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Jon Bakos

@jonbakos.bsky.social
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Assoc. Professor of TESL and Linguistics at Indiana State University. Sociolinguistics.

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The current level of political animosity is exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s citizens." There are not enough exclamation points to convey how I felt reading this paragraph
Screenshot of article which reads: From this perspective, the “both sides” frame falls apart. The prob-
lem is not that the parties are divided. The problem is the existential 
threat that a reempowered ethnonationalist strain poses to pluralistic 
U.S. democracy writ large. The current level of political animosity is 
exactly what one would expect to see if an extremist faction attempted 
to rescind the hard-earned rights of the vast majority of the country’s 
citizens. The only way to re-oppress most of a country is to use anti-
democratic and authoritarian tactics. And the only way to oppose those 
tactics is to push back as a population and clearly reject them. This is 
the argument happening in the United States, and its pathology is not 
anger—it is the movement to undermine a generation of rights.
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Name your favorite Disney princess (wrong answers only)
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DuckDuckGo @duckduckgo.com · 29/05/2026
Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I'm sad to report that *both* Indomitable Spirit and Titanica have pulled out of performing at the Freedom 250 concert
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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Slop is the 2025 Word of the Year! #woty2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Chopped is Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty25
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
That's AI is Most Useful Word of the Year! #woty25
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Has a Word of the Year ever existed where we weren't insanely strapped for time? #woty25
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Slop is Digital Word of the Year! #woty2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Icy conditions is the Political Word of the Year! #woty25
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
6-7 is the Informal Word of the Year! #woty25
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Reheated nachos is the Most Creative Word of the Year! #woty25
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
The time is once again upon us. Upon *you* #WotY25
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Presented quite possibly the first plot of Foghorn Leghorn's vowel system today at #nwav53
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Final #LSA2025 meal: cheese boat at Saami Somi. Delicious
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
It's Mostly Sunny in Philadelphia #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
"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
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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
let's all celebrate by playing rawdog simulator www.rawdogsimulator.com
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Rawdog Simulator
Buckle up. Lock in. Endure the flight. Put your mind to the test with Rawdog Flight Simulator
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Rawdog is the American Dialect Society's 2024 Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Brat has won Most Fun While it Lasted Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Unserious has won Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Lock in has won Most Useful Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 It ate
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Brainrot has won Digital Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Luigi has won Political Word of the Year! #woty #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Rawdog has won Informal Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
'the X I Xed' is Most Creative Word of the Year! #woty #lsa2025 (Ex: the gasp I gusped)
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
It's that tiiiime again🎶 #woty #lsa2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
The image from @mixedlinguist.bsky.social's excellent #LSA2025 talk
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
@jofrhwld.bsky.social recommended cannolis from Termini Bros and they are fantastic #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#LSA2025 !
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A quick stop in NYC before #LSA2025 means another stop on the SocLing pilgrimage. AITA if I ask where men's shoes are
A sociolinguist at the fourth floor sign of the NYC Macy's
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
It should be criminal to have this many great panels and events going on *at the same time* #LSA2025
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
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
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
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?
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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!
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
That weird feeling when the software you've been fighting with for months just quietly works exactly like it's supposed to
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A quickly-failed sitcom about a 50's-esque family living in modern 1991
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
You have to admit, this would be a much more interesting game if the Lions were playing 😴😴😴
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
The Baltimore Ravens seem to be fighting a vicious battle against the Baltimore Ravens
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
The last time the Lions won two playoff games was in 1957. Wait, I'm sorry, a couple minutes ago
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 09/01/2024
I'm so used to Michael Macfadyen being Tom on Succession that his normal voice sounds like he's putting on this really fakey British accent
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
More from Emily Bender: #LSA2024
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
At Emily Bender's plenary: Meaning isn't in the form - which means that Chat-GPT, which only sees form, is never going to 'do' meaning - it's not going to 'understand/learn' anything #LSA2024
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
This marks two years in a row of difficult-for-mainstream publications WOTY winners! I suggest we make up 'perfuckening' for 2024 #woty2023 #lsa2024
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Enshittification is the Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
(derogatory) wins Most Useful/Most Likely to Succeed Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024
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Jon Bakos @jonbakos.bsky.social · 06/01/2024
Enshittification is the Digital Word of the Year! #woty2023 #lsa2024
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