Dave Sayers

@davesayers.eurosky.social

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Cheese consumer, sociolinguist, immigrant 🇬🇧 👉 🇫🇮 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1124-7132

A wooded area with a small patch of snow a grit.
Josef Seibel website sections: Womens outlet, Mens outlet, Vegan outlet
Subterranean desert monster from the 1990 film Tremors.
A person on a beach, hands held up high, as a huge tidal wave looms above them. The tidal wave is captioned 'My email inbox'. The person is captioned 'Me after my holiday'.
Photo of a fish called The Black Swallower, which has eaten a fish much bigger than itself and is now hugely stretched at the middle.
An Ikea item with the label "Generic article".
Table showing increased or decreased life expectancy for about 35 different types of athletes. The biggest increases are for pole vaulting, gymnastics, and fencing. The biggest decreases are for sumo, volleyball, and mountaineering.
Picture of dead leaves with the caption: You know if you don't rake the leaves they turn into soil, right? They don't break into your house and drink all your wine or anything.
Sunset over lake Jyväsjärvi, as a boat sends gentle ripples across the surface of the water.
A travel pillow that sits around the neck and supports the head.
A truck that has partially fallen into a river after the bridge below it collapsed.
Graph showing publication volumes for major academic publishers 2011-2020. Routledge's output was already the highest but still increased fivefold in that period.
UN: Finland's the world's happiest country for the 5th year running! Finns: [two photos of Finnish men not smiling even slightly]
The rise of neoliberalism in the 1970s–80s embodied a historic worldwide shift, a wholesale subduction of collectivist statism under the accreting prism of atomistic self-determination.
A diagram of geological time, spanning back 4.6 billion years.
News article: "DOGE Fired Key Nuclear Safety Staff, Triggering a Scramble to Find Them and Rehire Them It would be funny in, say, an Austin Powers movie, but a mad, weekend-long race to rehire hundreds of recently fired security-cleared experts needed to keep America’s nuclear systems safe wasn’t a joke." Then a screenshot of The Simpsons where Rainier Wolfcastle is leaning over looking at his shoes saying "On closer inspection, these are loafers", except "loafers" is replaced with "necessary to prevent nuclear apocalypse".
Diagram of the vocal tract from the lips to the esophagus, including the larynx and pharynx.
Scene from The Simpsons: bus driver saying "Don't make me tap the sign."
A bike upside down with Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro tyres fitted, which have really big studs for gripping in Nordic deep winter conditions.
An adult size single bed + mattress strapped together on a sackbarrow, which is then tightly strapped at a horizontal angle to the back of the bike trailer.
A bike trailer with a 150cm x 50cm shelving unit placed vertically inside.
A bike trailer with a full size adults bike, both wheels attached, strapped over the top of the trailer, with the rear bike wheel on the ground for towing along.
A bike trailer with two kids inside (faces obscured with monkey emojis), one 24 inch bike strapped on top of the trailer, another on the back, both protruding beyond the height and width of the trailer.
A bike trailer with two kids inside (faces obscured by monkey emojis), and a 20 inch bike strapped to the back, protruding out either side. Also a lot of stuff in and on the pannier rack of the bike.
A bike trailer with kitchen chairs both the right way up and upside down, neatly stacked, extending about 50cm above and as much behind the dimensions of the trailer.
A bike trailer with some metal shelf cages protruding at least 1 metre above, but securely fastened with a ratchet strap.
A bike trailer with 2 x 1-metre sacks of hay strapped on top, and a flat packed garden furniture set strapped on the back.
A bike trailer with a 1 metre sack of hay poking out of the top, and a 3 metre long piece of plastic protruding front and back.
A bike trailer containing a week's groceries. Everything is contained within the trailer.
