I'm going to say a few words about this letterpress bundle I am creating. It's not late-night for me yet, but it's gloomy outside, so here's a late-night thread in the afternoon.

https://twitter.com/RoseLemberg/status/1044631204551675904

The world is terrible right now, friends. It's painful to be on Twitter. It's painful to be on social media. It's painful to be.

I've been carving linoleum blocks.

I see lot of people are asking about digitization. It is incredibly difficult to digitize things which are in governmental possession but are not not funded by the government. I do not know the specific situation in Brazil, so I can only offer general thoughts.

https://twitter.com/saintguac/status/1036779946876850177

Digitization of linguistic archives requires money, equipment, people, space, and time. If older papers and recordings are involved, issues of conservation can also arise. It is almost always a laborious process.

Governments and funding agencies choose what to prioritize.

I promised I would try to do a follow-up to my politeness thread, around this question:

"But then why are we polite to people with less power , like service people, homeless people - that's not about power!" (slightly rephrased)

It's an important question, and I have thoughts. Before diving in, a caveat:

A Twitter thread is not a a peer reviewed article. Twitter is not a seminar room. Even the most thorough twitter thread will not have the same exhaustive rigor & the same discussion opportunities.

What I say is simplified and schematized.

OK, a thread about "civility" (politeness) and power. I meant to do this for years, bc people in my community kept asking me about social face (hi again, @tithenai!), but it was not the time. Now is the time.

This is an informational thread. I am a working sociolinguist.

https://twitter.com/RoseLemberg/status/1011449741224398848

The concept of social face, coined by Goffman, is important here.

Face is the positive social value a person claims when interacting with other people.

Face is related to respectability, pride, and sense of self-worth.

@iphigenie @tithenai @Julian__West Hey there! So I want to respond, but I've gotten a lot of trolls lately, and my spoons are very low. I'm going to assume you are arguing in good faith, but If this does not pan out, I will need to disengage. @iphigenie @tithenai @Julian__West Thread on "Eurocentric" in the European historical ling tradition and in Tolkien's choices of linguistic inspiration.

@tithenai @Julian__West Thank you, Amal!!! <3 Yes, I do that. I'm also an academic (linguist and folklorist) who started my academic work in ling after reading LoTR at an impressionable age. My thoughts about Tolkien are that of a linguist. @tithenai @Julian__West And as a person deeply familiar with PIE and the rest of the stuff JRRT relied on, I want to talk about the critique the long 19th century as Eurocentric and PIE-centric and the place of Tolkien's work in that (hint, it's nuanced).

Thread about "functional labels" and assumptions around verbal and other types of communication.
I am an #ActuallyAutistic adult, spouse of an #ActuallyAustistic adult (@bogiperson), and a parent of an #ActuallyAustistic child. This thread is in reaction to @brookewinters33 's thread earlier today on functional labels (please check it out) and some of the antagonistic responses it gathered.

I will try to explain why "functional labels" are harmful in our lives as an #ActuallyAutistic family.