@andrewgarrett.bsky.social
Linguist @ UC Berkeley. Language documentation, archiving, and historical linguistics. "Basic Yurok" (2014) and "The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, memory, and Indigenous California" (2023). Running; semi-competitive age-grade racer.
Lovely and inspiring, an obituary and an appreciation of Jeff Galloway, "the most important person in the history of American distance running."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/w...
I was there!
The last lovely paragraph of a short obituary of the anthropologist Robert Lowie
www.jstor.org/stable/43643...
How the mighty have fallen. Even @newyorker.com uses "begs" = "raises" the question! (End of old-person rant.)
One last shot taken while packing up the exhibition.
A lovely appreciation of John Haiman by Stephanie Farmer
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
Students need to remember that Inigo Montoya method for emails and greetings:
"Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”
Polite Greeting
Name
Relevant Personal Link
Manage Expectations
Keep it BRIEF.
Apply now to participate in the 2026 Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous California Languages, held at UC Berkeley and sponsored by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival in collaboration with @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social!
www.aicls.org?page_id=566
When I wrote this a year ago I had no idea how bad things would get. Today, eight years after she left us, I'm trying to follow Ursula's advice: write and worry. Write and act. Worry and keep writing.
lithub.com/the-way-of-w...
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I wish I had contributed to this!
Some fine books here!
Agreed, good forensic work. What it shows is repulsive.
This paper is batshit insane. It also (of course) has A TON of bullshit references that do not exist. Hey @springernature.com retract this AI slop and fire the editor that let it pass. There is evidently no review or quality assurance process in place at this journal.
I forgot this item, maybe my favorite: Alfred Kroeber's (and then Ursula's) pencil case. In my imagination these are the very colored pencils that decorate so many Kroeber manuscript pages.
Some highlights from today's visit to "A Larger Reality: Ursula K. Le Guin" @oregoncontemporary.bsky.social in Portland, Oregon. A great show!
Next year, the 19th Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste (ELNOR) will take place at the University of Sonora. Here is the first call for abstracts. Abstracts and presentations may be submitted in Spanish or English. Please share.
The authors also explain how and why they turned multistate traits into binary traits, and why (in their view) this does not mess up the stats.
The paper was published in the year that she married Alfred Kroeber, in whose seminar the paper was developed by three students.
TIL that Theodora Kroeber invented lexicostatistics. OK, an exaggeration, but in this 1926 paper she ("T. K[racaw] Brown") & coauthors counted Polynesian culture traits & worked out culture pairs w/ more matches than chance predicts & which are therefore closest.
www.jstor.org/stable/661296
My book The Unnaming of Kroeber Hall: Language, Memory, and Indigenous California (2023) is now open-access to read or download:
escholarship.org/uc/item/59w3...
Thanks to @mitpress.bsky.social, where you can still buy lovely print copies (mitpress.mit.edu/978026254709...).
![Typescript of A Wizard of Earthsea [originally: of the Isles] by Ursula K. Le Guin. Parnassus Press records, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:s4ulvuqeejluylobxsw5ujvn/bafkreidc7kdxujgewah2xszgl7o5civubr7edpyamgkut2d65hhgbb3lbi)
I had a good time today looking at various @ursulakleguin.com "A Wizard of Earthsea" memorabilia in the Parnassus Press records, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley
Do you know Zoom & other companies are encouraging discrimination against employees for things like "pausing too long" or not sounding sufficiently "charismatic"? Read all about our dystopian present in my new paper, out today in JASA!
(Seriously, read it. It's important)
doi.org/10.1121/10.0...
Per OED fwiw, fancy-pants is much older.
www.oed.com/dictionary/f...
www.oed.com/dictionary/p...
... except now on rereading it I find disappointingly retrograde sentiments at the end.
And of course his work on Crow is very important. I also enjoy Lowie's autobiographical "A case of bilingualism" (www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...).
Alfred Kroeber (d. 1960), w/ colleagues who predeceased him, Robert Lowie (d. 1957) & Paul Radin (d. 1959), & their wives Luella Lowie (d. 1970) & Doris Radin (d. 1991). Three German-Austrian-Polish-American students of Boas, once colleagues and now neighbors. Sunset View Cemetery, El Cerrito, CA.
