
