Love Chicago and it's famous The Bean

it still blows my mind that English and French both had nouns (one for body and one for mind respectively) grammaticalized into their adverbial suffix independent of each other.

Love how every attempt at simplifying syntactic theory just explodes the number of epicycles it has to posit. real monkeys paw shit.

explained the basics of x-bar theory to my roommate and they (English Ph.D.) said I took the beauty out of language

Chomsky just saying words

Does anyone know which of the linguistic subfields are the book publishing kinds and which are the paper publishing kinds? I wanna be sure I know before I commit too hard to anything.

*trying to participate in the current conversation* man, did you see that crazy manner m in which the players behaved between times t and t’? never thought I’d see s=<r_v, r_h, h, i, s, b, o> get updated this way

linguists yearn for the cube

I present, the lenition hypercube

was talking about MFA on the train and a guy seated across asked if that was something he could deepfake voices with. I said no and explained in it more detail but he didn't care. im starting to suspect he just wanted to deepfake some voices and wasn't interested in aligning transcription with audio

becoming a linguistics professor means you gotta learn a lot about linguistics huh

I think this is a good example of someone wanting to disagree with a conclusion by jettisoning an uncontroversial observation marshalled to support it (baby and bathwater style). they do look alike but just not so much that someone can convincingly argue one influenced the other.

I guess it's called the Magna Carta. I heard that and I said wow. But we're not going to have it anymore and we'll have something much better. And I think our royal subjects will be very happy

#nokings includes those who love the truth in each thing

gonna vibe code Praat 2.0 and it somehow will still be marginally better

this cold is giving me formants y'all never even heard of

Sound of My Voice (2011) straight up was just the first draft of The OA.

calling Albanian a Slavic language just to feel something

made this image to guilt my cohort because they didn't want to go to the national museum of mathematics with me

should I become a member of the National Museum of Mathematics?

bet you can't guess what all these people have in commom

doing a literature review on the linguistic applications of the attention mechanism and all the ideas i've come up with were proposed and discarded in humiliation like 3 years ago.

@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