Linguistics double jeopardy! category tonight. Shockingly bad performance by the contestants. We need to do better

Resolution: When my kids say “lowkey“ this or that, I’m going imagine they’re actually saying “Loki,” but only on Thursdays.

sorry to get linguistical but that first chant doesn't work for me. They should’ve gone w “Venezuela is not yours” instead of the contraction, which makes the duration of “not” sound awkward, no?

It's assassinate December time of year www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6U...

44th-anniversary-eve-of-me-not-getting-an-AT-AT-but-John-Meyer-getting-one-ass day

40yrs gone today, his words and music live forever

I miss the days when this was our statistics

Pretty sure my good buddy (and Miles Davis biographer) Jack signed this letter. Kids here still use -ou- spellings but no longer say "zed" (at least my kids don't). www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/w...

It's gotten to the point now where it's heartening to see grammatical and spelling errors in student papers because it tells me they're not using chatgpt (maybe?)

It’s a Xmas miracle wingtipsloat.bandcamp.com/album/christ...

I left my Calif home for the Midwest 24 years ago. Still haven’t gotten used to this weather youtu.be/SMeFHAaZ_gE?...

I spend too much time thinking about who would've been the most asshole/meanest band leader: Mingus or Miles or Beefheart or Jagger or Stipe or Reed

I've been asked some version of "din't know you guys celebrated christmas" for at least 45yrs. Here's your reminder that the vast majority of NAm Hindus do xmas trees and lights and gifts. No abrahamic hangups and we love pagan shit

naturally

How am I going to find people to decline my requests to review manuscripts?!

Just realized I’ve been saying “lay-goes” (legos) my whole life and my kids say “leggos,” like leggo my eggos

Can we admit now that computational linguistics got us into this mess?

...that that dog that...

I like that kim thayil has fully embraced the transformation into Osho

Wtf

I was 13 and growing up in the east bay when this happened. Here I am 37 years later in Toronto traumatized by fucking LA

I can't be the only one who takes a deferential, thank-you-all-mighty-oracle tone when responding to reviewers' comments, right? I fucking hate it

TFW you've spent too much time on Don Was wiki

Don Was's is really an only-in-america type of career. I really only know him from "walk the dinosaur" but his CV is insane, producing every 4th/5th album of past-their-prime superstars...and The Mommyheads

Lost another great one. This record was critical for me. Hope he finds his destination. RIP DeJohnette www.youtube.com/watch?v=paKf...

Doing grizzly man soundtrack after a long time. Amazing. And you know RT just came into the studio and just ripped it out in a day

lol “let’s go mariners” (2? 3? syllables) is such a dumb/awkward sounding chant

RIP Searle, I took a class with him as an UG, unremarkable. Didn't realize (as an 18yo) he was a big deal or possibly a predator IIRC he parked his karmann ghia on a main drag on campus. The only other prof I knew who could do that was the guy who wrote the O-chem textbook. A Ferrari

RIP Danny Thompson. What an insane discography of playing on rippin classics www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwh0...

Happy rapture! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSf...

Turn off your gd npr www.cc-seas.columbia.edu/wkcr/story/j...

Reading about tongue muscle fibers: "As the research involved only autopsy specimens, it was exempt from consent requirements." Take that IRB!

Discogs update: Nice to see that that trans am/wingtip sloat 12” I have from tuba frenzy is worth $7CAD now

8 years gone www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Nb...

Horrible. CSCAR was essential for me as a linguistics PhD student w little to no stats training in the early early 00s. One of a kind place www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

Thank god he has no medical education. Phonology is not ready for Dr. RFK Jr., MD.

alphabetizing records is a trip because I just had to wedge my Sandy Denny record between Death Angel's ultraviolence and Descendents Hallraker

Explains why he has so much support in the Czech community

lady on wheel of fortune pronounced it gwack-a-moley #vowels

Linguistics journal of record has had my MS for 9 months now. Is that normal gestation period these days?

Kneel before Zod!

TIL Jim keltner, ry cooder, and van dyke parks played on “Kokomo”

Linguists, probably safe to not cite Praat or R anymore

Just read the most cursed words, “Narrated by Dave Grohl”

“Zorhan” is the new “Ghandi”

Oh man, this rips so far scatterarchive.bandcamp.com/album/eca-1992

Super cool to see this replayed! @nprfreshair.bsky.social

New studio recording of Western Ghats, “Ask the Sages,”improv percussion and veena (Marshall Trammell and myself). Hand assembled CDs w/ tipped-in photos (ed of 100). Check it out if you’re into improv, Sonny Sharrock, Derek Bailey, Balachandran, Milford Graves, et al. Westernghats.bandcamp.com