In the American Dialect Society's 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, “enshittification” was selected as the 2023 Word of the Year. Hosted in conjunction with the #LSA2024 Annual Meeting, more than 300 attendees took part. Read more: buff.ly/47p456D

#Linguistics Are sociolinguistic interviews recorded online just as good at capturing *the vernacular* as those collected in people's living rooms? Check out my and VK's small study, published at last: doi.org/10.1515/lingva…

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Hey, so Hormel reached out to me and sent me a bunch of manufacturers coupons for replacement cans of spam. So, nice move Hormel Foods. You and spam still okay in my book.

More Missourians (95.3%) identify as Midwestern than Wisconsinites (93.6%). They've got zip code breakdown. Surely there's some interesting linguistic study that looks at Midwest identity and language variation or something?

you can always tell when a Mormon or exmo didn’t start swearing until adulthood. something off about the syntax like a non native speaker of English. uncanny valley swearing.

I call this Relief Society voice because it’s used, in high demand religions to signal a woman is in power. That power can never be assertive, it needs to be subtle, breathy & “nurturing”. It is also used as a cover to say terrible things bc it was said in such a “caring” way.

{praatpicture} is now on CRAN! 🥳🎉 While you're sitting around waiting for the decisions from Speech Prosody to roll in, why not install.packages("praatpicture") and do some plotting? You won't regret it!

For a few years, a colleague and I have been studying "Relief Society Voice", and it is WILD to hear it being used by a non-Mormon. Now I have to rethink everything I thought I knew about its indexicality.

Okay, Mormons, I hear a Relief Society voice in Britt’s original, but Influencer Voice in Johansson’s parody. They’re similar, but I swear they’re wildly different for me.

There’s a lot going on in language ideology today at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint’s semi-annual conference. We just got a new church leader from England and lots of people are commenting, including the following speaker who said he wanted to borrow his accent.

Be still my beating heart. (Graham Canyon is hands down the best flavor ice cream at BYU’s creamery. Adding chocolate it, well, I can’t imagine anything better.)

I actually killed that course and replaced it with "Applied Phonetics." So, just when "PhonPhon" was starting to stick around here, it's not a thing anymore.

My hot take is that lmer and glmer aren't "limmer" "glimmer" but rather "Elmer" and "gelmer" [dʒɛlmɚ].

This animated map I made shows change in the rate a which people were using the word 'windy' on Twitter over the course of about one year (2013-14)

Not-so-humble brag, but at the beginning of the week I had two empty Word documents. Now, 10,000 words later, I have two almost-complete (shorter) manuscripts.