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jonbakos.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor of TESL and Linguistics at Indiana State University. Sociolinguistics.
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submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Final #LSA2025 meal: cheese boat at Saami Somi. Delicious

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

It's Mostly Sunny in Philadelphia #LSA2025

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

"Given these options we've decided to just let Michigan remain champions and call a mulligan on this year. We're sorry, we're sorry, we'll do better next time" - Charlie Baker, NCAA President

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Rawdog is the American Dialect Society's 2024 Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Brat has won Most Fun While it Lasted Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

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Unserious has won Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

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Lock in has won Most Useful Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 It ate

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Brainrot has won Digital Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

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Luigi has won Political Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025

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Rawdog has won Informal Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

'the X I Xed' is Most Creative Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 (Ex: the gasp I gusped)

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

It's that tiiiime again🎶 #woty #lsa2025

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Update from your #LSA2025 food correspondent: Catfish from Beck's at Reading Terminal Market was unremarkable Not here for authenticity debates, but cheese steak from Gus's was darn tasty and they were still open near closing time

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

The image from @mixedlinguist.bsky.social's excellent #LSA2025 talk

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@jofrhwld.bsky.social recommended cannolis from Termini Bros and they are fantastic #LSA2025

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

#LSA2025 !

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

A quick stop in NYC before #LSA2025 means another stop on the SocLing pilgrimage. AITA if I ask where men's shoes are

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

It should be criminal to have this many great panels and events going on *at the same time* #LSA2025

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Pet peeve in video games: "Oh, the dreaded plague-blight! A single touch and you'll be CORRUPTED FOREVER" Meanwhile I'm slogging through the Plague Pits and getting mauled by Blight Bears with no protection or ill effects

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

There's some Talking About Football Show on in the waiting room I'm in and apparently yelling like Gilbert Gotrfried is hyper-masculine coded now?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

The first linguistics conference talk I ever gave was a joint talk with Dennis Preston at NWAV in 2008. We were the third in the panel, and during the first two talks I was calming down about the whole idea. Then, as ours was getting started, Bill Labov walked in!

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

That weird feeling when the software you've been fighting with for months just quietly works exactly like it's supposed to

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments