Steve Winters

I saw a mini-squadron of 4 helicopters hanging in the air over Blaine this morning. Is that something that ICE has been doing?

Ha, okay. :-)

What's the nomenclatural problem? Do you think it should be the Divided States of America?

Funny, because I keep thinking about that song "Us and Them" lately.

Hard to think of a worse way to flirt, really.

To provide some context: Google Translate is her favorite website. I'm sure she's translated words from English into all of these languages at some point, but I'd never heard her say most of these language names before. Some of them were entirely new to me!

YouTube video by cognitivephonetician The Language Alphabet Song

My 7-year-old daughter made up this alphabet song of languages.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3Y4...

In reality, they will only probably start caring if the economy gets really bad.

Cool, that is definitely my favorite version of the story, too.

There is also this: kaiserhoff.org

Some folks here have already pointed out that German-ness is less concentrated in MN than in other places, but at some point you should do yourself the favor of visiting New Ulm and at least taking a picture of yourself next to the Herman the German monument. :-) www.newulm.com/things-to-do...

Hmm, renoviction is pretty nice. (The word, not the concept!)

Cool, thanks.

Awesome.

We had a speaker yesterday from NZ who was talking about how he has to change the way he pronounces Auckland for speech recognition engines, and it made me realize that running through the pronunciations of Oakland-Auckland(NZ)-Auckland(Am) might be a good way to demonstrate the [o]-[ɔ]-[ɒ] triad.

Probably ought to be a "mirkwood" of spiders, instead.

If convicted, though, what's the appropriate punishment? I say the guy has to eat 10 White Castle sliders.

Ha, ever since I discovered linguistics, both {c}s in "Celtic" have been [k]s for me. Except when I'm discussing Larry Bird.

I present, the lenition hypercube

To wit.

My lab group will be participating in this interesting little conference up in Edmonton this weekend:

matips.org/matips2025/d...

We've all been there, dude.

Described in skeet

Described in skeet

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

He didn't slide; he flew.

My sheet music says "Enlargen your world".

I've recently gotten to know someone who universally uses "there is" for both singular and plural nouns. So, rather than saying "there are books in the library" or perhaps "there's books in the library", they say "there is books in the library". Is this the start of a trend?

Overheard in my lab today: "I think L*+H is my favorite pitch accent."

This is like when Lottie informed me that there's a pink lion on the Spanish flag.

New Apple Intelligence features are available today Apple today released new Apple Intelligence features that elevate the user experience across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro.

Apple's new AirPods now do live translation of a foreign language. Hmm.

www.apple.com/newsroom/202...

Sounds like an implosive to me, but if it is an implosive, then it's a voiceless one, as you've transcribed it. Providing further evidence for the feature [+laryngeally weird].