Susan_Hennessey This is.... well, there aren’t words. nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opi…
jacarlvs Normalize apologizing to children.
kjhealy You spent a solid millennium slowly building an institution that is imperfectly but still pretty good at having productive, substantive arguments. And guess what! It functions mostly via safe spaces with extremely strong ground rules about what's up for discussion.
kjhealy Depressed by the number of academics on here who insist the sacred value of Free Speech demands putting up with all manner of flood-the-zone-with-shit / nothing-can-be-presupposed nonsense that they wouldn't tolerate for thirty seconds at a brownbag Q&A in their own department.
mangorijima I'm hearing that Twitter is testing a feature to show people's online status and should this feature go live, I'd like to share what my online status means in advance:
Offline: I'm not available
Do Not Disturb: I'm not available
Idle: I'm not available
Online: I'm not available
Uitdrukking van de dag: een Schweinshaxe naar binnen haxen
the_maki Du, ein Twitterer (doof): „Danke für Eure Likes, Herzchenpoperzchen!“
Ich, ein Schüler von Otto Wagner im Jahr 1909 (klug): pic.twitter.com/s4du5dYbTr
DavidAFrench Given his constantly-expressed authoritarian intent, his grotesque incompetence is a blessing. twitter.com/realdonaldtrum…
linguistlaura Linguistics question: who's worked on person switch in asterisked meta-language, like *scuttles[3sg] over to the buffet, rubbing my[1sg] belly in anticipation* where the two are coindexed?
@ojahnn Nur in München (?): Busse mit Anhänger
Nur in Bayern: Metzgerei im Bahnhof
LinguaCelta Update on our Leipzig journey: turns out the question “I’m sorry, maar könnten Sie wat langzamer sprechen alstublieft?” is not entirely useless. Code-switching through exhaustion for the win!
"Deutschland ist ein blasses Stück Land (...) mit einem ganz speziellen grauweißen 360-Grad-Licht" (Iggy Pop im mobil-Interview) <3
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@Vilinthril Weird conflation of a linguistic construction and its creepy use