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Don’t let anyone silence your voice or steal your power, which is your vote.

Your vote is private. Your vote is your own.

Vote accordingly.

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the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because "tasty" means something tastes good. conversely, from the words "smelly" and "noisy" we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck

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Affirmation of the Day, 11/3/2024

I can get this reading done. I can do it. It will not defeat me. I can do it.

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So...

I guess I might be reviving this blog after a few years of inactivity.

I started it as a 16 year old supposedly cishet asexual who had plans to get their GED and start college early.

So let me reintroduce myself.

Hi, my name is Atlas, they/them, and I'm 24 years old.

I think I'm considered a nontraditional student. I attend the University of Michigan as a transfer student and commuter. I'm a senior who will need another year or two to finish, and I'm majoring in English and general music studies (which I might drop soon).

My biggest area of interest is disability studies, but I'm also chasing creative writing pretty hard right now.

I'm neurodivergent, and the two I'm quick to claim are Autism and ADHD. I'm the vice president of the Autism Spectrum Club on campus.

I'm still struggling with studying, though, so as I figure shit out, I'll be sharing it here on this blog, I guess.

Want the full story?

I started community college at 18 at School A, transferred a year later to School B, and then graduated with an AA and an AGS in 2022, at age 22. Then, a year later, I went back to School C for one semester taking two graphic design classes and a social work class.

During that semester, I waited, holding my breath, for admissions decisions to 4-year schools. I got accepted into every school I applied to, and took the option with the best financial aid package, not knowing much about the school aside from that.

I accepted admission to the University of Michigan with essentially a full-ride scholarship, later finding out it's considered a top university. Oops!

During my time at School B, I also found out I had ADHD and was Autistic, which explained pretty much everything about me to that point? So imagine my surprise when I learn that UMich has an autism spectrum club.

Long story short, I made friends, I love my classes, and I love my course of study, BUT I also have a lot of academic issues and problems with trauma that have been getting in my way. I figure that if I can maintain a 3.7 while struggling this hard, imagine what I could do if I figure shit out! I could be an academic weapon for sure!

So That's Why I'm Back!

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Okay weird poll time, and if this pops off maybe I'll make a sideblog and do more of these.

If you're not ASD/ADHD/AuDHD, but you are otherwise ND, answer however but tell me in the replies please. I'm curious.

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Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews full list

The Linguist Jobs Interview series has been running since May 2015. There are now over 60 interviews, with people who studied linguistics - be it a single undergraduate subject or a full PhD - and then gone on to careers outside of academia.

Although I ask the same questions each time, I get very different answers. For some people, linguistics is directly applicable to their daily work, while others find that the general skills they learnt can transfer to other careers.

I update this list at least once a year. For newer interviews, you can browse the Linguistics Jobs tag on the blog!

The full list of Linguistics Job Interviews (to May 2021):

Interview with a Legislative Drafter

Interview with a Stay-at-home Mom and Twitch Streamer

Interview with a Peer Review Program Manager

Interview with an Associate at the Children’s Center for Communication, Beverly School for the Deaf

Interview with a Metadata Specialist and Genealogist

Interview with a Developer Advocate

Interview with an ESL teacher, coach and podcaster

Interview with a Juris Doctor (Master of Laws) student

Interview with the Director of Education and Professional Practice at the American Anthropological Association

Interview with a Research Coordinator, Speech Pathologist

Interview with a Freelance Writer!

