Joshua McNeill

Just a reminder that this entire #war with #Iran would've been avoided if #Trump had been willing to allow the diplomatic success of a Black man to stand.

#race #racism #Obama

https://abcnews.com/Politics/iran-nuclear-deal-trump-united-states/story?id=123020009

@CenterforOpenScience Any chance the #OSF will start supporting #Codeberg as an add-on for projects? I imagine the Venn diagram of people into #openscience and people wanting to get off #Github has a lot of crossover.

#science #git

Le pronom "z-en" apparaît dans mes données autour de #Lafayette dans les phrases éoù c'est probablement un clitique comme "ina z-en" (il y en a). Rottet (1995) a aussi constaté ces constructions dans #Terrebonne - #Lafourche. Mais, Wendte (2020) l'a trouvé comme un non-clitique au #Texas: "Z-en […]

@professordarkness.bsky.social This is how I feel every time my older relatives shrug off climate change. Like, great for you since you're old, but I guess F the kids in our family, right?

(disclaimer: I do in fact love my family, however)

#Website #cookies pop-ups are now asking me to opt in to opting out of selling my data. While this sort of #negation construction is #linguistically interesting for the problems it causes with #comprehension, it's also an exceptionally annoying display of assholery.

#linguistics #syntax […]

#Citationhole of the day: Discussing when the #French settled near #Mobile, #Alabama and when they founded #NewOrleans, Wendte (2020) cited Dawdy (2008) and Eccles (1998). Dawdy had no sources for this info. Eccles cited Surrey (1916) who finally cited de la Harpe (1831) and Margry (1881). These […]

Watched the #MalteseFalcon for the first time, and despite it being a classic #filmnoir, and despite a cliché of #film noir being that the private detective is a heavy drinker, there was almost a complete absence of #alcohol throughout the film. Contrast that with literally any #show or #movie […]

Which stranded #prepositions are you most and least adverse to fronting when #writing something formal? For example, "What did he ask ABOUT?" (stranded) vs "ABOUT what did he ask?" (fronted).

#English #syntax #linguistics #grammar

Of course, I don't know if this isn't the way he grew up speaking, but it seems unlikely that he grew up with "indeed" and "for which" and such. Stranded prepositions would have been some of the easiest non-standard features to include, but even they do not occur. This feels like it highlights […]

V. A. Young (2009) argued against #codeswitching for non-White #US #students (i.e., learning #academic #language and using that in #school rather than their home variety) and for "code meshing" (i.e., blending both varieties in formal contexts), but his own article contained nothing that I would […]

This should go without saying, but the #job of a #university is not to prepare #students to make a lot of #money but rather to #educate them. The #Trump #administration clearly believes that the only value #universities have is generating skilled #employees […]

Casting the western hemisphere as "children of #Europe" fits very neatly into a #White #supremacist narrative. I don't think this is consciously what #Rubio was intending to express, but that's how #race functions once it becomes embedded in #society: it perpetuates through actions that feed […]

@WarnerCrocker My mom in NJ was shocked yesterday when I told her it was warmer here in Chicago than there in NJ.

Dans la #Louisiane, tu entends souvent que la mise des pronoms d'objet (in)direct après le verbe est un trait du #créole, mais tu peux l'entendre parmi même les locuteurs les plus courants de ça on appellerait du #français à part ça. Des exemples de mes données, chacun d'un locuteur différent […]

En #Louisiane, on dirait qu'un #singularthey se propage parmi les #francophones. Par exemple, dans mes données:

«SON cousin, ÇA reste à Bâton-Rouge ... tous LEURS amis dit ...»

Je retrouve ça tous les temps en temps dans mes données, équivalent à «they/their» en anglais.

#linguistique […]

Deux de mes participants de recherche dans la #Louisiane a parlé de #JackieRobinson quand on parlait du #racisme. J'ai jamais soulevé le #baseball, mais parmi tous les moments possibles, ça c'était un moment important pour eux.

#sociolinguistique #français #créole #race #blackhistorymonth #BHM […]

Voici une phrase (un SN) en #créole #louisianais du 18e siècle que j'aime bien:

«domestique nomme la jéne fille la té lainmin»

Ça se trouve dans le livre #Louisiana #Folktales, recueillis par Alcée Fortier. Voici une autre #orthographe et puis une #traduction:

«domestique homme-la jeune […]

Une bonne indication que le participe «été» représente vraiment le participe du verbe «aller» pour quelques #Louisianais et pas du verbe «être». Dans le livre Graines de parasol par Jude Chatelain:

«Les deux vieilles femmes s'ont dit bonjour et chacune s'en a été dans une différente direction.» […]

An unusual #citationhole comes up in Butler's (1970) paper on the #Atakapas #Indians, unusual because he provided an alternative origin for the tribe's name that is generally more negatively cited as meaning "man eater". However, he cited Swanton's (1911) book, with a page number and all, which […]

@petersuber I will still have a hard time believing that these "Trump is losing support!" polls are anything but wishful thinking until I see a landslide election or elected Republicans start going against him.

[US politics, election interference, Georgia]

As if there wasn't enough to worry about, this stinks of #Trump attempting to mess with #Georgia #elections.

#USpol #politics #Atlanta […]

@TMRuppert The only thing that solves the problem is Trump being removed from office.

@ZhiZhu Seems like that simply means that a Republican who's cool with fascist authoritarianism will get the nomination instead.

@rolle Wait, what's wrong with Element? Wasn't it literally created for the same reason?

[US pol, ICE, Trump]

If the criteria #Trump is using to label #ReneeGood and this #AlexPretti as domestic #terrorists who deserve to be murdered were applied broadly, #January6th would've been a blood bath.

#police #Jan6 #terrorism #ICE #USpol #Minneapolis #MN #Minnesota

Any chance anyone here knows why the #GSS stopped asking the "important matters" #socialnetwork question in 2004?

#sociology #socialnetworkanalysis #SNA #generalsocialsurvey

October Queen (RatDog) | Bob Weir & RatDog Songbook Every Time Played, Lyrics Info on

More on how #NewOrleans are infinitely referenceable (as well as #Louisiana really): #BobWeir and #RatDog recorded a #bluesy song called October Queen that was used #NOLA as its setting.

#blues #GratefulDead #jamband

https://ratdog.org/songs/October+Queen-101/lyrics

If he wasn't a millionaire, I'd feel very sorry for Frances #Tiafoe. He's very good, but it seems like he's just not meant to ever get to the end of any of the #majors.

#AusOpen #tennis #grandslam #grandslams #sports

TIL, tu peux chercher tous les #PDF dans ta bibliothèque de #Zotero si tu choisis «Partout» au lieu de «Titre, Créateur, Année».

#recherche #références #citations

A panel of The Avengers from 1967 where Hawkeye is saying, "Or, had you forgot I was along?"

In #Avengers c1967: "had forgot". Perhaps this was a #NY thing at the time? It has certainly never been anywhere near as common as "had forgotten" in #English #literature ( […]

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