*copying The Thai Alphabet* Ooh Loopies Hell Yeah This Is So Cool

anti-intellectualism is a deflection of personal responsibility to learn onto subject matter that isnt immediately understandable. it's a coping mechanism for people who want to feel like they're still living up to their full potential (they're not) by blaming the learning itself, instead of the effort they put into their learning

"the education system traumatizes students it deems stupid" and "the education system traumatizes students it deems gifted" are two concepts that can and should coexist.

july 25th, 2022 || it’s finals week!!

hello! do u have any linguistic podcasts/lectures/articles to recommend ? if yes will send a mental daisy bouquet as a thank u 👩‍🚀👩‍🚀

yes i do<3!! here are some articles/books/short stories ive enjoyed in recent memory :’)

Fruits We'll Never Taste, Languages We'll Never Hear: The Need for Needless Complexity -- a favorite essay of mine <3

Pink Trombone -- this is an interactive mouth sounds simulator; you can click and drag to adjust different parts of the supralaryngeal vocal tract as well as pitch and hear how it affects the sound :+) 

The Imitation of Consciousness: On the Present and Future of Natural Language Processing -- REALLY good 

Alberto Bruzos (2021): ‘Language hackers’: YouTube polyglots as representative figures of language learning in late capitalism, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2021.1955498 

To Speak of the Sea in Irish

The Library of Babel -- short story by borges, really fucking good 

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red & Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictée -- these last two books are maybe the least directly related to linguistics but they engage with language in ways that. Are . <33333 

Open Access Resources on Language and Linguistics

Poems by Richard Kenney (if you are interested in “language origins, the cognitive basis of poetic forms, magical reasoning, and the Darwinian lives of subliterary species such as jokes, riddles, proverbs, charms, spells, nursery rhymes and weather-saws”)

&& @ everyone do add on if you have any u want to share !!  

it turns out that studying linguistics can change the way you think about gender, if only you’re willing to stretch a metaphor a little bit

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everyone always says that the best profession you can have if you love hearing tea is working in HR but I disagree. as a lawyer you literally get the tea from all angles and from everyone involved and get to ask questions about it and make people swear that it’s true under the penalties of perjury. you also get to gather receipts and be like, but your honor, the receipts