Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social

Evangelical Christian |
Research Associate @ManMetUni |
Extraverted; wobbly jointed; love people, food, music, Jesus

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

All my fave things in 1 thread. Phonetics, phonology, Bible translation & the meaning of Good Friday
Jesus on the cross "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
He was forsaken for me - the perfectly sinless Son punished by the perfectly just Father for the sins of us all.

[Peter J. Williams @DrPJWilliams]

Well, it’s good Friday so I thought it would be good to discuss the linguistics of Jesus’s famous Aramaic dereliction cry from the cross.

I wrote about this back in 2004.

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@StagecoachNE there's confusion with the John Dobson street stop (No1 & others). The sign says closed for limited hours, please use temporary stop. I just got on there and there wasn't a temporary stop., the driver said we shouldn't be using it & they hadn't been told it was open

[Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics @MCRLinguistics]

Age of speakers in Wigan & Bolton correlates with their attitude towards Greater Manchester (as opposed to Lancashire), which correspondingly affects their accent, specifically the vowel in words like MOUTH, SOUND, ROUND, HOUSE
@91caitlin

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@MCRLinguistics @Katy_Brown4 @KhawlaBadwan *tweeting duty....can you tell I'm cross posting 👀

[Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics @MCRLinguistics]

MCRL Symposium 2025: want to know what MMU’s linguistics researchers have been up to over the last year? Register to come and join us on 28th May at https://t.co/JxqcroJskJ

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@jobsacuk help@ weren't able to help - this alert is tied to me having my job alert turned on. I would like to recommend you creating an option to turn off this part of the alert because of all the reasons above and in this tweet as well https://t.co/8lA1eLhP2q

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

.@jobsacuk I've said it once, I'll keep saying it. These emails aren't useful and are a great way to dishearten an ECR who's well aware there aren't many jobs in her field. 'change your search' is tantamount to saying 'change your specialty'...please stop...

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

Hey @jobsacuk I'd really like a way to turn this alert off...the academic job market is depressing enough without having an email reminder of it every three months

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@NewcastleUniUCU this is INCREDIBLE - also are you guys on bluesky? It's where all the academics seem to be hanging out these days

[Rob Drummond @RobDrummond]

A Manchester Voices request. If you've used the interactive resource, either in person at Manchester Library, or online here https://t.co/eHs0u8lUJt, please do consider leaving some feedback (link on site). It helps us keep track of its value. Thanks! @VoicesMcr @MancLibraries

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@jobsacuk A way to turn them off or make them less regular would be great. In a small field like linguistics it's completely normal for a role not to come up in 3 months

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

.@jobsacuk I've said it once, I'll keep saying it. These emails aren't useful and are a great way to dishearten an ECR who's well aware there aren't many jobs in her field. 'change your search' is tantamount to saying 'change your specialty'...please stop...

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@R_Graph_Gallery I'm not sure I'd go for this one - often there's innate ordering in your groups that you want to maintain to be able to see patterns - e.g. if the groups are north to south I want to keep that on the axis not reorder in order of the results

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@TimoRoettger @jvcasill @StefanoCoretta @BodoWinter When I was digging that was all I found - nothing linguistics-y, and no, nowhere near publishing yet unfortunately - funding dependent it'll be at NWAV though

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@bushontheradio my parents do because their signal is awful for mobile

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@PrettySophieK Maybe not a helpful sample because I research phonetics so don't visualise sound using letters at all, but I definitely need the 'n' in the last syllable to get the right sound. I just read the Qua/Kwa as orthography vs phonetic alphabet which I guess isn't what you're getting at

[Timo Roettger @TimoRoettger]

Can you share #dataviz examples where the designer missed the audience by a mile? too technical? too unconventional? too much detail? Please share!

[Babel: The Language Magazine @Babelzine]

🏆 Babel Young Writers' Competition
📚 Win publication in Babel No50 + a year's subscription!
📖 Read our first ever winner @katpavv on British Sign Language: https://t.co/3gePhm5s75
📜 Rules below...

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@RobDrummond @bossproofreader @EagleEyeEditor #goals

[Manchester Voices @VoicesMcr]

We have two sets of portable banners (a set of 5 and a set of 9) describing key findings from the Manchester Voices project. If any Greater Manchester schools, colleges, libraries, community centres etc would like to host them for a bit, please get in touch!

[Dr Caitlin Halfacre caitlin91.bsky.social @91caitlin]

@NWAV52miami do you have any info on registration prices? I need to apply for funding asap and can't do that without a costing