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Schnitza Fars

@schnitzafars.bsky.social
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pseudonym, here for the snark and the linguistics/philosophy dramaraderie. she/her

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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
did you know that we get the word "cockamamie" from a bastardization of a term ("decalcomania") for a period in the 1930s after temporary tattoos were invented by the French and kids were running around putting them on fucking everything?! 🐦🐦🐦
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
the phenomenon of conference and journal spam never cease to be a source of glee in an otherwise dark world: "It would be an honor for us if you could shower your presence as speaker at our conference."
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chanel No. ℵ₀
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franciscOOoOo👻 varela fan club @paleopragmatist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Mambo No. ℵ₀
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
_boy playdates_ * surly greeting * nonsensical physical activity * injury * video games * poop break * snacks * bewildering physical activity * injury * very brief chit-chat * poop break * wrestling * farewells
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
reading syntax papers these days talking about "strong D" can we get an ounce of self-awareness people it's mortifying
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
here's my $.02 on the Nikole Hannah-Jones issue: every 👏 kid 👏 is a fucking 👏 experiment
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
retired colleague: "He's in the Communications Dept so he's good at communicating." me: "But you could say the same thing about me in Linguistics!" them: "Well of course language isn't about communicating." I'd forgotten that this was an old generative trope! It's an absolutely unhinged take
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AP Stylebook @apstylebook.com · 23/09/2026
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics.
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https://apnews.com/article/openai-safety-ai-framework-089e75b95bc935af092da7b79d92706d
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the UC Office of Faculty Affairs and Academic Programs (FAAP)
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
skipped a pretty key step in the movie review process here
the free press: Hold Your Applause for the New Gaza Documentary
There may yet be hard truths in 'NAZA,, including evidence of Israel's systemic failures. But the reporting around it treats flimsy claims as proof of criminality.I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
been collaborating with doctors and the difference between how easy it is to publish in medicine and formal semantics could not be more stark.
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
well it's finally happened, I had an amusing mixup with a friend who was expressing delight at the nap he took in his car. I was distracted enough to think he was talking about Rudolph
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
is there a form of Turret's that only kicks in when you have to quickly come up with words to disambiguate letters in your booking code
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
perusing fall fashion releases; yet again surprised by how few people seem to be traumatized by corduroy
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
raising kids in LA means showing Kindergarten Cop at a playdate and having a random girl say "oh! that's my Uncle Arnold!"
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
new expressive content just dropped: Charlie Kirk's name as an infixed intensifier with a bemused, sarcastic vibe and yes it's productive! what a world... youtube.com/shorts/sbvjW... 🐦🐦🐦
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YouTube video by Etymology Nerd
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
feedback from a student's partner forced to overhear our zoom meeting: "I love Schnitza, she probably came out of the womb criticizing the uterine wall. 'I could do this better'"
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
LAUSD (the second largest school district in the county) just banned student access to AI on district-owned devices. the feedback on social media and in the school group chats is 100% glee. you couldn't have manufactured a more popular decision. LETS FUCKING GO
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
my extremely religious mother has been dealt an awful hand in life and I would like to publicly call out the mantra "God never gives you more than you can handle" as the ultimate victim shame
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Patrick Monahan @pattymo.com · 31/08/2026
Donald Trump if he isn’t interior decorating
Sick ET
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I have a student who was at these protests in April 2024 who is still on probation. she has been harassed not just by admin for this whole time, but weirdly by their weaponizing of AI to draft hundreds of pages of nonsensical complaints against her
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Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've represented Dylan for nearly 2 years in a series of increasingly ridiculous hearings aimed at suppressing pro-Palestine speech. Excited to file this case against UCLA and hope to create more space for people speaking out against genocide. Lawsuit here. adc.org/wp-content/u...
