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Edward Sapir, Language: an Introduction to the Study of Speech (via wordswilling)

Disabled people don’t have special needs. We have very reasonable human needs. Our needs include freedom from abuse, violence, and mistreatment, the right to autonomy and self-direction, the right to represent ourselves, equal opportunity for education and employment, the right to accommodation, and societal inclusion and acceptance. The need for accommodation isn’t a “special need”. It’s a basic human right. It’s a leveling of the playing field that allows us the same opportunities and chances as non-disabled people.

Amythest Schaber, http://neurowonderful.tumblr.com/ (via soooyeahanyway)

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"Systemic exertion intolerance disease" might not fall trippingly off the tongue, but an Institute of Medicine panel says it better matches the symptoms. The disease, it says, is real.

This is cool! And a long time coming as far as avoiding people saying "I'm tired a lot too, maybe I have that" But it's also confusing for me personally from an identity perspective. I've been sick for 14 years, got diagnosed with CFS 11 years ago, then was told 2 years ago I have Fibro (unclear if they meant instead of CFS or in addition to it)...and now it's SEID? This is why I usually just vaguely refer to it as my "disability" or "condition"

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Lemon Poppy Seed Waffles

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xkd on Quotative Like

Looks like Randall Munroe has also been reading linguistics articles about “like”.

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Late night space themed paint session with amelia. We didn’t mean for the quotes to correlate with each other but it ended up being a great mistake.

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Glasgow - Scotland

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Arnold Zwicky’s blog has a list of linguistically relevant xkcd comics, along with links to their associated commentary from his own blog and/or Language Log. There are about a hundred of them, but even a brief scan is pretty interesting, and a great reference if you’re looking for a particular linguistically-relevant xkcd to use as an example somewhere.

I’m especially amused by the very first one, where Mark Liberman notes on Language Log in 2006 that computational linguistics has officially “arrived”.

A Personal Update of Sorts

So I haven't really been on tumblr since like May of last year (besides a few brief visits on my phone) and it's really weirding me out how much in a lot of ways it seems to have stayed the same, but also clearly there have been some dramatic updates to the site that are very jarring and disorienting. Anyway, I'm glad to see I somehow still have many more followers than I ever imagined I'd have, and even though I am more of a silent admiration type of internet dweller than one who really interacts, I appreciate each and every one of you! Coming back I found myself immediately immersed in posts from virtual strangers who I had come to "know" in a manner of speaking, and it felt like catching up with old friends. As for me, I'm completely done with school now, and officially an SLPA as soon as my license comes in the mail in 6 to 8 weeks. I'm job hunting slowly but surely (and trying not to get my hopes up too much about a promising interview I had a week and a half ago). I love my chosen profession and can't wait to go to my first CSHA convention in one month. I also just celebrated my 5 year anniversary with my boyfriend, Brian, and am eager to get a place with him (near wherever I get a job) and truly build a home together. But of course getting to a place you always thought you wanted to be is never all you really wanted. Sure I'm done with school, but I feel overwhelmed by the pressure of deciding where I want to work (and in what setting) while there are sparse at best openings for SLPAs, dreading the house hunting I'll have to do once I get a job in an area I doubt I'll be able to afford, and the internal and external pressure to decide if Brian is "the one" and whether marriage and/or children are in our future. So basically I still stress way too much for my own good and also wouldn't say I exactly have a handle on my anxiety or am managing my CFS and Fibromyalgia as well as I could be. I never know how to end these things, but I'll just say thanks for still being here, tumblr followers and followees (most of which I realize will not see this), and I look forward to once again pouring through a dash filled with arm-chair linguistics, chuckle inducing memes, touching personal journeys (both awe-inspiring and mundane), and pretty pictures of food, landscapes, and yarn.

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Hey, does anyone know of a name for the shortening + s derivation that gives rise to forms like totes, probs, or whenevs? Are there any papers on it?

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So, here’s what I’ve got so far:

Reddy & Stanford (LSA 2014 presentation, in press...

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I am a disabled (severe fibromyalgia with hypermobility) pansexual trans man with depression and anxiety problems… and I desperately need more money to keep from ending up homeless.

I’m not asking for handouts. But I’d really appreciate it if you’d reblog this post and maybe even share this link onwards.

This link is to my shop. I crochet.

I make hats

Shawls and wraps

AND ! Dragonscale Gauntlets!

And I do custom orders too! Like this:

And so on…

I need to make about three thousand dollars to secure my housing situation.. I am not asking you all to buy up all my stock (I don’t think I have 3k of stock) but every little bit counts.

Thanks everyone. Thanks heaps.

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Haven't been crafting much lately but I crocheted these K and J pillows for Kaitlyn's bridal shower

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Sensory Overload and how to cope.

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Doggy for my classmate Ashley's son

Bunny for my classmate Anita's new baby

allthingslinguistic

I wrote about a really interesting study on the linguistics of beatboxing at Lexicon Valley.

Beatboxing doesn’t sound a lot like language and, well, that’s sort of the point. It’s supposed to be an a cappella version of the percussion section, not a complementary set of lyrics. However, since the human vocal tract—including the palate, tongue, teeth, and other mouthparts—is used for both beatboxing and speaking, linguists at the University of Southern California wondered to what extent beatboxers draw on actual speech sounds.

To find out, they put a professional beatboxer in a real-time MRI machine. The resulting cross-sections of the beatboxer’s mouth and throat show a range of sounds, all linguistic, but only some of which are found in the beatboxer’s native language (in this case, both English and Spanish).

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Several video demonstrations at the link, but I wanted to add this more technical chart from Proctor et al with IPA equivalents to many common beatboxing sounds. I hope no one is reading this in public, because you should probably spend the next few minutes trying them all.

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