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Language Jones

4 years

Just saw a segment on @vicenews that I was interviewed for, and @alzoslade immediately caught the ungrammatical sentence the producers asked us to embed in the AAE quiz they had us write for the segment. 1/

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Language Jones

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2 years

@Ultra_Lib @TheUnmumsyMum Perhaps there’s a correlation between having a “family sick bowl” that you also prepare food in, and *needing* a designated vessel for your frequent vomiting?

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

A lot of people have been asking me about this: after reviewing and analyzing the audio, it is my expert professional opinion that Mr. Floyd did *not* say "I ate too many drugs," and instead said "I ain't do any drugs." #DerekChauvinTrial 1/

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2 years

I love B&H. Handing these out at the exit. No explanation, no excuse, just “this is when we’re closed. Plan ahead”

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@languagejones

6 years

Ever see a dialect map like this? Linguists don’t know what this map would look like for African American English. If you are a black native speaker of #AAE & have 5 minutes & a computer, you can help by taking the survey and reading the short story at

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Language Jones

@languagejones

5 years

I just successfully defended my dissertation!!!

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

@Aphrothighty ...but white folks who never grew up around black folks and have minimal exposure to AAE will swear up and down that they understand, and if they don't it's the (black) speaker's fault they don't. 5/5

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

@Aphrothighty I'm a linguist who researches AAE and cross dialect comprehension. You're right about Habitual 'be' and stressed 'been'. Some other things white people usually don't understand: -Preterite had: using "had" in sentences that don't place the events before other past events. 1/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

In linguistics, this word is “word”

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Language Jones

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6 years

@Aphrothighty -"stay" as a habitual marker - "it" as a dummy pronoun (as in, "it's a lot of people outside"...white folks exclusively use "there") I could literally do this all day and we haven't even gotten to differences in accents on top of the grammatical differences. 4/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

3 years

Are linguists ok?

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

@Aphrothighty -Using "talkin' 'bout" as a verb of quotation that introduces direct or reported speech instead of just a topic of discussion. -"a ni***" used in the first person...that is, the speaker referring to themself. -Negative Auxiliary Inversion: that is, "don't nobody ever" 2/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

@Aphrothighty ...instead of "nobody ever does..." -question inversion in subordinate clauses -set expressions that use AAE grammar like "it be that way sometimes" and "what had happened was". - who nem refers to - use of "be done" for conditional future events 3/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

Linguists have over 100 words for the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

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@languagejones

2 years

What Why is “carne” not what’s in scare quotes???

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

I think @duolingo might be the first language learning app to make a UX decision that pissed off every academic linguist, unanimously Do you know how little we agree on?

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@languagejones

2 years

We just saw the last performance of Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and as the curtain is about to rise, two women sit down next to me, one points to the word “Yiddish” on the playbill and asked the other “what’s that?”

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

If a math test is written in a way that is grammatical in African American English AAE-speaking 2nd graders scores go up by 10% compared to tests in “standard” English that are ungrammatical or confusing in AAE #AAE #AAVE #Dialect #linguistics #bias

Betsy Sneller BLACK LIVES MATTER

@betsysneller

6 years

Very cool ERP study in Michael Terry’s plenary! Verbal s is ungrammatical for #AAE speaking kids, can get misinterpreted as plural -s, resulting in mistakes in story problem math tests for AAE spking 2nd graders. #GURT2019

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Language Jones

@languagejones

11 months

This is why Australians all have heads that are 3cm shorter in profile. Has anyone ever seen a side view of an Australian? It’s genuinely shocking to me how much of linguistics education outreach is just debunking flavors of phrenology

em🐊

@em___rem

11 months

Is someone already writing a take-down of this or should I do it?

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Language Jones

@languagejones

1 year

Time for another construction I was taught in grad school that native English speakers do not say, that I just heard from a native English speaker in casual speech: “I’m gonna send you it” So much ink has been spilled explaining why it’s not said

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

When they say in intro to linguistics that it’s possible to take the same stock of words and rules of grammar and generate an entirely new sentence that has never been said before, this is what they mean

Ash Parrish

@adashtra

2 years

That the pussy phrenologist is also a corpse molester is an all time twitter moment. That revelation couldn't happen anywhere else

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@languagejones

4 years

“If there were a subjunctive in English, I think I’d know about it”

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

Finally getting around to making a blog post about my dissertation findings, on regional variation in African American English, with maps and graphs. Big findings are:

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Language Jones

@languagejones

5 years

The barista was skeptical when I said etymology twitter would get a kick out of this pun. “Etymology twitter?” She asked, superciliously. “It’s a whole thing” I replied.

