@kmdoublev.bsky.social someone on the train complemented my hoodie today

academia . edu having a normal one

I don't have a competitive nature. I sublated that drive into a higher-order social function that forces me to make people laugh at my jokes. because on some level laughing at me is you losing at the game of "being around me".

linguists say that a zipfian distribution isn't sufficient to prove something is a language because city sizes follow the same distribution but have we considered that cities are actually a language? food for thought.

thinking about when I was a kid one of my friends said "English is the easiest language to learn because we just call things what they are"

[h] and [ŋ] are allophones. You just lack conviction in distributional phonology.

why are sociolinguistic and generativism seen as competing schools of thought when their research programs are more or less orthogonal to each other?

the fact that we never see Superman and Clark Kent in the same place at the same time is because they're allophones

worked on a problem set all day until about 1am last night. had a weird phonology fever dream that I can't really explain. bizarre alternations.

why is conlanging phonology coded and not syntax coded? like you never meet a linguist conlonger who does syntax it's always phonology

eat your heart out John C. Wells

Made this Wiktionary Audio downloader chrome extension. It optionally converts the audio to .wav using ffmpeg all in the browser. If you use it and have any feedback please share it. github.com/jhnwnstd/wik...

It works! Need to fix some UI bugs and make a clean looking logo for it but should be up soon.

working on a simple chrome extension that lets you download audio data from Wiktionary then converts it into .wav format using ffmpeg through the browser. I plan to make $1 off of it.

Fixed my OneDrive issue. catastrophe averted.

OneDrive is good if you like losing all your files randomly if you're just quirky like that

CUNY's IT system is gonna age prematurely like 10 years

I hate talking about weather and sports. i'd rather drink a fine wine and discuss intellectual ideas like the castle doctrine or the mandala effect etc.

guys talking about philosophy like

my toxic trait is that I build community wherever I go

the strong version of Sapir-Whorf is true but since we all speak a dialect of UG there's no way to experimentally measure its effects.

asked chatgpt to draw an incisive cultural critique of our modern society. This doesn't just speak volumes — it yells them.

going to the dmv in NYC is one of the top 10 worst experiences of my life. waited 3 hours for them to not know what post marking was, not know nyc law about digital signatures, and then to get my address wrong on my ID. Love this City! Go Mets!

"scab" includes workers who are covered by union contracts but don't pay dues, right? or is there another term for that?

I’m probably a generativist but I have quals soon so idrc about that rn

asking everyone at this CUNY Ph.D. orientation "what they're in for"

they should give fellowships and grants for being a good hang

when the author agrees with Chomsky

started taking creatine now I am no longer mentally ill

you guys wanna join my ponzi scheme?

second angle

if your bedroom isn't a where's waldo for aspects of your personality what are you even doing

found this hole in the wall joint while wandering around midtown. love this city!

what's going on here?

when linguists say "English is a Germanic language" they don't mean that English is related to an earlier extinct language called Proto-Germanic. They mean that English came from modern German speaking immigrants who fled to England and America after the Franco-Prussian war.

CUNY is awesome for coming up with the most curséd log in infrastructure known to man. Two different accounts that don't share the same password and that need to be updated regularly or else they expire. Also you basically just gotta guess which log in you're supposed to use.

Wellll I was joking because it is Story Phi, the podcast I cohost. But in case you missed it: youtube.com/@storyphi?fe... storyphi.buzzsprout.com

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Nothing better than an authentic NYC bagel

what are some good patreons to follow for politics, criticism, history, philosophy, linguistics, etc?

for the cohort group chat this is doing numbers

I can't explain how much of an imperative it is for my cohort group chat to think i'm funny

they should train an ai to be woke and PC

gonna train two LLMs. one that is trained to tell the truth and one that is trained to only lie. when you use it, it will randomly switch between the two. this will solve nothing and be a complete waste of time, but crucially it won't be *that* functionally different from the status quo.