Timothy Mills

I teach #linguistics and #stats at #ualberta. Personal tweets about #phonetics, #linguistics, or other stuff. He/they.
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[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

@juliannemdoner What can institutions do?
- Put support for #FOSS and open formats first in your institutional ecosystem.
- Actively support staff in the use of these formats.
- Save money by reducing reliance on proprietary software.

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[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

@juliannemdoner What can individuals do?

Coauthors: Don't insist on proprietary formats for collaborative documents.

Publishers and editors: Make open formats primary when setting submission criteria and developing templates.

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[Dad Jokes @Dadsaysjokes]

Police have arrested the World Tongue-Twister Champion.

They said he'll be given a tough sentence.

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

@ArrantPedantry @ElannaHeda I try to always ask when someone does something like this. Of course, it's often my kids, or a student taking a linguistics class from me.

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

@juliannemdoner @kirbyconrod Four years later, I was cycling full-tilt and someone opened the door of their parked car. I flew over the door and landed on the road several metres further on. Got up, straightened my bike out, and carried on. Mild road rash on my elbow; otherwise no damage. #fortunefavours ...

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

@juliannemdoner @kirbyconrod That's how it goes. I got my worst cycling injury while traveling at crawling speed on campus on a beautiful summer day. I was 20. #gracefulandathletic

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

@juliannemdoner @MaureenKosse I think I recently heard "driver's left" on the Edmonton light rail transit.

That seems more natural and less creepy than "my left", which seems to be an attempt to embody that disembodied voice from whatever metaphysical dimension my brain wanted to put it before. :shudder:

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

@StobiesGalaxy You noticed that too, huh? Yup, best #StarTrek yet. Best protagonists. Best villains. Best "minor" characters. Best stories. (Speaking as a decades-long fan of the franchise).

[Icona @iconawrites]

Mary Shelley did try to warn us about hubristic STEM bros who make strange, impulsive experiments and then watch helplessly as their creation destroys itself at the expense of ordinary people.

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

Trying something different: I'm adding the description as alt text for the images, rather than in the body of the tweet, for these ones. Don't know if taking a picture actually helps. It seems more personal somehow. Feedback welcome.

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

#FUNetics #IPA #nopattern

[Ai T 🎃 @LinguistAiT]

I did an interview with UTM News about my L’IMAGE project! 🎉

[AASUA @TheAASUA]

We condemn the ON Gov’s Bill 28, which has violated 55,000 CUPE members’ rights to collective bargaining and to strike. We join @CAUT_ACPPU, and voices in the broader labour movement across Canada, in denouncing these actions. https://t.co/gth1vxbTZR

[Vijay Ramjattan @Vijay_Ramjattan]

Accentism is not a type of oppression that can exist separately from racism, classism, etc.

This is because an accent is never really disembodied.

[Timothy Mills @Timphon]

IPA character of the week: [ɞ] open-mid central rounded vowel.

In a previous century, this could have been an emoticon for a heart. Too bad we have a whole new typographical technology to make it obsolete! 💔

#IPA #FUNetics #emoticonsVSemoji