Inspired by my class presentation in 30 mins on Johnstone et. al. (2006) ("Pittsburghese")

ngl Human Sentence Processing sounds like Human has Committed a Crime and is Awaiting Judgment

You know what? I no longer care if signed languages support speech development. The goal of a language is not to develop another language. The goal of language is languaging. If there are additional benefits? Fine. If there are not beyond languaging? Fucking fine.

haphazardly teaching myself to sew/embroider and this skill makes me feel so powerful

fractal recursivity 👀👀👀

As graduate workers, we rely on Northwestern to provide us with adequate medical insurance to cover the medications and care we need on a regular basis and to take care of us when an emergency strikes. Our current coverage leaves our bodies and our wallets vulnerable.

As I've said before, the whole "more conservative as you age" thing was always "more conservative when you feel part of the status quo and want to preserve it" Home ownership, good healthcare, pensions, free education etc. All stuff Millennials and below don't get.

life hack: let people know when they have made a positive impact on you

Today I learned that apparently "social-emotional learning" is the new thing that right-wingers are claiming is horrible indoctrination of their children in schools. You know, the thing that teachers use to teach kids to share, or to process feelings without yelling or hitting.

the Priming Directive is when linguists are forbidden from interfering with the normal development of a participant before the experiment

transpose a matrix? trans? pose? THE MATRIX??? the gay agenda has gone too far

I think often about the illusion of "objective" scholarly writing. The best & most rigorous scholarly work, for me, does not erase the writer's motives, investments, or voice; the writer grapples with these biases explicitly, so readers know they've done the work #AcademicTwitter

Excellent metathesis from this week: "Northern Shitties Vowel Sift"

from a dream: Standard English vs. Sport English

oh no who gave torches to cats

The -er in “Jennifer” should be an agentive suffix

@TwitterAPI You got 30 days to wrap up whatever you've been gathering and grab all the data you might need, because afterwards it'll be a very expensive drip feed. x.com/TwitterDev/sta…

just typoed "assessed for tenure" as "arrested for tenure"

saw an ad for Neutrogena and my brain parsed it as Neurodivergent