Göktuğ Kayaalp @cadadr@mastodon.sdf.org

Then I look at people's CVs and they've pretty consistently studied wh constructions in some language for half a bloody century.

What kind of ungodly focus is this and where do I buy an infinite supply of it?

When I examine my research ideas list, it's all over the place. Apparently...

- I like (socio)phonology more than I consciously know

- I imagine a lot of things about construction grammar even tho I didn't really do my reading yet

- I love meta stuff like citation styles, research methods, open/reproducible rsc, terminology

- My older ideas are social justice related (ethnic minorities in Turkey, esp.)

- I feel a need to attack some fundamentals of linguistics

- I like my my quantitative

Fuk fuk fuk fuk fuk my thesis proposal is due way sooner than I thought. I have exactly 59 days starting tomorrow.

I thought we'd only be picking advisors by then. Apparently they're rushing things a bit this fall.

Luckily I've some research ideas noted but I don't want to spend experimental stuff in these covid times where interviews are not nice. Guess I'll try to come up with something corpus based.

Fuck I though I had at least one month more than that time 🙀

@nsc You're welcome!

@Sandra Oh alright I had a slip of a mind there and though about them little thingies you put on other fingers too for a moment https://www.amazon.co.uk/METAL-FINGER-PICKS-GUITAR-FINGERPICKS/dp/B005DKFXAE

@Sandra Whenever I tried them thumb picks felt like I'm playing after a liter of vodka. They are very hard to be accurate with.

@fitheach I'd contrast this with some random photo depicting people in some traditional attire, or just the historic quarters of a city, trying to tell that that's how the normal life there. These photos try to capitalise on a sense of exoticism and at times beholder's feeling of superiority. IMHO these are faker than Ho's photo even in their raw form on the negatives, even if they were truly spontaneous.

@fitheach E.g., IMHO there's more to this Ho photo than just the scene. It communicates to me a feeling of insignificance in industrial urban spaces and loneliness in city life. It does not misrepresent Hong Kong, or, does not really represent any particular location. It just uses the space, the model, and the shadow as compositional pieces. The shadow directs focus, the colours and tall straight lines communicate urbanism and industralism.

@fitheach It depends, really.

If you're "faking" to build a story or compose a scene, it's actually composition.

If you're covertly faking the story you're capturing, i.e. when the moment itself is supposed to be the object of the story, then it's faking.

Concretely, this photo is composition. But if you went into Grand Bazaar in Istanbul and took photos that depict the faux commercial orientalism found there as Turkey's everyday life, then that's faking, and somewhat unethical.

I like river cities more than seaside cities.

Haven't been to a river delta city yet so wonder what that feels like.