We called that hybrid too.
It's a good day when a viral social media post leads me to (a) ponder the origin of 'asshat' and (b) discover that @merriamwebster.bsky.social has tackled the question.
Haha, yes, I'm already sharing that link with my students too! 😁
Hey, is it just me, or does the Iowa Sounds of Speech Website not have a link to their English IPA chart any more? I see links only for Spanish and German. soundsofspeech.uiowa.edu
I've been getting some new followers (because I've commented on a few posts recently?), and it makes me wonder...should I return to social media? I was on sabbatical last year and stayed away for standard mental health/disconnecting reasons, but, uhh, maybe I'm ready to challenge my sanity again 😅
LOL meanwhile over in my class I actually lamented out loud yesterday that I can't use examples like Zsa Zsa, zhuzh, or Don/Dawn from Mad Men anymore because current undergrads are not familiar with any of those things. I really have to stop being such An Old 😂
All those rhotics in a row, so difficult! 😂
The movie Kneecap is so so good! The movie’s perspective on the use of Irish in all sorts of contexts is inspiring, but it’s also just a totally bad-ass story that’s hilarious and incredibly well-told. Whether you’re a linguist or not, go see it!
Since I just gave a gift link for the NYT article on 'weird' to a friend, I thought I'd paste it in here for y'all too since some linguists are interviewed :) www.nytimes.com/2024/07/31/o...
The insults are delightfully petty and supremely satisfying.
Hey remember that I time I wrote a scholarly article about future president Harris’ linguistic style? :) read.dukeupress.edu/american-spe...
Over the past few decades, sociolinguists have begun to take greater interest in how public figures, such as politicians, may employ variation at different levels of linguistic structure in the constr...