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exolinguist.bsky.social
Linguist by trade, flâneur by choice, sarcasm appreciator, amateur cookie baker, aspiring traveller, occasional haver of a good idea, friend of desoto slightly embarrassed to know entirely too much about trek 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🖖(he/him)
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Oh… oh my… I’m going to be teaching the origin of the word ‘selfie’ (first attested in 2002) to a room full of students who are mostly younger than the word

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trois rivières? dans cette économie?

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Today in things I wish I could unoverhear: *two people hugging in greeting, the one to the other who just arrived* “Were your ears ringing? Were your loins ringing?”

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I think it’s time for a re-watch (if I can find it… the last physical copy I had was VHS)

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IDK, maybe we stop telling students and teachers this is the technology of the future?

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

The women who raised me (yes, that last one is a really deep cut reference)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Begone, mystery follower with a three-armed profile picture

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Trying to argue in class that in English “funny” can have a usage more like “weird” than “ha ha funny”: Have you seen Fargo? No. Do you know who Steve Buscemi is? No. Do you know the fellow kids meme? The what? … *Drops eraser back on whiteboard rail* Nevermind.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

A movie you’ve seen at least four times

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it's great when years of work gets (probably) thrown in the trash by your idiot government for no reason and then you have to, like, hold office hours 🤷‍♂️

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

I think I just broke someone’s brain in class today by pointing out that the term “brown toast” is not universally recognized as toast made using whole wheat bread

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In a sane world a government would fall for this.

submitted 35 days ago • 9 comments

We live in the ✨ world of tomorrow ✨

submitted 38 days ago • 353 comments

This chart humorously combines four famous concepts: Chekhov's Gun, Schrödinger's Cat, Occam's Razor, and Murphy's Law.

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

Post your favourite #doctorwho. Wrong answers only

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Keeping up the tradition that my example sentences for the semester will come from a universe with Queer and POC representation

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

skeet a duo

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

Well this will be more fun than when I was asked to do an interview about ‘demure’

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Had to put in an IT ticket because Teams isn’t working, and I need it for one thing. Once that’s done, it can rest in silicon heaven (being generous)

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Looking to revise old lecture slides and stumbling on dumb jokes I forgot were there, and that maybe one other person would notice

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