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06.12.2025 22:17 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@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
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 π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0UTSC Humanities building
05.12.2025 00:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ross Building, York University
05.12.2025 00:22 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Kiparsky, in this podcast, says he thinks Panini used both writing and memory for transmission and computation. Just listened...
04.12.2025 19:07 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0panini 3.1.53 mentions the verb lip βpaintβ from which we get lipi βscriptβ so the question of whether he knew a writing system is unclear to me. Duh, Ganesha used hanzi
04.12.2025 03:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0the historicity of orality and script is admittedly a western concern. In one story, GaneΕa broke his tusk in order to use it as a quill to transcribe the MahΔbhΔrata as narrated by VyΔsa
04.12.2025 02:06 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How am I going to find people to decline my requests to review manuscripts?!
03.12.2025 14:17 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just now:
03.12.2025 13:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I was just singing rag doll dooby dooby doobay to myself!
03.12.2025 02:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Youβre right about GenX. 1975 So Iβm late Gen x. Saw rem on the green tour. U2 has always sucked fwiw. REM has their moments.
03.12.2025 01:30 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The declining without any suggestions for other possible reviewers is what gets me
02.12.2025 19:39 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Here in Toronto Canadian content rules require productions to hire at least one hoser
02.12.2025 15:39 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1Iβve 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 π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is fucking amazing. Thanks for sharing
01.12.2025 15:24 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I guve people the benefit of the doubt given that the majority of times βlinguistβ is used in the media is in βmilitary linguistβ where multilingualism is indeed implied. In the war-on-terror years meaning knowledge of Pashto and Arabic
01.12.2025 15:10 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Zen-arcade-ass gig
01.12.2025 11:50 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Skt sarva > Pkt savva is common, maybe? rv > bb reminds me of Kannada habba < Skt parva βfestivalβ
28.11.2025 15:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0For some reason I was imagining your list being the raincoats, the jam, Josef K, Derek Bailey, Evan Parker
27.11.2025 23:41 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0But then again some folkβll
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Tfw
24.11.2025 23:56 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Just realized Iβve been saying βlay-goesβ (legos) my whole life and my kids say βleggos,β like leggo my eggos
24.11.2025 23:54 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Can we admit now that computational linguistics got us into this mess?
21.11.2025 14:28 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A few years ago I had to put βbig dataβ in a linguistics job ad
21.11.2025 12:53 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0A+ skeet. you can call it a day
20.11.2025 16:33 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Didnβt have that on my bingo card
19.11.2025 19:53 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Colorless goats sleep furiously.
17.11.2025 12:06 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is he yassified in this?
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