MattieWex 🇵🇸

@mattiewex.bsky.social

butch lesbian, TikTok linguist, pickle expert, & current PhD student @ UChicago (she/her) 📍unceded Potawatomi land

I hate phonology. Also: given that I have to do phonology, I demand that someone who likes it undertake a massive documentation of all proposed optimally theoretic constraints w/ Talmudic levels of exegesis for each: date of 1st attestation, constraints considered equivalent, inconsistencies, &c.

As a ling PhD student in theoretical morphosyntax, my most enduring mixed-culture relationship is the one I have w/ my socioling/ling anth officemate. Just got back from a trip & our whiteboard is covered in a conspiratorial looking web I believe is a social network of queer Romanians in Iași.

Something I’ve resisted fiercely in the past, but have unfortunately had to accept in my 30s is that if you dust your house once a week, your house will be a lot less dusty. It’s kind of an outrage if you think about it.