Gretchen McCullochDec 1
Day 1 of #BooksAreMyJam! Blueberry Maple jam, with Linguaphile: A life of language love by Julie Sedivy. A classic Canadian flavour duo + this book about @[email protected]'s relationship with language through her childhood in Montreal, later research as a linguist, and more

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Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 2
Talking Hands with fig cardamom jam! Journalist Margalit Fox joins linguists on a field expedition to document Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (and eats a few figs and dates along the way) Day 2 of pairing books I love with jams from the Bonne Maman #jamvent calendar, because #BooksAreMyJam
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PS: Lingthusiasm is doing the jam pairing thing but with podcast episodes this month, because why waste a good idea when I could do it twice! Go follow @[email protected] to stay caught up with that!

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Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 3
Yay, @[email protected] is also on the jam and book bandwagon! Er, jambwagon?

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Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 3
I had to look up two words from the name of this jam, both of which turned out to be familiar foods viewed differently (prune plum and pear with anise), so I've paired it with Hellspark, Janet Kagen's sf book of translation and cultural miscommunication It's #BooksAreMyJam Day 3!
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 4
Cerise and violette are both foods that double as colour terms, so Day 4 #BooksAreMyJam is @[email protected] True Color, about the history of writing colour definitions in black and white dictionaries. This is my advance copy but it's coming out next year and I highly recommend it!
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 5
Apple cinnamon caramel, with Babel by @[email protected]: an initial rush of sweetness, a lingering aftertaste that's far more complex. A book about the tension of translation as powerful magic Day 5 of #BooksAreMyJam
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Lavender and apricot are foods that underwent long and meandering journeys through the ancient world to get to us today, so I'm pairing them with The Odyssey (translation by Emily Wilson) It's day 6 of #BooksAreMyJam!
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Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 8
Coffee caramel spread paired with The Fifth Season by @[email protected] (whose geology-based swear word system I loved linguistically) for their extensive histories of systemic exploitation It's day 7 of #BooksAreMyJam!
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 8
Lemon verbena white nectarine and peach with The Language Lover's Puzzle book by @[email protected] This wordlist feels like the intro to a word problem, and this book contains language puzzles in profusion, plus solutions if you get stuck & context notes on the languages #BooksAreMyJam day 8
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 10
Vanilla caramel, a classic flavour, with the oldest pop linguistics book I own, a used copy of Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess (yes, the Clockwork Orange guy also wrote an intro to linguistics - the penciled flyleaf reminds me I bought it used for 50¢, in high school) #BooksAreMyJam day 9
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 10
Blueberry, lychee, rose jam paired with To Shape A Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose An Indigenous girl learns to work with a dragon in an alt history of American colonization (with really interesting linguistic elements) plus a jam featuring fruits from both places #BooksAreMyJam Day 10
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 12
Pineapple, rum, and vanilla gives me old and golden vibes that I'm pairing with Bea Wolf: @[email protected] retelling Beowulf as a kids fable in full Anglo Saxon meter. It's glorious Day 11 of #ThisIsMyJam: books from my shelves paired with jams from the Bonne Maman #jamvent calendar
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 12
Raspberry redcurrant jelly with Babel: Around the world in twenty languages by Gaston Dorren. Redcurrant makes me think of Europe, so I've paired it with this Dutch writer's window into the twenty most spoken languages of the world. Day 12 of #ThisIsMyJam!
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 13
Did you know that a word for honey but not for bees has been reconstructed for Proto-Indo-European, leading to theories that they traded for honey? Honey apricot with Proto: How one ancient language went global by @[email protected] Day 13 of #BooksAreMyJam
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 14
When I visited Australia a few years ago it was mango season, so I've paired this ginger mango jam with Gesture: A Slim Guide by @[email protected], who's my cohost on @[email protected] and the reason I was there! Day 14 of #BooksAreMyJam
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 15
Orange guava lime jam with Language City by Ross Perlin (I promise the real cover is more eye-catching than my advance copy) Stories of the 700 languages actively spoken in New York City, by the same processes of human movement that let me eat guava today in snowy Montreal #ThisIsMyJam Day 15
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 15
Btw, the last time I did a post-per-day shenanigan in December was back in 2014 (!) when I analyzed linguistics elements of each episode of @[email protected]'s Cabin Pressure, which people were (re)listening to in preparation for the finale allthingslinguistic.com/tagged/cabin...

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Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 16
Orange yuzu grapefruit marmelade paired with Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn for their shared Z. It taught me what an episolary novel and a pangram were as a young person and cemented our @[email protected] partnership early on when we realized we were both fans of it Day 16 of #BooksAreMyJam
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 17
Cinnamon clementine pear, a bright yellow jam which I found particularly delicious, paired with a bright yellow Because Internet that I wrote myself! Day 17 of #BooksAreMyJam, in which I pair linguistics-y books from my shelves with each day's jam from the Bonne Maman jamvent calendar
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 19
Pink peppercorn and cherry with a spicy book of gestures that I apparently acquired in high school at some point and forgot about until rediscovering it in a box recently? Day 18 of #ThisIsMyJam
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 19
Mandarins, Italian paired with Index, a History of the by Dennis Duncan Day 19 of #BooksAreMyJam, in which I pair a language-y book from my shelves with today's jam from the Bonne Maman jamvent calendar
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 20
Blackcurrant peach with Sichuan peppercorns paired with True Biz by @[email protected] (my much-battered copy from taking it with me to ASL camp last summer), for the feeling of being simultaneously numb and on fire Day 20 of #BooksAreMyJam
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 21
Strawberry passion fruit paired with The Language of Food by Dan Jurafsky, since I've eaten both fruits under many names: fraise, erdbeere, maracuyá, lilikoi... Day 21 of #BooksAreMyJam, in which I pair a linguistics-y book from my shelves with today's jam from the Bonne Maman #jamvent calendar
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 22
Raspberry lychee jam paired with The Art of Language Invention by David J Peterson: the multiple pronunciations of lychee/litchi reminded me of the retconning necessary to make some of the original Game of Thrones names fit in with the subsequently fleshed-out Dothraki language Day 22 #ThisIsMyJam
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 23
Strawberry rhubarb paired with The Raven Tower by @[email protected]: rhubarb is another word for nonsense, and the narrator of this linguistically intriguing book is barred from nonsense out of danger it'll become true Day 23 of #BooksAreMyJam
Show threadGretchen McCullochDec 24
Salted caramel paired with Carry On by @[email protected] I remember when the salted caramel trend was suddenly everywhere, which reminds me of this magical system relying on living usage The final day of #BooksAreMyJam! What other book would you add and what jam would it go with?