British libel law consistently functions as a means for rich people to squelch the dissent of those poorer. It's the biggest free speech issue in our country by a mile.

I just read 'internal examiner' as 'infernal examiner'

brb, rolling up a tiefling academic

This was fun to be involved in! youtu.be/uyrD_demYP4?si…

Today doctoral student Chiara Riegger is giving a talk on ‘The prosody of the prefix ge- in (Early) West Germanic’ at the Forum for Germanic Language Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK (presenting joint work with Tina Bögel and George Wⓐlkden). fgls.ac.uk/events/program…

This is an excellent paper, and I wish linguistics had more of this sort of thinking.

It seems to be pretty sexy for L2 people to write stuff linking L2 acquisition to diachronic change right now. Frustrating though when they don't engage with work by diachronists who are doing exactly that, instead relying on dated proposals by éminences grises.

We gotta get Amber Rudd and Baroness Ayesha Hazarika MBE into the Garrick Club, man, that's what's progressive politics is all about

Reminder: in early 2020, Musk predicted that human language would be obsolete in as few as five years.

One more year to go, Mr. b***s*** merchant.

Cow update