Final #LSA2025 meal: cheese boat at Saami Somi. Delicious

It's Mostly Sunny in Philadelphia #LSA2025

"Given these options we've decided to just let Michigan remain champions and call a mulligan on this year. We're sorry, we're sorry, we'll do better next time" - Charlie Baker, NCAA President

let's all celebrate by playing rawdog simulator www.rawdogsimulator.com

Rawdog is the American Dialect Society's 2024 Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

Brat has won Most Fun While it Lasted Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

Unserious has won Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

Lock in has won Most Useful Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 It ate

Brainrot has won Digital Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

Luigi has won Political Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

Rawdog has won Informal Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025

'the X I Xed' is Most Creative Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 (Ex: the gasp I gusped)

It's that tiiiime again🎶 #woty #lsa2025

Update from your #LSA2025 food correspondent: Catfish from Beck's at Reading Terminal Market was unremarkable Not here for authenticity debates, but cheese steak from Gus's was darn tasty and they were still open near closing time

The image from @mixedlinguist.bsky.social's excellent #LSA2025 talk

@jofrhwld.bsky.social recommended cannolis from Termini Bros and they are fantastic #LSA2025

#LSA2025 !

A quick stop in NYC before #LSA2025 means another stop on the SocLing pilgrimage. AITA if I ask where men's shoes are

It should be criminal to have this many great panels and events going on *at the same time* #LSA2025

Pet peeve in video games: "Oh, the dreaded plague-blight! A single touch and you'll be CORRUPTED FOREVER" Meanwhile I'm slogging through the Plague Pits and getting mauled by Blight Bears with no protection or ill effects

There's some Talking About Football Show on in the waiting room I'm in and apparently yelling like Gilbert Gotrfried is hyper-masculine coded now?

The first linguistics conference talk I ever gave was a joint talk with Dennis Preston at NWAV in 2008. We were the third in the panel, and during the first two talks I was calming down about the whole idea. Then, as ours was getting started, Bill Labov walked in!

That weird feeling when the software you've been fighting with for months just quietly works exactly like it's supposed to

A quickly-failed sitcom about a 50's-esque family living in modern 1991

You have to admit, this would be a much more interesting game if the Lions were playing 😴😴😴

The Baltimore Ravens seem to be fighting a vicious battle against the Baltimore Ravens

The last time the Lions won two playoff games was in 1957. Wait, I'm sorry, a couple minutes ago

I'm so used to Michael Macfadyen being Tom on Succession that his normal voice sounds like he's putting on this really fakey British accent

More from Emily Bender: #LSA2024

At Emily Bender's plenary: Meaning isn't in the form - which means that Chat-GPT, which only sees form, is never going to 'do' meaning - it's not going to 'understand/learn' anything #LSA2024

This marks two years in a row of difficult-for-mainstream publications WOTY winners! I suggest we make up 'perfuckening' for 2024 #woty2023 #lsa2024

Enshittification is the Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

(derogatory) wins Most Useful/Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

Enshittification is the Digital Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

By a hair, let (someone) cook is Informal Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024

The other nominees fucked around and found out, as FAFO wins Acronym/Initialism of the Year! #woty2023

Stochastic Parrot is AI-Related Word of the Year! #woty2023

Surely due to the strong lobbying of @mixedlinguist.bsky.social, we are now in a new Kenaissance, as it's Most Creative Word of the Year #woty2023

Structurally Restrictive Housing is Euphemism of the Year! #Woty2023

"Professoring is like five jobs in a trenchcoat" - Kirby Conrod #LSA2024

Sociolinguistics Pilgrimage to Sak's Fifth Avenue #lsa2024

On the way to #lsa2024!

No, YOU just tried to lock your office door with your car fob I have a doctorate

Now that it's Week 13 I can confidently say that I am caught up and ready for this semester to start

Depending on the variety of English you speak, despite 26 written letters, there's about 24 individual consonant sounds and 14 vowel sounds in the language

Pet Peeve: TikToks with a five-page essay overlaid on top of a 10-second joke

The new Baking Show host is already soooo much better. Bye Matt, you won't be missed!

Eating in Indiana: Me: I feel like food! Restaurants: 😋😍😍😉😊😁☺️🥰😇😘😘😊😆😅 Me: Something not fried! Restaurants: 🫣😬🫥😶‍🌫️

As someone who played World of Warcraft like a dozen years ago, it's taken me a very long time to get that "LFG" doesn't mean 'Looking for Group'