FML watching jdv on douthat. At 5:28 he says: "what this is and what this isn't is"
Chandan Narayan
@ch-narayan.bsky.social
Linguistics prof @ YorkU in Toronto (Acoustic phonetics, speech perception, sound change, lexicon). Californadian ch-narayan.github.io
Reading a paper from the 70s that uses "unilingual" and I like it. F mixed italo-greek words. Monoglossic?
Doing lit review and discovered the first (only?) billionaire with a speech science PhD
Because everyone's talking about Rush I'm reminded of perhaps the greatest piece of Canadiana www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6At...
Trailer Park Boys 😁 Ricky Kidnaps Alex Lifeson
YouTube video by Pets, Animals, Travel, Docs, & Rare Musical Stuff
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Somebody should write “sciatica“ in the Metallica font because that’s how it feels
I somehow missed that Bob Port passed away in February www.mykeeper.com/RobertPort
Robert Bob Port's Memorial
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The real heroes are those that decline a review but give you five names of people to contact
Elsevier: we will join the lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement for AI training. Elsevier: Yes, this AI representation of an ear is an accurate representation for this mathematical model. Fig. 1. Schematic figure representing (...) the cochlea. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@phono-logical.bsky.social Matt Galloway on CBC metro morning repeatedly said “genuine-ly” [dʒɛnjuwajnli] what’s up with that?
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus www.nature.com/articles/s41... Demonstrates the persistence of oddball discrimination, semantic processing & online prediction in individuals under general-anaesthesia-induced loss of consciousness ->complex processing when unconscious
Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus - Nature
In the hippocampus, complex processing of sensory stimuli occurs even in the unconscious state.
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Jealous of dudes on eastern seaboard who get to see the Silkworm/COME tour. Cohen's on fire on this version of Don't make plans skwm.bandcamp.com/track/dont-m...
Don't Make Plans This Friday (Live at Moe), by Silkworm
track by Silkworm
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Watching the Jays and imagining a guileless batter who does an ABS challenge when the ump calls a ball. I feel like this would be a good story for a Smog song
My old bud, jaime, put out this record today. Check it setting.bandcamp.com/album/setting
Setting, by Setting
5 track album
setting.bandcamp.com
That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.
Toronto Star@thestar.com · 4mo agoCanada Post marks its 8th straight annual loss — totalling $6.1 billion since 2018 — as the Canadian Union of Postal Workers begins voting on a tentative deal amid the end of home delivery.
This website rules because someone can come on and just confidently say something like "Eno represents the eco-tranquillity faction of the new age to fascism pipeline in case people actually want to be honest and y'all don't"
Psycholinguistics or Scientology? Thetan Logogen Engram Parallel Distributed Processing Dev-t TRACE TOT
Sonic Youth, “her name is bubble yum”
Retro Commercial Screens@retrocommercials.bsky.social · 5mo ago
Every wiki entry for a british person ends with “is a supporter of Gloucesteringham F.C.”
Can't stop listening to this record. It's like Neu! with some early 80s NZ or brit or MDID vocals. H/t craig stationmodelviolence.bandcamp.com/album/statio...
Station Model Violence, by Station Model Violence
10 track album
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