Supported by corpus data: it’s not unusual for people to use “syllabuses” as a regular plural, fairly rare for them to use “syllabi” as a singular, but practically unheard of to use “syllabis” as a regular plural.
08.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@markujiro.bsky.social
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Supported by corpus data: it’s not unusual for people to use “syllabuses” as a regular plural, fairly rare for them to use “syllabi” as a singular, but practically unheard of to use “syllabis” as a regular plural.
08.08.2025 15:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think that’s my KN95 brand
02.08.2025 02:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thinking of starting a coaching business in the mysterious Japanese art of nezumiko
26.07.2025 18:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not often you see the #curriculumdevelopment hashtag being used with a piece of music
26.07.2025 17:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I used to live near there
26.07.2025 17:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I passed a horse on the road today and instantly thought “why were the eyes of the horse on the jet pilot”
I just looked it up and realized I’ve been mishearing that lyric for 20+ years
Holy Mountains maybe or ATWA
25.07.2025 05:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Careful of speed traps
23.07.2025 01:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Even where there is no parking, the kuroneko guy will still stop with hazards on
22.07.2025 23:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Learned a song in class today: #ripozzy
22.07.2025 22:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I go to Threads for that
22.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It’d be awesome if he brought you a Hi-C
22.07.2025 13:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I’m not for fraternizing with students, but having a rule against it recalls NOVA
15.07.2025 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Some of my uni friends in Japan drink with students regularly (at least their zemi Ss) and are reimbursed by their depts
But it’s good that you don’t and are sensitive to dietary restrictions. I had ppl in my dept handing out hi-chews and I had to warn Ss that they contain gelatin
I feel like you’d have gotten a more positive response if you’d offered to buy them all beer
15.07.2025 00:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0People often translate the kanji 虫 as “insect” but as a radical it appears in both “frog” (蛙) and “bat” (蝙蝠), so an etymologically accurate translation of 虫 might rather be “small annoying creature”
15.07.2025 00:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To me it’s the explanatory participial phrase
“…, highlighting the importance of…”
It’s not mysterious at all from a corpus linguistics standpoint why a LLM would interpret a directive to “tell it like it is” as a directive to produce right-wing content. It’s not because right-wing content IS more honest but because it CALLS ITSELF more honest.
13.07.2025 21:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In between recording metal at my home studio, I played Lady Gaga and Rose (both feat. Bruno Mars) at my job. I liked both
11.07.2025 03:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Linguist, a grammar nerd. Click here for 5 words you’re misusing
07.07.2025 05:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0U still play in ur band?
04.07.2025 06:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I mean, I would get sick from jogging so that part is plausible to me
04.07.2025 05:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The real energy originalists favor not going back to gas or coal but to the real OG: oxen.
Join me in supporting a 100% ox-powered economy by 2040
Dog of destiny
01.07.2025 22:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Got promoted today. Asst Professor. Can’t make a joke about “asst to the professor” because my dept is all NTT and there are no full profs
01.07.2025 18:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0All for academia as a metaphor for much more relatable issues
01.07.2025 03:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Aaaand album 2 is out. Ask for it by name at your local purveyor of fine streams.
29.06.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Watching Andor for the first time, and I keep wondering how to define “this morning” when you’re talking about being on another planet “this morning” before traveling to another planet at the speed of light.
29.06.2025 03:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I prefer my chips to be non-diminutive, which is why I buy Doros
27.06.2025 00:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I have a song about adjuncting in Japan. youtu.be/qHJY1m9QdJk?...
25.06.2025 00:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0