@DaveJSayers

Cheese consumer, sociolinguist, immigrant 🇬🇧 👉 🇫🇮

jyu.academia.edu/DaveSayers
Joined January 2010
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Halloween is coming. Do you wish the International Phonetic Alphabet was spoooOOOOooookier? I present... The INTERRED⚰️national FANG🧛etic AlphaBEAST 👹 r.jyu.fi/IPAspooky Free to use/adapt! @creativecommons Repost or I'll send zombies to eat your braaaaains. 🧟‍‍ 🧠🍽️
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Sneak peak at my presentation for next week's @langpolicy panel in the @__BAAL conference -- hosted by none other than my alma mater @Uni_of_Essex! r.jyu.fi/SayersBAAL24
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Especially nice when your academic article is quoted very soon after publication. Academic publishing is slooow and it's difficult to make late changes, so that person REALLY wanted to cite you - and went to some hassle to do it.
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Ok then... how long before universities (probly US ones first) require new admissions to pledge: I will never join a campus protest (on pain of instant expulsion and/or other punitive misery). Seems like this kind of stone cold take 👇 could quickly pick up a head of steam. 🤢
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Meanwhile in Finland, is it the last snow of the spring, or the first snow of the summer?
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A lot of people see all Finland's forests and lakes and think we're a super eco-friendly nation. Now, I have all sorts of good things to say about Finland, but environmental credentials... not so much! One of the worst in the world. 😵 overshoot.footprintnetwork.o…
Timo Huhtamäki@THuhtamki12 Apr 2024
Tänään luonnolla on meille viesti: on Suomen ylikulutuspäivä. Toimivassa kiertotaloudessa Suomen ylikulutuspäivä ei ole huhtikuussa. Sitä ei tarvitse viettää ollenkaan, koska kulutuksemme pysyy maapallon kantokyvyn rajoissa. Meidän täytyy vain luopua vanhasta tavasta ajatella.
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Happy Finnish Language Day! Hyvää suomen kielen päivää! 😃 And solidarity with my fellow hapless immigrants here, hoping to learn Finnish. 😆
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Replying to @TimRuhr
Have you read Manuel Castells' 'The rise of the network society'? He has a lot to say along these lines.
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Thank you for your email. I am currently away at a conference so yeah I will actually probably still check and reply to your email pretty quickly. What am I going to do, log off? Come on. dashare.zone/listing/no-long…
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Up next in the @uniofjyvaskyla English seminar series! @SDovchin (Curtin University, Australia): 'Translanguaging: Playfulness & Precarity' Tues 12 Mar 2024, 13:00 EET. Read the abstract and register at r.jyu.fi/engseminars23-24. Go go go!
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Is "translanguaging" the "I don't see colour" of language? Does it risk erasing parts of diversity? It has consequences. "Separate language" was a pillar (albeit not decisive) in e.g. legal recognition of African American English. doi.org/10.1515/soci-2022-00… scholarworks.calstate.edu/do…
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📣📣📣ONLINE SEMINAR 📣📣📣 Next @uniofjyvaskyla English seminar, Tues 16 Jan 14:00 EET, Trine Dahl and @KFlottum: "Citizens’ preferences for motivating language and argumentation on lifestyle issues in a climate context" Abstract/registration. 👇 r.jyu.fi/engseminars23-24
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