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cosmolinguist) wrote2025-04-02 09:52 pm
Fame awaits
I emailed a baseball podcast about a linguistics thing and they read out my email!
I mean they read it on one of the mailbag episodes where all they do is read out emails. But still! I wrote it a while ago and had forgotten about it since, so it was fun.
At the end, one of the hosts said "whatever degree you got, hang that sucker on the wall with pride, man, because that makes a lot of sense." Super cute.
The next email was from a woodworker, who wants to make them an official piece of wood to knock on, because one of the hosts is someone who's always saying "knock on wood."
And this juxtaposition meant that they commented on how impressively diverse their patreons are, anything that comes up they can get an expert opinion on or "find someone that has devoted their life to this topic."
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Absolutely on-brand Erik
linguistics & baseball.
grins wildly
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(What was the linguistics thing, if that wouldn't be too easily identifying?)
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The thing was about how players -- Twins players on a Twins podcast, so the ones that get talked about all the time -- are sometimes referred to by the hosts (who also write about the team) by only first name, some by only last name, and some always have both. They were trying to figure out why some only felt right the they normally do it.
What I said, what got read out, is
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That tracks, on both thoughts. Benetti's pretty consistent about who gets what treatment, too.