Lisa Davidson

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I just looked up Balogun’s background 5 minutes ago and learned that the only way he plays for the US is on a birthright citizenship technicality 😂

I was the second person at my polling site to get one today. I watched them open the bag that the BoE had given them 🏀💙🧡 #knicks

As someone who sometimes needs to think about lexical gaps for a living, this list caused me a momentary record scratch. For one thing, I wouldn't have guessed that the -id column would be the most complete one.

Linguists: does anyone know of a study showing that VOT shortens the longer the word is? (E.g., something like the Moon and Lindblom 1989 paper, except for VOT and not whole segments.)

Interesting story on university language requirements and revitalization efforts: nativenewsonline.net/education/co...

Hey #LabPhon community, the Association is growing its social media offerings. Join us over on LinkedIn, as well! www.linkedin.com/company/labp...

Gotta love an excrescent stop joke #linguistics #phonetics

Yeah but most importantly, is Grogu going to talk in the new movie?

📣 ICE OUT FOR GOOD! 🪧 NYC Stands with Minneapolis 📆 Friday, January 23rd ⏰ 4:00 PM 📍 Union Square, NYC On January 23rd, we will rally and march in solidarity with Minneapolis-St. Paul as they face an expanding occupation and escalating ICE violence. Info: bit.ly/4jPDjw2

I love how New Yorkers are wishing each other Happy New Year and Happy New Mayor all in the same text.

I'm not the only one on Bluesky saying this, but maybe together we can bring it into being: Brad Lander for first deputy mayor in the Mamdani administration.

NYC linguists give the linguistic answer, but also patiently explain why this isn't an excuse: “We can learn hard names. We can do it. We can figure out how the spellings map to the sounds. We can all get there. We just have to practice.” - @laurelmack.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

I'm enjoying this thread about the greatest lyricists, but I can't include John Prine ever since I learned about Let's Talk Dirty in Hawaiian.

If you’ve ever asked AI to summarize a paper, you know it provides only a surface-level and uncritical description. Even if you asked it for a review, what criteria would it use to provide meaningful critical feedback? If it said “X is unclear”, how would you know humans would feel that way?

So I take it we're still not going to get to hear Grogu speak? I've been waiting since 2019 (from before we knew his name!) to learn whether they'd make him sound like Yoda or have him just speak Basic, as he obviously should 😆 slate.com/technology/2...

I found an example in the wild on here of a possible suffix usage that we were discussing in class. I want to show my students, but since the post is critical of the administration, I'm worried about potential consequences, even though the content is entirely irrelevant. This is what we've come to.

Did they not see Kaʻiana in **Chief of War**?

I just want something to make a difference so badly. Big kudos to the CDC folks, I fervently hope something comes of it.

Draw a geographically accurate map of New York City and label all the neighborhoods. This thing is not going to put neighborhood boundary expert @rachelholliday.bsky.social out of a job any time soon.

I'm curious. If someone responds to a texted question by providing a brief answer, followed by "More later, I'm running out now", do you read this as expectation-setting/a promissory note, or is it just a conventionalized pleasantry (that does not lead to the expectation of a later response)?

I'm curious. If someone responds to a texted question by providing a brief answer, followed by "More later, I'm running out now", do you read this as expectation-setting/a promissory note, or is it just a conventionalized pleasantry (that does not lead to the expectation of a later response)?

I’m equally embarrassed for my alma mater

This was the same take I also had when I saw this graphic earlier today, but this is worded more directly and insightfully. This poll is actually kind of remarkable.

Cuomo and Adams beefing is a delicious moment in this dark time. Let us all wish that the only effect it has is to leave even greater distaste for both of them in New Yorkers' mouths.

This bill is an act of war by the billionaires and their white nationalist allies against the people of the United States. It will take health care from millions of people to fund tax cut for billionaires, secret police to arrest the President’s critics, and concentration camps. It’s fascism.