#linguist — Public Fediverse posts
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27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers
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What if we used specific first- and second-person pronouns for non-conscious entities? I think this might help avoid #confusion and #cognitiveload when interacting with #bots, etc. Any #linguists or #conlangers here who have seen attempted solutions to this problem (or who have a good idea of how it might be solved)?
#AI #LLM #LLMs #bot #chatbot #ChatGPT #Claude #pronoun #pronouns #linguistics #linguist #conlang #conlanger #agenticAI
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Not a #linguist or #manosphere expert, but my understanding is that, in that context, "soy" estrogenizes men, so Real Men(tm)
should avoid products containing soy.So, "soy cel" is sooo not a Thing, and you've overthought this.
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Linguist clearly demonstrates how ‘thinking is walking’ in English and it’s just so cool
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1/
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Y’all, I love an interesting #crossword #clue, but this one befuddles me.
“What’s everyone **soup** in arms about?”
Is this an actual #English language phrase? I’ve heard and used “up in arms” but never “soup in arms”. Is there a #linguist or #historian who might provide some context for this bizarre statement? 🥣
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Fantastic 2.5 year postdoc working on 🤩emojis🤩 ! Are you a #linguist with experience in running experiments in formal semantics & pragmatics? Please come join our lab and the @vicom visual communication research cluster!
Apply by April 28 - or contact me with questions. #emojis #linguistics #job @ruhr-uni-bochum.de #academicChatter
https://jobs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/jobposting/f5001c40d914e7ce325557bfe526aa88415f75bb0 -
Am I missing something obvious here? #linguist fedi, steer me right
As I understand it: orality vs literacy is about our ability to record concepts and transmit them, with relatively little proximity/relation between the person communicating and the person receiving the information. Like the golden records on Voyager and the audio we sent from Earth… that’s literacy culture! Right?? Just because it’s audio doesn’t change that! -
There are also many AI TTS created by folks at 11 Labs and other open source implementations that support speech to text and text to speech. But I'm looking for traditional formant synthesis implementation. Do we have existing phonemizer or any sort of that that can aid Tamil TTS creation? #tamil #tts #linguist #language #formant (2/2)
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#Linguist Dr. Taylor Jones gets into it. He manages to coalesce many of my thoughts on this in ways I couldn't hope to have done.
6 reasons the gender critical right and the woke left are both WRONG about pronouns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kh22m1QG6i4
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27 English words people have a hard time enunciating properly, even native speakers
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Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking-ex1
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19 nearly-extinct 'fossil words' that only survive hidden inside these specific idioms
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/19-fossil-words-hidden-inside-idioms
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Yuri Knorozov, Soviet linguist who was instrumental in decoding Mayan script, holding his co-author, Asya, 1980s?
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Hey #linguist types...
I don't know exactly how to explain this, but is there a thing where the (I don't know what it is called} the sound at the end of some consonants, especially the letter "T" is being softened or is disappearing?
For example, I hear people (somewhat more frequently in the UK, but also in the US) pronouncing a word like "cotton" more like "caugh-en." Maybe I haven't explained myself clearly, but if you have an idea and a better way to describe this and whether it is a real, new thing, I would appreciate hearing!
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Linguist clearly demonstrates how 'thinking is walking' in English and it's just so cool
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/linguist-explains-thinking-is-walking
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31 acronyms you use all the time—what they actually stand for
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Dear Fediverse #linguist s, not just in the #Finnish part of the Wikiverse, the Finnish language is claimed to have dozens of strange "cases", partly inspired by Hungarian grammar, such as "sublative" or "temporal" – what is meant is a derivation pattern for a small number of (often mainly) pronoun-based adverbs (not acknowledged as cases in any Standard Finnish grammar I know of). This goes back to a grammar sketch published online, also in English and German, by a certain Panu Mäkinen.>>
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Not professional #linguist I wonder if there has been new #metacognition trends in languages #acquisition that has proven sound according to you, and that would go in another direction than i+1's learning easy = obvious inference + 1 complexity detail any advice by expert in #linguistics is welcome
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A few years ago, a friend gave me the challenge of writing a fictional #story without adjectives or adverbs. Today, I found what I'd written at the time, and the narrative looks so strikingly similar to the world of 2025 that I thought I'd share it.
It's about a neoliberal government, forbidden words and a #linguist.
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I have just learned that today (February 21) is International Mother Language Day.
Great initiative, lousy name. I'm no #linguist but I'm grateful to #linguistics for giving me the knowledge needed to call my L1 exactly that, rather than credit someone who had almost nothing to do with my acquiring it.
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@bouletcorp2 un travail d'enquête linguistique serait rigolo sur cette expression #linguist #linguistics
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No, you're not a bad PERSON for having been rude to a disabled person or people before.
