#tbt, from when Twitter was fun

Sometimes I miss British English noun pileups and then I get an email with a subject line like this

Thanks for the boost!! 🏴‍☠️

The NYT has an article on pirate speech, featuring actual linguist @laurelmack.bsky.socialwww.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/n...

Aargh, It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day

The alienability constraint on this is really cool

I'm with you!

These followup tweets answered exactly the 2 questions I had

drive.google.com/file/d/1FrGl... p. 4!

Love seeing a counterexample to Labov 2012 (image 1) in today’s NYT (image 2)!

It is this, though :) www.reddit.com/r/funny/comm...

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