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@toddthelinguist

A collection of non-detached linguist parts. Currently an Assistant Professor at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (he/him)

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"We really need to talk about the threat to Israel from THE LEFT (field gap in coverage)"

09.03.2026 20:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

there have been chicken wars in the fast food world for more than a decade

05.03.2026 21:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

new Gettier case just dropped

04.03.2026 19:52 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

By the time you've agreed to the interview, you're already cooked

04.03.2026 19:44 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I *wish* any Dems had Trump Derangement Syndrome!

04.03.2026 14:45 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Prepared casting rears its ugly head once again

"You can have fifty spell slots, sure, but you have to pick ahead of time exactly which 7±2 things you expect to want to be able to do today. Anything unexpected or off-script, you're plumb out of luck"

03.03.2026 18:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Depending on whether YouTube counts as social media (probably depends on how it's used), and how strictly one must be to eschew, arguably Bo Burnham?

02.03.2026 20:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I am so glad not to be the only one! Thank you!!

02.03.2026 17:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What Is This, X? - TV Tropes This Stock Phrase is usually said in exasperation or annoyance to highlight an unlikely, unusual, nonsensical, or out of character moment. It is most often said by the Plucky Comic Relief or the Deadp...

Certainly in the 'you're so changed, I'm treating you like a body-snatcher' context!
TVTropes mentions it here: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...
but as related more to tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

02.03.2026 16:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

oh dear lord 😂

filed immediately under 'examples I hope not to have to include'

02.03.2026 16:42 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When you think about conjoined questions (of the form "X and Y?", where both X and Y are questions), as I'm sure you do, what examples come to mind?

02.03.2026 16:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
The awning and neon sign of the aforementioned Pablo Discobar

The awning and neon sign of the aforementioned Pablo Discobar

firsthand evidence!

02.03.2026 11:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We just have to bring it here to them, just in case

28.02.2026 10:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the GOAT is now a lamb

27.02.2026 20:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(I do not know if they would endorse this, but it's possible that they would say)
it's just an accident of common parlance; lying by omission isn't actually lying per se

27.02.2026 18:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

popular belief also that lying requires *assertion*

so it could be verbal, but still only be misrepresentation, not lying, if it only happened via presupposition, or [conventional implicature if you think that's not assertive, or] other non-assertive moves

27.02.2026 16:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

do they mean, things which are biological but also plausibly abstract, or a kind? like a phenotype, or a species?

27.02.2026 12:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Skin in the Game Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism.

from 2017 but as relevant as ever

politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/s...

once you see how antisemitism bubbles under the surface of white supremacy when it targets people of color, you don't get fooled into thinking you can be on the safe side of it

26.02.2026 22:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

boiled tater tots as gnocchi 😧
fried gnocchi as tater tots 😍

26.02.2026 13:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the idea that it can "search for the actual details" is still so misleading!
one step forward, that same exact step backwards 🙃

26.02.2026 13:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

all your favorite webcomics! still the best way to consume them (if that's a thing you do)

25.02.2026 16:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

the world was simpler when the media bubbles were totally distinct
when conservatives would pretend not to understand what intersectionality meant
instead of learning the term "moral panic" and applying it to 'criticism of chumming around with a known child trafficker'
(meanwhile publishing Singal!)

24.02.2026 19:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

sickos.jpg

24.02.2026 17:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Franke & de Jager 2011

23.02.2026 20:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I nominated -coded last year! The olds will catch on in 2028.

21.02.2026 08:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Weekend at Bernie's III just dropped

18.02.2026 22:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
43.07/50
"Genuinely unsettling accuracy. Please find a hobby."

43.07/50 "Genuinely unsettling accuracy. Please find a hobby."

rude! (😎)

17.02.2026 22:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fertile ground for a research project, expanding across languages, encompassing many different NP encoding strategies, to see if the hierarchy is indeed universal! (Got any spare grad students? :p)

16.02.2026 20:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Even if one were opposed to singular they.. just use "it", because IT'S A BEAR!

16.02.2026 20:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Is the issue then that you wish there were greater resolution (i.e., within the 'clitics' classification) on these scales?
Or are skeptical that they're accurate crosslinguistically?
Or that you want a description of the sem/prag prominence/salience scale which maps onto the accessibility hierarchy?

16.02.2026 20:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0