Just got done listening to Ellen Muehlberger on this speaking about her work “Things Unseen: Essays on Evidence, Knowledge and the Late Antique World.” Things that grabbed me were the common misconception that the ancients were just trying to be like us and failing…

If it turns out that I’m wrong about anything, I hope that in being wrong I’m found to also have been kind.

The word "pedigree" comes from the Middle English "pedegru", via the Old French "pie de true", meaning "foot of a crane". The metaphor comes from the habit of marking family lineages at the time with a three-lined "claw mark" that looked like a crane's foot.
#phdposting #linguistics

Random #cricket thought, but instead of a hard two-tier split in #testcricket, why couldn’t we give test status to matches between the second tier nations and the leading ‘A’ sides? A lot of logistics obviously - but watching NZ rest key players against Zimbabwe it’s not bizarre.

/tldr - Copernicus was a plagiarist and the universe holds lots of sand.

So the kids made me watch a documentary thing about Galileo, and I had the thought “wasn’t there some ancient dude who hypothesized a heliocentric universe?” So I looked it up and yeah, Archimedes mentions Aristarchus… (1/4)

My two methodological tools are metaphor study and comparative approach. I now have multiple sources speaking of parallelomania and metaphoromania.

What is happening in academia. A man can only take so much mania.

#PhDLife #CognitiveLinguistics

In the negated present tense form of every form of the verb "to be" in English, the speaker has the choice to form a contraction with either the pronoun and the verb, or the verb and the negator.

Except for the first person singular. I amn't happy about this.
#linguistics

Every day I see all kinds of viciousness and stereotyping online, and then every morning I go for a run and am reminded that the overwhelming majority of my neighbours are wonderful people.