Emma (she/her)

Linguist, polyglot, sleep researcher, boulderer, and self-appointed memeologist. Opinions based on my own intuition, which is basically the same as a fact.

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Okay yall I did it, add me on the elephant(?) app: @[email protected]

I can’t be bothered to set everything else up yet but I promise it’s me

[Duolingo @duolingo]

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[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

@superlinguo I do! It’s my infodumping safe space: https://t.co/S8Lxqnapws

[Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter]

I hear that the British Museum is telling journalists they removed the QJ translations (& the Chinese!) "at my request." They infringed my copyright and are not allowed to use my work without permission/credit. Their first email said they'd put my name on a list of translators,

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Nibling has officially progressed from the “2-word utterance” to the “multiword utterance” stage. And they use gerunds now! Exciting times ahead.

[dr. alicia andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz]

TW: suicide

I was just talking with a colleague & she said there was an advisor at her grad school that thought it reflected positively on her “rigor” that one of her advisees committed suicide.

what are we doing here, folks?

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Surprise surprise, the @britishmuseum has done it again 🙃

[Yilin @ The Lantern and the Night Moths @yilinwriter]

Um, hey @britishmuseum, it's come to my attention that your exhibit "China's hidden century" uses my translations of Qiu Jin's poetry, but you never contacted me for permission. Please note this is a copyright infringement! How are you going to fix this?? #NameTheTranslator

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

@CameliaBleotu I’m living for the birds!!! So many cool ones hanging out in the city 🐦

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Currently in Australia and I’m thinking about the last time I was here and some teens at an ice cream shop trolled 12yo me by pretending they couldn’t understand my accent.

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

@CameliaBleotu It’s so nice! Lots of yummy Asian food which I don’t find very much of in Germany 🍜

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

@katiedimartin We’re planning a max 25-person wedding and I can only imagine my SO’s response if I was like “can we add one more guest? no not a relative, it’s actually one of my Twitter mutuals.”

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Also it’s winter here (geography, man!!) I’ve never seen more puffer jacket+shorts combos in my LIFE

[Uju Anya @UjuAnya]

Every interaction we have with other people is filtered through our own experiences, beliefs, and biases. We can be speaking the same language, but often, we leave conversations understanding completely different things. Take, for example…

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Casual reminder to all my lovely PhD students that you deserve sleep!! Your brain is working on your dissertation while you’re snoozing and even if it wasn’t, you owe yourself some basic self care ❤️
-an ex-PhD student who is exhausted but unable to sleep on the train

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

@njoybetz My job is literally to help people wake up “feeling refreshed” and I’m still only achieving that like 40% of the time in my personal life (mostly due to lack of self discipline)…….. but I can confirm that these people exist

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

@wenbren13 Those people are gods

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Today is a reminder that one of the most surefire ways to attract the German Stare™️ is to simply leave your house with wet hair

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

@YeahThatCindy I love this one!!! @FogliettiJulien can help if you want to write a follow-up 😉

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

Several of my coworkers and I have 3+ mutual languages so sometimes it’s just a gamble as to what comes out during conversations. Someone sneezed the other day and I said “Saludheit.”

[Emma (she/her) @meiguoEmma]

The #Germany performance is, in the words of my partner, “what would happen if Lucius Malfoy let loose”
#Eurovision2023