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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.

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Just saw a young black dude in a MAGA hat. Not a common thing here in South Africa. I’m a little perplexed.

07.08.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Current mood: sitting in the dark by the fireplace and the solar inverter batteries

02.08.2025 19:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Camp 1391 - Wikipedia

I for one did not know about this horrific place before today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_1391

30.07.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

OMG, I have just realized: Aardvarks are the desert/scrub opposite of beavers. Instead of damming streams, they create holes under the ground. Other critters live in the econiche they create either way.

27.07.2025 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control The private and public seductions of the world’s biggest pop neuroscientist.

This was a fascinating read:

nymag.com/intelligence...

25.07.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*clove, crimson thereand er

18.07.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just saw an ad for a mobile game called, I shit you not, β€œWhite Defender”

15.07.2025 08:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The word of today is β€œunfuck”

08.07.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
John Ireland - I like.wmv
YouTube video by keurspel (Leon Rossouw) John Ireland - I like.wmv

I STILL cannot believe this song was legal in apartheid South Africa

youtu.be/BUjcgbS2mWs?...

06.07.2025 09:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just for the record, here’s a PSA from a linguistics prof in South Africa: Elon Musk is not a boer.

My consultants tell me that the correct terminology is β€˜soutpiel’, which translates as β€œsaltdick”

01.07.2025 16:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The real problem in South Africa is the way people pick flavors

23.06.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*z0diac, sorry

15.06.2025 14:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The new AI zondiAIc: a work in progress
Canva: 2% June to 2! July
Lizzo: 2! July to 1& August
nVirgo: 1@ August to 2ΒΏ September

15.06.2025 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Q: Can you fix my website?
A: No, because you used canva

15.06.2025 13:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Episode IV: the Italian Dune
Episode IV: the Arrakeen Job

06.06.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Star Wars is Dune crossed with a war movie using a caper story device

06.06.2025 07:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
OPINION: WHY THE TOWN OF MAKHANDA (FORMERLY GRAHAMSTOWN*) HAS COLLAPSED!
YouTube video by Zimasa "mooshtaffa" Vabaza OPINION: WHY THE TOWN OF MAKHANDA (FORMERLY GRAHAMSTOWN*) HAS COLLAPSED!

This was a great -- and galling -- overview of our local municipality's most recent governmental failings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-Iq...
#SouthAfrica #Makana #Makhanda #Wakanda

02.06.2025 11:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder if asking for minimal fragment answers would make this easier. Let’s go ask ChatGPT!

30.05.2025 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suck it, Frege!

30.05.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A 1980s or '90s ad featuring a businessman recoiling in horror at the sight of an envelope zipping around his office in a shower of electric sparks to land on his desk. The text below this image simply reads: "What the heck is Electronic Mail?"

A 1980s or '90s ad featuring a businessman recoiling in horror at the sight of an envelope zipping around his office in a shower of electric sparks to land on his desk. The text below this image simply reads: "What the heck is Electronic Mail?"

Me, logging on to work after the long weekend

26.05.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 3543    πŸ” 734    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 22

I have no problem with gayness, this is a joke about how I just happened to take a bunch of pictures that combine homoerotically

27.05.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A multi story mural of two men kissing. I’m not sure if it’s Tintin

A multi story mural of two men kissing. I’m not sure if it’s Tintin

β€œIf it bleeds we don’t eat it”

β€œIf it bleeds we don’t eat it”

Sign that at first glance reads β€œI love penis”

Sign that at first glance reads β€œI love penis”

Phallic architecture aplenty

Phallic architecture aplenty

Paris is pretty. Pretty gay.

27.05.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Great movie, I almost impulse bought the book yesterday

23.05.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for doing your part to normalize hammocks in academia and science

23.05.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also I am still a little tiny bit freaked out from when I learned that roots move towards water noise

23.05.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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They say you should be careful not to meet your idols. Well, today I met bullet bill of Mario fame! He was so quiet and modest, and so patient to let people take photos

23.05.2025 02:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In group 2, we stopped watering at the CV stage, while group 3 was irrigated throughout the foot

22.05.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

OlΓ©!

21.05.2025 03:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Seconded

21.05.2025 03:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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