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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

J'ai vu les #LostBayouRamblers hier au soir pour la 5e fois, 1x à #Lafayette, 3x à la #NouvellesOrléans et asteur aux alentours de #Chicago (#Fitzgeralds à #Berwyn). Ça a été un bon show, comme d'habitude, et j'ai rencontré la cousine de la femme de mon premier prof de […] [Original post on h4.io]

Les Lost Bayou Ramblers sur scène à Fitzgerald's.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Sur l'objet étiqueté «glacière» se trouve aussi la #traduction en #anglais «ice tank». C'est du #film Le Voyage à travers l'impossible de 1904 par #Méliès, et je trouve intéressant qu'il a mis des traductions en anglais à travers (hah) un film muet qui a été réalisé en […] [Original post on h4.io]

Une image du film Le Voyage à travers l'impossible éoù se trouve une glacière sur laquelle est aussi écrit «Ice Tank».

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

#Spiderman trying to use the subjunctive mood in 1968: "But I'd rather she hated the webslinger." #English has this mood, and trying to produce it with a past tense form perhaps suggests that its need is felt here w/o really knowing how to do it. "She hate" is is […] [Original post on h4.io]

A panel from a 1968 Spider-Man comic where he is swinging through the air and says, "But I'd rather she hated the webslinger."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

I always assumed #hipster was a term that came about only in the early 2000s, but here's #Daredevil using it in 1967. A quick check in American #English #literature suggests that the word actually popped up in the 1960s, albeit not as prominently as the early 2000s ( […] [Original post on h4.io]

A panel from a 1967 Daredevil comic where Daredevil is swinging down from a building and thinking, "I wonder if I'm really a hipster at heart."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Spotted in #FantasticFour c1967: "a-borning". A-prefixing with this #verb seemed odd to me, but there was quite a spike in "a-borning" just before the 1960s relative to some other common verbs that saw a-prefixing constructions declining. #linguistics #syntax […] [Original post on h4.io]

A panel of Fantastic Four from 1967 where a man is being carried away and the narrator says, "A deadly new danger is a'borning."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Spotted in #Thor c1967: "enow", an antiquated version of "enough". It's hard to imagine how a writer at that time comes across such old lexical forms as this barely registered in writing from even the 1500s ( […] [Original post on h4.io]

A panel from Thor in 1967 where he says, "And, strangely enow."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

On a avancé l'idée que le suffixe -ment est plu' productif en #françaislouisianais, mais des mots comme «rienquetement» existe, de la construction «rien que», et c'est clair que c'est un développement local. #français #Louisiane #linguistique #changementlinguistique #morphologie

Entrée pour le mot «rienquetement» dans le dictionnaire de français louisianais, qui veut dire 'exactement'.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

US Sanctions Zigzag: 1. [ Noun ] [ Verb Noun ] or 2. [ Noun Noun ] [ Verb ] For a sec, I was wondering what this company Zigzag had done. A lack of #titlecase would probably help some #headlines. #linguistics #syntax #orthography #NYT #US #sanctions #USpol

NYT headline that reads, "U.S. Sanctions Zigzag in New World of Economic Warfare."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Dans le #dictionnaire de #françaislouisianais, tu trouves un mot écrit <tout-mains> ou <tout de mains> pour dire, en anglais, «versatile». Cependant, ce mot se trouve pas exclusivement dans la #Louisiane. Ailleurs, c'est écrit <toutes mains> comme «homme toutes mains» […] [Original post on h4.io]

Une entrée dans le dictionnaire de Louisiane pour un mot écrit comme <tout-mains> ou <tout de mains> et prononcé comme [tumɛ̃] ou [tudmɛ̃].

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

In #FantasticFour c1967: "toss in the sponge". Throwing in the "towel" is instead much much more frequent in #American #English literature today, but these were pretty evenly used up until about the 1970s ( […] [Original post on h4.io]

A panel from Fantastic Four where a police officer uses the phrase "we might as well toss in the sponge."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

In #Avengers c1967: "had forgot". Perhaps this was a #NY thing at the time? It has certainly never been anywhere near as common as "had forgotten" in #English #literature ( […] [Original post on h4.io]

A panel of The Avengers from 1967 where Hawkeye is saying, "Or, had you forgot I was along?"

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/01/2026

I feel like the #NFL doesn't understand how these sort of #diagrams are supposed to work. #sports #football #playoffs #dataviz

A visualization of the NFL playoff brackets that has the Rams in the top with the Seahawks and Panthers but then moves them to the bottom to play against the Bears in the next higher bracket.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

Dans #BlakeetMortimer c1949, l'usage du mot "job". C'est typique au #Québec et en #Louisiane, mais le voici au masculin comme ce dernier plutôt qu'au féminin comme ce premier. De plus, sa présence dans la littérature comparée à d'autres termes m'étonne ( […] [Original post on h4.io]

Une case de Blake et Mortimer où un homme dit: «c'est un femeux job».

