Happy new year everyone!

In the last year, I launched a Youtube channel, Patreon, and merchandise through Spring (all @languagejones), and the response was incredible. I was blindsided by two of my videos surpassing a few hundred thousand views, and I am so encouraged by the response. In 2023 I will be building both the channel and this website — that is, “building my brand” — and I have a lot in the works that I am very excited to share.

I also have an accepted publication I’m very excited about, on studying lexicalization in AAE using large social media corpora; That is, what’s becoming a trademark approach of using novel techniques to examine understudied phenomena in African American English (and other language varieties) rather than rehashing the same tired old studies and methodologies (who really needs another study on postvocalic r deletion?).

I have a few books in the works that I am VERY excited about finally sharing with the world, the first of which should be done and possibly even available for purchase in 2023.

I also have had some successes in my personal life, which further underscore that my choice to pursue a career trajectory other than postdoc -> adjunct -> assistant professor was the right choice for me. I am still reluctant to share my personal successes or hardships publicly, since there are a few folks in linguistics who are unhealthily obsessed with me and I don’t wish to give them joy (at my hardships) or fodder for the evil eye (*pyu pyu pyu), but even they seem to have their own things to focus on lately, and I will be discussing more of my career trajectory and the work I do now, on here and on my youtube channel, in 2023.

I wish everyone the best in the new year, and a year of joy and gladness.

Happy New Year!

PS: my youtube channel can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/@languagejones6784

and my Spring shop can be found here (with more to come, including some sweet Ugaritic designs, in the new year): https://languagejones.creator-spring.com/listing/languagejones-big-wen-hoodie?product=227&variation=2664