Elise Kramer

Elise Kramer

@elisekramer.bsky.social

Linguistic anthropologist @ UIUC.

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I have been thrown into a crisis of confidence by learning that, apparently, a critical mass of people have been using a /g/ in "suggest" and I have never noticed it.

I've been pronouncing something differently from a bunch of other people? That I'm used to, being from NYC. But how did I not NOTICE it? Do I need to turn my PhD in??

I desperately want to know which building this is, and I'm also amazed that it isn't the anthropology building (which, being one of the oldest buildings on campus, consistently has bizarre problems).

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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

In 9th grade, I got in trouble in gym class. We were doing a unit on the high jump, so I was told to write a two-page essay about the high jump. As someone who resented being assigned busywork, I went somewhat off the rails. Here are some excerpts from my paper. First, I established a premise.

Then I did some actual physics calculations. And I concluded with some very compelling images. I think we can safely assume that my gym teacher never actually read this paper, because I did not get referred to the school psychologist.

In New Orleans for AAAs! Looking forward to seeing how many different iterations of shrimp I can eat in the next three days. Also participating in this fantastic scholarly community etc etc

My new article "The Caveman in the Mirror: Masculinity and Paleofantasy" is now available via early access from Signs and Society! It's part of a special issue, "Chronotopes of Gender," that I coedited with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social. Full issue will be out in December! doi.org/10.1017/sas....

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I'm discussing the enregisterment of typefaces in class today, and usually I only talk about people's reactions to Comic Sans, but thanks to some fortuitous timing I have a new example.

My new article "The Caveman in the Mirror: Masculinity and Paleofantasy" is now available via early access from Signs and Society! It's part of a special issue, "Chronotopes of Gender," that I coedited with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social. Full issue will be out in December! doi.org/10.1017/sas....

cambridge.orgThe Caveman in the Mirror: Masculinity and Paleofantasy | Signs and Society | Cambridge CoreThe Caveman in the Mirror: Masculinity and Paleofantasy

Chants of Sennaar is a very cool linguistics-y game, but with one thing that annoyed my semi-linguist self: one of the languages' syntax initially appears to be verb-first (VS), but then every other sentence is OSV, so I guess it's just... Yoda syntax?

Something my students and I realized today, discussing Spitulnik's Zambian radio catchphrase article: a lot of the famous media phrases that have been taken up in American discourse ("Houston, we have a problem"; "Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore") are examples of dramatic understatement.

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