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
just heard that UCLA--which forces departments to offer classes outside of business hours because they don't have enough classroom space to teach all of the students they admit--is now going to start charging departments for keeping the air-conditioning on in classrooms outside business hours
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm an outgoing introvert: I am in All of the Group Chats, but they're muted
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I think the difference btwn "doubt that p" & "doubt whether p" is that the former but not the latter comes with a speaker bias against p. wondering about "doubt if p"... is "I doubt if the new one will be any better" neutral towards p? does your answer change w a 3rd p matrix subject instead? 🐦🐦🐦
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
this post has been deceptively engaging, har har
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
ironically, I can never get the liquids right in one of my favorite liquids (Arnold Palmers) 🐦🐦🐦🐦
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
if I own a deceptively large car, is it a) a car that looks large but actually isn't? or b) a car that looks small but is actually large? I always get these confused and I think it's related to expletive negation, my new favorite thing 🐦🐦🐦
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
somehow Adidas's #1 selling children's soccer cleat is called The Predator
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
not dyslexic, but also every time Kayne is cited I think it's Kanye
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I sometimes get asked why I'm so outraged by casual sexism and--besides the obvious fact that I'm just outragey--I think it has to do with the fact that I was raised in an aggressively sexist environment, and I worked so hard to escape to the most liberal place in the country... for this
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
Here's Amazon's two new planned fossil-fuelled AI data centres next to the ENTIRE POWER GRIDS OF SEVERAL LARGE COUNTRIES Together, the two gas-burning data centres will emit more than Spain's entire grid, if built
Bar chart comparing 2025 national grid CO2e emissions (grey bars) with two Amazon fossil‑fuelled AI data centres (red bars), showing the Amazon sites at about 33 and 17.5 megatonnes CO2e—higher than many countries' entire power grids.
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I write informally in the academic setting, I just think it's easier to digest informal writing. but I get ad-hominem reviewer snarks about my status as an English speaker, my professional status, or the amount of time I've spent on it. totally unnecessary, editors please clap back on this shit
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
other parents: "That's it! If you can't stop fighting over that toy, I will take it away so no one can play with it!" my kids' parents: "Do you need another lecture on game theory and group utility? Is that what I'm hearing?!"
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
A NULL OPERATOR IS NOT AN ANALYSIS IT IS A PLACEHOLDER FOR AN ANALYSIS
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
my dear friend the philosopher Robert Gressis self-publishes hilarious auto-biographical books, and I couldn't recommend them more. here's a quote from his latest, available here: www.amazon.com/Most-Awkward...
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The Most Awkward Man on This Boat: Dispatches from a Philosopher Trapped on a Cruise: Gressis, Robert: 9798180415851: Amazon.com: Books
The Most Awkward Man on This Boat: Dispatches from a Philosopher Trapped on a Cruise [Gressis, Robert] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Most Awkward Man on This Boat: Dispatche...
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Steven Pinker lol
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
deep vowel shifts in the boy child population over here in LA: [bro] --> [brɑ] --> [bɹ̩]
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
frustrated with the ambiguity rifle in English response particles? the colloquial "I'm good" unambiguously tracks the speaker highlight ([AGREE] in the Farkas/Roelofsen typology) 🐦🐦🐦
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
rhetorically peaking with the sentence "It is important not to throw the conditional out with the biconditional bath water"
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
people whose email signature patronizingly assures me I can respond in my own time
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Daniel Altshuler @danielaltshuler.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Hiring in syntax/semantics. 1 year position at @ox.ac.uk. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
All the philosophy students who pursued their passion made a wise decision. Learning how to think is a always a good investment. Psychology grads are not doing too badly on the job market either.
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Happy Mother's Day
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I am someone who can find an associate in context for any anaphor or ellipsis site and I am absolutely stumped by this headline, I feel like congrats are in order 🐦🐦🐦
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
a horrific failure of administration that has traumatized a whole generation of students at UCLA
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
famous UK headline "My Dodgy Kebab Was a Baby"... evidence that de dicto / de re has nothing to do with (modal) quantifiers? 🐦🐦🐦
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Schnitza Fars @schnitzafars.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
a non-trivial amount of my students report being able to get a consistent reading of the sentence "2 players are male and non-binary", i.e. they can interpret it as a claim about 4 individual players how widespread is this?! seems like endtimes to me
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