Thomas Messerli

@pragmatic.bsky.social
Research and teaching fellow in #linguistics at University of Basel, lecturer/ researcher at FHNW. #pragmatics #cmc #avt #corpusling

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

This physically hurts (my soft and hard palate) 🙈

[ADDA4_2023 @2023Adda4]

Dear ADDA4 participants, we are happy to share the conference program:
https://t.co/SkxmhddwTV

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@PicturesFoIder Or a more creative solution: 27+48=3*9+3*16,=3*(9+16)=3*25=75

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@UnforcedAG @PicturesFoIder I guess this is what I meant by why do we need a way to do this…

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@PicturesFoIder I’m a bit confused by this post. Why do you need a strategy? Isn’t it simply 75? I guess if I want to double check, I’d do 50+27-2, or 30+48-3, or 48+20+7… I mean, if you ask how do you add 976 +479 I get it. Then I’d most likely do 1476-21.

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@DrVSinkeviciute Do we know the other exact dates yet? (DH2025 will be 15-18 July 2025)

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@FausFrau Warum entscheiden Sie nicht einfach, ob Sie das zum Mann oder zur Frau macht? So spannend Ihre Geschichte ist, wie kommen Sie darauf Ihre Stichprobe (n=1) als repräsentativ für die Gesellschaft anzusehen?

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@YlvaBiri The same to you! I‘ll write when I‘m in Helsinki next time.

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

At #ipra2023, Francisco Yus is starting day 2 with a talk about pragmatic aspects of #Emoji 💡🤔😯🙌 #linguistics #pragmatics #cmc

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@LizMarsden_Ling How does that work? I'm curious as to the sequence of turns that leads from bumping into someone to "hey, I just tested positive for COVID!" 🤔 Also, I hope you sent them home...

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

I should be more precise: Shockingly it’s mostly Maher doing that, while Musk is lost in his woke mind virus conspiracy theory.

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@_borntobemild @OptimusAlek @PatriciaLeh Unfortunately not really, it’s not my field. Conceptual metaphor theory is shill being done. Lera Boroditsky would be an example of some fun studies about time and space…

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@OptimusAlek @PatriciaLeh Honestly though, he‘s still ballpark in the right area. I would be positively surprised if someone asked me if I know George Lakoff if I tell them I am in linguistic pragmatics.

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@beritmiriam oooh, kling ja super spannend! Wie gehts dir?

[Thomas Messerli @PointyEar]

@RGGonzales1 @CdnPercy Interesting to follow this. It’s appalling how often people (hopefully) thoughtlessly perpetuate such slurs. What is new to me is the negative connotation of “hole in the wall”, which I would have readily used for the tiny German bakery cafe I went to in Norway, for instance.

[Miriam Locher @MiriamLocher]

Happy to report a new open access publication on Fiction and Pragmatics https://t.co/lbUeYli0nK