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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn colours 🍁

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · 5d

More apple picking (for storage), with an interested equine audience 🐴 All heritage varieties (from top): ‚Grüner Boskoop‘, (green, tasty & durable), ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘ (sweet, traces of raspberry), ‚Roter Boskoop‘, (red) ‚Goldrenette von Blenheim‘ (complex, spicy taste) 🍎🍏🍎

Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · 7d

Busy day making apple juice in the local apple press run by the town’s Orchard and Gardening Co-op. Apples are washed and pressed, the juice pasteurised (we keep some raw juice back for cider-making 🍺), then filled into 5 litre bags. 500 litres should last a while! 🍎🍏🍎

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · 7d

Apple harvest on Unity Day weekend ⛅️ Record crop this year, with almost 1000 kg for juice alone (our 80-year old trees carry amazingly tasty heritage varieties such as ‚Rheinischer Bohnapfel’ and ‚Kaiser Wilhelm‘), and half the trees still ripe for storage apple picking 🍎🍏🍎

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · 26d

At the local Amtsgericht (county court) today, built in 1912 when our town was a county seat in the Imperial Prussian Province of the Rhine. Admiring the grand architecture while waiting. A bit of a daunting atmosphere (intentionally, I think) but nice to see it still in use ⚖️🏛️

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Tony McEnery @tonymcenery.bsky.social · Sep 10

After our very succesful Corpus Linguistics 2025 conference hosted by @robbielove.org at Aston, CL is going on tour! Our next conference will be Easter 2027 in Hong Kong at HK Poly U. In summer 2029 we return to Europe when @michamahlberg.bsky.social will host CL at Erlangen!

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Harvest is bountiful this year, with zucchini still going strong 🥒, hops ready for collection 🍺, and grapes 🍇 and apples 🍎 picking up that extra sweetness during the last warm days ⛅️

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Sep 6

September, and the parish fair has come to town - also a timely reminder that summer is drawing to a close 🎡🍦🎠

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · Sep 2

Second call for papers for Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices at FU Berlin. Abstracts due October 1 #LanguageAndFood #CulinaryLinguistics

Linguist List @linguistlist.bsky.social · Sep 2

Calls: Digital P(a)lates: The Language of Online Food Practices

2nd Call for Papers: The performance of food has become ubiquitous in the digital realm, where we find content saturated with all things culinary, gustatory, and gastronomic. From food porn images to restaurant reviews, from what-I-eat-in-a-day-videos to cooking shows, from mukbang to forum posts with food advice – people negotiate and display their food practices online, to be consumed and regurgitated by others via their digital devices. This is often based on co-occurring linguistic perfor

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Sofia Rüdiger @sofiaruediger.bsky.social · Sep 1

#ISLE8 opening about to start in this beautiful room of the university 🤩

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Sep 1

Alas! no ISLE for me this year - thanks for keeping everybody in the loop back home! 🎓📚🐚

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Aug 27

Haying done in the apple orchard, just in time before the weather turns autumnal 🍎🌂

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Aug 20

Late summer in the apple orchard - looks to be a good harvest! 🍎🍏🍎 Summer apples Gravensteiner & James Grieve (lower left) are ready for apple pie and cider, autumn Kaiser Wilhelm & Croncels (upper left) still very tart, winter Boskop red & green (right) coming along nicely

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 25

Summer days 🌦️ Walk through old town and garden: Japanese rose (Ger. Apfelrose, „apple rose“, after the rosehips - in Japanese, similarly, hamanashi, „beach pear“), chicory (Ger. Wegwarte, „way marker“), and the glorious sunflower (unsurprisingly, Sonnenblume)🌻

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 16

The rainy weather has been good for the berry garden: redcurrant (Ger. Johannisbeere, ripe around St. John‘s Day), gooseberry (well-named Stachelbeere „sting berry“), raspberry (Himbeere „hind‘s berry“). All perfect for the summer dish Rote Grütze (berry porridge) - try it! 🍓🥣

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StefMaci @stefmaci.bsky.social · Jul 3

Ready, set, go!
Pascual’s promising talk is live now!
#CL2025

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Viola Wiegand @violawiegand.bsky.social · Jul 3

At the final #CL2025 plenary, @perez-paredes.bsky.social encourages us to not think of either or AI & corpus linguistics but making the best of both worlds, highlighting e.g. the integration of LLMs into English-corpora.org www.english-corpora.org/ai-llms/

English Corpora: most widely used online corpora. Billions of words of data: free online access

Compare genres, dialects, time periods. Search by PoS, collocates, synonyms, and much more.

www.english-corpora.org

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Chris Cooper @coopersensei.bsky.social · Jul 3

Final day of #cl2025. AI is a big topic today...

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Sadly, I’ll miss the end of @cl2025.co.uk as I am heading back to Trier for exam season. It’s been a pleasure & a privilege - so many inspiring talks! Happy that there will be recordings of the plenaries. A last impression of Aston campus (CL might help there, too…) 📚🎓 #cl2025

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Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social · Jul 2

Great plenary by @proftaylor.bsky.social and @journolinguist.bsky.social at #CL2025

Charlotte Taylor and Anna Marchi giving a plenary talk.

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you for an inspiring talk! Looking forward to LANA-CASE & hearing about your future work at @usf.edu 📚🎓🌴

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 2

Dinner after a long @cl2025.co.uk day at the Bacchus Bar (under the Burlington Arcade) 📚🎓 & enjoying the stunning atmosphere, decor, and food! #cl2025

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Customizing my serendipitous Birmingham @cl2025.co.uk souvenir from Peter Forson hat shop in beautiful Great Western Arcade 🎩👒 A flat cap seems just the thing! Not sure what this device is called, though 🤔 #cl2025

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 1

Afternoon walk through the city @cl2025.co.uk & doing some #linguisticlandscaping (because how could I not…) 📚🎓 Encountered what, according to reliable humint sources, is the quintessential Brummie phrase & cultural identifier. Any insights, fellow (B’ham?) linguists? #cl2025

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Stefan Diemer @diemerstefan.bsky.social · Jul 1

It’s mix & match (i.e. running from room to room) for the last @cl2025.co.uk session today 📚🎓 Looking forward to learning why ‘Up’ words are good words 🆙, how to raise the bar on bar charts 📊, and how to tag medieval Scots! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #cl2025

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