Bronwyn

the other other thing they don’t tell you about marriage is that one of you will become The Stealer of SD Cards, and one of you will always be asking “where are all my goddamn SD cards?!”

Reposting this for the Saturday crowd

the SynTeach group is at the point in our project where we're starting to work on research output and resource creation. I'm really curious what the big wishlist items are, whether or not they're in scope for us (you can find out more about the project here: blogs.kent.ac.uk/synteach/ if you like)

hey linguists: what resources do you wish existed to make syntax pedagogy better?

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

Friends, what syntactic category do we think "enough" is? It seems to modify adjectives ("tall enough to go on this ride") but also it can occur as a predicate on its own?

wow. with this announcement, all of ed sheeran's openers for this tour have pulled out:

(I always forget the #linguistics tag)

I don't know who exactly, but I feel confident that some of you want to know about this skirt with a design showing development of the Proto-Sinaitic script into many descendant scripts, including modern Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, and Hebrew scripts. princess-awesome.com/products/adu...

One day I would love the opportunity to ask someone who I overhear saying "comfortability" whether it means something different from "comfort", without coming across as a prescriptivist asshole.

TIL that there is a game similar to hockey (but not on ice) played in the Scottish highlands "and other areas in the world where Scottish Highlanders migrated" called "shinty", which is surely where the name "shinny" (=pick up hockey, on ice or pavement) comes from. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinty

If you’ve seen this article, you may be sitting with anger, pain, or just exhaustion at dealing with another helping of colonial nonsense. We feel a responsibility to speak back when these colonizing narratives show up, yet again, in such a prominent venue. endangeredlanguages.com/story/respon...

Without a doubt, the greatest (not greatest) part of taking a red-eye flight now that I am no longer a Youth is how all the systems of my body stage a revolt upon arrival.

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

There's a reason Elon Musk rarely does interviews with real news outlets.

The thing in this story that strikes me is how his neighbor and the consul chose to save his life. They decided to do the right thing when you know the government is trying to murder somebody. I think about these unnamed people in survivor stories all the time -- they're everywhere. They can be us.

Friends, I have tripped over a linguistics-themed umbrella! It could more felicitously be labelled a "writing systems" umbrella, but you know, I'll take what I can get. cognitive-surplus.com/collections/...

Microsoft Teams sucks.

Both my phone and my wallet have returned to me! I cannot describe the relief

I am currently missing BOTH my phone (accidentally left behind before I got on a plane a week ago, currently in the mail back to me) AND my wallet (location unknown), and let me tell you this makes modernity a real challenge.