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depending on phase and type of analysis
1) if the analysis is enriching the transcription of gesture features
1) if there are few enough tokens that I am doing something more qualitative
1 & 2) if there's something more quant I'm doing with the finalised scripts

World Linguistics Day is on the 26th of November because that's de Saussure's birthday. It's a great opportunity to celebrate linguistics.

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I'm sorry, I knew that and yet can never help just pointing out how the process works 😅🫣

There was a declined proposal in 2018: unicode.org/emoji/emoji-...

Hard to see how it would meet multiple concepts/use in combination critera

None! From Unicode's perspective anyway. Once something is in Unicode, it's there forever, which is why the process is so slow.

Going to be so useful!

How's the snow going this week?

Yeah, this is why the documents being searchable is so useful, because Chomsky replies to everyone but he doesn't hang out with them

You would have thought that the 2008 conviction might have put an end to it, but apparently not.

fwiw it's an open joke amongst linguists that Chomsky will reply to every email he gets, so this isn't immediately surprising news

You might need to hit the subtitles button [CC] if you don't have yours on by default!

34! I love the idea we could throw a first birthday party for EVERY Lauren 😂