📣Para empezar la mañana con un poco de música, algo de #ciencia lingüística y mucho de #diversidadlingüística... Este artículo de Elena Fz. de Molina en @es.theconversation.com es lo que necesitas. #BricolageLingüístico theconversation.com/chica-que-di...

Se las conoce como las 12 costureras de Víznar, aunque no todas tenían esa profesión. Quedaron unidas en sus horas finales por el fusilamiento a manos de franquistas y el enterramiento en una fosa común. Fueron homenajeadas por el Gobierno el 31 de octubre

early career scholar and their first publication

Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.

Apparently, the business plan was designed by ChatGPT.

And yet I can see why a journalist could use them to organise their thoughts and notes, find a new angle, break writers’ block, in ways that are broadly fine. But if I started, would I really stop? And how would it feel to fear that LLMs were … better at my job than me? And that’s why I haven’t.

This is the big deal.

I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.

"Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given" Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Maybe we didn't need this much technology.

No way can this be true.

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Had to dig this up.

The German word ‘Pferd’ and its Dutch cognate ‘paard’ are horses of mixed breed parentage. Their common ancestor came from Latin ‘paraverēdus’ (substitute post-horse), a word composed of an Ancient Greek element and a Gaulish one. Zoom in on my new infographic to learn everything about it:

A powerful and enormously beatiful metaphor from Conclave (Berger, 2024). All the cardinals are under their umbrellas escaping from the rain, but one, who seems to accept whatever comes from the sky (or Heaven). #MCDA #Metaphors #Films #Conclave

France should have kept its language at home then.

Sometimes, a family company splits in two, each part getting its own specialisation. That’s what happened to ‘owe’ and ‘ought’, once the present and past tense of one and the same verb. Its original meaning was “to possess”. They’re also related to ‘own’. Zoom in on my graphic to learn more:

"You left Europe because you wanted less boats. You have more boats. You left Europe because you wanted more investment. You have less investment." Prime Minister Edi Rama of Albania on the UK's decision to leave the European Union. Watch in full ➡️ bit.ly/4qkZnS0

First up, "Which Hunting" uses corpus data to examine the decline of restrictive relative "which" since the mid-twentieth century, a change which has been driven mostly by copyeditors (and probably also by Word's grammar checker). www.arrantpedantry.com/2011/12/23/w...

Well, some discussion might fit in here.

A president so stupid that one of the great intellectual achievements of his life is “passing” a dementia screening. A president so narcissistic that he can’t stop bragging about passing that dementia screening as evidence of his immense genius.

- reportero facha: alcalde, hoy tenía que reportar a La Casa Blanca un resumen del gasto municipal en inmigrantes ilegales – alcalde de Chicago: no tenemos ilegales en Chicago (…) - Bueno, es el término legal - El término legal para mi gente era ESCLAVOS, ¿quieres que use ése también? ¡ASÍ SÍ!

Evidence that even when LLMs produce similar results to humans, they “rely on lexical associations and statistical priors rather than contextual reasoning or normative criteria. We term this divergence epistemia: the illusion of knowledge emerging when surface plausibility replaces verification”

Happy Sunday!!

Context is key for meaning comprehension. It may even facilitate or hinder the understanding. The no-smoking sign, for example, is perfecly understood anywhere, unless you are in a no-smoking area outside a hospital in Spain, when the meaning seem to turn blurry, maybe because of smoke.

From Dôl y Tylwyth Teg (Fairies’ Meadow) in Aberfan to Ffynnon Glog (Rock Well) in Gwynedd, Welsh placenames — some steeped in myth, others rooted in everyday history — are being submitted to a new project to preserve the stories written into the landscape. 🔗 tinyurl.com/m6bmrkxv TLDR 👇 #langsky

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

“What I didn’t understand was that as time went on, my second tongue would become my dominant language, and as a result, my Spanish would slowly become an afterthought.” thedailytexan.com/2025/10/08/s...

Latest blog post: If I hadn't have had the phenomenon pointed out to me, I might not have noticed the extra 'have' in this sentence. But is it a British or American 'have'? Have a read and see: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2025/10/hadn...

Siempre a favor de esto. Y, de paso, recuperemos las buenas costumbres, como pasar al viernes los festivos que caigan en sábado.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Retired journalism prof here to fix this headline (🚨) BREAKING: Leader of Democratic Country Posts Video of Himself As King Bombing His Own Citizens With Diarrhea-Filed Bioweapons on Same Day Millions of Citizens Protest Him Being a Vile and Incontinent Piece of Shit Who's Plotting a Dictatorship

The word ‘to hear’ stems from the same root as ‘acoustic’. They’re completely different, so how can that be? ‘To hear’ was inherited from Proto-Germanic, while ‘acoustic’ comes from Ancient Greek. These languages have a common ancestor, but they developed very differently. Zoom in to learn more:

It's like the nursery rhyme says: Oh, the former Duke of York, He had 12 million quid, He gave it to victims he "never met," For things he "never did."

Vaya por delante que creo que Pepe Viyuela es un actor excepcional y que en la temporada 3 de La Caza borda el acento andaluz el 95% de su (demasiado) corto papel. Sin embargo, no puedo evitar pensar que, con la gran cantidad de buenos actores andaluces que hay, no son necesarias tantas piruetas.

Pritzker: Throughout history we've learned that tyranny doesn't arrive with dramatic proclamations. Most times it comes quietly wrapped in the language of law and order, with fingers pointed at someone who doesn't look like you, promising safety while demanding that we sacrifice our neighbors.

Los cuantificadores disparan las lecturas disponibles en los enunciados, y es el contexto el que tiene que trabajar para desambiguar. Aquí, por ejemplo: de cuántas casas se trata? En la respuesta a este tuit hay opciones. @mamenhorno.bsky.social #twitterparalingüistas

No me puedo creer que aún no tengamos hilo de ambigüedad estructural en el cielito. Un imprescindible del #twitterparaLingüistas

Este hilo 😂😂😂

No vio venir las puñaladas en su partido, iba a ver el IVA en Canarias…

Swearwords, unlike other parts of vocabulary, can be used both positively or negatively. Thank fuck for that. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

🏛️ ¿Cómo se orientaban los antiguos romanos en sus ciudades? 🧭 Esta semana, en la sección "Preguntas a la Historia" de Universo UNED de La 2, hemos descubierto los ingeniosos métodos que usaban los ciudadanos de la antigua Roma para no perderse entre templos, foros y termas.

Script Analysis: “Nebraska” (2013) — Scene By Scene Breakdown. A great way to analyze a screenplay and its story structure. gointothestory.blcklst.com/script-analy... #movies #screenwriting

Without all that pressure he will finally be able to develop his work talent as a… well, you know, as a… OMG, what’s he gonna do now??!! 😧

the rather straightforward reason the aztecs weren't in close contact with the incans is that mexico city is farther from cuzco than london is from tehran. there is also the world's second highest mountain range in between.

The Andrew formerly known as Prince

New York is the most linguistically diverse city on the planet. Can it stay that way?

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No matter how many times I watch this scene, it will always hit me in the gut because of everything that follows. Few opening scenes in film history have ever been so powerful. #CDA #Multimodality #PowerandLanguage #TheGodfather