Michael Dunn

Evolutionary linguist in the Department for Linguistics and Philology at Uppsala University
mastodon: @[email protected]; bluesky: @evoling

[Michael Dunn @MishaDunn]

@ian_joo_korea Just that!

[Michael Dunn @MishaDunn]

@ian_joo_korea With the last minute change of venue the new committee is dealing with a lot at short notice. I would forgive them if it takes a bit longer to send out notifications than originally planned

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@ian_joo_korea Don't forget Östen Dahl's epic "tea" lexicalisation map in WALS https://t.co/akjkWvc2mg! I guess it could be part of 4) a short history of tea

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@David_Erschler I have a vague memory from student years of a story (by Chekhov?) about a warehouse keeper having a crisis during stocktaking because he had 5 x штанга

[Michael Dunn @MishaDunn]

@kilinguistics Perfect!

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@kilinguistics I love it. It looks like that if you attend five lectures, you get a bonus lecture free!

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@o_guest @garicgymro @KevinAbroad1 Now I come to think about it, I am particularly uncomfortable with "remunerate" and its derivatives. I really, really want to say "renumerate", but that's not a thing.

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@garicgymro @KevinAbroad1 Many Finns I know complain about 'squirrel'.

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One for @BananaKarenina (wait until the end)

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@RebeccaBuxton @Glenn_Hadikin I get one or two per week, and as a Swedish civil servant (!) I am legally obligated to respond. For the low effort queries I have some boilerplate text saved with all the relevant information.

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@BonnieMayMcLean It’s not going anywhere! He’s only hinting that there’s something with more datapoints just around the corner🎆🎇

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@David_Erschler @thomas_wier "The ancestors of modern Ossetians were nomads in the Eurasian steppes".

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@David_Erschler @thomas_wier Also, "roam" is the usual translation of бродить, which I guess Russian speakers would think of as something quite different from кочевать

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@PatrickESavage @SimonJGreenhill @DrQueue Off the top of my head: "person" in English is a loanword (your definition of cognates should also mention that they are inherited vocabulary/common origin)

[BEDLAN @BEDLAN_Uralic]

Multiple post doc positions at the Univ of Turku in evolutionary/computational linguistics, archaeogeneticists, evolutionary medicin... Come and participate building our new profile Human Diversity!

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[Michael Dunn @MishaDunn]

@Laserhedvig I f we choose to believe this dude really exists then yes, I am Incandescent with rage. She wrote a complex program in C++, understands some advanced CS topics, yet he is shitty because she doesn't follow some best practice/coding conventions that he refused to tell her about

[Michael Dunn @MishaDunn]

@gwalkden Two different words? "I don't want any more beer" vs. "I don't want beer anymore".

[Magnus Pharao @MagnusPharao]

Wonderful essay about a remarkable man and scholar.

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