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Observed a mother and child pair of quantifiers in the wild. By the summer, the child will leave its mother and begin binding its own variables.

Up to the early 20th century, Spain was often yclept GREAT LUZON in Sinitic languages: Tōa-lū-sòng / Daai6leoi5sung3 大呂宋. A case of the colonial power being called after the colony, not the other way round😁

whiteboard-drawn syntax tree of Matt's sentence from up-thread. suspiciously agnostic relative clauses plus some sketchy shit going on with movement out of an ellipsis site

like. okay the other thing about relative clauses is they might not cause island effects. but theres a lot going on here

Deadline 15 July: Assoc or full, tenured prof., open area, Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, NTU Singapore apply.ap1.interfolio.com/119095

Feels like the kind of thing I write quarter past midnight, only to ask myself "What were you thinking?" upon re-reading the paragraph in the morning

The thing is that this has been true for a long time. Thinking that liberal arts degrees are impractical is received wisdom that collapses under the slightest scrutiny. This claim is only "counterintuitive" if you have bad intuition about higher ed, and, accidentally and on purpose, most people do.

Version 1.0 of the Grammaticon is now online! This has been in the making for over eight years. Quite a few of the entries are still preliminary, but I hope to expand and improve it over the coming months and years. Comments are welcome! An intro text is here: dlc.hypotheses.org/4316

Sometimes people wave at me on campus and I can't tell who they are at all

Database update 🌐 We launched a new version of CLICS 🚀 - the Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications
clics.clld.org

The paper introducing the new version is available here: aclanthology.org/2025.iwcs-ma...

drop-down menu with german, middle high (ca. 1050-1500) as a choice

when filling in the online application form for a EU residence permit in finland, i was presented with this option for "mother tongue". shall i go for it? 😅

#OTD 88 years ago, Gail Jefferson (1938–2008) was born 🥳 A sociologist and sociolinguist, she was one of the pioneers of Conversation Analysis and an expert on the sociolinguistic analysis of laughter. She also transcribed the Watergate tapes.

#WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdays #Histlx

High school Latin classes were like that, "Translate this sentence!" is still an inside joke I'm using with a classmate from back then, with the hidden meaning of "Just wing it!"

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Name any other game in which you can bond with Mr. Bean by talking about particle annihilation

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream is so funny, the combination of letting players creatively name things plus the timing in some of the cutscenes is absolutely hilarious 😆

underrated pickup line

A scene from Persona 5 Royal where Joker is talking to a "Pompous Customer" in the cafe who says: "Visit the batting cages if you're ever free. Though, it's ill-suited to an intellectual like me..."

The Pompous Customer then exclaims: "Gah...! Aggh, my back..."

Love to see people like me depicted in media

Taiwan plans urban forest expansion to cool cities | Taiwan News | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22 Environment minister says 10-year plan aims to add shade, reduce heat risk | Apr. 19, 2026 19:22

"Peng said the long-term goal in Taipei and New Taipei is for commuters to be able to leave an MRT station and reach their workplace without walking through long stretches of exposed pavement. He said trees should be treated as climate infrastructure, not only as landscaping."

Screenshot of a YouTube comment saying 'adding "larp" to the list of modern slang terms made solely to shut down meaningful conversation and put people down for doing nothing wrong'

This meaning of "to larp" is probably one of my least favorite internet terms

The editor-in-chief of a journal has recently gotten in touch with me and asked whether I'd like to join as an editor. I've never done that before, but I'm considering it 🤔

Anyone here got any advice/things I should be looking out for?

#linguistics #academia

Would love to get some colleagues at the intersection of NLP and CogSci. Reach out if you have any questions! Deadline: 31-Jul-2026

I think I'd try contacting the authors privately as a first step 🤔

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.

call for reading material: has anyone explored a notion of at-issueness where something is more at-issue the more it addresses a high-stakes QUD? (where the stakes are external and involve more or less intense consequences, a bit like Stanley's bank examples in interest-relative epistemology etc)

A glass jar of jalapenos that says sliced hot plant pieces on it written in sharpie marker

Someone at my local store enjoys labeling discounted items that have lost their original labels.

Studying Spanish via Japanese is not a thing I thought I'd ever do but- 😆

Photo showing a few books: Mysteries of English Grammar, Gramática elemental del español and chokai ga yowai anata e

Free books on campus? Don't mind if I do!

"if you know what I mean": innuendo
"iff you know what I mean": dogwhistle

Zoom H5 recorder on table in school classroom with goat at the door looking towards camera

Had a surprise visitor during this afternoon's fieldwork session