Joe McVeigh

The lexicographer is the loud one??? Sure, whatever. Go Birds

Thank you! But you can't steal it if I just give it to you 😁

Thanks! I added a quick line with my name and link to my website. It didn't even occur to me to do that because it's a policy that I give my students so obviously it comes from me 😅 But feel free to share and adapt to suit your needs! If I update it, the link will stay the same.

There's a whole lot of academic papers in there, just saying
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Start a conversation with the student and give my reasoning. It's a chance to remind them of ethical practices in academia. There's also usually problems with the text to discuss - such as straight plagiarism, irrelevant passages or made up sources - that mean the work can't get a passing grade.

The rest of Will's opinion piece is profoundly stupid. But at least it is not dangerous. None of it should not have been published, but least of all this harmful rhetoric.

A section from George Will's recent language peeving column in which he approvingly equates language pet peeves with homophobia. He writes "Most Americans sailed through grade school without the benefit of what some pupils can enjoy in third grade these days: classroom discussions about gender fluidity. Now Americans who want to be journalistically literate must master the taxonomy of the various vibes."

George Will recently wrote a screed complaining about language (which is nothing new). But in it he equates language peeving with homophobia. This is dangerous. By linking these two things together, he is saying that it is fine to dislike words and to dislike queer people. This will harm people.

In Finland, people yell "Play Paranoid!" instead of "Play Free Bird!"

Metal is kind of a big deal here.

I'm going to see a Black Sabbath cover band in Helsinki tonight so now I can yell "Soita Paranoid!" and they're definitely gonna play it 🤘😁

Thank you for saying so! Glad it helps

Thank you for saying that 😊

Thanks, I appreciate you saying that 🙏

Thanks, hope it helps!

Thank you for saying so! I hope it helps. I understand students who think like that. I try to show them that the learning part is the whole point. The assignments are just the very last stage in that process.

This word comes from the work by Prof. Emily Bender. And I agree. It's perfect.

That line is 1000% how I feel. I always tell my students "Just turn in something and we'll work on it."

Thanks! I have the second source in an open tab but haven't had time to read it yet. 😅

AI policy and guidelines - Joe McVeigh.docx You are strictly prohibited from using Generative AI (GenAI) or Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Grok, for research or writing assignments. Any submitted wor...

Unfortunately, my policy on AI has grown by quite a few sources over the last year. Here it is for anyone who wants to adopt or adapt it for their courses. And if you have ideas, I'm all ears.

Here's one for your semantics classes

Go Phils

Jeff Lemire and Andrea Sorrentino's GIDEON FALLS is really good (I mean, obvs, with those two at the helm). Can't go wrong with Kelly Thompson's SABRINA. And ICE CREAM MAN is a great anthology (the issues are loosely connected). And TRVE CVLT by Wilson and Kangas is really great fun(ny) horror.

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If they kill birthright citizenship, they can denaturalize anybody who can’t prove their PARENTS’ citizenship.

The concentration camps are for anyone and everyone that feel like putting there.

We are living under a fascist regime.

"Books are dangerous. This is why repressive regimes try to exile and kill those who write them, confiscate and close libraries and bookshops, and ban and burn books that contradict their narratives and the image they want to present to the outside world" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Merriam-Webster's word of the day is "doppelgänger".

You should read Naomi Klein's book of the same name.

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

Image shows a panel of Superman throwing a criminal at a pool while saying "What say we launch your reformation with a dip in yon pool?" (Panel appears in Sunday strip #81 from 1941)

Superman: Man of Tomorrow... Speaker of Yesterday!

Here's Supes saying "yon". For what it's worth, this was published 50 years after the OED most recent citation.

(Sunday strip #81 from 1941)

Chatterton is a beneficiary of what I call placeholder writing. Folks like Nikole Hannah-Jones & Ta-Nehisi earned a following & then started talking about reparations & the 1619 project. And those pieces were popular, shifting the conversation in their favor. 1/

I went out to breakfast this morning and there was a guy wearing a Jello Biafra shirt and he _looked_ like Jello Biafra. Could it be???

Did anybody else get unwittingly signed up for emails from "Word Smarts"? I'm just wondering which company's mailing list got bought up by them. So far the info seems to be pretty legit. I just don't like that they showed up out of the blue.