I don’t know about Arkansas, but in Utah it seemed to hit its peak among people born in the 1910s or so I think.
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I don’t know about Arkansas, but in Utah it seemed to hit its peak among people born in the 1910s or so I think.
Just heard the cord-card merger in the wild! “It’s gonna be t[a]rture!” said by a TSA agent, a woman perhaps in her late 50s. Despite local stereotypes, that’s only my second time hearing it since moving to Utah 6 years ago.
Here’s a full draft of the upcoming second edition of my “Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction”: socviz.co
Burger War for #WOTY2026
I just wish I had more time to do stuff like this!
*sigh* #WOTY2026
CorpusPhon2 will take place on Monday 29/6/26 in Montréal, Québec, right after LabPhon20. Submissions are due on 3/13/26 and our website has been updated to reflect this. Please consider submitting to our workshop!
sites.google.com/view/corpusp...
Today in Applied Phonetics was sound symbolism and branding. So we chose a product and applied some techniques to come up with a new name. The class chose Praat. Here are some of their names:
Fon-e-talk
Talktics
Favewave
Respee
Comspeech
Soundfound
My favorites though were
Sonetix
Wavio
Half of what my 9yo says makes me wonder whether she has learned words but doesn’t quite know what they mean or whether it’s just Gen Alpha slang.
Especially if they’re involved in the writing process, yes.
The temptation to leave this as the only feedback on student work!
#woty2026!
I finally get my purple scarf off the ground. My first time using actual wool! Pattern 179 from 250 Japanese Kitting Stitches.
Achievement unlocked! A student chose to present on one of my articles for their in-class presentation!
Not a fan of this email from a co-worker that is clearly AI generated.
A local theater in town is doing a double feature on February 2.
5:00 Groundhog Day
8:00 Groundhog Day
Ice/ICE for #woty2026?
My course syllabi now contain a link to this document, "why Professor Holliday Doesn't Use Generative AI". Feel free to share/repurpose or just check out the links for your own reference. It won't stop some of them, but I want students to know why. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Hey me too!
The program for GURT 2026 ("Futuring Linguistics") is live! Gonna be a good one
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
My kid calls non flat-screen TVs “microwave TVs.” 🤣
What I'm worried about is that students are reading more AI-generated text than human-generated text. So that becomes their model. Which means when they go to write something, even if it's not AI-generated, it'll sound like it is because that's what they're used to reading.
A corpus of vocalists.
Oh wait. Wrong sense.
The annual BYU Redd Center funding season is here and we have INCREASED the $$$ amounts!
PLEASE share this as broadly as possible.
We accept applications from ANY discipline for projects focused on the intermountain states of AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, & WY.
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HELP us publicize the annual BYU Redd Center awards/funding!
PLEASE apply for our funding and share this as widely as you can - repost on BlueSky, share on other social network platforms, emails colleagues and students, etc.
Applications are due on March 15.
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I said “6-7” to my 9yo and she said flatly, “it’s 2026. That’s not a thing anymore.”
The 2025 Word of the Year is "slop," both as a noun for low-quality AI-generated content and as a combining form for anything of little value. Read the full press release. #WOTY2025 #ADS2026 #LSA2026
americandialect.org/2025-word-of...
Tomorrow I start teaching three courses and then immediately depart for #LSA2026/#ADS2026. That made today pretty stressful but I think I got it.
