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Dennis Baron
@drgrammar.bsky.social
I write about language and … language and law (free speech and regulation); gender (pronouns!); tech (how tech affects readers and writers); language reform; and language policing. All from a historical perspective.
Shouldn't he just build a wall and make Canada pay for it?
wordle: in three today. why is everyone so upset? i mean the bee 🐝 denied me boffin and nobble. now that is upsetting.
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Cambridge University Press - Linguistics@cambup-linguistics.cambridge.org · last mo."The landscape of free speech is in constant flux, and Baron provides important context to the current debates." You Can't Always Say What You Want: The Paradox of Free Speech by @drgrammar.bsky.social, Out Now https://cup.org/4vyLrGl #LangSky #PoliSky 🐦🐦 #FreeSpeech
In Québec, no noshing allowed. Read all about it in a new post on the Web of Language: blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/3194...
In Québec, no noshing allowed.
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The Deux Chevaux comes with everything you see here. Batteries not included.
Pham: A century-old nonbinary pronoun you never heard of -- a new post on the Web of Language. blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/1359...
Pham: A century-old nonbinary pronoun you never heard of
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Pronouns in the news, 1918 edition: S. D Smith, of Davenport IA, proposes pham and phem as pronouns for "either a man or a woman." Smith also offers some compounds: congresspham, phamhood, phamself. Illinois State Register, Mar. 22, 1918, p. 4.
Remember this: If Proust had this madeleine hand cream he would have written so much more.
Pronouns in the news, 1890 edition, or, it was always the guns: Former UMichigan regent Ebenezer Lakin Brown offers common gender pronouns ta, tas, and tan, but a writer warns, "If ta comes out west ta should bring tas gun for the protection of tan." Illinois State Register, Dec. 18, 1890, p. 4.
Another lazy day on campus. www.wcia.com/news/champai...
HOLY COW: Cow spotted roaming UI campus Wednesday afternoon
Update: 6 p.m. URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — The cow that was roaming the University of Illinois’ campus on Wednesday has been safely recovered and is now being checked over by a veterinarian. …
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In addition to emails offering hundreds of "real" reviews of books I’ve published, one offered to create an AI Me, trained on my books, to converse with readers and sign copies of my books (digitally), leaving me free to write more or to go into stasis. blogs.illinois.edu/view/25/4857...
AI Me
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Plane home was 1.5 hours late but instead of extra miles as compensation we got to see a great prairie sunset.
I have often been less than thrilled with airline meals, but I suppose I should be heartened by this message on today's American Airlines snack.
Forget the fake book reviews, here's an offer to turn me into an ai bot. Excuse me, a "conversational replica." Help me, obi wan...
