Chad Nilep 🐝

Professor of liberal arts and sciences at Nagoya University, specializing in sociolinguistics, anthropology, and academic writing. he/him

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Hello, graduate student. I just want to say that I think you're doing great. I know it's hard, and I know you're not where you want to be yet, but you will get there. Everyone has moments of frustration, but I'm confident in you. Don't hesitate to ask if for help if you need it.

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@joshraclaw Lectures on Fondant and Icing: The Pisa Lectures?

https://t.co/EwFcyvB4fy

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@AnotherLinguist @chuckbraz @sociolinguista The mention of "communication engineers" is notable. Fano 1950 may be the first to use "switching codes"

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@sociolinguista tldr: Vogt used the term in 1954, in a review of Weinreich's 1953 "Languages in contact"

Haugen, Jakobson, and Gumperz were early adopters

https://t.co/x2u2Hbykmi

(Hall & Nilep 2015 has more history, including early ideas that using more than one language was disorderly)

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@LinguaCelta I'm reminded of newspaper articles about the runner "Tyson Homosexual"

https://t.co/IcyBQY0Cs1

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@joshtpm Occasionally, but not every day (I can't remember what would have occasioned it) 1970s North Dakota

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@nuocw 気持ちいいが、少し心配🌵

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@johawke @byagoda @MorningEdition I vaguely remember (but possibly mis-remember) that 'drawers' in Early Modern English referred to hose/tights, which are pulled on

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It is strangely appropriate that #ss23hku has utterly unsettled my experience of time and space. Somehow I am enjoying the conference in Hong Kong while also teaching in Japan

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"You may not see the difference"

I literally cannot see, but I noticed.

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"Please note: It is no longer possible to update font size directly through your Twitter for Android app."

Why the heck not, @TwitterSupport !?

[Lauren Hall-Lew (she/her), @[email protected] @dialect]

"This is great news, you're clearly getting closer to more accurate and representative results! I can tell, because they are messy and confusing. This is real research."

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This is a good week!
New @accentricitypod and @lingthusiasm

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@cschouxcasey @joshraclaw new font clutch? No…
font bag? No…
font battalion!?

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@neoyorquinanerd I often wonder in cases like this whether people are trying to mislead, or just misunderstanding. Either seems possible

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“Sign Languages as Disaster Entertainment” Anthropology News, Lynn Hou and Octavian Robinson
@linasigns
https://t.co/MGsx8CdvU3

[Lingthusiasm @lingthusiasm]

🎉We're excited to announce the four LingComm Grantees of 2020!🎉

See more about their awesome project ideas at https://t.co/ugZvi8TE1e and right here over the rest of the year as they work on them!

Thank you to all 75+ applicants for making our job deciding very difficult!

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@joshraclaw @rca619700 My genuine first thought: Dwight Bolinger would probably approve

(and having typed that, my brain is now assembling a tableau of salty linguists and allied scholars)

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@acbelan @neoyorquinanerd It's my impression that non-animate things are called 'violent' - violent storm, violent eruption, etc. This could be checked with eg a corpus of newspaper headlines

Generally a very good analysis of the headline, though

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@IvaCheung Imagining a world in which an 'editor' of questionable ethics sets up a fake journal just to issue desk rejects that sound like humble brags ("The research question, while adequately addressed, seems to be beyond this journal's scope in terms of ambition and potential impact...")