But the BEHAVIOURS can be bad.Yes, the assumption of "knowing" someone else's intent (often negative, from experience) hurts people.
Disabled people get that a lot. Ask me how I know. Yes, disabled people do it to each other too. Almost like we're also human individuals or something. 🙀
(d/Deaf people, I'm not trying to overreach here, sorry. I'm more responding to things other hearing people have said to me when I mention how gd useful and interesting BSL is.)
https://www.teachmesign.co.uk/bsl-courses-online/
#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble
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No, not everyone else wants to "just learn English".
Should they have to anyway, just because it'd be easier for *you*?
Would you like to learn Portuguese, Swahili, or Hindi? Many people speak those languages too.Except try learning when you can't hear other speakers very well, and it's tonal, and people assume you're being rude EVERY single time you make an honest mistake.
(d/Deaf people, I'm not trying to overreach here, sorry. I'm more responding to things other hearing people have said to me when I mention how gd useful and interesting BSL is.)
https://www.british-sign.co.uk/
#active #ActiveListening #Communication #Comms #info #Information #Idea #Ideas #learn #learning #learningEnglish #LearningEveryday #ed #edu #EduTooter #education #EducationForAll #lang #LangDev #lang_en #language #linguist #linguistics #collocation #corpus #attention #PayAttention #focus #AmbientFocus #intent #meditation #mediation #arbitration #conflict #ConflictResolution #VeRantDa #VeRamble
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Also, Sapphic from Sappho, right?
So Wildeic / Wiledic from Oscar Wilde, for androphilic. andric?
Ah whatever. mlem.
#gay #homosexual #queer #MLM #bisexual #bi #boy #boi #masc #transmasc #dudeLove #yaoi #ShounenAi #BL #boysLove #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #LGBTQIA2S #language #linguist #linguistics #phrase #phrasing #term #word #description #describe #name #slang #adjective
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It's been a while since I've done a #ConnectionList #Introduction #FollowFriday post, where I use my large follower count to more richly connect us, so here's some folx you might like to follow on the #Fediverse :fediverse:
@Rushkoff writes books about #media, #technology and #society and is #Professor of Media Theory and #digital #economics at #CUNY #Queens, and works with the #IFTF
@FAccT is the @ACM conference on #fairness, #accountability and #transparency primarily in #MachineLearning and #ArtificalIntelligence.
@drclaireh is a #corpus #linguist specialising in deception, manipulation and agression online.
@mucephie is June Parsons and they are into #astrophysics at @yorkuniversity - author of dorado.py for observatory #data 🐍
@eirliani is a Doctoral #PhD student at #Harvard and is into #DataScience and #HumanRights
@pyconau is the official #PyconAU conference account #pycon #python 🐍
@jadedarko is passionate about the #environment and #SocialJustice and she is a full-time #Python and #Django #dev
That's all for today, don't forget to share your own #ConnectionList so we can connect the :fediverse: more richly ❤️
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Good afternoon #Fediverse :fediverse: Hope you're all doing fine this hot Saturday afternoon, and if you're in #Adelaide, keep an eye on the #SAfires in your region.
In today's #ConnectionList #Introduction #FollowFriday post, where I use my large # of followers to more richly connect the Fediverse, I'd like you to meet:
@josiefraser is based in #London 🇬🇧 and leads #Digital #Policy at the National Lottery Heritage Fund. She is into #DigitalTransformation #eSafety and #edTech
@s is Head of #Engineering at #Overleaf, which I use heavily for #academic and #research stuff. I sync it with #Git. He is into #Linux, specifically #Gentoo (ohai, on #Ubuntu here) and other #FOSS and #opensource things. In you follow #LaTeX you might want to follow Simon.
@DrLinguo is a #linguist, who runs the @linguisticsmemes and @academiamemes which are both work a fellow, I mean, follow :blobcatgiggle:
@drbeard79 is Dr Andrew McInnes, who is a #Reader in Romanticisms at #EdgeHill University #researcher #academic 🎓
@robinsones is Emily and they (not assuming pronouns) are a #DataScientist, and #author of the "Build a Career in Data Science" book. They are currently in the market for a senior #DataScience role so if you are #hiring #recruiting then let Emily know! 📊
That's all for today, don't forget to curate your own #ConnectionList.
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#NoamChomsky (born December 7, 1928) an #American #Linguist, #Philosopher, #CognitiveScientist, #HistoricalEssayist, #SocialCritic, and #PoliticalActivist. Sometimes called "the father of modern linguistics", #Chomsky also a major figure in #AnalyticPhilosophy & one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. He is a #LaureateProfessor of #Linguistics at the #UniversityofArizona & an Institute #ProfessorEmeritus at the #MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology (MIT).
