Sometimes I miss British English noun pileups and then I get an email with a subject line like this
The NYT has an article on pirate speech, featuring actual linguist @laurelmack.bsky.socialwww.nytimes.com/2024/09/19/n...
Very basic math q! See screenshot: we teach that the y-axis is at x=0, but in Fig. 4.2b, what I'd call "the y-axis" (the vertical line labeled "Response") is at x = -2. So like... what do we call that line at x = -2? Is the line at x=0 the true y-axis, and the one at x = -2 just a cosmetic one?
Today he referred to the [tr] pronunciation as “the weird way” 💀
Doing a study of academics and Linguistics wasn't listed among the possible fields to choose from. Finally found it, as a subfield of Philosophy 😑
“I say it CHRAY, with a CH. Not TRAY. That would be funny.” -5;10. I have been waiting for this day!
Who will fund me to do the corpus study of all the different ways @dasharez0ne.bsky.social spells “skeleton” in their alt text
