SamuelJBeer

I have been flitting around linguistics’s interfaces with other disciplines long enough that I bet other people who are going to see this will have more current/reliable things to say about more core subdisciplines than me!

And are these critics in the by-line with us now?

Radishharmers comes for the linguists

So apparently some idiot decided that what Wikipedia really needed more of was Nazi-positive LLM output.

Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...

I guess “internet is nonstandard-proliferation machine, but its non-standard proliferation flattens regional differences (into the same suites of nonstandard usage)” feels paradoxical to me—but it is counter to your OP paradox (which I was also vaguely familiar with) without addressing it.

I feel like there’s something relating to your OP in the combined claims from the text that nonstandard (tbf not *necessarily* regional) language is more broadly used than ever and that regional dialects are “dying out”.

Yeah, I agree. Some feel more paradoxical than others, but it sort of feels like the basic idea is just “the benefits of the internet aren’t evenly distributed even though it is Very Big [and so maybe you would expect its benefits to be equally distributed?]” Maybe paradoxical to some, but not me 🤷‍♂️

My impressions were the same as yours. Also, maybe this is missing from the previous context, but I can’t make out how what is presented in that paragraph constitutes any sort of paradox?

specgram.com/CLXX.4/09.st...

Caitlin, Scott Bessent here… by the way, anything I [or anyone else from my fine establishment] ever sent you is off the record. You’re not a journalist so it’s weird saying that but just letting you know.

It’s somehow been years that I’ve been waiting for this moment.

Here's a very niche question: does anyone here study ancient languages and has experience in the pronunciation of Akkadian words? And before a million randos tell me that we don't know what dead languages sound like, there are scholars who spend their whole lives on this stuff.

I pretty much walk out of all of my classes smiling this semester and I’m so grateful to my students for that.

Now there are two of them. There are two wugs shack.

I feel invested in Peter having a good zinger already.

What a beast

Picturing somebody wearing all of these at the same time 🤔

But the frog, Al

This is the way

A landscape. The sky is dark with heavy blue clouds. The foreground is a grassy field sloping down a mountainside—it’s interwoven with different kinds and colors and textures of grass, and they’re blowing in the wind. Ridge lines and neighborhoods recede into the distance below before rising up to a distant mountainscape.

Is autumn here?

The MOVE of the spirit is basically the only operation in minimalist spirituality

A man and a woman are outside surrounded by yellow-leaved trees and rail fences. The woman is turned toward the man, looking intently at him. The man (it is me, dear reader) has a race number pinned to his shorts and a bandana around his neck. He looks befuddled, and his palms are held up in something of a low shrug. He has been running for 30+ miles and his tummy hurts, but he’s not close to finished yet.

Couldn’t have done it without Melanie, the very best crew, who apparently asked me perplexing questions?

Earnestpost: I feel weird posting much Running Content because not everybody wants that in their life and more power to them, but it is something that I’ve found a lot of peace and delight in recently, and this event felt important to me so I’m gonna share it. Wishing analogous practices for all.

A smiling guy jumps with his feet held together and with trekking poles in his hand. He is in the woods in nice morning light.

A serious guy runs through a field surrounded by aspen trees turning yellow in the fall. He has a race number pinned to his shorts and a hat and sunglasses. He is messing with something hanging on his back or around his neck (it’s not really visible in the photo, but it’s probably a handkerchief with a bunch of ice wrapped up in it)

Last Friday I ran a farther thing than I have run before and it was nice even though my tummy hurt.

This sounds really cool—congratulations!

Does anyone have a favourite short article (~15 pages max) on mixed / intertwined languages like Spanglish (or any other case) suitable for undergrads?

OSITA NWANEVU **CRUSHES** 83 YEAR OLD CHURCH LADY 👀🔥 | great debate moments compilation

I was devastated and fascinated in equal measure.

I heard intolerancēs earlier this year (USA)!

Theologians asking if he’d received the eucharist lately because maybe the substantiation was trans?