Dr Beth Cole

Nomadic/precarious linguist in the north east, fan of grammatical variation and change (Gaelic and English), loves a good case system.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@WillowsWinter But, if it's not a stand alone "X" then I do 7 but bottom right and top right are joined. My writing slopes backwards so no idea what that says about me, probably nothing good!

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@WillowsWinter 5

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@AdamCSchembri And you don't necessarily get to see much of those other places, just the inside of another academic institution, which looks pretty similar to all the others.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@emilykmay Meanwhile #3, 3½y later, even allowing for it being mid-pandemic, was just so mindblowingly easier. We could both actually enjoy it because we weren't exhausted and stressed out of our minds.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@emilykmay Absolutely. My first 2 are 13m apart and the first 1-2y of having 2 were the hardest years I've ever had. My marriage is strong af but even we struggled. The chronic lack of sleep (#2 was not a sleeper), amount of work, gruelling paid work schedules, all of it. Nearly broke me.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@beyondwaiting @emilykmay I think the shift from 1-2 is the hardest of all. 0-1 is hard in its own way but 1-2 is something else, and then 2-3 is more ok I think I've got the hang of this now (ie I know I don't have the hang of anything and it's ok).

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@DrVikkiBurns @misscull94 Oh I need one of those. No idea what it would contain though. Which is probably why I keep getting stuck in the scrolling loop.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

What kind of strange cot/(coat)/caught merger causes someone to write "troll" when they mean "trawl"??! And why is it happening to my Kentish grandma?

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@childs_claire Exactly my thoughts. Why? What could there possibly be to gain from this? 😢

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

Popped onto twitter thinking why in earth am I bothering, this place is so dull. And the first thing I saw was this. Faith restored.

[Ryan M. Gibson @rm_gibson]

Is there a certain class of word that "you absolute..." only works with? I can't detect a pattern. Turnip, weapon, bathtub, teapot, breadstick, and dish rag all work, but tax rebate, house, vodka, university, friend, and Peugeot 2008 do not.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

If anything, precarity and casualisation are getting worse. "tackle casualisation" seems to have been interpreted by my employer as "stop giving casual staff work" rather than "give casual staff proper jobs".

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

I cannot take strike action this week because my precarious teaching contract doesn't include any work this week. The irony of this is not lost on me. Precarity is destroying UKHE and driving talented people out of the sector. If only my uni showed any interest in addressing it.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@matt_boot_ @MisterVerb If language didn't change, a lot of us wouldn't have jobs!

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

This is so important. Voting yes isn't about saying you want to strike, or you will strike, it's about securing your right *to* strike. It's saying you haven't given up. How to use the mandate is a discussion to have later; without that mandate there's no discussion at all.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

Door handle update: still broken.

UKHE update: still broken.

#UCURising

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

I keep looking at my broken door handle and the botched fix we've come up with. I can't help seeing it as a metaphor for how precarity is helping shore up the broken HE system. It functions, and it's cheap, but you're not fooling anyone that it's a long term solution. #ucuRISING

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

I keep looking at my broken door handle and the botched fix we've come up with. I can't help seeing it as a metaphor for how precarity is helping shore up the broken HE system. It functions, and it's cheap, but you're not fooling anyone that it's a long term solution. #ucuRISING

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

We all know the answer here, and it's Buffy.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

@dialectdemon @PicturesFoIder I knew I liked you.

[Dr Beth Cole @BethLing]

Not me obsessively checking my emails in the hope of some (good) news 🙈