Ergative Absolutive

ergative@wandering.shop

SFF booknerd; calligrapher; Islamic geometric art doer; figure skating appreciater; coffee-drinking, granola-baking, tofu-eating wokeratum; psycholinguist by vocation, fretful porpentine by aspiration.Header & avatar: Islamic geometric patterns from the Alhambra Palace (header) and Alcazar of Seville (avatar)Yes, I KNOW it's a nazi coup; I just don't talk about it that much on here.Contributer at Nerds of A Feather (<a href="http://www.nerds-feather.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">http://www.nerds-feather.com/</a>)<a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/nobot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#nobot</a> <a href="https://wande

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Post #4453191
Did you know about Pikiwedia? If you don't know about Pikiwedia, you need to learn about Pikewedia. I swear, I'm got to assign something about speech errors and spoonerisms from this. https://pikiwedia.netlify.app/Dog #linguistics
Post #4410663
Hey, folks! Do you know of any unisex/open toilets? Add them here! I just went on and added my work building, which is fully open to the public during business hours, and has single-sex toilets on the ground floor, but two single-occupancy unisex rooms on the upper floors. (There's a space to add notes to clarify this kind of thing.) To do: find more cases like this on my uni campus and add them. https://openlavs.com/
Post #4025818
Tumblr still serving up the wisdoms.
Post #3786622
Recruitment call! A student of mine is looking for #Italian native speakers, or Italian-English bilinguals, over the age of 18, to participate in an experiment. Entirely online, 30 minutes, boosts welcome! #linguistics #psycholinguistics Experiment link: https://research.sc/participant/login/dynamic/0EE0511C-C95B-4A56-97C4-42D4B25E5E6B Any questions? Contact 3115621P@student.gla.ac.uk
Post #1749005
PhD student just casually noting in her chapter draft that she noticed the degrees of freedom were wrong in her ANOVA, and tracked that back to accidentally omitting a participant&#39;s data from the analysis. How many of y&#39;all actually properly check your dfs like this? #rstats #academicChatter
Post #1749004
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@spookygirl/116449801910816428 I chucked a self-nomination at BFA back in 2022 -- before I was contributing to Nerds of a Feather, without any credibility of any sort in the field -- and all I had to say was &#39;I read a lot, I have opinions, I consider myself reasonably familiar with the state of fantasy fiction these days, please pick me.&#39; And they did! It was a great experience. You, too, can be an opinionated nobody who likes to read, who decides the...
Post #1749003
RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/116455067093931895 The underuse of scumwit must be rectified! That one is downright Shakespearean!
Post #1749002
This is really interesting. Typically humanoid robots are deployed in areas where a similarity to human form adds function, like human-facing activities (e.g., bartenders, care homes). But baggage handling is not a human-facing activity, so you&#39;d think function would drive form here. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/humanoid-robots-baggage-handlers-japan-airports
Post #1655481
In honour of the holiday, we watched Sinners last night, a film about rising from the dead to build a worldwide community of peace and fellowship.
Post #1440945
OMG, Scotland has its own Four Seasons Total Landscaping event!
Post #1440944
RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116414861217442039 One of the best things I ever did for my own wedding was work at a bakery that did wedding cakes for a couple of years beforehand. The number of stressed out, miserable brides I had to talk to during consultations about wedding cake design was why we got married at the county clerk&#39;s office with only our immediate families, and ate homemade pie at a picnic in the woods afterwards.
Post #1440943
Serap Ekizler Sonmez&#39;s books on Islamic geometry are great fun to work through, because they assume a baseline level of familiarity with geometric construction, so often there are missing steps that I have to figure out myself. Usually I can do that. Sometimes, however, it really does feel like &#39;draw the rest of the fucking owl&#39;. #IslamicArt #IslamicGeometricArt
Post #1440941
Mr Absolutive and my mother are locked in a philosophical difference of opinion about the St Crispin&#39;s Day speech in Henry V. Mr A thinks it&#39;s the bullshit chest-thumping up of invaders who want to do more genocide instead of going home; mumsy thinks it&#39;s a glorious evocation of brotherhood. I&#39;m absorbing the crossfire. #Shakespeare
Post #1405026
Hey, friends, a quick reminder that although Make America Kittens Again (MAKA) has been blocked from Chrome, it still works on Firefox: Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/make-firefox-kittens-again/ (MAKA is a browser extension that replaces all images whose metadata includes the word &#39;Trump&#39; with a creative-commons picture of a kitten. Here&#39;s what it did to the front page of today&#39;s NYTimes for me.)
Post #664600
Any linguists who teach the role of prosody and intonation in conveying meaning, you might find this a useful demonstration. I think the use of contrastive focus at about 0:48 particularly striking. #linguistics #phonetics #prosody #academicChatter https://youtube.com/shorts/okV-IlqMOMM?si=DNZbcwC4oZpy-hoY
Post #664599
During the family zoom last night, I was going off on my nonsense about how an author of a book I was reading made a choice i didn&#39;t agree with. And, like clockwork, my family suggested, as they always do, &#39;you should write to them and tell them what you think!&#39; NO! I&#39;M NOT GOING TO DO THAT! Who wants Reviewer 2 to follow you home? The book is PUBLISHED. It&#39;s DONE! Beloved authors, if you ever get an email from me about your work, it&#39;s only eve...
Post #664598
Ok, Down Cemetary Road is lots of fun, but the bit that has me scratching my head is when they catch a train from King&#39;s Cross that announces it&#39;s &#39;non-stop to Glasgow&#39;. EXCUSE ME? I would VERY MUCH Like a non-stop train to Glasgow. Please may I have such a train? Please may it exist?
Post #664597
RE: https://wandering.shop/@NerdsofaFeather/116170443992942919 Hi, friends! The penultimate in my Realm of the Elderlings reread project on Nerds of a Feather is now up! #bookReview
Post #664596
Praise me everyone. I saw a bad take came across my feed. (NB: it was a harmless bad take.) I thought about responding, &#39;well, actually...&#39;. I did not. I thought about vagueposting a response with no link. I did not. Instead of directly engaging and adding toxicity, or indirectly engaging and adding unnecessary snark to the zeitgeist, I am instead meta-engaging as an object lesson about how to be a nicer person on the internet. Also I&#39;m fishing for praise. I&#...
Post #664595
Yes, academic publishing is broken. But these heroes have a plan to fix it... https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.01393 #academicChatter
Post #664594
It actually happened! There was a roll of thunder followed a second later by the sound of rain coming down! I thought it only happened in the movies! But it actually happened in real life!
Post #664590
I just subscribe to @404mediaco , because they keep linking interesting articles, the ones that aren&#39;t paywalled are worth reading, and many others that look just as interesting are paywalled. And they promise never to use AI to write anything. I gotta say, that last promise is a big part of why I&#39;m giving them my money.
Post #664589
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116233337546354410 #shareGoodNewsToo