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Joe McVeigh
@EvilJoeMcVeigh
Linguist & teacher @uniofjyvaskyla. PhD student @helsinkiuni, and web editor @Varieng. And I like comic books. He/him. Uni: https://t.co/1AK22jTBGd
Jun 27, 2021 • 49 tweets • 11 min read
Hey-o! I’ve been off this hell site for a while. Must’ve been good for my mental health, right? Wrong! Because I’m still reading trash language books. This time it’s “Have you eaten grandma?” by Gyles Brandreth. Thread time! Image It's another book written by someone who hates language. They say they love it, but spend 300 pages moaning about it. What gives? Do paleontologists write books about how Triceratops were a bunch of asshats?
Mar 2, 2021 • 48 tweets • 12 min read
Thank you, Lionel Shriver and @SpectatorUSA for publishing this pratfall of an article. I can't wait to show it to my students. It's proof that you can know diddly-doo about language & still get paid to write about it. Time to dunk on some bad linguistics! spectator.us/topic/beware-l… This is published in the "Education" section? Ruh roh.

Remember that comment about "notorious" - it's going to come up again soon.
Apr 3, 2019 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
Wowee, this book is b-a-d bad. It'll be a surprise if I make it through 30 pages. Wanna know why? Buckle up, children! It's Crappy Language Book time! I'm skipping the first 2 pages, which are just moaning about Sarah Palin using "refudiate" and "pls". But the we get this. "plsd"? "wds" = wads? "alluva"? Guess who doesn't know how to abbreviate in CMC? Yep, it's the author.
Dec 4, 2018 • 28 tweets • 7 min read
Hide your students! Hide your TAs!

Economists are doing linguistics again. 🙄 I worked for 15 hours today. But now I'm home and I got a glass of whiskey in front of me 🥃So buckle up, errybody! Let's do this!