We've got lexemes, types, tokens, orthgraphic words, prosodic words, morphological words, syntactic words, probably more I'm forgetting, and they all overlap but don't fully agree.

TL;DR: nobody actually knows what a "word" is.

What is a word? YouTube video by Martin Hilpert

youtu.be/-L5HOUreQ40

Pedantic avoidance of Germanic preposition stranding is a silly restriction up with which I will not put!

Today I Learned: I will in fact wake up coughing rather than drowning in mucus in my sleep. That oughta make the wife happy, even if she's concerned about my chronically low spO2. Unfortunately, going back to sleep has not worked out. So I am not looking forward to the rest of today.

Interesting. For me, the first one is marked, but not ungrammatical, and the second one is perfectly fine.

Huh. I did not know that anyone had a problem with right-dislocating heavy modifiers.

What was supposed to be impossible about it?

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

*when analyzing *English*. That was an important missing word. I have to reserve judgment on languages that I am not a native speaker of.

I wonder if this is because I am wired to put more effort into processing and less into memorization, such that I generalize a lot of patterns further than most people would.

My biggest problem with most grammatical theories is that about half of all the examples presented as "ungrammatical" when analyzing seem perfectly fine to me. #linguistics

I've got a sister in Anchorage who runs an AirBnB, so let me know if you do get a job up there and I might be able to arrange some help with the transition.

4yr-old has become obsessed with asking me about what I *can't* do. Explaining that it would be a lot easier to enumerate the finite list of things that I *can* do has so far been unsuccessful.

I would not!

That's what I signed up for by becoming a parent.

Criminal Justice? Forensic Linguistics is part of that. Sociology? We've got a whole subfield called "sociolinguistics".

At 20% of the way through The Way of Kings, I am finally becoming Invested.
(Pun 100% intended.)

A partially framed 8x8ft building with OSB sheathing 2/3 up the walls.

Building a new quail coop!

I am also kind of amazed that not a single interviewer has yet pushed back on his assertion than ammonia is a "heavy molecule". It's lighter than air and easily photodissociated!

Not publicly, but I can get a transcript. Might turn it into a YouTube script at some point. I've got a backlog of similar previous presentations I ought to do that with.

Presentation, with slides and such.

Had a lovely evening talking to fiction authors about what #linguistics can tell them about hacking readers' brains and writing subtext.

Just "what", as in "What courage and greatness the Spear-Danes and the kings who ruled them had in days gone by." #Beowulf

Oh gosh, I forgot most of my favorite Indian foods!

Haystacks. Navajo Tacos. Regular tacos. Chicken/prok/shrimp fried rice. Ramen (the fancy kind, not the packets). Mashed potatoes & meatballs. Spaghetti and meatballs. Chicken Alfredo. Spaetzle and schnitzel. What am I missing? ('Cause I know there's gotta be way more I'm not thinking of right now.)

It's also objectively wrong. Spectral colors are a 1-dimensional subspace of the 3D human color space, which is infinitesimally few, not "most".

That first line is objectively, mathematically incorrect. Spectral colors are a 1-dimensional subspace of the 3D human color space, which is infinitesimally few, not "most".

Sur le Pont d'Avignon
L'on y danse, l'on y danse
Sur le Pont d'Avignon
L'on y danse tous en rond.

Fries, chips, frybread, buttered rice, grits... yup, I think you're on to something there.