I think it's fascinating that things like "a", "an", and other smaller discourse particles just get totally wiped out in LLM style analyses of language. Unless they don't? Correct me please!!

I really appreciate how much natural light we get in my department’s new space…

So does anyone think LLMs are “doing language?” In one sense, yes, because what they are outputting is language. In another sense, I am not convinced there is a human out there that “does” language using transformers or diffusion …

Y'know, since ideology shapes our understanding of at least our social reality, and language is the primary vehicle of ideology, I can't help but think about a fun conversation between Zizek and Whorf.

splurging for the laptop with the touch screen was a great choice

"To act intelligently and see intelligently become one" - C. S. Peirce

The way you describe wolves howling in Mohawk, kontiwén:note, literally means they (konti) are standing (ote) the words (wenn) up. It is the same word for talking about a group of people speaking. #kanienkeha #linguistics #indigenous

Dan Everett writing a biography on C. S. Peirce does not surprise me: Peirce's semiotic theory is probably the most significant possible challenger to Chomskyan thought about language. I would recommend reading Peirce. #cspeirce

Today, I repaired my broken pair of glasses (pictured) today, and relieved myself of the headache my contacts were giving me. 🤓

Anyone got a good youtube about the Minimalist program of linguistics? Or a podcast. ngl I'm into Lakoff/embodied cognition and Peircean semiotics. How is this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJSz... #linguistics #minimalism #chomsky

A community of settlers claiming to be Indigenous were recognized by the state of Vermont ten years ago, but it has come to light that the Vermont state legislature made a wrong call, and, imo, ought to rectify it: vtdigger.org/2025/02/20/a...

"Do not block the way of inquiry." - C. S. Peirce, 1899

also a win: managed to switch my dad’s tv preferences from fox to msnbc, which had a good bit on about history and the war in Ukraine

The presence of Ohio as a (meme) word in a significant amount of the populations’s vocabulary means that this same population is now highly cognizant of a word of Iroquoian origin - ohí:yo’ “beautiful river” #linguistics

The only reason people want humanoid robots is because they want indentured servants, they have a god complex or both. A human is such a stupid design for a robot. However, most other animals (birds, snakes, fish) are cool designs for robots.

Just used Zoom's AI summary for some meetings I had yesterday. I don't think I lost anything in using it. Mentally correcting the notes it sent after the meeting helped me consolidate my memory, even.

I'm glad the judge is making them listen to it even though they don't want to hear it.

got the reviews of my book back from the press... I should have a contract in March!

Got my reviews for the first chapter of my book, and I will hopefully have a publishing contract in hand sooner than later!

I occasionally enjoy watching other people get lectured for know-it-all questions.

Lakoff's Philosophy in the Flesh is dope. I am just now getting into Mark Johnson's Body in the Mind and it is very good.

I don't like the that Google AI/spellcheck in Docs told me to prefer sentence A over sentence B. A: Today we will look at the work you completed. B: Today we will look at the work you finished. It's a purely stylistic thing; I would have a very hard time finding a context where this mattered.

www.wivb.com/news/local-n... RIP to a good venue. Although the last few shows I went to, it was pretty dead... in the past they turned the Xtreme Wheels (a venue I used to go to in my teens) into condos! Buffalo is definitely changing.

I feel like Catch 22 is one of the most obviously leftist books just bc the protagonist is a smart guy who understands the insanity around him in perfect clarity, but nobody takes him seriously because it's also turned him into a miserable, high-strung neurotic And what's more leftist than that

I don't seem to have access to this article through my university: www.nature.com/articles/s44... if someone wanted to help me out with access, that'd be great! I am asking here because I have exhausted all the usual resources... #linguistics

I love listening to random language pedagogy on like FB or TikTok… hearing a Chinese instructor label the English pronoun system as more complicated than Chinese’s seven character pronoun system really puts things in perspective.

It’s really cool when games make smoke grenades good!

the mechanics in the magic: the gathering online set that just dropped are a blast!!

Looks like it's a transgender snow storm in Virginia.

It seems like it would be kind of tough to develop an AI+ course using only Indigenous Studies. It feels like bringing in other disciplines to make an AI+Relationality (which I'm already using for a class!!) would work.

The local Burger King is again open for 24 hours. Nature is healing.

The local parks people plowed about a .5 mile corridor of the walking path at the park I usually go to and it made my day! I will usually just walk in the snow but this was a lot more pleasant.

Watching the Chiefs lose feels great tbh

This year’s superbowl commercials (on Tubi, for what that’s worth) seem a lot more crass and uncomplicated .. go Philadelphia lol

nationalpost.com/news/politic... Nice. False claims to Indigenous identity is a serious issue.

Lakoff’s idea of Idealized Cognitive Models is super interesting, especially because I think it shows the divergence in the concepts of “idealized” and “best fit”. i.e. to say a model is “more ideal” is not the same thing as saying as “more accurate (or other preference”…

I want an AI agent hooked up to my bright space account that I can tell: “activate the readings for week 3” and “generate practice questions for a multiple choice quiz” so I don’t have to do those things. This seems plausible.

I want to do something with word transformation rules to see what you can get if you allow for both N-grams (let's say, 2- through 6-grams) and morphemes operational at the 'same level'. I feel like I should be reading/have read something about reduplication for this.

fuzzy phonotactics

dc children’s national hospital

Prolog rules and I wish I had excuse to use it more

the tag #sixnations on here is not what I thought it was for! #haudenosaunee

I had a similar thought though reading recently about inflectional morphology -- wouldn't it be really weird to call a marker for 1.sg "very productive"? ... it's there for when you need it. what does productivity have to do with it?

I love really droll statements: "but we would not describe a Boeing 747 as very athletic because it can cover 100m in 0.4 seconds, nor would we expect it to be good at hurdling and throwing balls."

update... it didn't work. You can point out the plays where they took a risk and lost. I think they could do it next year.

the Bills just keep running and it keeps working

Bills are gonna do it!!

hell yeah wegmans