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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Radio was putting into people's homes by the early 1930s" - nice example of active progressive verb with passive voice meaning (cf. 'was being put'), heard just now on a podcast from Irish historian P. Rouse

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Do American sports broadcasters now go back to using singular agreement with country-team names for 4 years?

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Source: "Mountain goats are not in the same genus as goats. In the bovidae family, mountain goats are associated with antelopes, gazelles and cattle" CoPilot summary: "Mountain goats are not true goats; they belong to the goat-antelope tribe and are more closely related to antelopes and sheep"

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I noticed a dialect-related misreading in the 2010 remake of True Grit. Original (novel & 1969 film) has "most girls like play pretties, but you like guns" with the noun 'play-pretty', a southern term for "toy", but in 2010 film it's misread as "most girls like to play pretties".

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Happy "Logging out of Canvas for 3 Months" Day to me!

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Fred Vultee @fredvultee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Today in language change: Passive “weaponize”! (Trump, in a clip on NPR, explaining why members of his cult should be compensated by the government: ”They’ve been weaponized.”) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

So, I guess I won't grade the papers my students uploaded to Canvas.

Ransom note displayed when trying to access Canvas. The note is from ShinyHunters claiming to have breached Instructure.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Not to give other scammers ideas, but if you're phishing humanities/social sci faculty at public university in a red state, an email with an attachment purporting to be a letter from a parent of a student received by the dean's office can be pretty effective. Don't ask how I know.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Ad from Microsoft encourages me to celebrate Earth Day with "art" created using their image generator. cool cool cool

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

New excuse for being late to meetings: Sorry but I just saw a looksmaxxing influencer get brutally frame-mogged & I had to give a witness statement to Chad Protective Services

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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 02/03/2026

fyi, i have a podcast and it's really great and fun. and there are a lot of super-smart people who've been on to talk about not just the Middle Ages but how and why it's studied here in the USA. please give it a listen. AmericanMedieval.com

americanmedieval.com

American Medieval Podcast

A podcast about the Middle Ages (with an American twist), hosted by Professor Matthew Gabriele.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

If they're going to refer to the area as "Dallas-Fort Worth", I really must insist that the one on the left/west be Dallas (see, e.g., Minneapolis-St. Paul). Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The accessibility tracker in Canvas won't accept alt text descriptions of images that are longer than 120 characters. I've never encountered this limit in other contexts. How is it useful if it leads to very short descriptions?

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

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Anne H. Charity Hudley @acharityhudley.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

All righty y'all! The Journal of Black Language and Culture @jblacjournal.bsky.social is now open for submissions! See our website for information on how to submit and reach out if you have questions or ideas as we learn and grow! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.org

Journal of Black Language and Culture | Cambridge Core

Journal of Black Language and Culture - Anne H. Charity Hudley

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

You can tell he's crazy by his misuse of Cyrillic

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Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

📕 Banning Books in America: Not a How-to edited by Samuel Cohen Out February 2026: A vital exploration of how and why books are banned in the U.S.—and what that means for democracy, education, and free expression. 🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/banning-book... #BannedBooksWeek #FreedomToRead

Book cover for "Banning Books in America"

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I've recently heard 2 folk interpretations of the "valley" in "valley girl" as it relates to a speaking style/persona. A (northern) Californian said it referred to the Central Valley (e.g. Fresno). A St. Louisan believed it was about some valley in west county STL. Anyone have other examples?

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"Since the bandages used in this trial contain silver threads, shouldn't lycanthropy be an exclusion criterion?" My latest attempt to get invited to step down from the IRB.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I've had the luxury of mostly avoiding listening to Jimmy Johnson (football coach of teams I hated), but it warmed my dialectologist's heart to hear him, in a recent documentary, say "sick at my stomach".

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Copilot introduces the long (& displaced) 13th cen. BCE.

Screen shot of a Bing search for "when did moses live" and the Copilot answer: "13th century BCE" with the explanation "Moses is believed to have lived during the 13th century BCE, with his birth estimated around 1525 BCE and his death around 1406 BCE..."

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

These epithets for the teams are mostly innocuous & vacuous in a very genAI way but Maryland's stands out.

List of teams in the Big 10 with short labels for each including, "founding football institution" for Illinois, "basketball powerhouse" for Indiana, "competitive program" for Iowa, and "colorful uniforms" for Maryland.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

TIL the NFL team called the Arizona Cardinals used to be the Racine Normals, which would seem to raise some questions of the that-team-doth-protest-too-much variety

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

AP story on MN shooting describes Cyrillic as "a centuries-old script still used in Slavic countries"

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

"The federal government may involve in kidnapping cases for several reasons" #CoPilotEnglish

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Fred Vultee @fredvultee.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Today in RIGG AND STOLLEN! Also: Is “yinz guys” in-bounds, or is it +/- the same thing as “y’all guys”? @anotherlinguist.bsky.social

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

New dating/authorship info drops! Thanks Co-Pilot!

