PhD candidate in linguistics at Uni Tübingen, looking at the semantics of evidentiality in Hexagonal French. Recovering philosopher, ex-bookseller, and literary non-hottie. he/them
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈
I went from reading a few books a year to around one a week. I wanted to write down how I got there, how it involved rethinking my relationship to attention, and why I believe reading books can heal your brain. I hope this gives you something useful! johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/how-i-lear...
See also "fricy", a deeply unpleasant portmanteau, I think
Very cool to see a popular post about Old English on here. Kind of wish it wasn't a screenshot of that racist OE account still on X though
Dérèglement climatix
Juillet 2022 pour @telerama.bsky.social
My student is looking for participants for her dissertation experiment (done online! Paid!). DM me if you're interested:
Looking for native English speakers in the US between 18-35 years old learning Mandarin / Korean as their second language to participate in an online linguistics study!
Wrote about the elections for the paper (which went to press last night): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The UK has really been testing my commitment to delighting in language change this week...
me: she doesn't even consider what is truly mutual knowledge when constructing definite descriptions!
my extremely patient bf: cool, do you wanna press play again, or...?
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈
JP
Robin Edds 🏳️🌈
James Butler
thinking about that time my french coworker thought that Kyoto was just verlan for Tokyo
