Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍

@[email protected] // Sino-Tibetan linguist at @DeptCompLangSci, @ISLE_uzh & @latrobe. Creator of @phonemica. ။ က︀ေလ︀ျိꩫ︀်ပ︀လ︀္က︀်လ︀်ပ︀ꩫ︀်တ︀ံ

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

driving in rural Assam: a bunch of dudes on their phones having complete faith that oncoming traffic is not also a bunch of dudes on their phones.

spoiler: it is.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@thai101 How tremendously unprofessional

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@kayaulai 100%

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

今天才知道 #印度 各州是 #邦 而不是州
还不确定为什么

[Rikker Dockum /ɹɪkɹ̩/ @thai101]

A colleague who works outside of Asia asked me about the evidence for the Austro-Tai hypothesis, and then said this:

Wow, the evidence for Austro-Tai is stronger than for many other traditionally accepted language families.

Hadn’t thought of it in these terms, but.. yeah. 🤔

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@thai101 i remember specifically discussing w someone about different uses of them (when they were stars) and how some uses it like bookmarks rather than 'likes'. the change to hearts made that harder to separate, though

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

A few thoughts about #TwitterMigration : I've had a Mastodon account (now at @[email protected]) for a couple of weeks. It takes some effort to get started, but I think it's worth it!

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[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

so which Mastodon server is #linguistics twitter moving to? asking for a friend

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

Next time anyone asks me what grad school in Taiwan is like I'm just gonna have them watch 女鬼桥 and then refuse to comment further

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@ryansperkins Do people generally have copies of that on hand? I do not. Couldn't tell you where it was either.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

Are middle names legally distinct from the second word of a two-word first name in the US? settle an argument that Google so far isn't.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

Only concern is customs officers in Dibrugarh can get a little weird about not knowing what you're absolutely allowed to bring in, so I'm hoping no one gets grabby.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

Just ordered a Steam Deck, with the specific purpose of using it as a fieldwork computer. Likely replacing my Tascam DR-40 + GoPro setup with a Zoom Q8 as well. Never travel w/ more than a single carry-on anymore so this should be a big space saver overall.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@daehyung97 I said GitHub, I meant WordPress. WordPress migration. Can't edit tweets.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@daehyung97 Sure. The short version is we switched hosts some time back and lost a lot of the media in the process. It was an error somewhere in the process of GitHub migration which was supposed to do media but only managed to export the text and we found out to late.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@daehyung97 We were really gutted when it happened and made a few attempts to recover stuff but it's been so many years that much of it just didn't exist elsewhere. You've motivated me to dig around https://t.co/mbesffK1vj though and see what I can recover there.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@matt_boot_ yes, Michigan

[Zhāng, Miǎo 张淼 @Miao_Zhang_dr]

Tones in Changsha Xiang final prominence disyllabic words. On the left: initial tones are held constant, on the right: final tones are constant. Final prominence does not simplify the f0 contours of tones in the initial syllable.

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@garicgymro @typologianista I get self conscious talking to Americans because that's my accent so I hyper-Americanise my speech in those situations, hence my answer to 9b).

[Kellen Parker ᴠᴀɴ Dᴀᴍ 柯禕藍 @kprkr]

@garicgymro @typologianista a) yes
b) yes if not talking to Americans
c) commonwealth English
d) US citizen having spent more time abroad (Aus, Europe) than in the US