Interview with a Dance Instructor and Stay-at-Home Mom

Interview with a Transcriptionist

Interview with an Exhibition Content Manager

Interview with a Marketing Content Specialist

Interview with a Software Engineer

Interview with a Product Manager

Interview with a Communications Specialist

Interview with a Learning Scientist

Interview with an Internet Linguist

Interview with a Lexicographer

Interview with a School Linguist

Interview with a Journalist

Interview with a PR Consultant

Interview with an Agency Owner & Executive Editor

Interview with a Freelance Editor, Writer and Trainer

Interview with a Language Creator

Interview with a Translator and Business Owner

Interview with a Standards Engineer

Interview with a Conductor

Interview with an Accent Coach

Interview with two Communications Professionals

Interview with a University Course Coordinator

Interview with a Think Tank Researcher

Interview with a Museum Curator

Interview with a Communications Consultant

Interview with a Linguistic Project Manager at a Language Tech Company

Interview with a Data Scientist

Interview with a Librarian

Interview with a Text Analyst

Interview with a User Experience (UX) Researcher

Interview with a Study Abroad Facilitator

Interview with The Career Linguist

Interview with a local radio Digital Managing Editor

Interview with a Senior Content Project Manager at Transparent Language

Interview with a Freelance Translator and Editor

Interview with an Apprentice Mechanic

Interview with an Educational Development Lecturer (and Linguistic Consultant)

Interview with a Client Services Manager

Interview with an English Foreign Language Teacher

Interview with a Speech Pathologist

Interview with a Computational Linguist

Interview with a Tour Company Director

Interview with a Copywriter and Brand Strategist (and Fiction Author)

Interview with a Language Revitalisation Program Director

Interview with a Media Language Researcher

Interview with an Editor and Copywriter

Interview with a Humanitarian Aid Worker

Interview with a High School Teacher`

Interview with an Interpreter

Interview with a Journalist

Interview with a Data Analyst

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How to write a successful pop linguistics book

This is a question that I started getting periodically as soon as Because Internet hit the New York Times bestseller list in 2019, and after a while, I noticed that I was giving very similar advice each time. So I’ve decided to save time and write down my advice all in once place in greater detail than I can remember to do in a single conversation, and hopefully in the process demystify some of the hidden curriculum around book promotion and platform for the circle beyond people who know me well enough to ask for advice personally.

Disclaimer: This is really long. Think of it as the notes from the hour-long chat that you were hoping to have with me. And hey, you didn’t even have to buy me coffee! (If this post is useful and you do end up writing a fabulously successful pop linguistics book, I will happily accept a hot or cold beverage though.)

Disclaimer 2: I’ve upped the snark level of some of the questions to hopefully make reading an incredibly long advice post somewhat more entertaining. Everyone who has asked me for advice has been much better mannered than this, and some of the strongest objections are things I thought myself at earlier stages. It’s just that academia as a whole, and especially tenured professors, sometimes has a bit of an attitude towards other fields, and when you make that subtext text, well.

Disclaimer 3: This is an advice post! It will, therefore, assume that you are dissatisfied to some degree with your current situation (which I’m assuming is broadly speaking academia, somewhere around grad student, recent grad, postdoc, prof) and looking to change it. If you already have tons of people who are fans of your work and would totally buy a book as soon as you wrote it, you probably don’t need my advice on how to make your book more popular! If you already have a lucrative and satisfying career outside of academia, you probably don’t need advice on developing a different and much more speculative one! There are plenty of paths up the “getting people interested in your work” mountain, and this is not the only one, just the one that in my experience is both well-targeted for pop linguistics and something that you can take concrete actions to pursue.

Disclaimer 4: I’m assuming you want to write pop linguistics here. Much of this advice should work for other kinds of pop science as well, and maybe other subgenres of what the publishing industry calls “serious nonfiction” (which doesn’t mean it can’t be entertaining, just that it’s stuff that’s more ideas-based and in the journalism-to-book pipeline, not like, a cookbook), but most of it probably won’t apply to fiction. I read a lot of “here’s how publishing works” blog posts when I was a new author (strong endorse to Jane Friedman, Kate McKean, and Mary Robinette Kowal’s Debut Author Lessons), and many of them were aimed a bit more at fiction, so it’s my pleasure to contribute to the genre from the other side, both as nonfiction and as someone who’s published a book. This is not a post about the writing or publishing process. There are plenty of other posts elsewhere about how to develop a writing habit, how to write a book proposal, and how to work with publishers and literary agents. You should google for them too. This is a post about the “successful” part: how to get people interested in your pop linguistics writing so that they actually want to buy your book when it comes out.

With all the disclaimers out of the way, here’s how this question usually finds me:

Wow, Because Internet did really well! I mean, it was everywhere! You know, I’m a linguist too, and I’ve also been thinking about writing a pop linguistics book, and I’d really like it to do even half as well, do you have any advice?

