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Dr. Angus Andrea Grieve-Smith<p>Some of you may remember the 1996 scandal over New York accents in prerecorded messages in taxis (&quot;Please be sure you remove all your belongings&quot;).</p><p>Possible evidence of how far we&#39;ve come is this 2012 profile of Dennis Ferrara, who has used his New York accent in prerecorded messages telling pedestrians which street they are currently allowed to cross.</p><p><a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sociolinguistics</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/Accentism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Accentism</span></a> <a href="https://lingo.lol/tags/NewYorkAccent" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewYorkAccent</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/07/nyregion/a-new-york-voice-at-new-york-intersections.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2012/07/07/nyregio</span><span class="invisible">n/a-new-york-voice-at-new-york-intersections.html</span></a></p>
Jo Ran🥑<p>Cuando explico que el acento "neutro" no existe y que las personas que hablan sin acento tampoco existen. Que es como si quisieras escribir algo sin un tipo de letra o fuente y que además pretendieras que esa no-fuente fuera "neutra".<br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/memesLing%C3%BC%C3%ADsticos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>memesLingüísticos</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ling%C3%BC%C3%ADstica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lingüística</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/accentism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accentism</span></a></p>
Alexander Drechsel 🚲<p>Just a quick toot to recommend the <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/newsletter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>newsletter</span></a> published by the team of the Subtitle <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a> - lots of interesting stuff from the world of <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/languages" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languages</span></a> - such as a story on <a href="https://eupolicy.social/tags/accentism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accentism</span></a> in the UK (sigh) and on how slips of the tongue occur. /cc <span class="h-card"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/translators" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>translators</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mailchi.mp/c60d3611392b/how-the-udi-language-came-to-georgia?e=4de0e0d237" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mailchi.mp/c60d3611392b/how-th</span><span class="invisible">e-udi-language-came-to-georgia?e=4de0e0d237</span></a></p>
Sam Hellmuth<p>Job alert! 🔔 </p><p>Two postdoc positions on the QMUL/York Generations of London English project: <a href="https://www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/items/7788.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacancies/item</span><span class="invisible">s/7788.html</span></a> </p><p>The posts are based in London starting in March 2023. The closing date is Dec 1st. </p><p>Please pass the word on!</p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/sociolinguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociolinguistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/languagechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>languagechange</span></a> <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/sociophonetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sociophonetics</span></a> <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/MulticulturalLondonEnglish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MulticulturalLondonEnglish</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/accentism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accentism</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/academicjobs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academicjobs</span></a> <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/london" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>london</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/hiring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hiring</span></a><br><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/academic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>academic</span></a></p>