LARVA This looks like ass.

I am once again asking Grammarly to please read a grammar book. 🙏

"I don't like X as a verb/noun/whatever" My brother in Etymology, that usage predates your existence on this planet.

Since the last time I posted this, I shut down the Twitter account hosting the original, so here it is again. From my incomplete list of 500 Great Superman Family stories: Are you familiar with director Frank Capra’s iconic Christmas film “It’s A Wonderful Life” (1946)? Let me walk you through it…

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

If they ever let me teach a semantics class again, this is definitely going into the lecture about prototypes.

Huge if true. #linguistics #grammar

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My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

I did it! I graduated (again)! Thank you so much to my supervisor Dr. Minna Nevala and my opponent Dr. Erika Darics! It was a wonderful discussion.

Merriam-Webster is heckling me lol

It's happening! I'm about to defend my doctoral dissertation on the linguistics of email marketing! You can follow the stream here: video.helsinki.fi/unitube/live... The puck drops at 13:15 Finnish time!

Hot off the presses, it's my dissertation! I can't believe this is real. I'm defending in a month. Wish me luck! 🤞

Yesterday one of my undergrad students told me that he has imposter syndrome. So I gave him a degree and sent him on his way. Another academic success story.

Some commentary going around about misidentifying a passive, but what I want to know is: Isn't "get rid of" an example of the get-passive? #linguistics #passive

This paper is fantastic. I cannot say enough good things about it. You should read it.

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I got the proofs for my PhD dissertation! And I'm going to defend next month. Heck yeah!

When I look up "negging" in the dictionary

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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...

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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)" .