The ridiculous problem with having my Alexa wake-up word as “Computer” is that I’m a huge #Trekkie and Janeway and Uhura and Picard and Geordie send Alexa down A LOT of rabbit holes while I (re)watch.

It’s a travesty that they aren’t calling the #AflacKickoff the Poultry Bowl. I mean, it involves 2 bird mascots sponsored by another.

É a noite, é a morte, é um laço, é o anzol youtu.be/xU2AT8MDm2c?...

An accidental lost in translation portmanteau that I think we should invite onto our speech. From @ jess_doesstuff_ On Instagram 🐦🐦 PERJUMENTAL!!

Latest neologism by a sports announcer: hændkʌftɪɾɪd 🐦🐦 A #linguistics novelty.

I suggest the graphic novels La Mort de Staline (Robin, Nury) and the movie adaption, The Death of Stalin. The only difference is in the capability of our current kakistocracy. Anyway, the leadership under Stalin was just as craven as ours, but they were better at their chosen jobs. Gross.

I’m watching #MallorcaBarça en español and the play-by-play announcer’s ratatatat reminds me of when we’d go visit my grandma at the auction.

This video from Fairmount Bagels in Montreal from their Instagram is the most impressive thing I've ever seen

"Sam Philandering" is the supposed name of a cartoon show a six-yr-old was describing to her teacher today while walking to their primary class at church. I'm skeptical, but intrigued.

I #crocheted 🧶 myself a Yipyip monster yarn bag holder thingie with a carabiner to thread the yarn. Cro Chet Cro Chet Cro Chet Cro Chet Crochet!

#UnexpectedMormon in Jana DeLeon’s Miss Fortune series. Although, with the kind of joke that it was building to, it’s more of a *Slightly Expected Mormon*. #TeamGertie

#UnexpectedMormon and slightly skewampus understanding of Mormon private/public lives re: elders in Douglas Phillips’ Quantum Time. #ExpectedMormon narrator Kirby H.

Sports announcing is one of my favorite places to collect innovations. Sometimes the innovations are one-off unicorns

I’m at church on vacation in Deep South Georgia and the bishop has a pink suit jacket and the woman that gave the opening prayer was wearing fancy black gloves. True South.

My Great Great Great Grandma Malcolm totally prodropping the first person singular at the beginning of her letter to husband (she quickly begins using pronouns and pronoun-ish <words> when clarity seemed necessary). He was at the Chicago World's Columbia Exposition of 1893. #linguistics 🐦🐦 #prodrop

I saw a creepy bumper sticker today and didn’t get a pic b/c driving and not wanting to crash. Found it online. Seriously, how wacko do you have to be to stick this on your car?

#UnexpectedMormon in ~Proto~ by @laurainparis.bsky.social It’s a good listen, good pop linguistics book that I might assign a reading from here or there in my classes.

About a half dozen times a year, I have dreams where I get to visit & visit with my friend & her husband that died of covid. In the dream I know sometimes that they died of covid, that the dream is impossible, but the dream keeps going because I want to talk to them.

My nephew: “Daddy, you can squooshen this!” Fantastic double-verben-ing, kid.

Fascinating #sociolinguistics moment at church in Eastern Pennsylvania: Over the pulpit, man asks congregation rhetorical question, uses “you all”. (not y’all) Then says, “Sorry, I lived in Texas for a little while.” 🐦🐦 #LDS

This book was published in **2015**. What the ever-loving hells bells were the author and editors of WWNorton & Co thinking? “Lol lol racism-ginger joke lol. harmless play on words lol lol lol”???!!! Yeesh.

Generally I’m very forgiving of sketchy pronunciations in audiobooks. (Why would a Brit know that it’s ˈQuantico and not Quanˈtico?). But how do you not know how to pronounce Bette Davis?

Go Go Fightin’ Moronis

I can’t believe they still have this open, & that the email addy doesn’t have to be real. Anyway, I’ve been complaining about campus protests advocating giving clothes to DEI house elves. If you’re in the mood to submit a *very real* complaint so they have their *very real* proof… enddei.ed.gov

In this paper, I will…

My 4-yr-old nephew was playing by himself, his cars were (of course) talking to each other. One kept saying, “Well actually…”… And I’d like to say to Inspector Well Actually via @alexanderckane.bsky.social “There is not going to be a 4th Andrea Vernon novel to bring joy to our souls.” 🤞🤞

Check out my new Python script that helps you convert .srt subtitle files to Praat .TextGrid files! More information on my GitHub page: github.com/yeungpinghei...

I went to a gymnastics meet tonight and a gymnast ended a tumbling pass on the floor WITH A DEATH DROP. Like I might be the only one in the stands that realized it b/c NO ONE REACTED. It was amazing.

Ice storm freezes campus, so I stay home and make various Abbey Road Pessoa Heteronym memes. #fernandopessoa #heteronimos #todosOsSonhosNele #neles?

Every once in a while you find a pure gem of a neologism (that doubles you over in laughter) in a book you’re listening to. I present to you, from @peterboland.bsky.social‘s Beach Hut Murders: FARTLIGHTING

🧐 “He just renegotiated his Name-Image-Likeness deal for next season. I hope he isn’t vegan, because he’s going to be eating a lot of bread.” I repeat, 🧐 … [I used to keep a running list of weird things (sports) announcers say. It was a long list.]

A friend posted this on Facebook. It is absolutely on point and is a perfect tribute to Jimmy Carter.

Know what pisses—and I mean *PISSES*—me off about these people weaponizing LakenR.? I was @UGA, about to teach class the day it happened, wanting to help my students. She wasn’t k*//ed b/c of immigration. She was k*//ed because of friggin misogyny & the idea that men deserve power over women.

It just so happens that I wrote this piece tonight before learning of President Carter’s passing. It contains some essential history about Carter’s loss to Ronald Reagan in 1980. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

“There is no reason to believe that any nonstandard vernacular is in itself an obstacle to learning. The chief problem is ignorance of language on the part of all concerned. Our job as linguists is to remedy this ignorance.”-Labov, in 1972. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...

My backyard neighbors on the other side of a mini-forest are having a eurobeat rave with occasional chainsaw sounds. It’s a …whole thing

My Portuguese has always had me reading “Xitter” as shitter b/c {x} can equal ʃ. (xingar [ʃĩŋˈɡah]) I’ve always wondered how others pronounce it. (if at all, b/c maybe it only exists in writing on our feeds?)

Holy wow, I just learned about Rainbow Parentheses in R! Paired parens appear as same colors! Never count your close parentheses again Tools->Global Options->Code->Display Tab->Click Rainbow Parentheses

Young Sherlock Holmes vibes

Forever ago during the first great exodus, I lost almost all the social media linguistics lurking connections I’d been following when I escaped. Seeing nerdy #linguistics posts on here is giving me life again.