thesis adventures part ???: @schneeca.bsky.social laughing her ass off because I spelled Scottish Gaelic as Scottish Garlic

I read a translation of a japanese novel today with a funky anaphora👀 Has to be the toothpick but do I really want to reach into the appositive for that? (english translation and source in Alt)

oh and happy world logic day!

dni if a -> ~~a

trying to convince my brain to calm down as if I didn't run aclpubcheck four times today

we've all been there @schneeca.bsky.social

DB announcement already soft-launching problems by saying 'our next planned stop is..'

*to the melody of Gangsta's Paradise* observer’s paradox

Ich krieg die Motten! ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 100% der Vorlesungszeit an der @hhu.de sind rum.

Vorlesungsfreie Zeit started, so it's time to analyse the data some friends and I collected over the semester about a personal hunch on the peelability of pre-boiled colored eggs from the supermarket

new fav scalar implicature example

the best and worst thing in studying linguistics is that you know what's out there: reflexive possessive 3P pronouns are super neat, but now i wish i had them in german too 🫴

Highlights of participant answers to the question which languages they are proficient in (bc @mostracchio.bsky.social and I investigate a contrast between German and Korean): • Niederdeutsch • Esperanto • Zeichensprache (not specified) • Python and GLSL #ilyfreetextfield

time to sleep, because I really just tried to load an image called #255CFE.png into my experimental js file and it took me half an hour to realize why that did not work

reviewer 2: bad because you didn’t use a reference corpus the reference corpus I used being mentioned in the summary of reviewer 3: 🥸

Proposing a new ideophone for the English language: doing sth illy-gilly (doing something illegally)

deutsche Bahn announcement: 'my name is Melanie if you have any questions.' and how do I address you if I just want to chat? 🍪

things I have to suppress 24/7: writing -ɔŋ words in German as -ong Goodbye French, the Swedes are right about Betong and Ballong

Had a great time at #ESSLLI2024 learning about directives, experiments on cleft inferences, dynamic logics and how to recover from a cancelled course on slurs

hätte meine Oma Räder gehabt wäre sie ein counterfactual

announcement on the train I’m currently sitting in: 'we wish you a peasant journey'

during the code of conduct part of a lecture about group-focused enmity: "Stonewall war keine Ringvorlesung"

just experienced a chompscare (chomsky mentioned where I did not expect him)

has lexical semantics solved what 'legere und angemessene Kleidung' means yet?

still relevant after yet another semester TAing intro to logic