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"What if cabs, but also overloading public road infrastructure while violating labour laws? Also totally unregulated and with more danger of assault!"

I literally don't understand why people take Ubers instead of cabs. I mean, I hate cabs—I will always take public transportation instead, if that's an option—but Ubers seem mostly like cabs but worse.

That is wild. I have not experienced it, and don't think it would be entirely fair to try it out with theoretical syntax.

My workflow is that I play the audio via the app on my phone, while reading an original PDF on a larger screen. That way I can annotate the PDF, and also very quickly rewind if I need to reread, or skip forward when it hits an example.

It's specifically better with figures and parenthetical citations, and at ignoring page headers/footers. Linguistic examples and field specific terminology remain... mixed.

For anyone interested in text-to-speech as an aid for academic reading, so far I'm finding Paper2Audio (www.paper2audio.com) better than the other tools I've tried—and so far it's free!

But also boy is finally learning a bit of ASL fingerspelling also teaching me that I apparently carry a lot of tension in my dominant hand.

Whenever I learn a bit more about signed languages, I'm blown away by how neat they are. Just so cool!

L’ACL encourage le gouvernement du Québec à reconsidérer son décret visant à interdire l’usage de certaines formes d’ #écritureinclusive. // The CLA calls on the Govt. of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of #inclusivewriting.

#linguistique #linguistics

cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

Merci à @cla-acl.bsky.social pour le bon travail avec ce communiqué de presse

Bravo @cla-acl.bsky.social pour ce communiqué de presse!

Merci aux universitaires pour leur expertise, soutien, et clarté sur ce sujet. 👏

Lisez-le!!

Tu devras arracher l’interpoint et iel de mes mains froides et mortes. vas t’en faire foutre, Québec

(FYI if you follow the link but don't read French, the English version appears following.)

The @cla-acl.bsky.social has issued a press release "calling on the Government of Québec to reconsider its decree banning forms of gender-inclusive writing, specifically the inclusive pronoun 'iel', the word 'toustes' and the interpoint." cla-acl.ca/pdfs/Ecritur...

Or else I wondered if they started with the terms used for legal gender (male/female/unspecified) and then added more? The options for men were parallel, making me think it's less likely to be based on free responses.

Why was the unmarked option "Female" instead of "Woman"? Why is "cis" hyphenated but "trans" not? Definitely some interesting gender ideology stuff here.

Just encountered a form that distinguished legal gender and gender identity (cool), and the gender identity list was pretty good (also cool), but also had options including "Cis-Woman", "Female" and "Trans Woman".

Fucking finally available in Canada!

Exciting! I ordered some of these earlier this year, but upon reflection I might have had to ignore the statement that they weren't approved for home use…

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

The universities I've worked at all organize disciplinary affiliations like file folders—it's clunky and difficult to be in more than one place at a time. Interesting to think about how structures could be set up so that disciplinary affiliations were more like tag sets.

I definitely have, it is not even a close call.

And not only this. Anyone who saw the Premier try to defend the ban on trans health care the other day heard her say “babies” over and over, as if creating more Albertans should be every youth’s life goal and purpose. The Handmaids Tale was not just a banned book, it’s our reality here now. #abpoli

"In some places, French postal workers now pick up prescriptions, return library books, and deliver flowers. Last year, only twenty eight per cent of La Poste’s revenue came from sending mail."

Services can evolve in positive ways to meet new and growing needs.

- more fellas (immigration)

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…wait. We're on iOS 18. How is the next one 26?

I don't remember if it was normed, but @ludling.bsky.social, Lex Konnelly, and Pocholo Umbal created the Diverse Names database at UofT a few years ago: sanders.phonologist.org/Papers/konne...

Please boost! #linguistics student here at Swarthmore is running a survey for English speakers (who don't know Mandarin / any other tone languages) about how we learn tones. Take a few minutes to help out with this student research!
swarthmore.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...