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

Just learned Portuguese has the word jantar "dinner" from old Portuguese jentar "lunch" from Latin ientāre, present active of ientō "I eat breakfast"

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

I always love the word of the year event, but we’re really gonna need to eventually start talking about how problematic it is, especially with regards to AAE, in the age of twitter and “digital blackface”. It’s a hard conversation because the intent and history of the event is 1/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

I'll have more to say later, but I want to reiterate: my expert professional opinion as a linguist whose PhD and research program revolve around AAE, and as someone who lives in and grew up in AAE speech communities, is that Mr. Floyd unequivocally said "I ain't do any drugs."

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Language Jones

@languagejones

1 year

Linguists might need therapy more, but therapists need linguistics.

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

So it sounds like you don’t get how discourse markers work

Chris Mullins 🏀

@fishingpole17

6 years

@languagejones If you stop starting sentences with “so” it may be even faster. Just busting balls. The initial so is a pet peeve of mine.

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

Hey @JewWhoHasItAll when is this store closed??? They didn’t give a date

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

@motheroftheses @SKayLawton @joshraclaw @_thesilence9 @antiquarian421 @timeshighered Millennial doctoral candidate checking in.

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

4. Misunderstandings or misrepresentations of AAE are often used to discredit and discount Black people's speech, especially in a judicial setting. See Rickford & King 2016, or Jones, Kalbfeld, Hancock & Clark 2019, both in Language () @LingSocAm 18/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

Has anyone written about the use of “baby” as a syntactic imposter/pronoun in materials for expectant couples and new parents, or do I have to do everything myself? Eg: “if baby is fussy, it might be gas. Try bicycling baby’s legs or rubbing their tummy gently”

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

The extralinguistic evidence: 1. "I ate too many drugs" is a strange sentence. I have known plenty of people who have experience with drug use, and none have ever referred to it as "eating drugs." This is just not how people talk, and is highly implausible. 15/

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@languagejones

5 years

@kguilbault_ @APStylebook We all know it’s “Mavises Staple.”

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Language Jones

@languagejones

3 years

This is the best example of the “Recency Illusion” I think I’ve ever seen. OP is mad at “How I Met Your Mother,” a sitcom from 2005, for introducing phrasal verbs — a feature of English that goes back to Middle English.

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@languagejones

5 years

Kilograms are just n-grams where n=1000

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

Why do most linguists not call it AAVE anymore? A quick primer on AAL/AAE/AAVE and more:

What's in a name? Why do some linguists not call it African American Vernacular English (AAVE)...

Today’s post will be a short one, but it’s something I should have written a long time ago. Thanks to social media, there is a rising awareness among the general public of the validity of the...

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

My 95 year old grandmother, who fled France in 1939, has been doing @duolingo to “learn all the new words since [she] left” and she calls it “dinglingo” and has used it every day since I showed it to her. And she’s acing most of the lessons. I love everything about this.

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@languagejones

1 year

I’ve been thinking a lot about implicature baked into contemporary slang (most of which originated in AAE). I’m thinking “hits different,” it was “a vibe” or “a mood,” and “feel some kind/type of way.”

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Language Jones

@languagejones

6 years

I am extremely pleased to announce that @linguistopher 's and my paper "Grammatical Reanalysis and the Multiple N-words in AAE" has been accepted for publication in American Speech, the journal of @americandialect . It's a controversial topic, but one we believe must be addressed.

