not even "oh why are we talking about this", it's actually "why are we encouraging americans to dress incorrectly for air travel"

Noem 4:35–41, Trump Calms the Storm

At some point in grad school you either learn to contribute something new to your field or you learn how to write lit reviews that masquerade as such

Note that I’m taking a linguist’s definition of language here so you could be able to code switch into multiple varieties of English (not simply into and out of an academic register) and satisfy my requirement

Anglophone linguists used to speak a lot of languages as a routine part of their work and should go back to doing so

Your opinions about language are fundamentally less interesting if you only speak one of them

No slight against Dr Holliday whose work I respect

Anger (serious answer)

The first time someone told me about latex I was like wow that’s amazing, and then I saw the syntax and was like you have got to be fucking kidding me. Say sike right now.

Backslash curly bracket what are we doing here

Also it’s an actually reasonable language to write in, latex is an absurd syntactic nightmare

all while flipping back and forth between three different channels because they can't live with their own thoughts for more than two seconds

“Snowden was a Russian asset” is the null hypothesis

My most republican, most maga relatives have either reverted to not talking politics or openly praying the lord takes them all up to heaven soon, depending on which flavor they are, which is how you know morale is low