Betsy Sneller
Asst prof linguistics @ Michigan state. I like cats, fiber arts, people. I’ll finish the rest of this later.
- Spouse described Winnie the Pooh to M (3;3) yesterday. This morning: “Can we talk more about the golden bear who poops mama?”
- lol please enjoy the entirety of my chat history with microsoft copilot
- Woohoo! What a thrill to talk about Philly English (my fave), AND to get to hype up another Betsy! (if you haven't checked out Philly Ms Rachel ... just ... go do it).
- 🥳🥳🥳 A wild @betsysneller.bsky.social appears in the Inquirer!!! 🥳🥳🥳 www.inquirer.com/life/philly-...
- Downtown Lansing is getting her orchi today, good for her
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- Aside from her poetry, which is beautiful, Jane Zwart taught me my favorite classroom trick, which is Rumpelstiltskin-ing. One day when no one was contributing she said: "You guys. Don't worry. My whole job is to be Rumpelstiltskin, and turn anything you say into gold."
- Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them. Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST #smallpoemsunday
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- Let me tell you: some of our countries aren’t where we left them. Jane Zwart, from her luminous collection ODDEST & OLDEST & SADDEST & BEST #smallpoemsunday
- “I feel like we’ve lost the plot a little bit and that’s one of the reasons that we’re seeing apple consumption ... go down,” said a seventh-generation apple grower in PA. “The whole experience has been so consolidated and so driven by capitalism, and in some ways it’s very shortsighted.”
- Tasty in-depth read about the state of apple cultivation in the US (obligatory @chuckwendig.bsky.social tag).
- As the granddaughter of an apple farmer, this aligns with my own niche interests too - Sneller Orchards went out of business when my uncle Andy retired; too hard to make a living as a small scale fruit farmer these days. RIP my childhood delight of bushels of apples for Christmas
- Actually wait, #ADS2026 friends, does anyone know if there's going to be a live stream for WOTY? It's time to hype this up! Also time for me to send an email to my socio students to let them know, if in fact they can access a live stream
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- 😭 oh no this is going to be a surprisingly insurmountable mental barrier for me, opening an app that I haven't opened in over a year. womp womp womp. We'll see how many spoons I have left after course prep today
- #ADS2026: are we singing WOTY like WOTY WOTY WOTY WOTY rockin everywhere (Bubba Sparx) or WOTY OTY OTY OTY (Megan Thee Stallion) #linguistics 🐦
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- You're right. It's obviously Bubba Sparx. HEY THERE MS NEW WOTY!
- Ahhhhhhhh, is today the day, Betsy?? I demand a live stream!
- Not until Friday! Just trying to get our chorus in line before hand :)
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- Yes this actually works! This is how I leaned to raise one eyebrow and do the “drop of water” sound effect thing
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- Omg you’re so cute 😭
- Slowly coming to the truly awful realization that no, my back isn't sore because I slept weird.... I just need to strengthen my core.
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- lol exactly. or, worse: "perhaps consumerism is the solution! a new pillow! a salt soak!"
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- Yes! When the stars align (aka kids sleep through the night), I sometimes go to the 6am morning workout class at the ymca, and those days I go to bed noticeably more comfortable. But that's like... maybe once a week if I'm lucky lol
- If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
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View full threadSo 53% of American men then
- (this is a joke about republicans). which i know isn't really fair, many independent, anarchist, socialist and democratic men also wish women weren't people
- A group of elementary school-aged children, running toward me with an urgent question: “COMO SE DICE SEIS SIETE EN INGLÉS!?!?!”
- Lmao
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- Love this
- The WOTYoty
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- exactly
- Extremely disappointed in my senator @slotkin.senate.gov .
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- lol
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- Yeah exactly! (Nb I went down and read more of the comments, to discover that her kids hadn’t even cut her off, it just was like it didn’t work out schedule wise? Which makes it extra funny to me to call this revenge - like she wants to hurt her kids for having in laws? Wut)
- K but also that’s such depressing revenge. If I were her kids i think my reaction would be like “damn mom that’s so sad for you” Revenge would be like… idk adopting 4 new kids and cutting the original 4 out of your will or something
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View full threadI think this depends on dialect. I’m convinced (h/t @ajdinkin.bsky.social ) that for most American English dialects postvocalic /r/ is a vowel, cf onset /r/ as a consonant - meaning there’s more of a difference than just length. Eg I produce a glottal before “oom” if it’s “spare oom”
- I think “spare room” vs “spare oom” would be most similar for dialects that have variable postvocalic /r/ deletion - bc those dialects pv /r/ sounds more like their onset /r/
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- Bc linking r!
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- Exactly
- My toddler likes to make up little songs as she goes about her day. Today’s banger goes like this: 🎵“I love you, are you feeling well?” 🎶
- Does anyone have like... a list of discourse markers? (asking for a student looking at UM + discourse, and is wanting to know what all counts: e.g. um but, um and, um yeah) @joshuaraclaw.com ?
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- Thank you!
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- okya okay okay oay and listen if you need a big corpus to check production in naturalistic speech, hmu
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- wiat wait this is an option!!!!???? AMAZING
- I’m done playing up here anymore! T, 3;7 #LinguistBabyPhotos (Is my nephew innovating positive anymore!?)
- Hold on “fairy liquid” is out there as an option and none of you fine people told me!? 🧼
- First snowfall in the garden
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- ❄️ 🌨️
- I want the yes-and energy of my 3yo. I (1;1) throws a tiny book at M (3;2) M: Oh! You wanna play Book Catch? Mama, me and I are playing Book Catch!
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- “Emergency Museum” is 10/10
- This. Also “less lethal” rounds. If our government wants to disperse protesters, let them (1) fix the underlying policy that is being protested about and/or (2) arrest us one at a time. You run out of space to hold us or ppl to arrest us? Then I guess you have to pay attention and come back to (1)
- Not to brag but I had a dazzling shower and musical mirror this morning - best day of #NWAV53??
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- 😂 I switched to laptop partway through - phones better for photos but laptops better for actually typing
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- Yesss Christian let’s gooo
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- I tried checking "bro" too and it is also a pronoun in our data check this amazing data point w vocative "dude" and pronoun "bro": "I'm in a poly situation and dude, bro fell in love with me and I didn't want to be serious" #NWAV53
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- RR gets *more* formal (more stylistic fronting) in 2009 after the economic crash - the opposite direction from her political party #NWAV53