Keep reading

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this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Esperanto. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

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introduction by @ayearinlanguage

/int/’s how to learn a foreign language guide

mustgo

playlist of samples

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So I'm back I guess?

Turns out a lot of my issues with school and studying could be attributed to a few things:

ADHD

Autism

Generalized anxiety disorder

Lack of practice.

So lemme just offer some background:

I was homeschooled for middle and high school.

Started a multimedia and video program in community college in 2018. It was a lot of graphic design type stuff and I couldn't draw, which it seemed like I needed to be able to.

Transferred to a different C.C. a year later to study music.

Turns out that college didn't have a music concentration, even though they advertised one. I took maybe 6 or 7 unique music classes while there.

Graduated with an AA in lib arts and an AGS in "general" earlier this year (2022).

Now I'm going *back* to school at yet another CC for an AAS graphic design. I still can't really draw.

I'm also trying to figure out if I want to get a Bachelors or further in anything, and if so, what.

So yeah.

I'm starting again this Winter/Spring semester, and I'm a little anxious. I have three graphic design classes and intro to social work, to see if that would fit my interests.

Now, usually, I can't do a full course load, but this new school's graphic design classes are 7 week courses, so I have two in the first seven, one in the last seven, and one 15-week classes. The week before spring break, I'll have one class to worry about and that's it.

I'm nervous, honestly. I want to do well but I don't want to overwork myself again. I'm coming up with systems for what assignments to prioritize or blow off, and when to say an assignment is good enough.

I can't just read it intuitively. I'm a perfectionist with overachieving tendencies, because I was the people-pleasing gifted autistic when I was younger, and I'm still working through it.

If you're like me, though, and you don't know these things either, let me know! I'll gladly share whatever I can, but if I mention something you want to know more about, send an ask or message or something; I'm prone to forgetting. Keep me accountable and I'll do the best I can.

Thanks for reading, and if you have any tips, send them my way, please!

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How to Handle Having TOO MUCH To Do

So let’s say you’re in the same boat I am (this is a running theme, have you noticed?) and you’ve just got, like, SO MUCH STUFF that HAS to get done YESTERDAY or you will DIE (or fail/get fired/mope). Everything needs to be done yesterday, you’re sick, and for whatever reason you are focusing on the least important stuff first. What to do!

Take a deep breath, because this is a boot camp in prioritization.

Make a 3 by 4 grid. Make it pretty big. The line above your top row goes like this: Due YESTERDAY - due TOMORROW - due LATER. Along the side, write: Takes 5 min - Takes 30 min - Takes hours - Takes DAYS.

Divide ALL your tasks into one of these squares, based on how much work you still have to do. A thank you note for a present you received two weeks ago? That takes 5 minutes and was due YESTERDAY. Put it in that square. A five page paper that’s due tomorrow? That takes an hour/hours, place it appropriately. Tomorrow’s speech you just need to rehearse? Half an hour, due TOMORROW. Do the same for ALL of your tasks

Your priority goes like this:

5 minutes due YESTERDAY

5 minutes due TOMORROW

Half-hour due YESTERDAY

Half-hour due TOMORROW

Hours due YESTERDAY

Hours due TOMORROW

5 minutes due LATER

Half-hour due LATER

Hours due LATER

DAYS due YESTERDAY

DAYS due TOMORROW

DAYS due LATER

At this point you just go down the list in each section. If something feels especially urgent, for whatever reason - a certain professor is hounding you, you’re especially worried about that speech, whatever - you can bump that up to the top of the entire list. However, going through the list like this is what I find most efficient.

Some people do like to save the 5 minute tasks for kind of a break between longer-running tasks. If that’s what you want to try, go for it! You’re the one studying here.

So that’s how to prioritize. Now, how to actually do shit? That’s where the 20/10 method comes in. It’s simple: do stuff like a stuff-doing FIEND for 20 minutes, then take a ten minute break and do whatever you want. Repeat ad infinitum. It’s how I’ve gotten through my to do list, concussed and everything.