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@languagejones

1 year

Communication styles at play: X-Ray tech: “it looks like you might have broken your toe” Me: “I hope not. But I guess the x-rays will tell us.” XRT: “I’m looking at it and you might have.” Me: “well, I hope not.” XRT: “no, you did.” Might as politeness vs probability

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

What is this? Wrong answers only @JewWhoHasItAll

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@languagejones

6 years

Overheard a man talking to his daughter in this cafe: “it’s just better if white goes with white, yellow goes with yellow, and brown goes with brown.” My head snaps up. Turns out, he’s asking her to put the sugar packets she took back in their bins. 2018 has been tough.

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@languagejones

5 years

Syntax tree of the day

Lauren McGaughy

@lmcgaughy

5 years

Florida woman bites testicles off camel that sat on her after she broke into its cage at a Louisiana truck stop so she could escape. Not @TheOnion .

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

I wish people could understand familiarity with African American English has helped me (& others) better understand foreign languages, because it’s not slang or mistakes, but a fully developed grammatical system. Coming up in AAE speech communities made me a better linguist

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@languagejones

4 years

The linguistic evidence: 1. Mr. Floyd speaks African American English (AAE), and makes use of the negative marker "ain't." Earlier, in body cam footage, he said "I ain't do nothing!" ("I didn't do anything" in classroom English). This will be relevant later. 3/

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@languagejones

4 years

Linguists, can we talk about how people now say that they TYPED something OUT LOUD This is the best thing since “pitch quiet”

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3. Why would someone who has been insisting for minutes "I ain't do nothing" suddenly switch to the bizarre sentence "I ate too many drugs" interjected in the middle of other protestations of innocence? 17/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

Ever wonder what regional variation in African American accents looks like on the map? My dissertation is the first to look at the entire vowel system across the entire country; here's my first blog post about the patterns and trends:

A LOOK AT REGIONAL VARIATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH ACCENTS — Language Jones

Last April, at the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, I defended my dissertation. It will come as no surprise to anyone that I’m only now getting around to writing about it — everyone...

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

I will be writing a detailed blog post about this today, but the gist is there is linguistic and non-linguistic evidence for this analysis. 2/

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@languagejones

3 years

Broke: mock Spanish Woke: mock Nahuatl

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Language Jones

@languagejones

7 years

Ever wish there was a corpus of African American Language from D.C., with over 100 interviews, 60+ hours of transcribed and time aligned speech, covering speakers born from 1890-2001, and open to all researchers AND the public? NOW THERE IS! CORAAL drops today! #LSA2018

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@languagejones

1 year

I love this about babies. It’s also, as far as we know, the roots of gender (read “genre” or “noun class”) systems in language. It’s likely not coincidence that languages tend to have male/female, human/nonhuman, animate/inanimate, and in some cases tree/not-a-tree distinctions

Jeff Guhin

@jeffguhin

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My 13mo second daughter’s vocabulary: “mama”: Mama “daddy”: all humans who are not Mama including sister, grandmother, sundry cashiers “doggy”: all non-human animals “tree”: any object that is neither animal nor human nor mama angry pointing: damn but I do wish I could tell you

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@languagejones

4 years

This is also not the first time the crowd-sourced Urban Dictionary has been used in a legal setting to "explain" African American speech, with absurd results. 22/

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@languagejones

4 years

2. In many varieties of AAE and in Mr. Floyd's speech, "ain't" is pronounced [e͡ɪ̃ʔ]. If you don't read IPA, the important part is that the n is often pronounced as nasalization on the vowel, and not as a separate, following segment (think of French "on" or Portuguese -ão) 4/

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@languagejones

4 years

It is possible that the defense is not acting cynically, and simply lacks basic knowledge about spoken African American English, but this is not the first egregious mistake they've made. 19/

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@languagejones

2 years

"Linguists HATE him!" Ok, but like, specifically which linguists

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@languagejones

5 years

I know it’s the whole point of writing a dissertation, but hearing Bill Labov say “no one has ever thought about this in this way before,” just made my day

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@languagejones

4 years

Perhaps this goes without saying, but not only is "rectally ingesting" not what "hooping" means, but also not what "eating" refers to. 21/

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3 years

@maimonides_nutz

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2 years

Finally a breakdown of the common European framework that makes sense

C. Widmann (The Pluriglot)

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2 years

Language levels at a glance: A1: Can order a coffee. A2: Can order it with or without milk. B1: Can ask if there's any coffee left. B2: Understands the answer. C1: Can read a science book about coffee. C2: Can write the book. #langtwt

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1 year

BREAKING: My wife has informed me that “ooh, linguistics Twitter is having a meltdown over iconicity and the arbitrariness of the sign” is a ridiculous sentence, and has further asked whether I even hear myself

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1 year

So…is “why can’t I still speak Spanish” grammatical for anyone, with the intended meaning: “why can I still not speak Spanish…”???

