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Pavel Iosad
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Linguist | Cànanaiche @schoolofppls.bsky.social. Migrant | Neach-imrich: 🇷🇺➡️🇳🇴➡️NI➡️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Tin whistle tragic | Droch-chluicheadair na fìdeige. 🇺🇦.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · Apr 14
My soon-to-come book with @cambup-linguistics.bsky.social now has a page with a cover and everything! It’s been almost a decade working on it, and more than that in some form, but it’s finally almost here. 🧵 www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
Phonological Drift and Language Contact | Phonetics and phonology
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 11h
the whole ‘you can load up on booze in a shop at 2am’ thing always feels extremely weird visiting from Scotland. I thought we were the ones with the alcohol problem!
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 17h
Not to put too fine a point on it, but… driving.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 21h
Eh, it wasn’t funny when he shat on Gaelic then, and I don’t think it’s entirely unrelated.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 21h
Yeah but the strategically crucial degrees actually do include English, drama, and Central and Eastern European Studies, so 🤷
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 2d
All true, though personally I’ve long got my money’s worth through visa fee savings alone. And for some of us the citizenship we have comes attached with far worse strings…
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 2d
Honestly *not* doing citizenship is nuts, and has been for some time. Even that is increasingly under threat: the state has already made it more precarious, and I’d be seriously worried about how those powers will be used if/when the radical right gets in.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 2d
That’s essentially Brian Joseph’s theory of drift, which I think has a lot to recommend it

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Chapter 3. Demystifying drift
Chapter 3. Demystifying drift was published in Shared Grammaticalization on page 43.
www.degruyterbrill.com
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 4d
Anyway, yes, there’s definitely potential for improvement with all of these things! But I suspect The Times wouldn’t like a lot of the ones that would work, like less of an obsession with credentials and exams all the way through. Just going back to the old days won’t cut it I’m afraid.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 4d
Should students be able to do close analysis of big texts? Yeah, probably! Do they come in with these skills or do they need to be taught? Well it depends on tons of things, including their background and prior schooling! Do we in HE get enough resource to support those who need it? Lol, lmao!
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 4d
With the thing that’s changed in Suspiciously Woke Ways being that that we can’t just throw whatever at students and assume they have the time and social capital to handle it without support. Yeah! No shit! That’s the work you’re supposed to do when you sign up to mass HE!
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 4d
Curious case of context collapse. There is definitely stuff going on with attention, which, not being a literature academic, I can’t speak to in a very informed way. But the piece being cited is actually only tangentially about that, it’s about ‘[British] uni’s not what it used to be’.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 4d
Last time I was in Oslo I unthinkingly asked for an americano and was really jarred by the way they started fussing about and anxiously asking about the right amount of water. Sorry sorry I forgot I was in a civilized country where you just ask for dagens, takk and are on your merry way.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 4d
Your local Polish shop will always have it! That’s where I go whenever I feel like making forshmak
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 8d
My totalitarian opinion is that people should be required to read Peter Mandler before they’re allowed to opine on ‘too many people going to uni’.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 8d
Enjoying it while there’s a HE sector to receive grants
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 8d
(Also the 🇧🇬 word for horseradish is an example of the sound change that’s the focus of the grant that’s paying for me to be here, which I find quite satisfying.)
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 8d
They literally only have paprika, mustard and horseradish. Cannae go wrong really.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 8d
In a Sofia pub… good beer, and these here horseradish crisps totally slap. What a concept.
Unfinished glass of an IPA with a big bowl of crisps
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 8d
DWP assessments to be exempt from ILR volunteering, you heard it here first.
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Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social · 10d
"The conditions that migrants will have to meet to gain indefinite leave to remain include being in work" then this is fundamentally - among other things - another attack on family visas. coming to the uk on a spouse visa means work is *not a requirement of entry*, so will labour be changing that?
Labour unveils ‘good citizen’ test for migrants seeking settlement
Foreign nationals will need to work, pay tax, volunteer and speak fluent English to qualify for settlement under Labour’s tougher rules
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 9d
Of all the things to blame the Brits for, that’s a genuinely new one.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 12d
Yeah I don’t disagree really. It’s just that ‘no coercion, only tinker’ isn’t going to be worth the candle either.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 12d
That’s no doubt a valid concern! But ultimately it’s a skill issue, which (in theory at least) is addressable, one would hope.
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 12d
I think it would be really hard, actually, without introducing some element of coercion. What you’re describing is a system that still relies on the citizen/resident proactively engaging with it. Which is what we have now, and how many people accidentally or deliberately fall through the gaps?
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Pavel Iosad @anghyflawn.net · 12d
I don’t think it should be impossible to be simultaneously unhappy with both the government’s less than adroit rhetoric (although to go back to one key @robfordmancs.bsky.social’s original points, it’s going to be pretty popular actually) and the opponents’ argumentation
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