You’ve got this. Get a drink and start - we can do our stuff together!

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An edit for my fav trio 💜

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had a minor crisis when 12ft.io went down yesterday and thankfully it's back now but this seems like a good opportunity to compile a list of similar paywall-evading tools in case 12ft ever gets canned for real:

12ft.io: the legend himself. definitely my favorite of the bunch by virtue of being the easiest to use (and the easiest url to remember), but it's configured to disable paywall evasion for a handful of popular sites like the new york times, so you'll have to go elsewhere for those.

printfriendly: works great; never had any issues with removing paywalls, even on domains that don't work with 12ft.io. since this site is literally designed to make sites print-friendly, it might simplify the overall formatting of the page you're trying to access, which can be a good or bad thing. my only real issue is that the "element zapper" (which lets you remove content blocks from the print-friendly preview) is a little sensitive if you're browsing on a touchscreen device, which means you might accidentally delete a paragraph when you're just trying to scroll. but if that happens you can reload the page and it'll revert everything back to its original state.

fifteen feet: basically a 12ft clone, minus 12ft's restrictions. haven't used it much since I only discovered it yesterday in the wake of 12ft's 451 error but it seems to do the trick.

archive.today: an archival tool very similar to the wayback machine, but it also works as a de facto paywall removal tool. (the wayback machine seems to remove paywalls as well, but archive.today has better UX imo and is way faster to use.)

and an honorable mention for sci-hub: only works for scientific/academic journals, not random news articles, but the other sites listed above only work for random news articles and not academic publications so you gotta have this one in your toolbelt for full coverage. pubmed is your oyster.

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A Costo/Online School Experience

Me: *Wakes up on the first day of my classes*

My ribs: "Well well well, what have we got here? Don't get too excited, dipshit, or else."

Me: *Jumps out of bed*

My ribs: "Alright, guess you chose violence"

My ribs: *rice krispie noises and pain*

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An ADHD/Online School Experience

My Classes: *moodle page opens*

Me: "Awesome, finally I can see if I need to drop one of these bitches and take the bare minimum!"

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Me: *reviewing the syllabus for my journalism class*

Me, internally: "Okay, so... If I miss a few assigments from this cluster, I should... still be alright enough to pass..."

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Me: "Hey mom... Thanks for encouraging me to take online classes this time. I cannot imagine trying to focus this semester with everything going on if I'm avoiding getting sick at the same time."

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homework ritual (esp fr ADD/ADHD)

i know this is long so you can reblog as a link but if u have an attn disorder and responsibilities you should really read this. okay so A Thing: people with ad/hd are prone to resisting ritual. because we like being excited, we like doing the things we like to do, and we like to be stimulated. that really sucks because the only way to form a good habit is to keep at it regularly as possible. however, we must squash these compulsions (and it wont be so painful when u get it—it is OK if you CANT DO IT AT FIRST), if there is a continual responsibility to be attended to—like homework for example! this may also be able to apply to when you really try to write or draw idk

PREP

close all ‘non-essential’ tabs, which basically just means everything that isnt homework. bookmark stuff u wanna get to later but re-open NOTHING. if you have to actually make a new tab and type in ‘tumblr’ you will catch yourself, and realize you have your work

(^^^ this in itself may make you think that homework is now easy. NOP)

put your phone on the other side of the room. i’m serious. put it on the other side of the room, or in the bathroom, or somewhere else. if you hear it vibrate you can check it later and you WILL check it later. if it rings then FINE you can answer it you loophole loving papaya

get a jug/bottle/big container of water, keep it near you

DO NOT LISTEN TO MUSIC IF YOU ARE DOING HW, studies show its not actually effective. when you’re studying, instrumental music is acceptable, but when youre Creating Content you should not have distractions of any kind (and youll be inclined to change the song, agonize over what song should play, think about the song etc)

