*incorrect buzzer sound*

I don't know if time has simply slowed to a crawl for me personally but there's no way <skibidi> is still being used by anyone besides Gen Xers trying to make fun of their own kids

I'm reading a book on animal thought & emotion and it delves a lot into both inter- and intra-species communication. The current chapter is on the dreaded theory of mind and I would like to hear y'all's opinions on which, if any, of these would constitute evidence of ToM:

Love Island has once again proved a treasure trove of dialectal variants I'd never before encountered

No AI could ever say something this stupid

The band Radiohead is technically named after this character actor

Good assignment for Senior Linguistics majors: write a 5 page term paper explaining why this argument wrong!

Amazing things are happening on X: The Everything App

Met another self-described "cunning linguist" on bumble but this one might be salvageable

As always, my favorite oft-abridged quote on patriotism: "My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right—if wrong, to be set right." -an immigrant to the US who volunteered to fight for the Union in our Civil War

Linguists Love Cool James

Every 4th of July, I take the time to read "What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July." Let us begin: "I say it with a sad sense of the disparity between us. I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us."

Vegetable (spiritually) 🤝 Fruit (technically) "Welcome to the family, precious baby Tomato!"

Just discussing Jordan Peterson's linguistic skills with a hinge match, how's your weekend going?

Love catching up with old college friends

I've had a vendetta against Google's featured result summaries for years now. Whenever I tweeted about it, 1 or 2 employees would respond that it's impossible to manually check them for every possible search query. And this is why I suggested simply not featuring any summaries they hadn't checked:

Here in .at we call this the "fork breakfast" in a slipshod translation ("Gabelfrühstück") and there is absolutely nothing to say this does not go with wine / beer and a shot....

Kazakhstan may soon recognize sign language as an official language.

This is the thing from the WHATWG HTML standard I am referring to. Source: html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/im...

Wait what do you mean ELEVENSES are a real thing and not just a cute little Tolkienism for hungry hobbit snacks??

Dr Assal Rad— “𝘚𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳 is NYT’s euphemism for crimes against humanity.”

Join us this September for Oxonmoot! Taking place on 4-7 September both online and at the University of Oxford, Oxonmoot sees hundreds of #Tolkien readers, artists, scholars, academics and fans come together to enjoy an unforgettable weekend. Find out more at www.tolkiensociety.org/events/oxonm...

Raphael Lemkin was a Poland-born Jewish American who coined the term GENOCIDE in his 1944 text where he explicitly states that it does *not* necessarily refer to mass murder but rather any coordinated plan to destroy a society's foundation with the aim to eventually annihilate their people entirely.

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

You're supposed to respect what *anyone* prefers to be called because that is a basic human right and basic human rights aren't just for the people you like. No one has to earn them; that's the whole point. How you treat the people you hate is who you really are inside. That's what you believe in.

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"AI-assisted translation will continue to improve" this person says. Linguist me asks if LLMs don't store any semantic information, how can they translate anything, and how can those translations "improve" over time? 🤔 Also: totally with you on not using tools built with stolen work.

If elitism is the singular purpose of your educational pursuits Join a country club It will actually cost less

"pride" is a great word because it is a nominalization of "proud" (OE prūd ~ OE prȳde)—wh is a loanword from Romance!—on analogy to inherited Germanic adjective-noun pairs where i-mutation marks the noun derivation, e.g. hāl "healthy, whole" ~ hǣlu "health"

Day 1: "How Europe underdeveloped Africa" by Walter Rodney. Essential reading by Guyanese historian & activist W. Rodney who explains how Africa has historically been deliberately exploited for western gain. It's an eye opener. #booksky #yarnsky

PRIDE originally comes from Kent & Mercia dialects of OE but only in the negative "haughty & overbearing" sense. By the 1500s, we'd turned that all around. Now PRIDE stood for "personal honor & good repute," an "exalted position," "splendor," and eventually "the prowess & spirit of a wild animal."

I will never forget my phonology prof telling me over post-finals drinks “You don’t deserve the grades you get based on your attendance” that was my human work maximising the grades vs attendance, now AI ruins the whole thing

One underrepresented consequence for students who rely on AI is that they won't practice these critical life skills while still in school: •bullshitting your superiors •coherently hobbling 5000 words together in 6 hours •prioritizing important projects to the detriment of other plans •cry & rally

My favorite part is when the BBC opens by referring to an "Irish language band" before IMMEDIATELY anglicizing Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh's surname. Bit on the nose there England! Did y'all forget to take that "oppress Irish into extinction and anglicize everyone's name" part out of the style manual, or?

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>controversial new initiative >look inside >it's another war crime

My favorite part is when the BBC opens by referring to an "Irish language band" before IMMEDIATELY anglicizing Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh's surname. Bit on the nose there England! Did y'all forget to take that "oppress Irish into extinction and anglicize everyone's name" part out of the style manual, or?

Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis. Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all. "Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"

Watching old episodes of Inside the Actor's Studio and feeling a little more disappointed with some of the questions than I expected to be, but for both better & worse, they very much fit the era of late 90s/early 00s. But credit where credit is due: Tommy Lee Jones, I did not recognize your game.

@terrorstein.bsky.social, Viktoria Schneider & I have just published our edited volume "Linguistic intersections of language and gender"! Check it out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... Thanks to all contributors - we're proud of what we've created together! #linguistics #gender #openaccess

#LanguageEd #TeacherEd #WorldLanguages #EdLinguistics #TeacherPreparation #BlackWorldLanguaging #Raciolinguistics #Genealogies Grateful for this opportunity and looking forward to communing with the good folks at UW Madison!

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I'll go one step further— Public goods don't need to break even! Much like my stance on our neverending national debate around the profitability of the US Postal Service, I strongly believe that educational and journalistic resources are SPECIFICALLY where we should be willing to spend money!

But I do agree that the point of public television is that it's considered a public good, so it should be funded by, you know, the public. We really need to stop slashing funding on everything and then waiting for corporations to swoop in and take over.

Hot take: This is bad, actually! Educational programming should be accessible to all children, particularly those with limited access to other developmentally appropriate and beneficial resources. But what's the solution? Many people don't even have access to live network TV like PBS anyway. 🧵

Hi yeah what tf is this

You show me a hyperpolyglot and I'll show you a liar