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@languagejones

6 years

Before the first commercial break @maddow established Spiro Agnew was a raving antisemite jihadist paid agent of a foreign state, and he was secretly consulted on the Bush 88 campaign? And there’s 40 more minutes???

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@languagejones

5 years

When we say you come across all languages in NYC, we’re not fooling around

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4 years

7. "I ain't do any drugs" is a normal, grammatical sentence in AAE. 11/

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2 years

So at this point I’ve seen probably 20+ linguists intentionally share a white supremacist bad linguistics take to dunk on it. Congrats, you just shared a white supremacist take. You are spreading their propaganda for them.

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@languagejones

6 years

One result people wrongly assuming AAE doesn’t have any structure is that it’s remarkably easy to tell when they make up quotes that are ungrammatical in AAE to lie about black people.

b-boy bouiebaisse

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love these extremely believable anecdotes

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1 year

Since singular “they” for a known referent is contentious, a modest pronoun proposal: use the archaic English 3rd person plural that was replaced by the Norse borrowings “they/them/their” instead. That is, singular hīe, him, heora (“heeyay, heem, hayora”)

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@languagejones

5 years

Going on the academic job market is very stressful, but today I heard from a student who was assigned my 2015 paper on AAE dialect regions, and that a defense attorney stopped someone reading my 2019 paper on AAE in the courtroom to ask for a citation.

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Language Jones

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1 year

There was a running joke working at Rosetta Stone because each language had an early-ish lesson where people introduce themselves with their name and profession and they’re all different, but in every language there was “I am Viktor Popov” and instead of a job, “I am Russian.”

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@languagejones

5 years

@chbooksdc @emilynussbaum So the doves are crying at the restaurant patio seating?

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2 years

@kennethmayer @testosteronejew The irony of posting that on a holiday that is literally: “they tried to kill us, they succeeded, let’s not eat.” 😭

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@languagejones

6 years

An paper I coauthored with @sociologyjones and @R_A_Hancock , “Testifying While Black”, has been accepted by Language. We find court reporters lack the specific training to accurately transcribe #AAVE . Blog post about it here:

Testifying While Black — Language Jones

[content warning: language] [co-authored with Jessica Kalbfeld ] For the last four years I've been working on a large-scale project distinct from writing my dissertation that my family and friends...

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@languagejones

3 years

Wondering if linguistics has ruined me for poetry. Reading a book that is waxing ecstatic about the “repeated” “s sounds” in the words “caverns measureless” and every one of those orthographic “s”s is a different sound. The author is talking about the effect of that “repetition”

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6 years

Unpopular opinion: linguists get upset at this question cuz we all know deep down that while our job is analysis — and you don’t have to speak your language of study to analyze it — we probably *should* be good at a few, & we’re generally not & we look like frauds to normal ppl

Adam Schembri

@AdamCSchembri

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Non-linguist *meets a linguist* Linguist's brain: don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it don’t say it Non-linguist: 'How many languages do you speak?'

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It is my professional opinion as a trained linguist and phonetician that Rich Lowry absolutely did say the “n-word” on the Megyn Kelly Show. I detail the phonetic, articulatory, and psycholinguistic evidence here:

Did Rich Lowry just say the N-word on Megyn Kelly's show? A Linguist weighs in. — Language Jones

Yesterday, discussing Haitian migrants in Springfield Ohio, and whether or to what extent they may or may not be abducting and eating (presumably white) Ohioans’ pets — because this is what the...

