Nice To Know You + Sugababes deserves to be a Stateside tier hit

Oh wow, my unmarked pronunciation of "forward" is homophonous with "ford."

In Korean, when two consonants go walking, the first one does the talking. This rule works about as well as it does in English.

I do wish kasra had a kasra in it and damma had a damma in it

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Time to read what I wrote yesterday and see if I still stand by it

OrcID = who I'd be if I was an orc

Come one, come all, to the Lawrence Public Library THIS SATURDAY 11 am - 2 pm to explore language with KU linguists! We are hosting an interactive drop-in event where folks of all ages can explore the science of language. There will be stickers and buttons and bracelets- what more could you want? 🌻

Zou ik echt voor en conferentie naar Groningen moeten gaan HMMMMM....

The word for owl is imitative in a lot of languages: German Uhu, Thai hûuk. Thank goodness it wasn't a barn owl cause then the word would be AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I've always been unable to perceive the dominant American pronunciation of /ojl/ "oil" as anything but [ojəl]. I reduce it to [ol]. Today I realized that UNDERLYING /ojəl/ sees the same fate in my inspect: "loyal" is [lol]!

And if I say that STRUT should be UH and FOOT should be OO?

This one's pretty fun

My plasma donation is headed to a facility in Tennessee. It'll be the first time I'm back in my home state since 2001 LOL

auch wenn ich in einem chinesischen restaurant aufgewachsen hab hab ich niemals jemanden egg foo young bestellen sehen, noch hab ich das selbst gegessen - bin eigentlich nicht sicher dass es überhaupt existiert

Mental Jewelry - Live sounds like they made a deal with the devil and they're playing to save their souls. It's immediate and arresting, like a shot of apple cider vinegar in the morning.

Early WOTY candidates: burp a house boy kibble Chinese time of my life

CHILDES has only the languages that matter.

Rookie mistake today I spelled it شكرن 🫣

I've never actually had to swap two variables

Kalinti for colloquy

Matched guise my beloved

One of my classmates compared syntax to a ballet move where you always have to be thinking three steps ahead which is really accurate. We do all this work so the grammar doesn't have to look ahead. We fight so many wars so the grammar may know peace.

The Leipzig glossing rules actually say you have to read 1pl as wumple.

It's three people now that when I said птица [ptʲitsa] 'bird' they thought I was saying пицца [pʲitsa] 'pizza'

I'm fully team "violatable." "Violable" sounds like the ability to be played on a viola.

Words I overuse: facilitate hinder suppress position (v.) contrast (v.) We argue that We propose that We may question whether

I kind of wish the Bantu conjoint / disjoint alternation had a single-word name. Like imagine a world in which la jointure had caught on?

The hair paradox: now that my hair is longer, it stays down under its own weight and it looks like I got a haircut.

Korean question: some Korean roots are analyzed (and spelled) with a final /h/ that never(?) surfaces as [h]. It's often silent: /manh-i/ [mani], but it aspirates following stops: /manh-ta/ [mantʰa]. Any evidence that ppl store a bona fide /h/ there independently of orthography?

And then yesterday, @adamanlx.bsky.social presented his research on "Variation and Change in Kinyarwanda TAM-marking ra-", pictured here with committee members Phil Duncan, @laceywade.bsky.social, and John Gluckman. Nice work, Adam! 🎉🌻

Syntax sun, phonology moon, sociolinguistics rising

Graded

I defended my master's thesis today!

Syntacticians love putting -ive on perfectly good words.

Another lab has a ping pong table behind a locked door. Intensely jealous. I want to ping the pong

I remember my third grade teacher was absolutely convinced suede was [sɨʊd]. Took me years to realize [sweɪd] was the majority pronunciation.

Little bit of soy sauce on the lemon bars brings amazing depth.

Coming up with the survey: 😈 Making the survey: 👿

The first teens to go gn > ɲ must have felt so cool

My research

I'm ready for this semester to be over

Just finished phonetic measurements for a QP. If I never saw Praat again in my life I would sleep so soundly.

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I'm so in break mode I saw a class meeting today I got jump scared.

Every time I spell the word genealogical I'm like, no way that's right.

Has anyone heard "I'm flex" to mean flexible (in schedule)? If so, who uses this?

A syntactician walks into A'

That French /e ~ ɛ/ contrast sounds to my American ear like it's /ɪ ~ e/. Are the French vowels really high? Are the English vowels really low? Or is IPA just fake?