Excerpt from Bill Labov's chapter 'Unendangered Dialects, Endangered People' in the book 'Sustaining Linguistic Diversity - Endangered and Minority Languages and Language Varieties': "If the mixed populations of our Philadelphia schools should actually be integrated, we may even reach a time when young black children use elements of the white vernacular and take part in the radical sound changes that sweep over the white community. At that point, AAVE as a whole might be in danger of losing its own distinct and characteristic forms of speech. I am sure that many of us would regret the decline of the eloquent syntactic and semantic options that I have presented here. But we might also reflect at that time that the loss of a dialect is a lesser evil than the current condition of an endangered people."
A map showing the town of 'Hoho' in Central Finland, close to Jyväskylä.
Class number and Topic 1 Introduction and overview 2 Predatory journals, hoaxes, and conflicts of interest 3 That’s not linguistics! Disciplinary boundaries, ‘gatekeeping’, and the limits of linguistic inquiry 4 Different goals with the same data: Generative grammar vs. cognitive grammar vs. systemic functional grammar 5 Academic trends and their discontents: Decolonising linguistics, translanguaging 6 What should be researched? Prioritisations and prohibitions 7 Discrimination and bias in language technologies 8 Language and the brain: Does language really shape our thoughts? And is bilingualism really good for your health? 9 Ivory tower of lies? Burnout, corruption, injustice in higher education 10 Scandals and controversies, ‘bad apples’, and (dis)owning scholars 11 Major group presentation
Ron Burgundy in the film Anchorman, saying "I don't know how to put this, but, I'm kind of a big deal".
Chapter excerpt. Chapter title: Language Policy and Planning in Britain and Ireland Dave Sayers and Leanne Henderson 24.1 Introduction That which we propose to our selves, is, to examin the present State of the Language, to fix what is right by Grammars and Dictionaries, to fill up what is wanting, streighten what is crooked, and make it easy to be learnt by Youth and Strangers. (T. Wilson 1724:5) So pontificated Thomas Wilson, one of a growing crop of vocal pedants in eighteenth-century Britain (see C. Jones 2006:11), convinced the English tongue was being eviscerated, and keen to remedy it. Prescriptivist thinking was a burgeoning fashion then (Bailey 1991 is a trove of examples), but the roots of this punctilious perfectionism stretched back centuries further. For Irish – Europe’s third oldest literary language after Greek and Latin (Ellis 1987:6) – normative prescription grew from eighth-century monastic schools, codifying an orthography to rival Latin (Ó Muircheartaigh 2015:221–2), and has continued on since.1 In England, in 1440, Augustinian friar Osbern Bokenham’s Mappula Angliae bemoaned the Viking and Norman influence on English and imposition of French in schools: ‘this corruption of English men in their mother tongue’ led them to speak ‘neither good French or good English’ (cited in Leith 1997:193–4). In 1615, a similarly joyless John Green whinged: ‘before the Conquest by Bastard William . . . our English tongue was most perfect . . . [but] the French . . . corrupted it’ (cited in Bailey 1991:48). So, prescriptivism has a long history, fluffed by egos bridling at more powerful languages. In the last few centuries, this began to take normative form, aiming to actively influence language use. In time this grew into evermore concerted action, and ultimately into language policy and planning (LPP) as we know it.
Screenshot from the movie Inside Out, showing a slice of pizza with broccoli on it, and someone looking at it in disgust.
Bart: "I guess we could go to Martin's party." Milhouse: "I don't know. If we're seen there, it will definitely take our social standing down a notch." Bart: "We're what now, 3?" Milhouse: "3 and a half. We get beat up, but we get an explanation."
The 'About' section of my LinkedIn profile, which now reads as follows: "Having looked at your LinkedIn I suspect you know f*** all about farming and probably struggle to tie your own shoe laces". Reader, both of these things are correct.
A road sign with two very long Finnish words.
A t-shirt with a skull smoking a cigarette and the caption "It is no longer possible to 'log off'". Available at https://dashare.zone/listing/no-longer-possible-to-log-off
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