My niece has her bilabial trills on lock

Getting 16 🎉’s on Duolingo is crazy lmao only a linguist would have that many friends on Duolingo

I kept wanting to read the letters as Cherokee syllabary characters. I fully said “i” for T

But I do have a masters degree if that helps?

Nothing more humbling than an eye appointment like no I can’t read those 5 letters sorry

There should be a rule that you can’t be sick for a whole week

I don’t like how sunscreen feels on my skin

Does anyone have a sunscreen that doesn’t suck

Sent my friend like walls of text about how mystifying indigenous languages is often racist and gross, explaining Sapir Whorf and social dialectology along the way. he didn’t even bring it up. i did. why did i do that

Like I’m reading old texts in Cherokee and being like hm where did that glottal stop go :/

explaining my work to people and it’s always like well yes this is historically significant & very interesting but my point was actually just Cool Word

Every time I do field work I’m struck my how ~human~ language is and I mean this in like a it’s all ordinary not anything magical kind of way

It’s actually so embarrassing that I wrote a whole ass thesis about this and still suck so bad

I have a photo of me & the digital camera I got when I was 8 and it’s so funny bc my mom had to take a photo of me & my camera with another camera??

Bought a digital camera for my birthday party & it made me think how crazy it is that having a separate, physical camera reminds me of my childhood bc technology has changed enough since then and I’m not even 25

I realized “because” was like “be cause” like last year

I have absolutely zero intuitions about English etymology but then I’m like sure this Cherokee speaker could prob tell me if these two words seem connected

Long eared dog (dachshund) tucked into a blanket with his head on a pillow

Screenshot of Cherokee English dictionary (Feeling, 1975) entry for adj. “long-eared” with an example sentence translated “the long eared hound dog got his ear caught in the fence because his ear was so long”. Half the words are naturally from similar roots

Mood board of this afternoon

tired: listeners are confronted with tremendous variation in the speech signal

wired: listeners are attacked at night, in the warmth and safety of their beds, by roving gangs of variable speech sounds intent on nothing less than chaos and destruction.

write what you mean, you cowards.

Ian Maddieson liked my IPA earrings, so

Target is sold out of these sweats and I wanna kms about it bc I need at least 3 pairs

I want to be in a union so bad but I don’t even have a real job rn

I saw one last night at a bar and told her she should go to the colloquium on Thursday?

I graduated last semester but I’m still probably more engaged in dept happenings than most current grad students

if i can calibrate the perfect tone of voice with which to post, i think i can stop the trump administration

Yeah and then you get to sit with that fact that no one would relate to it quite like you do with your unique experience anyway

I wish I had ever been successful at recommending a book and lending a copy but

My favorite thing about reading is the constant pondering of who you could share the experience with once you’re done

They also magically look good with every color

I have exactly one pair of sweats that fits me well and I’ve worn them like every day for a week