Language Jones

I’ve been delinquent in blogging since becoming more serious about consistently posting on YouTube, but this is a post that I think is very important, and I’ll be building on in future posts.

Yesterday, discussing Haitian migrants in Springfield Ohio, and whether or to what extent they may or may not be abducting and eating (presumably white) Ohioans’ pets — because this is what the political discourse in the US is, and if we’re honest, has al…

A little while ago, a linguist friend of mine sent me a video of Mayim Bialik talking about Yiddish.

I couldn’t resist saying more about aspect in another YouTube video.

I get asked about tenses in various languages A LOT.

Almost a decade ago, I wrote about pronouns and got hate mail from Jordan Peterson fans for years.

Happy new year everyone!

I took a few minutes today to wade into, and definitively settle, how to spell the current holiday.

Like many of you, last night I watched the first evening of congressional hearings on the events of January 6, 2020.

One of the main reasons I started a YouTube channel is that, while I’m very comfortable in a text-based medium, there are just certain things about spoken language that it will always be easier to discuss with recourse to sounds.

There is so much about language that’s just better if you can include either sound (for spoken languages) or movement (for signed languages) and there are so many fantastic youtube channels out there, that I was inspired to start my own!

18 days ago, Duolingo released their newest language course: Yiddish.

On Thursday, the defense in the Derek Chauvin trial played a body cam video clip of the arrest of George Floyd, that subsequently led to his death.

Last April, at the height of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, I defended my dissertation.

A few weeks ago, I was invited to testify about linguistic discrimination before a joint session of the Pennsylvania House and Senate democrats, organized in part by the Legislative Black Caucus.

In recent years, if you’ve been online (or listened to NPR, or watched the news on TV), you’ve no doubt come across the term latinx.

Today’s post will be a short one, but it’s something I should have written a long time ago.

Today I was tagged into a conversation on Twitter by New York Times best-selling author Morgan Jerkins, who had been watching an episode of The Cleveland Show and happened to have the closed captions on.

There is an advertisement I consistently see on TV, especially on New York 1, that never fails to annoy me.

CONTENT WARNING: lots of uncensored slurs and offensive language, in a variety of languages. .In part starting with my research with Christopher Hall on uses of the “n-word” (available here, and in (free) final draft form here), and in part because of the…