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

Interesting use of a profanity-laden (homophobic) phrase that's often used on the internet. Usually "being on someone's dick" means you like and defend that person. In this case, it's being used to say that you're criticizing that person, the complete opposite sense […] [Original post on h4.io]

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/11/2025

A quaint remnant of old large buildings in #Chicago. #mail

Old mail chute in the hallway of a Chicago building.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/11/2025

Such useful info but so unreliable. Massey & Denton (1993) offered very specific statistics here (18), but the only citations come at the end of the first paragraph of the next section (history style). Annoying, but that's fine, it's the style. However, none of those […] [Original post on h4.io]

Paragraph from Massey & Denton (1993) where they state that 80% of Black Americans lived in the rural south in 1870.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/11/2025

"Don't let's" spotted in a #Marvel panel with #Hercules and #Daredevil / #MattMurdock c1960s. This was rather antiquated even by that time ( […] [Original post on h4.io]

1960s Marvel panel with Hercules and Matt Murdock, the latter saying "don't let's over-do the Olympus bit, huh?"

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

This seems like a good lesson in what not to do with colors when making a #heatmap. The two ends of the #cold meter look very similar, -5 and -10 are almost identical, and for some reason, as you go right, it transitions from light blue to dark purple then light purple […] [Original post on h4.io]

A temperature map showing how the polar vortex is going to affect the US that uses various similar shades of blue.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2025

I've lived in a lot of #US #states, three of whose flags I'm very familiar with because they're regularly displayed in public: #Louisiana, #California, #Tennessee. For my home state of #NJ, though, I had no idea it was this #coatofarms with a #SantaClaus hat because […] [Original post on h4.io]

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2025

Des «boudins de porte», hein? Tu veux que je mette des saucisses sous la porte? Mais, ok #françaislouisianais #variationlinguistique #linguistique #français

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025

Arguing that #educators should ignore the ugly parts of #UShistory is nothing new. Here's A. Higginbotham's (1978) response in his examination of #slavery in the #US. #education #history #UnitedStates #DEI #CRT #race #socialscience #sociology #academia

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2025

L'un des exemples qu'on donne souvent pour une différence entre le #françaislouisianais et le #françaisstandard est que les #Louisianais dit "chevrette" et les #Français "crevette", mais voici "chevrette" dans #Tintin en 1958 parce que c'est pas une sorte de #métathèse […] [Original post on h4.io]

Une case de Tintin éoù on dit «Fortes piqûres de guêpes à chevrette bleue.»

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/04/2025

Spotted in a #CaptainAmerica story in #TalesofSuspense c1966: "he dived" rather than "he dove" to describe the actions of #RedSkull. As far as their use in literature, the latter only became more common in the 1980s ( […] [Original post on h4.io]

A panel from a Captain America story in Tales of Suspense where Red Skull is swimming under water and someone is saying that "he dived right down."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2025

Watching this #Simpsons episode from 1994, and this was the chalkboard gag. Crazy that there have been public demands for sane #gun laws for at least 30 years. #firearms #gunlaws #unitedstates #gunrights #guncontrol #animation #cartoons

A shot of Bart Simpsons writing on a chalkboard: Five days is not too long to wait for a gun.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2025

Sighted in #CaptainAmerica / #IronMan c1967: an add for a #pet #squirrelmonkey. This reminds me of a relative who decided it would be a good idea to have #sugargliders as #pets before randomly releasing them into the woods. This stuff is upsetting because most people […] [Original post on h4.io]

An ad for squirrel monkeys in a Captain America / Iron Man comic.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2025

I made a simple diagram to help show people who aren't on the #Fediverse how it works. Feel free to share with people who want to escape #Musk and #Zuckerberg but feel intimidated by the Fediverse. #socialmedia #Twitter #X #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Instagram […] [Original post on h4.io]

A diagram showing how the Fediverse works.

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/12/2024

Le capitaine #Haddock tutoie un esclavagiste mais il vouvoie #Tintin. C'est encore plus drôle étant donné qu'ils ont voyagé ensemble dans l'espace avant ce moment-là. #BD #BDs #bandesdessinées #bandedessinée #linguistique #sociolinguistique

Haddock dit à un esclavagist: «Dis donc, as-tu fini de faire le maquignon?»

Haddock dit à Tintin: «Mais, à propros, vous ... Comment le mot "coke" vous a-t-il mis la puce à l'oreille?»

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2024

#StanLee decided to #rhyme "Don" with "One" in this #Avengers issue from 1967. It seems like quite a stretch, but maybe this says something about how close these vowels were for him at that time. #linguistics #languagechange #comics #Marvel

Panel from an Avengers comic that says, "Drawn By: Don (The One) Heck."

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Joshua McNeill @joshisanonymous.h4.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2024

Cliché, and certainly not desirable, but I imagine this hits home for plenty of #Americans right now. #comics #Hulk #TheHulk #TheStranger #Marvel

A panel from The Hulk where The Stranger wants him to go on a rampage to wipe out civilization to get a fresh start.

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