Last week @theverge.com published my essay exploring the limitations of large-language models. This week, that same essay is cited by a federal judge in Michigan to distinguish the process of human reasoning from what these models do. Very, very gratifying.

This is how linguists and other cognitive scientists do it.

"Our original crypto food delivery idea."

Arrived in Chicago from #sblaar. Exhausted and need to sleep for a week.

Rachel and I are presenting in just over an hour. See you there #biblicalgreek #sblaar

This morning a church elder made my wife cry and I just need to say somewhere how wrong that is.

LIFE IS A DISCOUNT STORE WITH SALES THAT CAN OCCASIONALLY BE TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF is my favorite conceptual metaphor. (www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...) #linguistics

The eternal PSA: #biblicalgreek

I was finally able to confirm with a friend at Logos that mine and Rachel's manuscript for the 2nd edition of Greek Prepositions in the New Testament was acquired by Baker from Lexham/Logos, but we're still waiting to hear from Baker about what's happening with it. #biblicalgreek

I'm genuinely fascinated that nearly every post I've seen about John Searle's passing has reference the Chinese Room experiment as his big thing none of mentioned Speech Act Theory. #linguistics

Force is ubiquitous in everyday life. We act and are acted on by causal sequences that require the exertion of force. Typical force interactions shape our inferences about the world and how we communicate in language. 1/# #biblicalgreek #linguistics (& cc: @koine-greek.com)

It should not have to be said, but actually thanks @johnbasil.bsky.social for including signed languages in this article!

Turns out that consolidating media companies into handful a megacorporation might have been less than ideal.

I really love this book.

Edith Claflin's work on voice and aspect in Greek and Latin should have been part of the linguistics foundation we all have been building on, yet you rarely find her cited. #linguistics #biblicalgreek

Just for the record: Allen Dershowitz is almost certainly a pedophile.

I just want to highlight the juxtaposition here between a certain NT scholar's work and this article about Jordan Peterson.

A quick comparison between Bing & Google reveals Bing is down ranking Wikipedia as a source past the first page in its search results in order to drive people to stick to their CoPilot summaries. Even if you use "wikipedia" as a term you it doesn't show up until at least the bottom of the page.

If you're a caregiver who may have other, less techno-optimistic views of AI/GenAI, then you may be interested in the panel "Theorizing Caregiver Resistance to EdTech" that I'm convening with @alliethrall.bsky.social at next week's Civics of Technology conference. More info at:

A couple copies of Sophisticated Speakers: Atticistic pronunciation in the Atticist lexica are 81% off on Amazon at the moment.

I've never seen such a disjunction as the one between how men are remembering John MacArthur vs. how women are remembering John MacArthur.

Awful day today. I had two volumes of Gerhard Kittel in my car and some one broken in and left two more.

What is wrong with you, Toronto?? Just build the sixplexes. Build every kind of housing you can.

Harold, it's Wednesday.

Here's a rough off-the-cuff blogpost draft: Spending time working on Greek grammar resources for Bible translation often requires spending time in commentaries because I need to know what things translation teams are going to be seeing when it comes to grammar. #biblicalgreek 1/???

I just want to highlight the juxtaposition here between a certain NT scholar's work and this article about Jordan Peterson.

I'm fed up with synthetic texts/images. I encountered this one today. Jessie Little Doe Baird is a superb linguist who has done incredible work. But this first picture on the left isn't her. It was created from a prompt like, "indigenous women teaching children." Here she is on the right.

Because I needed another hobby, I'm experimenting with green slate from the NY/VT border as a sharpening stone. To my surprise, I got a light cloudy finish on my vintage veggie knife.

"Matthew 1:25 says nothing about whether Joseph and Mary had conjugal relations." Is this true? No. It's not.

"uh, let's all relax, guys! pastors using fake accounts isn't that big of a deal," lol wonder why dale partridge wants everyone to calm down about this.

If it wasn't already obvious, @ivacheung.com is coping with things that happen at work via cartoons.

Writes an email requesting more information about a PhD posting. Receives a positive reply to that email one hour before the application window closes. What.

Dallas International University (DIU) has announced their new masters degree program that combines the biblical languages and linguistics in one place: MA in Biblical Languages and Linguistics. #biblicalgreek #biblicalhebrew

They suck and aren't useful* *for most people

I will say it again: If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

They are segregationist and this will be open season for discrimination. “the Attorney General shall initiate appropriate action to repeal or amend the implementing regulations for Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for all agencies to the extent they contemplate disparate-impact liability”

A brief teaser on Fluid Construction Grammar #ConstructionGrammar #Linguistics #ComputationalLinguistics youtu.be/a2zCYb7kE1A?...

I actually had to go to the submission site to see that we'd been accepted because I accidentally dropped the "r" in ".org" in my email address and never received the acceptance email.

Here we go #biblicalgreek.

I guess I'm now in a trade war with myself. 🇨🇦🙄🇺🇸

Not only does Elum Muskox think that retired air traffic controllers are on his platform, but also he thinks that they follow him.

Rob Crellin's The Syntax and Semantics of the perfect Active in Literary Koine Greek is one of the most important books on the Greek perfect in 30 years. It's a hard read for biblical scholars (formal semantics & generative grammar), but it's full of insight and compelling analysis. #biblicalgreek

Need to remember to put #biblicalgreek on these when I post them for @koine-greek.com.

If anyone wants to talk to a linguist about why this list of words banned from federal grants is absurd, please get at me. The point is to make sure that no one can do social science (or really any science) at all. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Yjf5FH/