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Will Bennett

@wmgbennett.bsky.social

Linguist, professor, Africanist, aspiring mad scientist/inventor/youtuber/occasional shitposter. Interested in meaning, sounds, the navigation therebetween, and how that all plays out for humans across history and geography.

174 Followers  |  188 Following  |  315 Posts  |  Joined: 14.11.2023
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No please Darin stop it makes me uncomfortable when you point out generalizations I never noticed about my home language

24.02.2026 19:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Coronal consonants freely occur after /aสŠ/ (mouth, mouthed, out, loud, mouse, rouse, Roush, couch, gouge, down, owl, hour) but non-coronal consonants must be separated by a syllable boundary, e.g. linguist Liz Cowper /หˆkaสŠ.pษ™ษน/ (cf. */kaสŠp/), Hawaiian pudding haupia /haสŠหˆpiห.ษ™/ (cf. */haสŠp/), [1/3]

24.02.2026 19:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Why we dumped body in bank โ€“ funeral home A funeral home that dumped the body of a grandmother inside a Capitec Bank branch as โ€œproof of deathโ€ after the family was allegedly given the runaround on the payout of a funeral policy says they wer...

This should be a cautionary tale to companies doing KYC: be reasonable about what you ask for, or suffer the consequences

20.02.2026 15:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Disney villain shit

17.02.2026 18:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Apt AF

17.02.2026 18:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

โ€œMeth chefโ€

15.02.2026 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So the way you steer in elite level skeleton is mostly by flexing your internal organs, right?

14.02.2026 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The 2026 Winter Olympics Wikipedia page table of contents is a surprisingly wild read

14.02.2026 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

5 days of rain in the past week.
The university calls for staff and students to restrict water usage, citing โ€œcontinued drought conditionsโ€
#makhanda

14.02.2026 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Pam Bondi tried to steal a 4-year-old's dog Drew Magary on MAGA's new rite of passage.

Holy shit the attorney general of the United States actually tried to steal a dog from a 4 year old orphan

www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

14.02.2026 08:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

microdosing scholar activism by shitposting on bluesky

14.02.2026 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Biden Grateful Heโ€™s Not Alive To See What Trump Doing To Country

Biden Grateful Heโ€™s Not Alive To See What Trump Doing To Country

Biden Grateful Heโ€™s Not Alive To See What Trump Doing To Country https://theonion.com/biden-grateful-hes-not-alive-to-see-what-trump-doing-to-country/

09.02.2026 17:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1838    ๐Ÿ” 157    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 16

Jinxed it!

09.02.2026 18:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Italia!๐ŸฅŒ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿคฉ

09.02.2026 18:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AI Chatbot That Only Responds โ€˜Huhโ€™ Valued At $200 Billion PALO ALTO, CAโ€”Hailing the new product as a โ€œgame changerโ€ in the development of large language models, Silicon Valley insiders confirmed Tuesday that an AI chatbot that only responds โ€œhuhโ€ had been va...

The onion remains undefeated in delivering the most accurate news.

theonion.com/ai-chatbot-t...

09.02.2026 04:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1211    ๐Ÿ” 264    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

No they are both named Cory/Korey and that is objectively insufferable

07.02.2026 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WATER you doing?

06.02.2026 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 331    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7    ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Is the existence of AI images on social media of a representation of a proposition valid evidence that the proposition is true?
Not no.
#epistemologyishard

07.02.2026 15:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I cannot and do not support TeamUSA for political and nomenclatural reasons, but that was a nice rock ๐ŸฅŒ#curling #mixeddoubles

07.02.2026 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org

01.02.2026 23:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10521    ๐Ÿ” 3099    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 161    ๐Ÿ“Œ 288

Are you ready to watch CURLING?!๐ŸฅŒ
Hell yes letโ€™s do it #teamcanada

05.02.2026 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Proudly Xhonglophone

03.02.2026 19:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every farmer who owns a donkey is facing severe long term economic challenges

03.02.2026 05:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Chomskyโ€™s friendship with Epstein was just a Phase
#syntax #impenetrabilityconfitions

03.02.2026 05:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are some biscuit conditionals on the table if youโ€™re looking for them.

02.02.2026 15:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I might be in position to comment on that, if I had game worth recognizing.

02.02.2026 15:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This makes it seem like altmetric supports tattling on scientists if you disagree with them. Is that what you mean?

02.02.2026 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Academics vying for a spot in Epsteinโ€˜s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I donโ€™t keep confusing them. 1/

31.01.2026 21:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2939    ๐Ÿ” 1449    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 222

Before I forget: happy birthday, trees everywhere
#seculartubishvat

01.02.2026 13:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0