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I’ve seen multiple threads discussing the difference between “want” and “wanted” and it’s just linguist after linguist offering intuition about why this might be and what this might mean and

I literally teach this in my class on conversation analysis, these are things we call “pre-sequences” and they’re used because neurotypical folks have a preference for people to offer things

Leave it to academics to try to do thought exercise about just getting in-person conferences up and running with plans that protect attendees but don’t consider the damage of flying

Now that we're remote for the fall I've been surveying my students about their preferences for online teaching, and across the board:Over half want synchronous sessions only once a week

You went through all the trouble of learning what a schwa is and nobody thought to tell you that calling language variation "terrible mispronunciations" is a garbage take You

One of my Dialects students is doing their final project on the indie girl singing voice and stylized impersonations of indie girl voice and I am SO excited to see