@lynneguist.bsky.social
US linguist in UK. University of Sussex. Newsletter: https://substack.com/@lynneguist Blog: http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com Linktree: https://linktr.ee/lynneguist
solid language journalism here www.science.org/content/arti...
07.10.2025 09:16 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 2
If it's October it must be GDoS Update time. And so it is: #36. A few notes (and a pic of an invaluable supporter) here:
jonathongreen.substack.com/p/gdos-updat...
CENSORED: “They refused to run my column this week. Too critical of Trump, they said.”
Writer Dan Conway left The Daily Memphian after editors rejected his column for criticizing Trump’s unconstitutional military incursions into US cities.
Read the censored column: www.facebook.com/share/p/16uP...
"By removing the hashtag, tech platforms are redistributing organizational power away from the users and toward themselves. Now they have all the say in who gets to see which topic, and how topics are structured in the first place."
etymology.substack.com/p/why-platfo...
the best answer i got for this:
06.10.2025 06:46 — 👍 8117 🔁 806 💬 73 📌 28
Book with two spines
The Dawit Isaak Library in Malmö is releasing a special edition of Orwell’s 1984. The book cannot be read, on account of having two spines. The “double bind” is a protest against censorship across the world: malmo.se/boundbookspr...
05.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 73 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 3
The esoteric art form of ambigrammia, or pieces of writing expressly designed to squeeze in more than one reading, revealed a new “kind of beauty” to Douglas Hofstadter, he writes:
05.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 28 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 1Correcting strangers’ grammar uninvited is an act of hostility, so either jubilantly own that or don’t do it.
04.10.2025 23:14 — 👍 274 🔁 31 💬 19 📌 6It’s today! No need to wish me happy birthday. Much need to help people who are helping.
03.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0@lexicoj0hn.bsky.social Thanks so much for the IRC donation!!
03.10.2025 17:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@simon-allen.bsky.social Thanks so much for the IRC donation!!
03.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.
This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.
03.10.2025 11:15 — 👍 13101 🔁 3407 💬 599 📌 417Oh wow, that's really something.
03.10.2025 10:27 — 👍 77 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 0
’Tragedy of Macbeth’ review: The Thane Insane, Slays Mainly in Dunisinane. Demzil Washington and Francis McDormand play a toxic power couple in Joel Coen’s crackling adaptation of Shakespeare’s Scottish play.
02.10.2025 22:57 — 👍 50 🔁 24 💬 3 📌 1It’s today! No need to wish me happy birthday. Much need to help people who are helping.
03.10.2025 07:00 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0👇🏻
02.10.2025 22:20 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...
02.10.2025 16:03 — 👍 820 🔁 278 💬 38 📌 26
I applaud @civixplorer for this delightful little bit of flag nonsense.
02.10.2025 16:22 — 👍 178 🔁 45 💬 7 📌 8
Tomorrow is my birthday! I want gifts! Gifts to the International Rescue Committee!
If you feel any benefit from what I do (& the fact that I've made it through another year), then please donate what you can.
www.justgiving.com/page/ml-murp...
@bcdreyer.social According to the Grauniad Bookshop, your book was written by "Ben Pester"!
guardianbookshop.com/the-definiti...
I've just got up to Politeness class. Maybe it'll upend my teaching.
01.10.2025 22:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Many publications to celebrate these days and I hope my lexicographical friends and my fiction-reading friends and my Sussex linguistics friends will join me in celebrating this novel by our former student, @arealmattgreene.bsky.social Loved his last two books. Can’t wait to dive in.
01.10.2025 19:28 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Big day for lexicographical unboxing! Received the just-published 12th edition of @merriam-webster.com's Collegiate Dictionary (a big surprise to everyone in the dictionary game) and @stefanfatsis.bsky.social's long-awaited journey through modern lexicography, UNABRIDGED. Get 'em both!
01.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 41 🔁 7 💬 3 📌 1We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
01.10.2025 14:38 — 👍 24587 🔁 8206 💬 647 📌 2182Ah, I hadn't noticed...but I can't edit the skeet, so I'll just trust people to rewind!
30.09.2025 23:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That sounds like most taxes to me.
30.09.2025 23:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.
30.09.2025 18:34 — 👍 1416 🔁 311 💬 22 📌 7
30.09.2025 20:54 — 👍 819 🔁 236 💬 12 📌 4
For the birthday of the late great Buddy Rich 🥁, here's the crazy story of three lines from "Seinfeld" inspired by the Buddy Rich tapes. Enjoy!
#jazzsky, #jazz, #Seinfeld
youtu.be/uWP77C4StLs?...
I say a lot to parents in England: the student loan is not a loan, it is a graduate tax. They then look at me like I'm weird. (I may be weird, but that's not why.)
Martin Lewis explains why borrowing more can be worth it:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_wg...
