"non-diverse"

The kid has now come up with her own little phonetic transcription system for English. And yes, she likes to translate things into Kannada.

Evidently Australia's baseball team is doing better than their cricket team did in the Twenty20 World Cup.

My daughter actually spoke with an English accent for awhile after watching lots of Peppa Pig when she was two years old.

I saw a mini-squadron of 4 helicopters hanging in the air over Blaine this morning. Is that something that ICE has been doing?

Ha, okay. :-)

What's the nomenclatural problem? Do you think it should be the Divided States of America?

Funny, because I keep thinking about that song "Us and Them" lately.

Hard to think of a worse way to flirt, really.

To provide some context: Google Translate is her favorite website. I'm sure she's translated words from English into all of these languages at some point, but I'd never heard her say most of these language names before. Some of them were entirely new to me!

The Language Alphabet Song YouTube video by cognitivephonetician

My 7-year-old daughter made up this alphabet song of languages.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Y4...

In reality, they will only probably start caring if the economy gets really bad.

Cool, that is definitely my favorite version of the story, too.

There is also this: kaiserhoff.org

Some folks here have already pointed out that German-ness is less concentrated in MN than in other places, but at some point you should do yourself the favor of visiting New Ulm and at least taking a picture of yourself next to the Herman the German monument. :-) www.newulm.com/things-to-do...

Hmm, renoviction is pretty nice. (The word, not the concept!)

Cool, thanks.

Awesome.

We had a speaker yesterday from NZ who was talking about how he has to change the way he pronounces Auckland for speech recognition engines, and it made me realize that running through the pronunciations of Oakland-Auckland(NZ)-Auckland(Am) might be a good way to demonstrate the [o]-[ɔ]-[ɒ] triad.

Probably ought to be a "mirkwood" of spiders, instead.

If convicted, though, what's the appropriate punishment? I say the guy has to eat 10 White Castle sliders.

Ha, ever since I discovered linguistics, both {c}s in "Celtic" have been [k]s for me. Except when I'm discussing Larry Bird.

I present, the lenition hypercube

To wit.

My lab group will be participating in this interesting little conference up in Edmonton this weekend:

matips.org/matips2025/d...

We've all been there, dude.

Described in skeet

Described in skeet

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

He didn't slide; he flew.

My sheet music says "Enlargen your world".

I've recently gotten to know someone who universally uses "there is" for both singular and plural nouns. So, rather than saying "there are books in the library" or perhaps "there's books in the library", they say "there is books in the library". Is this the start of a trend?