alderson.bsky.social
historical linguist, quondam Tolkien language maven, systems administrator, PDP-10 programmer, former computer museum curator, @[email protected]
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I doubt I’ll ever see him in person, but I go back to this from January with every SCOTUS decision
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Why should she read something that she most likely didn’t write?
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They are absolutely fucking TERRIFIED of a Dem that isn’t a milquetoast tow-the-line establishment pushover collaborator. Because they know once we start electing people that are actually fighting them rather then doing lip service for donations they’re gonna LOSE LOSE LOSE.
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The Dem establishment will ABSOLUTELY let them get away with trying to deport him. Or Schumer will write them a mean letter. But they won’t ever actively work to stop it. Because Mamdani terrifies them too.
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Trump (and Miller) have already said they want to denaturalize citizens. Given their penchant for publicity, they would see Mamdani as a good target.
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This is the quote from Dr. Rosenberg in The Cancer Letter, and he would know, because he actually practices medicine.
Bhattacharya himself has never practiced medicine. He is petty, pathetic, delusional man with zero integrity.
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College friend invited to a rattlesnake roundup took along his Brownie 8 movie camera (1969).
Folks stopped to look into a gopher burrow. He started to film.
Folks levitated away from burrow. Merriment ensued. (No, it didn’t.)
They took away his camera and handed him a snake stick.
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🤣
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Paging H. Allen Smith.
OTOH, I’m a Texan, and I put beans in MY chili, but I’m not a traditionalist.
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The etymologically correct plural, based on the original Greek, would indeed be “octopodes”, but the word has been fully naturalized in English and your phone is right.
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I think I’m in love.
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When my PCP put me on my first such, nifedipine, he said, “don’t take it with grapefruit juice.” Since grapefruit interactions were making the news at that time, I asked why not, and he replied, “it will keep it from working.”
I love grapefruit. I haven’t had any since 1998. 🥺😢
Bodies suck.
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Yeah, the “coffee” vowel is more rounded and slightly higher than the “toffee” vowel for me. [ɔ] vs. [ɒ], for me.
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Um, specifically, Guy was in the LINGUISTICS department! The phonetics students loved to listen to him.
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I’m 73, from the Deep South originally, and definitely have the medial [ʔ] for /t/.
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There’s nothing subtle about cot vs caught!
I’ll give you pin vs. pen…
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Guy Carden, a professor at Yale in the 1970s, had the most interesting accent, with his mother’s Virginia vowels and his father’s Connecticut consonants.