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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I just assumed Galloway was nodding to 90s R&B one-hit wonder, Ginuwine

Picture of the 1997 "100% Ginuwine" CD by Ginuwine

Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I run a micro label of mostly mine and my friends' music. It's bandcamp Friday, so check it if you like: space psych or heavy improv played on guitars, snares, veena, cracked pedals, voice, bottles or comps of pre-war south Indian instrumental music from 78s. branchdravidian.bandcamp.com/merch

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Here’s a recent “decline” reason. At least they have a reason!

Screenshot of a potential reviewer’s reason for declining a review for JASA-EL

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

40yrs gone today, his words and music live forever

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

I was 13 and growing up in the east bay when this happened. Here I am 37 years later in Toronto traumatized by fucking LA

Kurt Gibson, home run, 1988 World Series against the Oakland As

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Don Was's is really an only-in-america type of career. I really only know him from "walk the dinosaur" but his CV is insane, producing every 4th/5th album of past-their-prime superstars...and The Mommyheads

Brief snapshot of Don Was' production clientele in the late '90s: Richie Sambora, Paul Westerberg, Ziggy Marley, Iggy Pop, and The Mommyheads

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Shouldn’t this kid be wearing a Smiths shirt?

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm giving a talk at Buffalo Linguistics on Friday, "Debuccalization without spirantization or Why 10th century Kannada lost its lips" and it'll be simulcast on Zoom. Write me if you're interested. The talk is about medieval Kannada epigraphy, phonology, acoustics, and speech perception.

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Similar to what you have done here, I have a (old) book chapter that goes into this, though albeit to prove a different point. If you can't access the book I can send you my chapter. Alan, C. L. (Ed.). (2013). Origins of sound change: Approaches to phonologization. OUP Oxford.

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Holy shit, Rickey Henderson died! Pillar of my youth and hero for so many of us East Bay kids

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Cracked open my og ed of Language today and found this clipping of Bloomfield’s obit that’s yellowed the pages. In the perfect chapter to boot #ephemera #linguistics

Bloomfield’s “Language” open to the phonetic change chapter, pages of which have been yellowed by a newspaper clipping announcing his death

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

It's correlated in short-lag too

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I referenced Micro Machines in class yesterday when discussing this paper, the big takeaway being the faster you talk, the quieter your consonants. No one knew wth Micro Machines was (or the great John Moschitta Jr.) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

John Moschitta Jr., the world's fastest talker, for Micro Machines

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Maybe they’re trying to do something like this chain of restaurants/cafes (we have one in Toronto)

Facade of Eataly restaurant on Bloor St in Toronto

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 02/04/2024

Who tf says “orgo” and not ochem

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Chandan Narayan @ch-narayan.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

I’m not weird for garden pathing here, right? Psycholinguists, save for your lang proc/ambiguity lectures

CTV News headline that reads “BC woman fired after ‘strongly worded’ email wina $81K for wrongful termination”

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