Wtf

I was 13 and growing up in the east bay when this happened. Here I am 37 years later in Toronto traumatized by fucking LA

Don Was's is really an only-in-america type of career. I really only know him from "walk the dinosaur" but his CV is insane, producing every 4th/5th album of past-their-prime superstars...and The Mommyheads

I slept in this last night!

Shouldn’t this kid be wearing a Smiths shirt?

I'm giving a talk at Buffalo Linguistics on Friday, "Debuccalization without spirantization or Why 10th century Kannada lost its lips" and it'll be simulcast on Zoom.

Write me if you're interested. The talk is about medieval Kannada epigraphy, phonology, acoustics, and speech perception.

Similar to what you have done here, I have a (old) book chapter that goes into this, though albeit to prove a different point. If you can't access the book I can send you my chapter.
Alan, C. L. (Ed.). (2013). Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization. OUP Oxford.

Holy shit, Rickey Henderson died! Pillar of my youth and hero for so many of us East Bay kids

Cracked open my og ed of Language today and found this clipping of Bloomfield’s obit that’s yellowed the pages. In the perfect chapter to boot
#ephemera #linguistics

It's correlated in short-lag too

I referenced Micro Machines in class yesterday when discussing this paper, the big takeaway being the faster you talk, the quieter your consonants. No one knew wth Micro Machines was (or the great John Moschitta Jr.)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Not sure if this counts

Maybe they’re trying to do something like this chain of restaurants/cafes (we have one in Toronto)

Who tf says “orgo” and not ochem

I’m not weird for garden pathing here, right? Psycholinguists, save for your lang proc/ambiguity lectures