Who is this unnamed lexicographer, and what's the basis for their (silly) claim? Join me in a thread to uncover the source... (1/)

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/1608122253153107968

Elliott & Valenza (2011), in a chapter about Shakespeare's vocabulary, trace it back to the 19th-century scholar F. Max Müller's Lectures on the Science of Language. www1.cmc.edu/pages/faculty/… (2/)

Here's a thread about #ichbinHanna for those who'd like to know more about the situation for academics in Germany, and the massive casualization problem Germany has. 1/ Casualization - the phenomenon of tasks that are stably necessary in the long-term being systematically carried out by people on temporary contracts - is a huge issue in Germany. 2/