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4 years

6. nasalization (like in the word "ain't") is hard to hear in a noisy channel. It's not surprising that "ain't" could have been misheard. In fact, this is exactly the kind of mishearing I wrote about in 2019 in Language, with @sociologyjones and @R_A_Hancock 10/

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3 years

Watching the Scripps spelling bee, and I’m on the edge of my seat, but I’m also LIVID that the guy reading the words has the MARRY-MERRY-MARY merger, and consistently perplexed by the explanation that there are “no” “alternate” “pronunciations”

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6 years

@Aphrothighty DM sent

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5 years

“Sir, yo!” This is the best politeness formulation I’ve ever heard “...there’s a seat here for you if you want.”

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@languagejones

2 years

In linguistics, giving a speech is an accomplishment, but dying is an achievement. I made a video explaining why.

In Linguistics, drowning is an accomplishment

Activities, achievements, accomplishments, states, oh my!Patreon: www.patreon.com/languagejonesHoodie: https://languagejones.creator-spring.com/listing/langu...

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4 years

2. Context of the speech act is important. The defense claims that Mr. Floyd was freaking out (perhaps due to substance abuse). It is clear, watching the video that he is begging for his life, and attempting to negotiate, but defer to the officers ("please, mister officer") 16/

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4 years

Help I accidentally venmoed my membership dues to @LingsSocAm

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6 years

Using the comparative method, and taking Marine “oorah”, Navy and Coast Guard “hooyah”, and Army “Hooah”, we can infer proto military *hoorah ‘yes, affirmative’ #linguistics

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3. Mr. Floyd's pronunciation of the oo vowel in "do" follows a pattern common in most varieties of North American English, where it glides between two vowels...linguists sometimes represent this as /uw/. w is VERY close to m (try for yourself, compare "awa" and "ama") 5/

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@languagejones

2 years

When I said in my last video that Dutch sounds silly to English speakers, I got a lot of flak for it. I present exhibit B

picardie aurora

@picardie_aurora

2 years

absolutely not

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3 years

Hot take: Lots of linguists are hating on this, but reading the article, and not just looking at the picture, it’s kind of heartbreaking.

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@languagejones

6 years

basically good, but in the last few years a lot of nominations have been things from AAE that just recently blew up in the white mainstream. Things are taken as new and noteworthy that are only new to some people — but those people are the traditional gatekeepers in a field

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1 year

@MorganJerkins The fuck kind of question is that

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@languagejones

1 year

Ok cuneiform people, what’s this say?

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@languagejones

5 years

“It’s not necessary that students’ educators speak AAVE. What is necessary is that adults respect AAVE-speaking children when they do.” 🔥 🔥 🔥

Caffeinated Living

@WokeLiving

5 years

"To remove or inferiorate the language, the cultural vehicle, for communication of a people is cultural genocide. And it behooves educators, the general public and Black folks that love to swim in the pool of respectability to remember that." #NEWarticle

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2 years

Well, this is a new one

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@languagejones

3 years

@psych_yo_mind @GonyouShannon religious thing sameach!

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@languagejones

3 years

It helps pervurnt comirnaty transmursion

Yamiche Alcindor

@Yamiche

3 years

Huge news. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine. The vaccine will now be marketed as “Comirnaty” (koe-mir’-na-tee), for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.

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6 years

Just heard a woman drop into extreme creaky voice to respond to an unwanted mansplainy interjection from a guy in this coffee shop and the intersection of vocal modality & stance taking here is amazing y’all. Like...she was probably pushing as low as 50Hz.

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Language Jones

@languagejones

2 years

Enjoying Ridley Road, but the captioned is less than versed in Yiddish, and every time Sol speaks, it’s captioned wrong. “Boy chief” instead of boychik, “gangster maker” instead of gantse macher. Gonna have a hard time not incorporating “boy chief” in an East London accent

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Language Jones

@languagejones

4 years

...as in "I ain't do ANY drugs." 5. There was significant noise in the audio, and multiple voices talking at the same time. I believe the noise and other voices contributed to the incorrect perception that Mr. Floyd said "too many" and not "do any". 9/

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Language Jones

@languagejones

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Let’s talk linguistics. Specifically, tense and aspect, and how they relate to implicature and shape narrative. “What Hamas DID *WAS* wrong.” I spent part of yesterday talking with a friend whose best friend of 20 years was abducted. She is *CURRENTLY* held by Hamas.

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