"I did it!" 'I did it' "I did it Mama!" 'Mama did it' 1;10 #linguistbabyphotos

I never thought it would happen to me! The Etymology Nerd did a video on my work with Laurel MacKenzie on how more and more people are saying "based off" instead of "based on"! Watch the video for a great summary, or look out for our forthcoming paper in English Language and Linguistics!

I have to focus on the lighthearted moments in my six years studying with Bill to keep from feeling too sad. Here we are in 2009 at a ceremony at the Penn Museum where I received a teaching award. When I invited him: "I wouldn't miss it! I've already got it on my calendar." Classic Bill.

Found a good deal on an #nwav52 hotel!

Sometimes I miss British English noun pileups and then I get an email with a subject line like this

The NYT has an article on pirate speech, featuring actual linguist @laurelmack.bsky.social, the star of a fun NYU-produced video discussing a bunch of terms Unclear why they use the spelling "aargh" to represent the _arr_ interjection, though. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/n...

Love seeing a counterexample to Labov 2012 (image 1) in today’s NYT (image 2)!

Very basic math q! See screenshot: we teach that the y-axis is at x=0, but in Fig. 4.2b, what I'd call "the y-axis" (the vertical line labeled "Response") is at x = -2. So like... what do we call that line at x = -2? Is the line at x=0 the true y-axis, and the one at x = -2 just a cosmetic one?

Today he referred to the [tr] pronunciation as “the weird way” 💀

Doing a study of academics and Linguistics wasn't listed among the possible fields to choose from. Finally found it, as a subfield of Philosophy 😑

“I say it CHRAY, with a CH. Not TRAY. That would be funny.” -5;10. I have been waiting for this day!

Who will fund me to do the corpus study of all the different ways @dasharez0ne.bsky.social spells “skeleton” in their alt text

If anyone at #lsa2024 today wants to try this proustian ideal of a ham sandwich with me, lmk. This place is around the corner from the conference hotel and I’ve been dying to go since this article came out 🥖 www.nytimes.com/2022/11/25/d...

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ChatGPT seems to think "rhoticity" can be parsed as "r-hot-icity" 🤣

We watched Nightmare Before Christmas recently, and now that the baby is mobile, he's reminding us of Jack Skellington in Christmasland. "What's this? What's this? They've got a little bin How neat! It's filled with tiny toys Can I eat?" etc.

We watched Nightmare Before Christmas recently, and now that the baby is mobile, he's reminding us of Jack Skellington in Christmasland. "What's this? What's this? They've got a little bin How neat! It's filled with tiny toys Can I eat?" etc.