Bingo / drinking game for linguistics conference talks

More specific to linguistics

  1. foreign-language words spell checked (red squiggle)
  2. presenter shows off ability to pronounce the language
  3. gloss lines misaligned
  4. embedded audio messes up
  5. audio is way too quiet/loud
  6. main text and IPA font renders differently

Applicable to any conference

  1. famous person falls asleep during your talk
  2. Zoom floating meeting controls cover up slide titles
  3. failure to connect to Wi-Fi in conference room, embedded YouTube videos are skipped
  4. presenter ends with "but more research needs to be done"
  5. presenter has a thousand icons on their desktop
  6. nobody has any questions so the session chair has to come up with a question to ask
  7. people pretending to know what you're talking about when they actually haven't got a clue
  8. people just doing their own things instead of listening to you
  9. scrolling through a PDF instead of having slides
  10. entire presentation consists of reading full paragraphs verbatim
  11. hybrid presentation interrupted within the first few minutes because people on Zoom can't hear it
  12. "this is more of a comment than a question"

Some of these ideas my own, some crowdsourced from this poll on the "Linguistics Shitposting" Facebook group.