Why does Gmail want to correct: "I’m" to: "Im" in my English email?

I wanna say stop talking about autism and try talking to more autistic people, but I'm not sure I want them to do that either.

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research! swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Our apartment now has enough chairs for each person and each cat to have their own! (We bought two new chairs and sent four kittens to their forever homes)

Losing twitter sucked in a lot of ways, but imo one of the suckiest things was how it dispersed some really cool networks between Indigenous folks. Those networks were honestly really new - as widespread as they became I mean. I'm talking Idle No More new. And now...we're a super-minority again.

What the H*CK! I did all my daily challenges on Duolingo but Duo is still crying in my app icon.

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

We got a new lamp. The cats are big fans.

It's midnight on a Friday, If you're not watching the foremost cat chess experts playing, you're not enjoying da weekend

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Just saw an ad for a snack that claimed its flavour was "so Canadian, it's bilingual" in case you're wondering where corporate Canadian pride is at these days

Happy Labor Day Weekend

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Deydies and gentledem da weekend!

Deydies and gentledem da weekend!

Deydies and gentledem da weekend!

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Planning my next campaigns (building syllabuseses)

Have you noticed any new words to refer to employees at cannabis shops? I've observed "budtender" and "cannista", but when my partner was working at one, I called her a "dealer".

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Once more unto the breach (ggplot)

Gonna start calling grocery stores "inconvenience stores"

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

Celebrating success at #UCalgaryLING! Congratulations to Cheryl Iwanchuk on the successful defence of her thesis, “Do you get what I mean? Contrastive inference and comprehension in children.” Congratulations also to Cheryl's supervisor, Dr. Dimitrios Skordos!

Ah the two gendres, cups and metric

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend (while we have it)

I have no idea how anyone pronounces ORCID out loud (orchid?) but a small part of me always is like "ah yes, my orc id, my orcsona"

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend!

My first bsky block 🫡

I remember in eighth grade when my class was visiting JFK's grave that my history/geography/homeroom teacher told the class that she thought I would make an excellent US president one day, and, even at the time in 2007, I thought something like "I'm not touching that office with a 100-foot stick".

Deydies and gentledem da weekend!

My RGB desk lamp suddenly switched to red mode without me touching it after being on a soft warm glow all day. Is it cursed? Am I doomed?

Amazing coincidence that we discuss passive voice in my intro ling course the same day we discuss grammatical voice in my English grammar course. All on my birthday!

Day 2 begins! @cla-acl.bsky.social

Birthday burnout?

We're out at @cla-acl.bsky.social this week! Follow along for the UCalgary highlights:

Has anyone ever tried pudding on the ritz crackers?

Sending weekend pounce buddy vibes!

You know generative ai/chatbots are bad because they're making me do cop stuff in the classroom and I really don't like doing cop stuff in the classroom. So I really don't like generative ai/chatbots.

Deydies and gentledem, da weekend.

The best compliment I can receive on my teaching is the sheer look of disappointment that descends upon students' faces after they ask me if I'm teaching any other courses in the future and I tell them no

Deydies and gentledem da weekend!

If a pronoun and an antipronoun were to collide would they both annihilate?

Microsoft PowerPoint autocorrects "themself" to "themselves" unless you tell it not to do that. If you don't tell it not to do that and manually fix it back to "themself" it doesn't mark it as spelled incorrectly or anything. (I'm writing a slide about the use of "themselves" vs "themself")

It's pronouns week in my Modern English Grammar class next week!!!1

Do you have Opinions™ on what it means to "represent" things and people with data? Then submit 1-2 pages by May 28th and join us in Århus 🇩🇰 this summer to discuss representation and representativeness with synthetic data!

Deydies and gentledem I forgot da weekend post but here are some pelicans I saw in Saskatoon.