You can't say "happiness" without "peen"?

Potential workaround if you're already logged in and get prompted by the ToS notification: opening this "privacy policy" link www.academia.edu/privacytakes you to a page where you can access the drop-down menu and reach "account settings." From there I was able to delete my account without agreeing.

I know things are bad now, but it's nice to see my home county and others trying to do good. www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Do you like comic books and want to think more seriously about the linguistics of them? Are you a social scientist or a linguist who wants to know more about nation-building or language planning in fiction? HAVE I GOT EXACTLY THE ARTICLE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR, on CAMP Anthropology. 🐦🐦

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

There ain't no way that Batman can *add* vocal fry to his voice, is there?! #linguistics #comics

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

This seems important:

On "woke language": yes, most of these terms aren't things Dems actually say but are a way for centrists and the GOP to attack them. But also: many are terms intended to extend dignity and recognition to folks who our language excludes or cannot speak of. I'm not ready to concede the value of that.

I read the headline and thought "George Will is still alive?!" And then I read the start of the article. Great minds, @eviljoemcveigh.bsky.social andreadallover.com/2025/08/11/g...

I had luck before on the badsite; let's try bsky: this term I'm teaching intro linguistics with a typology/diversity lens I love to harness expertise of friends/colleagues to show students languages I know little about SO if you know/use/study a language that's not normative AmEng, I need YOU! 🧵

Teaching starts next week. Have I taught all of these courses before? No. Have I prepared material for the whole semester? Also no. But will I be more than one week ahead of the students? Listen...

There's a whole lot of academic papers in there, just saying 🧪 🐦🐦

George Will recently wrote a screed complaining about language (which is nothing new). But in it he equates language peeving with homophobia. This is dangerous. By linking these two things together, he is saying that it is fine to dislike words and to dislike queer people. This will harm people.

I'm going to see a Black Sabbath cover band in Helsinki tonight so now I can yell "Soita Paranoid!" and they're definitely gonna play it 🤘😁

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

Here's one for your semantics classes

Go Phils

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If they kill birthright citizenship, they can denaturalize anybody who can’t prove their PARENTS’ citizenship. The concentration camps are for anyone and everyone that feel like putting there. We are living under a fascist regime.

"Books are dangerous. This is why repressive regimes try to exile and kill those who write them, confiscate and close libraries and bookshops, and ban and burn books that contradict their narratives and the image they want to present to the outside world" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Merriam-Webster's word of the day is "doppelgänger". You should read Naomi Klein's book of the same name.

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Superman: Man of Tomorrow... Speaker of Yesterday! Here's Supes saying "yon". For what it's worth, this was published 50 years after the OED most recent citation. (Sunday strip #81 from 1941)

Chatterton is a beneficiary of what I call placeholder writing. Folks like Nikole Hannah-Jones & Ta-Nehisi earned a following & then started talking about reparations & the 1619 project. And those pieces were popular, shifting the conversation in their favor. 1/

I went out to breakfast this morning and there was a guy wearing a Jello Biafra shirt and he _looked_ like Jello Biafra. Could it be???

Did anybody else get unwittingly signed up for emails from "Word Smarts"? I'm just wondering which company's mailing list got bought up by them. So far the info seems to be pretty legit. I just don't like that they showed up out of the blue.

RIP to the Ozzman. Me and some friends did "N.I.B." at our high school talent show to spread the good word of Sabbath. Those that were there will certainly remember it.

I've never seen a curse word censored like this before. Why not use actual asterisks? Maybe this happened in transferring the article from one format to another? Like it's some sort of autocorrect that turned * into "(asterisk)" .

What can we, as language scientists, be doing right now to combat the hateful (and incorrect) language ideology that the US government is pushing? Especially as a sociolinguist, I feel a duty/calling to spread the word and combat linguistic prejudice, but I'm not sure practically how to do so 🗣💬

You did make it up, Kate Bishop. But I think most people would consider the true etymology of "family" troubling. I love when linguistics shows up in comics. From HAWKEYE #13 by Kelly Thompson and Leonardo Romero

What do you mean being a linguist doesn't make me a competent reviewer of research on (checks email...) affective disorders? I have been ~*SELECTED*~ Sheesh. You scholars and your regulations. The Journal of Affective Disorders is about to get a lot more interesting. #academic #spam

Superman says "seldomly" in the new movie. Just in case you were wondering if it's ok to use that word. It is, in fact, super ok.

This is a 22-post thread sharing dozens & dozens of gaming alternatives to the NYT Games page. Crosswords, Wordle, Spelling Bee, and more. All but one of them I share is free online. Including how to do the NYT puzzles w/out doing them at NYT or needing a sub (if I'm reading the site right)

Anybody have recommendations for a good vegetarian restaurant in Dublin?

Comic books are just so unbelievable. A university administrator caring about the teachers being overwhelmed and understaffed? How am I supposed to relate? (From "Blackwood" by Dorkin, Fish and Fish, and McKenna)

Found a phrasal genitive in the wild. By none other than the great Gail Simone! #linguistics

Folks, I'm reading that we gotta get our semicolon numbers up, so from now on just use double semicolons;; like this.

Be interdisciplinary, they said. It'll be fun, they said. So I did. And now I can get rejected by journals in multiple fields. So much fun.

This book was great! Bonus: the protagonist is a linguist 🐦🐦 ("The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley)

Who's got two thumbs and submitted their dissertation last week? This guy 👍👍 #linguistics #marketing

I'm halfway serious about this. What would be a good methodology? Look up a bunch of common words and see which synonyms were actually collocations (or hallucinations)?

Sorry, now I'm just thinking about actually swapping these words. What's your favorite Iron Maiden song? "Run to the Cocks" for sure. Is this what they call "hill country"? No, no... "cock country"

lol what? #linguistics #dictionary

This is pretty much the very first point in my policy on AI/LLMs for my students: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Dear people who may soon suffer food insecurity Listen up, it super fucking sucks and will do lasting psych damage the rest of your life. This is not a joke or exaggeration. What you have on hand will forever after be a source of anxiety. SO. To help you in the coming days here's some tips

I can't remember the last time I saw an article just focus on this. Not that they've bent the truth or misrepresented a few facts a little, but that every single solitary thing that the GOP says on the topic is a stone cold lie with absolutely no basis in reality. ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

The Oxford Handbook of Language & Prejudice, edited by Jane Setter, Sender Dovchin, and yours truly, rearticulates and expands upon the connections between language and prejudice. It is available for pre-order, so please ask your university or local library to order a copy: shorturl.at/gDhJA

Reyes is pointing out that the govt is only concerned about hormone therapy for trans people, not for any other service members who receive hormone therapy. Attny is saying that DoD just happened to target one group of people while dealing with an issue. Reyes is not amused by the pretext.