Writer, linguist. Books about speech errors & disfluencies (amzn.to/40GCOM3); hyperpolyglots (bit.ly/3AXLtAe); first & last words (bit.ly/4kN0PKa). NEW: A collection, THE LANGUAGE BEAT (Apple: https://apple.co/4fK71SA; Google: https://bit.ly/4wARdY2)
UEFA for president
George MonbiotNeoliberalism in a nutshell. UEFA on FIFA's proposal: “The moment external investors acquire ownership interests ... football changes forever. Commercial return becomes a permanent obligation. ... Every decision is no longer driven by what best serves the game, but by what best serves shareholders.”
I have…many questions www.publicbooks.org/what-keeps-t...
What Keeps the Dutch Up at Night? - Public BooksAlthough the novels’ protagonists are fascinating, even magnetic characters, they are eerie—all the more so because their unsettling behavior forces the reader to confront what most worries the Nether...www.publicbooks.orgNew project! Two influential word lists made by language researchers define an "essential English vocabulary" for learners: one from 1953 and another from 2023. In this essay, Jasmine Nackash examines the differences between them and what that says about us. link: pudding.cool/2026/07/esse...
Several interviews mention "union interpreters," because organized workers often had no/little English. Can anyone point me to a social history of this practice? #langsky #laborhistory
Michael Erard@beltpublishing.bsky.social @atrubek.bsky.social
Culture jamming, pointed at Christian hegemony rather than consumerist culture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture...
Culture jamming - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.orgMichael ErardMaybe the antidote to getting preached at on a plane is to start speaking in tongues
forgot that i published this in The Awl, RIP www.theawl.com/2017/09/weat...
WeathermanWhat am I doing here?www.theawl.comThe fraud hype in the USA is wild to me @hypestudies.bsky.social
Michael ErardDiscipline of the future: critical fraud discourse studies