A poster on r/flyers says that they are having a kidney stoned removal pushed back so that they can attend a Flyers playoff game.
What's the most Philly sports comment you have? I'll start.
Rescheduling a kidney stone removal to go to a game. #GoFlyers
Is this gonna get me to listen to Philly sports talk radio? Lol no. But I thought about it.
I'm happy to say that the kids on bluesky are talking about how "Porter Martone" sounds in a Philly accent (aka hoagie mouth). And you know it sounds great. Go Flyers.
Especially not someone with a degree in lingusitics!
Here I am! Good to see you too.
I'm pretty sure a typo in the word "linguistics" is how you spot a linguist.
Figure shows a comment from a reviewer on my article. The say I wrote "linguistics features" which I totally did and then say "I therefore encourage the authors to have their manuscript proofread by a native speaker or someone specialized in academic English." Guess this means I don't need to read any more student theses! Or teach academic English!
Finally! I got a comment from a reviewer telling me that I should have my article proofread by a native speaker. Or someone specialized in academic English.
And all for a typo in the word #linguistics!!!
I feel like I won a prize.
I'm always impressed by how close etymologists can get. And the guesses that they can make. It just shows how slippery language is.
To be clear, this brings me joy. 100s of hours of work for a "Eh, prolly." Love it.
I love when I hear the origin of a word and then I look it up and the dictionary is like "definitely maybe" 🤷♂️
In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers.
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This guy has a little too much self-respect, I think.
Screenshot of the same academic article. The references show that the author cites his articles multiple times.
Not if you're trying to cite the same work multiple times 🧐
According to his university page, he holds SIX master's degrees and he is working on his seventh and eighth. Someone needs to check on this man. I'm worried he's becoming a Batman villain.
My dude has 13 PAGES of his own citations in the References section. 🫠
Another screenshot from the same article. The author cites himself 40+ times in one sentence AGAIN.
Seriously, dude. You need to chill.
Screenshot of an academic article. The author cites himself about 45 times (no joke) in one sentence.
Holy self-citations, Batman!
I had some students use an image from They Live in a presentation today. This is a blatant attempt to bribe me into giving them a good grade.
And I am totally ok with it.
A+, everyone. Keep up the good work.
I can assure you that both of those have been said more times when talking about this with colleagues.
Btw, my department is moving to a different campus next semester. So we've been talking with the librarians to plan which books need to move with us. And the admin just fired the librarian in charge of this move. Awesome.
Anyone know how much money a university could save by laying off its administrators? Asking for every other person at every university everywhere.
And I know what you're thinking. You're shocked, you're outraged! But consider - where we would be without the truly visionary leaders who got rid of books in a school?
The librarians were let go on Finland's Library Day. As one organizer put it perfectly, this is "grotesque".
My university's administration, in their great and infinite wisdom, has decided to cut the library. And librarians. I wish I was making this up.
The most expensive and volatile substance on Earth??
You mean men's emotions?
A SKLETTIN AT NIGHT "I WILL NEVER ASK A COMPUTER ANYTHING, A CARPENTER DOESNT ASK THEIR HAMMER, AND IF THE DAMB THING STARTED COMPLIMENTING THEM, THEY WOULDENT ASSUME IT KNEW WHAT IT WAS TALKING ABOUT " - NOTICE THAT THE RULING CLASS TREATS WORKERS AS IF THERE ROBOTS OR DRONES TO BE OPTIMMIZED, AND THEY TREAT ROBOTS AND APPS AS IF THERE PEOPLE, THEY PUT EYES ON THE DELIVERY ROBOTS, THEY MAKE THE CHAT BOTS TELL US WERE SMART AND COOL,,, BUT THEY TELL US TO "STOP DRINKING LATTE'S" AND SKIP MEAL'S WHEN WE CANT SAVE UP ANY FUCKEN MONEY!!! THEY TELL US WERE RUINING THE ECONOMY BY NOT HAVEN ENOUGH KID'S, THEY SAY WE FUCKED EVERYTHING UP BY NOT BUYING HOUSE'S, OR NOT BUYING DIAMOND'S, BUT THEY REPLACE US WITH GROCERY STORE ROBOT'S AND A SCRIPT THAT GUESSES WHAT TO SAY BASED ON READING EVERY REDDIT POST, AND THEY WANT US TO TREAT THOSE LIKE THERE PEOPLE,,, TO THE RICH, HUMANS ARE DISPOSABLE, GREEDY, HUNGRY AND THE TECHNOLOGY THEY OWN IS IMPORTANT, HUMBLE, AND WORTHWHILE - THEY CALL EACH OTHER "SELF MADE MILLIONAIRE" AND "SELF MADE BILLIIONAIRE" AND FORGOT THAT THE MONEY COMES FROM US, A CHAT BOT WILL NEVER PAY A SUSCRIPTION FEE, A DELIVERY ROBOT OR SELF DRIVING CAR WILL NEVER COME BACK FOR MORE GROCERYS,,, ONE DAY A REAL RAIN WILL COME AND WASH THESE PARASITES OFF THERE YACHTS INTO THE OCEAN AND UNTIL THEN WE MUST DENY THEM OUR MONEY, ATTENTION AND PEACE - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
NEVER - dashare.zone ADMIN
It’s a fascinating interview with a person basically trying to pull the “we’re compensating you with exposure” line and I just wanna point out that because LLMs are bullshit machines Grammarly’s “expert” feature was citing completely made-up works.
Academic writing improv!
It's important to not lie to your students. For example, I just saw one of them in the cafe. He asked what we were doing in class today. So I told him "I don't know. It's a surprise! See you in 45 minutes."
The Word of the Year can be a phrase. Just saying.
Oh god, Tyler and Anita... I'm having flashbacks.
Your article is great.
And for what it's worth, this company sucks at grammar too. Their blog posts about the topic are filled with errors.