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Chandan Narayan

@ch-narayan.bsky.social

Linguistics prof in Toronto (Acoustic phonetics, speech perception, sound change, lexicon) ch-narayan.github.io Also: Westernghats.bandcamp.com Carromboard.bandcamp.com

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Man Who Swallowed Stolen FabergΓ© Egg Passes It Naturally, Police Say

naturally

06.12.2025 22:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not sure it was that regional to begin with. It was definitely Californian in the 80s/90s

05.12.2025 02:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
UTSC Humanities building

UTSC Humanities building

05.12.2025 00:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Ross Building, York University

Ross Building, York University

05.12.2025 00:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kiparsky, in this podcast, says he thinks Panini used both writing and memory for transmission and computation. Just listened...

04.12.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

panini 3.1.53 mentions the verb lip β€œpaint” from which we get lipi β€œscript” so the question of whether he knew a writing system is unclear to me. Duh, Ganesha used hanzi

04.12.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the historicity of orality and script is admittedly a western concern. In one story, GaneΕ›a broke his tusk in order to use it as a quill to transcribe the Mahābhārata as narrated by Vyāsa

04.12.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How am I going to find people to decline my requests to review manuscripts?!

03.12.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Just now:

03.12.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was just singing rag doll dooby dooby doobay to myself!

03.12.2025 02:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re right about GenX. 1975 So I’m late Gen x. Saw rem on the green tour. U2 has always sucked fwiw. REM has their moments.

03.12.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The declining without any suggestions for other possible reviewers is what gets me

02.12.2025 19:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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two men are standing in front of a large map that says great white north ALT: two men are standing in front of a large map that says great white north

Here in Toronto Canadian content rules require productions to hire at least one hoser

02.12.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I’ve been thinking a lot about respiration and lung volume signatures on oro-laryngeal timing lately so looking forward to deep diving this paper

01.12.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is fucking amazing. Thanks for sharing

01.12.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guve people the benefit of the doubt given that the majority of times β€œlinguist” is used in the media is in β€œmilitary linguist” where multilingualism is indeed implied. In the war-on-terror years meaning knowledge of Pashto and Arabic

01.12.2025 15:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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a movie scene with a caption that says " never underestimate the power of the schwartz " ALT: a movie scene with a caption that says " never underestimate the power of the schwartz "

sorry

01.12.2025 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Zen-arcade-ass gig

01.12.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Skt sarva > Pkt savva is common, maybe? rv > bb reminds me of Kannada habba < Skt parva β€˜festival’

28.11.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

For some reason I was imagining your list being the raincoats, the jam, Josef K, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker

27.11.2025 23:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But then again some folk’ll
(Sorry)

24.11.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Tfw

24.11.2025 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just realized I’ve been saying β€œlay-goes” (legos) my whole life and my kids say β€œleggos,” like leggo my eggos

24.11.2025 23:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can we admit now that computational linguistics got us into this mess?

21.11.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A few years ago I had to put β€œbig data” in a linguistics job ad

21.11.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

A+ skeet. you can call it a day

20.11.2025 16:33 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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three cartoon ducks wearing different colored sweaters are dancing in a room ALT: three cartoon ducks wearing different colored sweaters are dancing in a room
20.11.2025 00:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Didn’t have that on my bingo card

19.11.2025 19:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Colorless goats sleep furiously.

17.11.2025 12:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Is he yassified in this?

13.11.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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