It is absolutely a choice.

3x this year, people (strangers) have come up to me and said "you know who you look like, right?" -- they mean the actor Matthew Lillard. Well - Tarantino just gave us (me and Matthew) a bad review, and I must say, I'm not that pleased! www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Not the worst explanation of how [h] works in Jamaican. Except it didn’t emerge in London of course. www.instagram.com/reel/DQWLDny...

"Blackfacing" is not a word... neither is "home office" or "handy". The only problem is: clearly, they are words... just not in British or American English.

Dieser Satz ist sehr wiederverwendbar, gerade als zweiter Satz in der Unterzeile von der online-Version einer Zeitung: "Wer jetzt glaubt, damit sei schon alles gesagt, irrt gewaltig." Das passt überall, oder? @zeit.de 📰

the OP sounds false

this exists it is called thinking

igel (selbstbild) ich bin die bergziege der böschungen, tollkühn und zugleich grazil überwinde ich jedes hindernis igel (fremdbild): fällt aus dem busch, kullert auf den weg, stößt beim weghasten noch einen rechen um

Und wie geht es nun mit Russland und der Ukraine weiter? Die „Berliner Zeitung“ weiß, wer es wirklich weiß: ChatGPT. Klar, weil die KI „über mehr Informationen verfügt als alle internationalen Experten zusammen und sich somit vermutlich ein umfassenderes Bild machen kann.“ 🤷‍♂️

There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.

Second conference day about to begin, we are looking forward to talks by @larshinrichs.site, @heidevolkening.bsky.social, @ldpres.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @ryfountain.bsky.social and Chloé Thomas. Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!

I say between 10 and 20 because it depends on things like the variety of English in question and whether we're counting only monophthongs.

Lasst uns über Scham reden! Über Fremdscham und Unverschämtheiten, über peinliche Versehen und den Wunsch, im Boden zu versinken. @kreienbrink.bsky.social hat ein sehr gutes Buch zum Thema geschrieben - und er wird mit mir darüber sprechen, nächsten Dienstag! Online! Ihr seid schamlos eingeladen.

You do realize you're quoting a quote of me back to me, right?

Hail Mary/merry/marry

Y’all let’s not forget about the accusative ending, mmkay? “Habemus papa” is D- material, @nytimes.com

What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

New volume of poetry by Cindy Williams Gutierrez www.flowersongpress.com/books/p/this...

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

Uhm what

The showdown was set up by wait what

rockig?

I guess the four of us are packed up for the day #larslarsandlars

Found a bistropub with a super charming name here in Poznan #larslarsandlars

Been to Poland

Boy, I hope I'm not derived from the Etruscan one. Unknown etymology? Don't like that!

Missed EMMA's March 18 seminar with @larshinrichs.bsky.social on the characteristics and conditions of emergence of multiethnolects? Good news! His book arrives in 2025 (check the CUP catalog in the next few months). And in the meantime, watch his talk online! www.canal-u.tv/chaines/emma...

@emma-recherche.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce that @larshinrichs.bsky.social will present his latest research on "Cultural Contact and New Dialect Emergence in Large Cities: From Ethnolects to Multiethnolects" next Tuesday at 6pm (CET). Join us: univ-montp3-fr.zoom.us/j/97293747730

A student asked me this question by email today. I felt it inappropriate to send them the poem in response. Therefore, you're getting it here, although it's hardly new. Poem by Tom Wayman

You know, sometimes Philomena Cunk is absolutely on the money!

tonight cold

roses are red unicorns are fictional gender is an imitation for which there is no original

"As long as people kept worrying that the machines were taking over, they wouldn't notice what was really happening. Which was that the programmers were taking over." —Robert Anton Wilson, Schrödinger's Cat III: The Homing Pigeons (1979)

History is fascinating

LLMs can analyze sentence structure for the first time. Metalinguistic ability is one of the rare traits of language/cognition that we don't find in the animal kingdom. We show that the largest LLMs (with chain of thought) can analyze sentence structure as a linguist would.

Not because the album is good...? (ah, no... it is "ambitious") How Beyoncé Finally Won Her Elusive Grammy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/a...

LOL the bottle

I don’t know who OSM WORLDWIDE is, but they’re sure making the most of their time with my USPS package that’s supposed to be coming in from the west coast

It snew!

Frage an die Älteren unter uns: in meiner Erinnerung gab es in den 90ern intensive Sprachideologien gegenüber Mobiltelefonen und ihren Besitzer*innen. Handys wurden als prätentiös wahrgenommen, ihnen wurde Attrappen-Status unterstellt etc, es gab Witze und Comedy-Routinen etc. Korrekte Erinnerung?

Looking at the use of the Latin alphabet across European languages like the revelation of the Statue of Liberty at the end of The Planet of the Apes. You fools! They won! The Romans won!!

Egomaniac Aztek

Es wird immer irrer: Jasper von Altenbockum behauptet in der FAZ Fakten-Checks seien oft nur links- liberale Gesinnungschecks. Ich dachte immer, Fakten-Checks seien die Basis, jedes seriösen Journalismus.

It's been too long since I've seen this anywhere. OH YOU'RE A LINGUIST? HOW MANY LANGUAGES DO YOU SPEAK?

Planning travel for Spring in Poznan and Zielona Góra for a lecture and a keynote at Contemp. Trends in English-Language Studies 2. Exciting! My first trip to Poland. sites.google.com/view/ctiels/...

Hmm, this is curious. I parked next to a Cybertruck when taking my kids to Skyzone trampoline park today. I didn’t think Cybertruck owners were allowed to park within 100 feet of children.

Ich wünsche allen einen guten Morgen, außer solchen die doof sind