Multilingual, multicultural, multilovely.
Professor of Sociolinguistics 🇨🇭🏴🇺🇸
Currently studying varieties of Welsh English
She/her
Mercedes Durham
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Sociolinguistics is asking, “why is it Waldo in NAmerica and Wally in UK?” (and Charlie in French)
I’m a professor of sociolinguistics in the UK and I approve this message 🤣 #linguistics (doubly because I’m originally from the US)
Boromir: and why do we not EMBRACE the ring's power??
Aragorn: and what would you have us do with it?
Boromir: a lot of editing advice, and also a way to take care of busy work, you know, memos about orcs et cetera
Aragorn:
Boromir: and difficult break-ups, if you know what I mean
"The speed of the digital world connives to make us feel ashamed of certain sorts of slowly won knowledge. But to persist in caring about books, and to do so in the face of those who tell us not to, is to fight for a world that takes knowledge seriously."
Academia 2026: spam emails from people (companies?) offering to write your wikipedia page for a fee...