What Might Have Been, a new embuggerance

Almost fifteen years ago now (which doesn't seem possible, but the timestamp doesn't lie) I achieved a very, very minor form of Internet fame by discovering and naming a feisty embuggerance: a Google Scholar search result that is embuggered by the automatic metadata extraction. This one was so thoroughly embuggered that it took a four-word sequence (Embuggerance, Escalate, Feisty, Holistic) from an unrelated article, reimagined…

http://glossographia.com/2024/07/07/what-might-have-been-a-new-embuggerance/

Language and Societies abstracts, vol. 15 (2024)

The abstracts below are summaries of papers by early-career scholars from the 2024 edition of my course, Language and Societies. The authors are undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology and linguistics at Wayne State University. Comments and questions are extremely welcome, especially at this critical juncture, when the authors are making final revisions to their papers. Karsten Allendorfer: Language,…

http://glossographia.com/2024/04/15/language-and-societies-abstracts-vol-15-2024/

Here's an article idea:

Is 'fuck' a verb in Bloom's taxonomy? Language ideologies of 'outcome-ese'

This would be an autoethnographic discourse analysis based on repeated trainings and corrective emails.

How many Ns in 'mayonnaise'? Inoculating against ChatGPT

https://glossographia.com/2023/10/15/how-many-ns-in-mayonnaise-inoculating-against-chatgpt/