Right you lot. I need some good poetic inverted syntax, wrongly corrected. Send me examples like these: The six hundred rode into the valley of death. The eye of heaven shines too hot sometimes. Thy father lies five full fathoms. Kubla Khan did decree a stately pleasure-dome in Xanadu. Thanks

Suddenly I’m getting email spam (ironically) from the great French roadside restaurant Buffalo Grill. Why? I haven’t been to one in years. I have just disinscribed myself. Who among you has sold my details to Buffalo Grill? Fess up

Appy Yorkshire Day!

Apologies if you are waiting for a reply from me. In the past 5 weeks @jessnorledge.bsky.social , @danc.bsky.social and I have written 104,000 words for a Companion to the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit. 30,000 to go, deadline 21st August. No worries; also #NoAI www.nottingham.ac.uk/common/styli...

So the ‘leaders’ at UKRI think it’s good politics to remove astrophysics funding from an iconic North West asset, just at the moment that a North West MP becomes prime minister Why are UK managers so utterly unsuited for their well-paid jobs?

I have already read this. It’s fab. A new model of humour that isn’t just ‘incongruity’. You should get hold of a copy, and strongarm your library into buying it.

Alice Haines@alicehaines.bsky.social · last wk.

Lovely - finally - to get my hands on this

Pizza stain as Dancing Cossack

I feel they shouldn’t count goals by elves in the men’s World Cup

My prefatory ‘On mind-modelling and authenticity’ is out in Fafnir - the Nordic Journal of SF and Fantasy. The whole issue is free here: fafnir.journal.fi

Sad to hear that linguist and scholar John Field has died. His Psycholinguistics for our @routledgebooks.bsky.social textbook series was a masterpiece of communication. A lovely man. RIP

It’s been a bad World Cup, and I probably won’t watch the foulers v tiptappers in the final. Almost no decent football; only plucky underdog stories; big teams didn’t perform; US corruption and incompetence; Scotland pathetic and England poor. Disappointing really

Or you could just get a grip. The beauty of being a Boro fan: despair is what football is. Feeling gutted? Five ways to cope with England's World Cup defeat www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Feeling gutted? Five ways to cope with England's World Cup defeat

After England’s loss, fans and experts share their tips for managing the disappointment.

bbc.co.uk

High Noun

Benjamin Suchard@bnuyaminim.bsky.social · 3w ago

Turn a movie into a linguistics article

The entirety of the discipline of History involves a very high preponderance of speaking ill of the dead

Off to Aston in Brum for LitDrive tomorrow (unaccountably not on here but still over on the Naxi Site) to spread the Stylistics gospel To the (airconditioned) StylisticsMobile! And away! www.nottingham.ac.uk/stylisticstoolkit

Grok Open the pod bay doors, Grok

News delayed by Wimbledon and World Cup. Quite funny that Farage’s bid for coverage with his childish stunt has been scuppered by 4 sets of elite foreigners

All set here @natecommunity.bsky.social with swag and info about the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit. Come and say hello

Today the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit is in that Manchester at the @natecommunity.bsky.social conference. Andy Burnham has an English degree, just sayin

Off to NATE conference tomorrow, so no way am I staying up. Am staying off Bluesky too. Am old enough to get this reference. #EngMex

This is very good from David Shariatmadari, with some choice quotes from me www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

How AI is changing language

As allegations of LLM use rock the literary and media worlds, linguists explain what really distinguishes human and machine language, while novelists including Jennifer Egan and Jeanette Winterson ref...

theguardian.com

Just arrived! Looking forward to reading this by @neilcohn.bsky.social It looks like it’s about comics (it is) and art (also) but it’s truly about language across all the modalities of speech, writing, gesture and drawing

We’ll be there with the Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit

National Association for the Teaching of English@natecommunity.bsky.social · last mo.

One week to go until the sold-out NATE Conference. We're looking forward to welcoming English teachers from across the country for a day of inspiring talks, workshops, conversations and the NATE Awards. Thank you to everyone who'll be joining us — we can't wait to see you. #NATE

My excellent colleague Jem Bloomfield and I at the @uonenglish.bsky.social Open Day, covering all shades of English studies today

Me neither, Sainsburys fridge sign, me neither

So the @engmediacentre.bsky.social and Nottingham Stylistics Toolkit workshop goes north! Off to Guisborough in the holy land for a day of English Lang/Lit tomorrow. To the StylisticsMobile- and away! www.nottingham.ac.uk/stylisticsto...

Good morning everyone. I have a feeling this is going to be a long day. #PerennialJoke

Apart from this persona, I’m also both a cricketer and footballer, a film actor, an Australian politician, and a former Labour member of the UK parliament. The worst performer was grok intheweights.com

I swear these have their own batteries

England: so this is how it’s going to be. Tooty