AI summary of Epic of Gilgamesh showing 2025 publication date and listing the author as Gilgamesh.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

How many of my students could explain this architectural "feature" in the hallway outside our classroom? Only 1, a 60-something retiree. Best guess: "a voting booth??"

An alcove in a hallway containing a wooden shelf with a vertical divider. The space seems to have once hosted pay phones or other landline phones.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

"After the 2nd edition came out in print in 1989 and like Dylan before them, the OED went electric." For the first time in 20 years of making this joke, my students got it. #mostofmyhumorisacompleteunknowntomystudents

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

To comply with the EO declaring English the official language, I've decided to change the title of my sociolinguistics class to the etymologically pure "Tongue Stuff with Friends"! So far, registration for next semester is doing great.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

I'm officially "my dad was a student of yours" old!

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"Republicans have expressed interest in trying to define fetal liability legislatively sometime during this session." Local story about efforts to defy voters & re-ban abortion contains a fun typo (at least I hope it's a typo).

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Workshopping a new super-niche retort to someone who misses the point: That's like thinking the problem with "Anglo-Saxon" is blatant Jute erasure!

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Rollercoaster of emotions today in a meeting discussing research proposals when I heard an Indian colleague say "the study involves several wizards" only to realize it was actually "several visits"

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Per a rumor i'm starting, the speech pathology dept. spent $1.2M on this machine in an effort to combat the LOT/THOUGHT merger by implanting rounded low/mid back vowels in the phonologies of young Midwesterners.

a large medical scanner in the shape of an open-o

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

An AI error or have I accessed the internet of the future???

Search result showing a map with the University of Missouri System and the label "permanently closed"

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

"How [adj] is this?" - my favorite dumb post-game interview question

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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · 12/12/2024

Oh hey look! After three years of hard work by so many awesome contributors, the folks at the @americandialect.org and @dukepress.bsky.social, the 109th Publication of the American Dialect Society is a real book!

Several copies of "Movement, Economy, Orientation: Twentieth-Century Shifts in North American Language" with Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, and Monica Nesbitt as editors.

Table of contents.

1. Language Change at the Intersections of Movement, Economy, and Orientation by
Joseph A. Stanley, Margaret E. L. Renwick, and Monica Nesbitt.

2. Local Attitudes and Dialect change in a Tourist Town by Aaron J. Dinkin.

3. Says No More: Intergenerational Change and the Development of the "New" New Orleans Vowel System by Katie Carmichael.

4. What Kind of Fronting? Leveling of /o/ in Raleigh by Sean Lundergan.

5. Demographic Change, Migration, and the African American Vowel System in Georgia by Jon Forrest, Margaret E. L. Renwick, Joseph A. Stanley, and Lelia Glass.

6. Mass Migration, Social Networks, and Generational Change: The Proliferation of *ain't* for *didn't* in Post-Migration Philadelphia by Sabriya Fisher.

7. Why San Franciscans Used to Sound Like New Yorkers by Lauren Hall-Lew.

8. When *Missoura* got *Warshed* Out: The Rise of Prescriptivist Influence as a Factor Reshaping Pronunciation by Matthew J. Gordon and Christopher Strelluf.

9. Contested Place Construction and "Local" Sound Change by Daniel Duncan.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I fooled my students into being temporarily interested by announcing that we were going to talk about the ambiguity of the sentence "IT'S GIVING TUESDAY"

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

as i tell my students, we call this "open O" or, if you want to reveal that you're not paying attention, "backwards C"

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Teaching about John Baugh's work on linguistic profiling (involving calling landlords & using different accents), I was reminded of the student years ago whose main takeaway was horror in discovering that housing discrimination was illegal.

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Idea for undercover boss, academic version: a member of the upper admin poses as adjunct professor in English but is immediately exposed when they mention "socializing this information with key stakeholders"

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Matt Spike @matspike.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Q for LANGUAGE PEOPLE - SHAKESPEARE TRANSLATIONS into NON-HEGEMONIC LANGUAGES, esp from inside the community, esp unfairly overlooked: I am looking for as many examples as you can provide, can you help? share etc #linguistics

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

It's been a while since I read Lakoff's Language & Woman's Place and I had forgotten this fun bit about academic men.

Quote from Lakoff: "Another group that has, at least partially, taken itself out of the search for power and money, is that of academic men. They are frequently viewed by other groups as analogous in some ways to women - they don't really work, they are supported in their frivolous pursuits by others, what they do doesn't really count in the real world, and so on. The suburban home finds its counterpart in the ivory tower: one is supposedly shielded from harsh realities in both."

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Matt Gordon (not that one though) @anotherlinguist.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

The Sixth Sense but the Bruce Willis character sees ideal speaker-listeners in a completely homogeneous speech-community! #SociolinguisticHorror #linguistics

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