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Wrote a little essay about my favorite kanji -
https://moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/my-favorite-kanji-the-tetris-kanji/

#Japanese #Linguistics #language #LingStodon #LingMastodon

#NowReading2025 LANGUAGE, NATION, RACE: LINGUISTIC REFORM IN MEIJI JAPAN 1868-1912 by Atsuko UEDA via University of California Press
brewed with Papa Noel
@bookstodon #Books #BookStodon #BookMastodon #Linguistics #LingStodon #LangStodon

Image is of the cover. It is red with the title in white gradually getting bigger with each word, "LANGUAGE, NATION, RACE"

#NowReading2025 WHOSE LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH? by Jieun Kiaer via Yale Books imbibed at Beans & Leaves #Nippori #日暮里
@bookstodon #BookStodon #BookMastodon #LingStodon #LingMastodon #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon #Coffee #Linguistics #Books

Photo is if a brown wooden table up against the window of a cafe. The backs of many Japanese can seen waiting to cross at the corner of an intersection outside. On the table is the yellow hardcover book with an illustration of a severed hand holding a white circle with the title WHOSE LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH? To the right is a white mug & saucer of black coffee

#NowReading2025 DANGEROUS JOKES: HOW RACISM & SEXISM WEAPONIZE HUMOR by Claire Horisk via Oxford University Press imbibed at Yusual #Shibuya #渋谷
@bookstodon #BookStodon #BookMastodon #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon #LingStodon #Linguistics

Photo is of a wooden counter up against a second floor window where 3 blurry Japanese people can be seen walking. On the counter is the hardcover book which has a black and white cut out photos of 3 white men laughing. To the right is a paper cup of black coffee, the cup is white on the inside and brown on the outside

I wrote a little essay about the semantic drift of the word "coffee" -
#LingStodon #LingMastodon #Linguistics #Coffee #CoffeeStodon #CafeStodon #CafeMastodon #Cafes #CoffeeMastodon
https://moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/coffee-coffee/

#NowReading2025 THE SIGNS OF LANGUAGE by Edward Kuma & Ursula Bellugi via Harvard University Press imbibed at Lush Coffee #KitaSenju #北千住
@bookstodon #BookStodon #BookMastodon #CafeStodon #CafeMastodon #CoffeeStodon #CoffeeMastodon #LingStodon #Linguistics #Langstodon #Language #DeafStudies

#NowReReading2024 HOW TO SPEAK MIDWESTERN by Edward McClelland via Belt Publishing imbibed at Hitoyasumi (Pause It) #本蓮沼 #Motohasunuma #Midwest
@bookstodon #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #Linguistics #Lingstodon #Langstodon

Photo is of inside the cafe where a series of clothes dryer can be seen in the distance. In the foreground is the small blue grey paperback book with the title in red in a white speech bubble as if spoken by the white text of the author's name. To the right on the white square table is a blue grey paper cup of coffee with visible brown crema against the inner white of the cup

#NowReReading2024 SPEAKING PITTSBURGHESE: THE STORY OF A DIALECT by Barbara Johnstone via Oxford University Press imbibed at Doutor #Otemachi #大手町
@bookstodon #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #Lingstodon #Langstodon #Linguistics

Photo of inside a cafe. On a round dark brown table is the grey book with YINZ in purple cursive with an arrow at end as graffiti on a wall. To the right is a yellow tray with a white coffee mug & saucer of black coffee and the Doutor label on the mug with the black DOUTOR letters with the second O a yellow coffee bean. To the left on the tray is an ornate blue design around the plate. On the plate is a strawberry mille crepe with lines of strawberry jam. In the distant corner is a Japanese woman sitting with her hand blocking her face as she looks at her smartphone

#NowReading2024 OF SOUND MIND: HOW OUR BRAIN CONSTRUCTS A MEANINGFUL SONIC WORLD by Nina Kraus via MIT Press imbibed at Ogiso Cafe #Ogi #扇大
@bookstodon #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #Linguistics #Lingstodon #Langstodon

#NowReading2024 SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION by Rod Ellis via Oxford University Press imbibed at Coffee Person coffee truck #Marunouchi #丸の内 #Lingstodon #Linguistics
@bookstodon #Bookstodon #BookMastodon

Photo is of an outside white counter at night time on which is the small black paperback book. To the left is a brown coffee cup with a black lid and brown sleeve that reads COFFEE PERSON. In the distance you can see blurry Japanese couples walking along a pedestrian mall in front of a coffee truck with a soft serve ice cream lantern. White Xmas lights can be seen on trees

#NowReading2024 PSYCHOLINGUISTICS by Thomas Scovel via Oxford University Press imbibed at Saza Coffee #Shinagawa #品川 #Linguistics #LingStodon
@bookstodon

The small black paperback book with the title PSYCHOLINGUISTICS in red is on a light brown wooden counter. To tye right is a black paper coffee cup with a red band in the middle with the unreadable name of the coffee shop. It has a white plastic lid. Behind the counter we can see 2 headless baristas in brown aprons & white dress shirts working in front of an espresso machine

I wrote a thing about correcting people's pronunciations
#linguistics #LingStodon

https://moderndaybartleby.wordpress.com/2024/11/14/correcting-correct-pronunciations/

#NowReading2024 HOW WE TALK ABOUT LANGUAGE: EXPLORING CITIZEN SOCIOLINGUISTICS by Betsy Rymes via Cambridge University Press imbibed at Starbucks #Otemachi #大手町 #Linguistics
@bookstodon #Bookstodon #BookMastodon #LingStodon

Photo of woven black plastic table and chairs on which is the red paperback book. To the right is a plastic cup and lid-ed white Frappuccino with white whipped cream. Stairs can be seen in the distance

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