"AND WHAT THEN?": More Academic Silliness

"A similar underspecification may be found in the last practice cited and quoted precisely above. It says that, if no one has been selected as next speaker, and no one (other than then-current speaker) has self-selected, then the one who had been the speaker up to the possible completion can self-select...

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Linguisticali Speaking... Out Loud

I haven't had time to blog lately because of my dissertation, so I decided to make a vlog instead. There are so many reasons that this is a bad idea, as you'll see if you watch it. One of the reasons is that the sound quality is awful and I don't have time to do a transcript, since the whole point...

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Yes, We Know it's Not Christmas

Dear Band Aid It's snow on a motherflipping lion. Photo by Lorna Fuller (Source). Sorry, what were you saying? Love and kisses (South) Africa P.S. Just so you know, Christmas is in summ...

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Chasing That Happy

Today I left the library before closing time. Yeah, not even kidding. I have curry on the stove and a cup of bad advice tea ("There is no way to peace. Peace is the way."), and I'm all prepared to spend my evening doing nothing and seeing no one. Happiness is. Never let it be said that I don't have...

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