Elizabeth Peterson

@lissu.bsky.social

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Linguist, dog lover, coffee drinker, into gardening, native of Utah, home is now Helsinki.

An image of 6 homemade, hand-drawn magnets. Magnet 1 shows a picture of a bottle with a label that reads "Prescriptivism repellent." Magnet 2 shows a drawing of a bored cat and reads "Sounds prescriptivist, but okay." Magnet 3 is a picture of a bottle of jam, with a label on the drawing reading "Sociolinguistics is my jam." Magnet 4 is written like a dictionary definition. It reads: "Sociolinguistics (noun) 1. Like normal linguistics, but cooler." Magnet 5 reads: "How many sociolinguists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?" Followed by a small drawing of a light bulb and the words "It varies." Magnet 6 shows this text: "Miss Ms Mrs Prof Dr, ACTUALLY"
A sign at a beach reads “No swimming” in quotation marks, followed by other text which reads: between hello floats and slip. (Without quote marks on the latter text)
Four linguists have dinner together in a swanky restaurant. They are smiling and clearly pleased with being linguists and having dinner together. There are three men with beards and a woman with no beard. The woman looks especially relieved because she just learned that she typed in the guest linguist’s name wrong on his airline reservation, but he still made it to Helsinki. Whew! Photo taken in Helsinki, Finland.
glass of champagne on a white napkin, with the sign “library bar” in the background