DURING

stay hydrated! take breaks by taking long drinks of water while checking your phone. try to limit it to like 15 minutes before going back

take a break every 20 minutes, then every 30 minutes. 30 minutes is a good timeframe but you can train yourself to concentrate longer and longer. i have v severe adhd but i can now sit and study for about 3 hours before getting out of control tbh

have something you can squeeze, fidget with, etc to discourage nail biting or something else that will come of the fact that youre not Doing anything. i find chewing gum to be very stimulating

try to just get into it. find some angle to appreciate what you’re doing. not about how pointless or boring it is but how much you’ll learn, how you’re exercising self control, feel prideful and Good Enough

FINISH IT NOW. either you’ll have more free time in the future, or you’ll be cramming the end of that project on the due date. just do it. do the thing. you can do it. take a break and then DO IT

AFTER

whatever the fuck u want u marvelous firebird

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Do it for the bees

10,000 reblogs and I will translate the script of Bee Movie into a language that I will invent solely for this purpose

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hey everyone! there’re many reasons why you may feel stressed: too many things to do and not enough time, procrastination, pressure, mental health problems, … regardless of the reason nobody wants to feel stressed. so here i am to help you! some weeks ago was a very stressful times for me, i had driving lessons, an incredible inconvenient class schedule, exams, exams, exams… (u get the gist) but! i managed to live through it while maintaining somewhat sane, so i hope i can help some of you.

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accept that you’re stressed / will have a stressful time. the more you overthink it, the worse it will be. believe me, i was that person that complained all the time and u know what. things were worse (or i just didn’t do the things and was even more stressed). so this might sound dumb but just don’t think about it. just do it™ okay but srsly count till 3 and just do the thing you need to do.

set priorities. and what i mean with this is set priorities that suit you. some of us need 8 full hours of sleep to function, so please give yourself that sleep you need. others need to work out to relieve stress. i need to do at least something fun to not burn out completely (i watch a youtube video, an episode of a series or check twitter before i go to sleep for example).

don’t expect too much of yourself. when finals season approaches, you can’t expect yourself to do a hundred other productive things, so focus on what you really need to do and give yourself time to relax and don’t feel guilty taking that time.

talk to people. ok, so what i noticed is, that i feel a lot better when i don’t neglect my social life completely when i’m stressed. try talking to your family or friends (or at least your teddy). just catching up with somebody can make you feel better and remind you that life is not all about studying. or use your lunch breaks to eat and have fun with friends, bc you need a break from studying too.

be smart about your time. okay so i know everyone always tells you to divide your tasks, start as early as possible etc. but sometimes a level of certain procrastination is okay. and instead of feeling guilty, try to enjoy your free time. but still, try to plan your time in a way your health won’t suffer (pulling an all-nighter might not be the best thing for you, for example)

live at least a little bit healthy. like, eat three meals, some fruits, drink enough (maybe even go for a walk, stretch a bit) and stuff like that. listen to your body, it just wants to keep u alive.

cut things out of your daily routine that just waste your time and may even make you feel worse (cough*scrollingthroughtheinstagramexplorerspageforanhour*cough)

be thankful!! i know everything is super stressful right now and you just want everything to stop but i promise there’re some positive things in your life too!! what i like to do is write down 5 things i’m thankful for or just good things that happened that day. this can be really small things, like the cinnamon roll you ate that morning.

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these are some things you can do to immediately relieve stress:

journal. write everything down. everything. if that’s enough for you, you can stop after that, but what i like to do is to identify the things i’m stressed over and then find a “solution” for them (sometimes the solution is to just stop worrying because i can’t do anyhing about it)

do nothing for 5/10/15 mins. i mean it. lay down and just do nothing. and then count till 3 and start. you can also set an alarm out of your reach so you have to stand up.

mandatory midday break. this post talks about taking an hour-long break every day. definitely check it out!!

stretch. nothing too complicated, just get yourself moving a bit. i find stretching super relaxing idk why

baking. okay this might sound weird, but baking can be super relaxing. i’ll just bake something super easy like brownies and while doing that i just focus on the task and don’t worry about all the other 548679 things on my mind

listen to music. yea pretty self-explanatory. just throw your fav music on and dance around a little bit

take a shower or even a bath! cleanse all the stress away (i promise, u will feel better after that)

watch something you really love. dogs, cats on yt, your fav series, things you’re a fan of, …

drink some tea and talk to someone while drinking it