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The phonetics lab had a great time at Methods and Techniques in Phonetic Sciences this weekend! There’s some really neat research out there. We loved checking in on what techniques other labs are utilizing, and sharing how we’re using free classification at the UofC.

Shoutout to Carriage House Inn for having the best coffee I've ever had at a conference #canadianacousticsconference2025 #aanvis

Thanks again @charysbrussell.bsky.social!

I just blended "blurry" and "fuzzy" into "bluzzy" and I like it a lot

Genuinely love that Yiddish has a word that literally means “Saturdayish” (or even more literally “Shabbos-y”) but can just be used to mean that something is very festive (shabesdik, שבתדיק)

Tried to order a pumpkin cream cold brew from Starbucks but kept saying "pumpkin cleam cold blew" by accident

why do we have "mostly" but not "leastly"

Do you ever get weirdly excited about an experimental paper? I just found one that is so clearly laid out and so meticulous that it was an absolute joy to read, and it will definitely be referenced in my thesis.

I recently came across a current linguistics grad student saying they found out that linguistics existed from the movie Arrival, and I am just so excited because Linguistics Twitter totally predicted this was gonna happen when it came out in 2016 and now IT'S HERE

They called me a walking dictionary, so obviously when I found a small, keychain-sized thesaurus at the book fair, I bought it so I could wear it on my belt loop for the rest of middle school and pedantically correct people: "actually, I'm a walking THESAURUS" Dang, wish I still had that, tbh

Today in "linguists are not kidding when they say that language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before in the entirety of human history"

not an original thought but bears repeating: half of writing is just being allowed time to sit on your ass uninterrupted and think about things really hard until you puzzle them out, which doesn't look or feel like work at all. but it is!

Lexiphanicism [LEKS-ih-FAN-ih-siz-im] (n.) -Use of excessively learned & bombastic vocabulary/phraseology in a pretentious, showy fashion “Lieutenant Larry Longshort’s lexiphanicism leaves his listeners lost in a labyrinth of lofty lexemes & longing for lucid language.” My book: bit.ly/GWOTDbook

Ooh, scientists in Antarctica are developing a local accent!

Every time I write an abstract, I just bang my head against the wall until I get somewhere, like a woodpecker trying to retrieve its last bit of sanity from the core of a tree.

IMO, the level of assumed background knowledge of a plenary talk at a general linguistics conference should be pitched around first year grad student 2 reasons: - There are students in the audience! - Profs who don't specialize in the topic probably last touched it in grad school

My most controversial opinion is that the in-the-moment narration of activities that your co-interactants don’t have access to (like what you’re doing on a computer or phone screen) is just a natural extension of the interaction order, Goffman would fucking love you muttering about it and I do too

I need someone to write a sf story where the two genders are kiki and bouba and they're entirely embedded into the fabric of life but they don't map neatly onto any of our english genders

BlueSky is already superior to Twitter because it allows me to put the IPA transcription of my name in my profile.

Hello, BlueSky! I'm migrating here from Twitter/X and I can't wait to jump into some new feeds.