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The 2026 annual meeting conference schedule for New Orleans is announced: americandialect.org/2026-sked/ Also includes words-of-the-year information!

Make your 2025 words-of-the-year nominations for the only vote that matters! bit.ly/2025WOTYNOMS

Perfect beautiful angels don't exis-

Next in the LingComm IRL series: Marisa Brook and Daniel Currie Hall doing demos and answering very enthusiastic high school students' questions at a Canadian university science summer program! lingcomm.org/2025/11/05/l...

poster session #2 all done 🤍very happy to have had so many people let me yap about memes and the next steps of my CS project :) #nwav53

In her #NWAV53 plenary, King discusses an example of a juror being dismissed from the pool due to forestressing in the word police (so PO-lice), because the prosecutor claimed that the pronunciation showed animus towards law enforcement. And this is exactly why I study prosody!

i love nwav

Dr. Sharese King giving the #nwav53 plenary getting into the good stuff. im nerding out about semiotics sooooo much rn

just generally we have got to pay more attention to butches. my god

sociophoneticians do a study on trans butches. reasons: trans butches are cool and have beautiful voices. rq: why are they so good and amazing?

lesbians have lower f0 than bi & straight women, bi women and straight women don't have a s.d. in f0 in spontaneous speach (sulkin #nwav53)

thank god there's at least one butch in this dataset though

if you specify in your presentation that you're only interviewing lesbians who are not on T, that makes me DESPERATE to see a sociolinguistics study about lesbians who ARE on T. please i need this for reasons

hey. don't do a study that's like "how are trans women different from cis women" if you're not ready to actually grapple with that as a sociolinguist and not in a puerile naive cisnormative way. omg im fucking. not impressed when people get a bunch of data and don't know what to do with it

aaaaa excited about. SOCIOLINGUISTICS

dont tell me your nonbinary participant's agab

pronouns mentioned (jack's speaker sample talking about using he/they as indexing being "not" in a particular "subset of nonbinary people") #nwav53

i will say. due to 3 nonbinary talks in a row. i think we gotta theorize nonbinary better in sociolinguistics. nonbinary is not "a" "gender" #nwav53

LOVE how so far literally all the talks in the lgbtq session of #nwav53 are about nonbinary speakers. having a great time, eating good, personally

hand/trap split sounds like. idk. something funny probably #sociolinguistics

poster presentation #1 all done 🤍 massive thank you to all the lovely people that approached my poster and let me ramble on Miami and rootedness for a few minutes. i loved chatting with y’all and hearing about other people’s dialectology research 🤞🏽 stay tuned for poster #2 on memes tmrrrr #nwav53

Presented quite possibly the first plot of Foghorn Leghorn's vowel system today at #nwav53

Reminder!! Bluesky has a pronoun labeler you should really use! Only those who subscribe to this will see it so you should do that. Don't worry, that's all it does. Instructions are in the bio/first post.

@jofrhwld.bsky.social HI

im literally sitting on the floor in the back of the ballroom cuddled up between my luggage and a trash can and one of the volunteers just. *came and found me to give me my nametag*. can a gremlin not gremlin around here (affectionate)

question: capitalism bad? answer: yes and racist. of course

okay im no longer mad that yall werent liveposting, the thing with Alicia's talks is i just want to try and transcribe every word. impossible to livetweet bc its all too important

gonna take the cab straight to the ballroom but can someone livetweet the first half of Alicia's talk for me please 🥺

the thing where flight crews don't get paid for boarding process is so evil

I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.

everyone should read Smalls (2021) Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Georgetown linguists are giving 6 talks and 2 posters at #NWAV53 this week! #Linguistics 🧵

pronouns mentioned!!!!!!

intense nwav fomo refreshing flight tracker and watching my flight get more delayed. let me go to there please

pronouns mentioned

sociolinguistics

setting a 72-hour timer. this is the NYC LIB OUT ZONE. everyone gets a free pass for expressing enthusiasm for electoral politics in this carefully delineated window. post about the power of voting!!! cry over a schmaltzy campaign video!!!! allow a brief flutter of hope in ur rotted soul!!!!

Confs: Focused Interests, Identity, and Autistic Communication Across Contexts

My latest, “Towards a Transdisciplinary Theory of Access: Medical Geography, Intersectionality & the Human Right to Health” in Place & the Social-Spatial Determinants of Health is out now. Not only my chapter, but the whole volume is open access! Check it out: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

eugendered. like, oh that person eugendered me, yay

if you liked the lenition hypercube, you'll love the phonological feature crystaline entity

I’m in this!! #linguistics

Imagine I'm clanging a very large down-on-the-ranch style bell right now. "Come onnnnn down, today's the last day to order a shirt that will actually come in your exact size and color choice, get those orders in today, because I'll be en route back to Philly come tomorrow." Get one: SquidFacts.net

My book comes out today! And it's reasonably priced! Whoooooooooooo! It's about linguistics! It's about extreme metal! It's about the Asia Pacific and flows of global subcultures! I'm really proud of it and I hope you all enjoy.

Deydies and gentledem da weekend!

one frustrating thing about being autistic is that i am intellectually aware of certain social norms (eg "probably weird to text your barely-acquainted neighbor to ask them to come press a microwave button for you when your feet hurt") but do not find them obvious or intuitive so

I hate it and I love it