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• Zia Gianna (and a bonus visit from William)

  By ljd42 on June 19, 2020

  

  Delicious caprese pasta takeout tonight from Zia Gianna: cavatappi with tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, and nut-free pesto — all prepared by the owner and founder, native Sicilian and new American citizen Nino Barbalace. Also a bottle of Nero D’Avola. As a… Read More ›

• Karen

  By ljd42 on June 18, 2020

  

  Who is Karen? As Gretchen McCulloch explains, language changes more rapidly today than in the past, because internet. One current meaning of Karen is new. According to Wikipedia: Karen is a term used in the United States for a person perceived to… Read More ›

• Minority languages

  By ljd42 on June 16, 2020

  

  Simon Agre says: Speakers of majority languages often belittle them, claim they are not proper languages, that they don’t have their own grammar, and/or that they are ‘just’ dialects, patois, or distorted / corrupted versions of a majority language, and… Read More ›

• Grim fairytales

  By ljd42 on June 15, 2020

  

  That’s grim, not Grimm. Well, both, actually. As some Americans — and all Germans — know, the Grimm fairytales can be quite grim. Some of us have gained a particular perspective on this point from Stephen Sondheim’s wonderful musical, Into the… Read More ›

• Special dinner from Tavolo

  By ljd42 on June 14, 2020

  

  Example of unaware white privilege: A middle-class white guy complains that meals during the shutdown have included too much pasta, too much pizza, too many casseroles. I’m not going to be that guy. We’re not complaining. Still, it was great… Read More ›

• What does “defund” really mean?

  By ljd42 on June 13, 2020

  

  “Defund the police.” That means… what? Does it mean eliminate police departments? Does it mean reduce their funding? Does it mean anarchy? Here are three posts I saw on Facebook yesterday — one posted by a friend, two from a… Read More ›

• Ἅρειος Ποτῆρ καὶ ἡ τοῦ Φιλοσόφου Λίθος

  By ljd42 on June 12, 2020

  

  No cheating now: Based on the Greek letters that you’ve learned from math and science, can you figure out what the title of this post says? If you can’t figure out any complete words, try sounding them out. There are… Read More ›

• Because Language

  By ljd42 on June 10, 2020

  

  Just over a year ago, I published a blog post in which I added Talk the Talk to my short list of favorite linguistics podcasts. The bad news is that Talk the Talk is no more. The good news is… Read More ›

• The Mathematics of COVID-19

  By ljd42 on June 8, 2020

  

  As you know from my recent post, my colleague Joyce and I will be co-teaching a short unit on the mathematics of COVID-19 this summer. But what topics should it include, and in what order, and how will students learn… Read More ›

• A Moroccan teen blogs about linguistics (and other matters…).

  By ljd42 on June 6, 2020

  

  How many Americans know that Morocco is in Africa? Probably not very many. I’m guessing 4%. And half of those know Morocco’s location only because they’ve seen the world’s best movie (Casablanca, of course) and have paid attention to the geography…. Read More ›

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