Steve J. Saenz
@truebiz.bsky.social
Staff interpreter at Gallaudet University. Mixed-race Latino & White. Graduate student & linguist-in-training. Addicted to learning languages. English, ASL, Japanese, French, Spanish, Korean.
If I get another email from Handshake looking for linguists to work on AI, so help me..
September 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If I get another email from Handshake looking for linguists to work on AI, so help me..
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
July 15, 2025 at 2:15 AM
“Betrayal. Translation means doing violence upon the original, means warping and distorting it for foreign, unintended eyes. So, then where does that leave us? How can we conclude, except by acknowledging that an act of translation is is then necessarily always an act of betrayal?”
One week of class left. Adios Semiotics articles - hello carrying my kindle around in my backpack for no good reason cause we all know I won’t actually read anything for fun anyway.
July 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
One week of class left. Adios Semiotics articles - hello carrying my kindle around in my backpack for no good reason cause we all know I won’t actually read anything for fun anyway.
People have a lot of 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 opinions on the new ASL sign for Coke, and with University Communications putting the word 𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓊𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓈 all over it? When people know you’re a linguistics student at Gally, oh boy they sure do let you know those raw, unsolicited opinions.
(𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦..)
(𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦..)
May 20, 2025 at 1:37 PM
People have a lot of 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 opinions on the new ASL sign for Coke, and with University Communications putting the word 𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓊𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒾𝒸𝓈 all over it? When people know you’re a linguistics student at Gally, oh boy they sure do let you know those raw, unsolicited opinions.
(𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦..)
(𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦..)
Huge props to the language learning students who are brave enough to post videos of their lessons to help others learn too. Or who allow their teachers to use their footage on social media. I am absolutely here for it.
May 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Huge props to the language learning students who are brave enough to post videos of their lessons to help others learn too. Or who allow their teachers to use their footage on social media. I am absolutely here for it.
Why did no one tell me this was an option for researchers when I was getting interested in stuff? (Desperately looking for some linguistic tie-in to replicate people zapping themselves)
May 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Why did no one tell me this was an option for researchers when I was getting interested in stuff? (Desperately looking for some linguistic tie-in to replicate people zapping themselves)
Where is everyone buying their ebooks if not from Amazon? Wish I could ethically ditch the Kindle with all their DRM changes but don’t want to contribute to electronic waste.
May 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Where is everyone buying their ebooks if not from Amazon? Wish I could ethically ditch the Kindle with all their DRM changes but don’t want to contribute to electronic waste.
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What started as a half-baked lecture in 2023 is now an actual article in 2025. I try to define "idiom", look for them in ASL, and identify other ASL constructions, to boot. (We all complain about "reviewer 2", but I got good and helpful revisions on this one!) doi.org/10.1515/cog-... #linguistics
Idioms and other constructions in American Sign Language
Idioms are phrases like English [hit the sack], meaning ‘go to bed’. For linguists working with sign languages, a question arises: “What do idioms look like in a sign language?” This paper proposes a ...
doi.org
May 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
What started as a half-baked lecture in 2023 is now an actual article in 2025. I try to define "idiom", look for them in ASL, and identify other ASL constructions, to boot. (We all complain about "reviewer 2", but I got good and helpful revisions on this one!) doi.org/10.1515/cog-... #linguistics
“And as any mixed-race person will tell you—to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.” -Gabrielle Zevin, in 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤
May 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“And as any mixed-race person will tell you—to be half of two things is to be whole of nothing.” -Gabrielle Zevin, in 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤
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May 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Thinking back tonight on how I spent my Spring Break in Mexico - reading a book about linguistic colonialism and language trauma while watching people who look like my dad wait hand and foot on people who look like me and my mom.
May 7, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Thinking back tonight on how I spent my Spring Break in Mexico - reading a book about linguistic colonialism and language trauma while watching people who look like my dad wait hand and foot on people who look like me and my mom.
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In honor of the new home for #ASLSignbank, I thought it was time to give #Glossgesang a home on Bluesky.
What's #Glossgesang you ask?
Why thank you for asking!
It's this:
Always present signed language data in a visual format without relying solely on glossing
What's #Glossgesang you ask?
Why thank you for asking!
It's this:
Always present signed language data in a visual format without relying solely on glossing
May 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
In honor of the new home for #ASLSignbank, I thought it was time to give #Glossgesang a home on Bluesky.
What's #Glossgesang you ask?
Why thank you for asking!
It's this:
Always present signed language data in a visual format without relying solely on glossing
What's #Glossgesang you ask?
Why thank you for asking!
It's this:
Always present signed language data in a visual format without relying solely on glossing
Me: I finished my last two projects of the semester!!
Friend: !! How are you celebrating??
Me: ..
Friend: !! How are you celebrating??
Me: ..
May 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Me: I finished my last two projects of the semester!!
Friend: !! How are you celebrating??
Me: ..
Friend: !! How are you celebrating??
Me: ..
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I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages
The fact that there's an ASL interpreter there.... Thank you @aoc.bsky.social 🥹😍🤟🏼
May 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages