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Jessi Grieser

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Sociolinguist, novelist, photographer, quilter, saxophonist and Boglehead. Associate Professor of Linguistics at UMich.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · Nov 9

I’ve gotten a bunch of new followers of late. So hi; I’m a Black
Woman sociolinguistics prof at my alma mater, Univ of Michigan. I skeet social justice, linguistics, productivity, teaching, cats and dogs, and NCAA sportsball.

I contain multitudes.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 4h

Yaaaaas ty

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 6h

My teaching assignments next term are:

Language and Discrimination
and
Language in the Post-Colonial Setting

and I am not lying when I say I genuinely loved my old job but also...holy cow I love being in a department where we have enough linguists that I can teach stuff like this.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 6h

Perfect reply skeet is perfect.

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 7h

That's okay, we language scientists have demonstrated that swearing is a sign of a generally large vocabulary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-s...

Is Swearing a Sign of a Limited Vocabulary?

New research challenges the idea that vulgar words are a sign of failure

www.scientificamerican.com

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 7h

Yaaay

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 7h

Where is @dropout.tv BlueSky? Which fans can I follow when I find myself spontaneously busting out

"I'll be writing this down / 'cause I'm a professional"

while working at night?

#dropout #gamechanger

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 9h

Oh damn this looks great.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 9h

When my cousin once removed wore a MAGA hat to Christmas and was allowed to keep it on after I pointed out wearing it was impolite, I remarked that I was the one being asked to have a calm dinner with my racist cousins.

Cousin: “So we’re your racist cousins now?”
Me: “Oh honey, It’s not *new*…”

Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 1d

I have yet again disappointingly outed a bunch of LLM writers by assigning myself.

"The Duocon video...."

Did ya notice anything about the person speaking in that video? Like...that she also teaches your course?

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 1d

Yeah I think I'm gonna go Delta Reserve + Delta Gold. I see the community's point about "skypesos" but...I live at DTW. 🙃

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 1d

Don't have time to read this yet but I can't wait. I'm one of the millennials who hangs around with people to whom I can say "I have a CSR and an Amex Plat" and getting the reply "Oh I have a CSP and a Blue Preferred"

Currently debating switching my strategy to a Delta two punch, though.

Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 1d

For Businessweek’s November issue, I have a feature about the high-fee premium credit card war being waged by American Express and Chase for the hearts, minds, and swipes of America’s affluent supershoppers. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Inside the Credit Card Battle to Win America’s Richest Shoppers

The fierce fight between Amex and Chase is playing out over higher fees, extravagant events and every perk imaginable.

www.bloomberg.com

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 5d

HOMES letting us go into extra innings tonight.

Get you a good local IPA brewery.

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 5d

I am having CONNIPTION I tell you (and also not a real baseball fan)

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New Ways of Analyzing Variation 53 @nwavconference.bsky.social · 5d

Cookies? Brownies? Vegan Raspberry bars? Pretzel bites?

We're picking out the menu of nosh for poster sessions!

Are you registered for NWAV yet? Come to Ann Arbor, have cookies.

nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu

UM | NWAV53

nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 5d

Came for this comment. No shade to a typo on a forum where you can't edit and shouldn't delete after something starts doing numbers but gosh what a great typo. Can we have a Nobel Peach Prize, please?

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 6d

(Relatedly this is how I learned that I did not do anything wrong; sweet potatoes sometimes spontaneously combust in a microwave due to their higher metal content than regular potatoes)

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 6d

I always love what the auto expansion in Google tells me about the commonality of my question.

What size allen wrench...

...for an insinkerator garbage disposal?

Yep. Thanks, Google. (1/4 inch in case you need to know.) #homemaintenance #girlwithtools

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 7d

Week 7:

intricacies

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 7d

I've been falling down on this job! Weeks 4-6:

sophisticated
contradiction
acceptation
deceptive
meteorologist
Quebecois
Mackinac
algorithmically
definienda
Hrafknell
lexicographer

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 7d

Little sprinkles in my day right now are when I search for someone in my inbox and their NWAV registration (which is otherwise auto-hidden) pops up and then I know I am going to see them soon!

NWAV registration is ongoing! nwav53.ling.lsa.umich.edu. See you in Ann Arbor!

Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 8d

Articles to write: phrase semantics of “, actually”

Jezebel @jezebeldotcom.bsky.social · 8d

Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether banning conversion therapy violates free speech rights, were a doozy.
www.jezebel.com/christian-la...

Christian Law Firm Argues That Conversion Therapy Is Helpful, Actually

Tuesday's Supreme Court arguments in Chiles v. Salazar, about whether banning conversion therapy violates free speech rights, were a doozy.

www.jezebel.com

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Matt Goldrick @mattgoldrick.bsky.social · 8d

Deadline 11/15 "candidates whose work develops computational methods in any area of linguistics and specifically connects linguistics to artificial intelligence" faculty.utexas.edu/career/170793

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 8d

Writing a dissertation shouldn't be miserable and painful. If it is, seek support.

But writing a dissertation shouldn't be a cakewalk, either. It should feel challenging and at times it will feel insurmountable.

The latter isn't the former.

This message is for both students and advisors.

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 10d

Somebody tried to troll here and went viral asking if anybody ever bought a book because they saw it on BlueSky and I am still struck every time I go “Wow the speed with which I switched tabs and bought that book!” after somebody tells me about one…

Thank you! #booksky #mybudgettho

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Jessi Grieser @jessgrieser.com · 12d

Asking the important questions.