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A few months away but should be good: “Phonology in language documentation” by Gabriela Caballero and Laura McPherson (Nov. ’25) cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Truly sad & very scary :( Our 4 kids have 5 first cousins. I & my 2 siblings had 29 first cousins. The demographic cliff is fast approaching…

There's the cover posted now. a.co/d/7NXNwFB The design is an interesting choice, because ornamentation is taken from an 1876 handbill. Its decipherment won't lead you to English, but it's part of Deseret's story & prefigures a less phonetic usage you see sometimes.

New toy

Gotta love it when language gets loose with negatives. Literal translation: ‘falling tears don’t really not have a problem’ youtu.be/747YN9Dl3l8?si…

13 years ago I was the Language Project Coordinator for the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians, a California Tribe to which my wife & kids belong. In that role, I created a Southern Pomo language sign (art & all), which my son visited today. My son now knows the language :)

Great blog post about my favorite mammalian carnivore of the past 50,000 years: tetzoo.com/blog/2025/11/2…

Six years ago, wow, we still lived in the tropics, I put together a little collection of the native rainforest fruits that could be gathered on campus & try to get them to germinate. There’s no photo shopping here: these are the real colors!

Check out this video presentation by Dr. Joseph Brooks from WIELD's 2025 workshop x.com/wieldorg/statu…

King & Gómez (2004) proposed reading this glyph from the Plaza at La Ventilla as a(ka)tson giving "atsompa" a toponym near Teotihuacan. Nielsen & Helmke (2011) have proposed that glyphs at La Ventilla depict disease spirits. Can this glyph be read in proto-Corachol-Nahua?

I have lived in 5 English counties. Who can identify them by heraldry alone?

Sample images of what I do. I don't consider it science, but is it just an opinion piece? What are your thought? x.com/mayukh_panja/s…

Found a new (to me) Khmer word in the wild today: ម្ញ៉ិកម្ញ៉ក់​ /mɲɤk.mɲɒk/ [mᵊɲɤk̚.mᵊɲɒʔ] ‘coquettish’

New toy (found in an antique shop)

Over the weekend, there was a mass shooting in my hometown (less than 1km from where my wife lived in high school). Children were killed at a birthday party—RIP to the lost ones :( The dialect of partygoers may be gleaned from the party sign: <BIRTDAY> youtu.be/rWMjiQmyIGw?si…

171 years ago, Australians stood up against an unjust British government. That spirit of freedom is something that Australia must not forget: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…

What’s the solution? I wish Australia & New Zealand could enter a closer union, but I’m not sure how that could be accomplished. youtu.be/uBpgTgFF1ek?si…

Do you lie awake at night thinking about New Zealand's St Bathans fauna? If so, read this: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Baby penguins in the wild (40 minutes north of us)