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I'm a linguist & sr lecturer at Metropolia Uni. PhD in linguistics and marketing. I like #language & #linguistics, hockey, baseball and comic books - but maybe not in that order :) https://eviljoemcveigh.com
The Word of the Year can be a phrase. Just saying.
Oh god, Tyler and Anita... I'm having flashbacks.
Your article is great.
And for what it's worth, this company sucks at grammar too. Their blog posts about the topic are filled with errors.
Well, not with that bread-ittude.
(Ok, mine is worse)
Couldn't even commit to the bit and write "breakfast" smh
You know those depictions of hell where it's just a waiting room? Like the most boring place ever? This is that. Just a monotonous demon droning crap like "the agent draws on publicly available information to surface writing suggestions inspired by the published work of influential voices"
I swear these companies read The Sneetches and identified with the bad guy.
I can assure you, Dave, that I did not get a Grade A in my high school English classes. Might be why I still struggle with metaphors. 😅
For unrelated reasons, I may or may not have told one of my classes today that academic publishers are the devil.
My students will NEVER have to buy a book for one of my courses. Ever.
I mean, what is Ulysses but a 700-page version of The Very Hungry Caterpillar?
So I'd say yes, there is an option. In theory.
This is so funny because they had us read The Great Gatsby in high school and I understood the language then... and I was a fucking moron when I was a junior in high school. Like a Grade A doofus.
i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid
Is it too early to submit nominations for 2026 WoTY @americandialect.org ?
I noticed that instead of emailing students with "Hello [name]," I've just been writing "Hell [name]". No idea how long I've been doing it, nor whether it's actually a typo or just my subconscious. Because hell. We live in hell.
Well, this one appears to be false. Good that it was deleted and apologies for sharing it. The point still stands: into the sun with the lot of em. bsky.app/profile/gbru...
Btw, Claude just told the US military to bomb a school. Shame is not enough. These companies can embrace the rocket ship as we launch them into the fucking sun.
bsky.app/profile/hari...
Embrace it, don't shame it
At least two of these programs have told people to kill themselves. The companies behind them support fascism. And you're *forcing* your students to use them?? I am definitely going to shame you. Because you should be ashamed.
researcher colleagues! have you just published a cool paper on language related stuff?
get in touch with me, I'm on a podcast and maybe we'll feature your study!
I do the show with the brilliant Daniel and Ben
@becauselanguage.com
becauselanguage.com
why won’t the left just praise every technology handed down from self-interested billionaires seeking only to enhance their power and profits?! clearly, they’re the ones in the wrong if they can’t get on board 😤
9yo's first response was "What? Why would I have _feelings_ about helping verbs?"
Me: 💔😢
My 9yo's homework had this question: How do you feel about helping verbs?
9yo: I feel like helping verbs are a type of word in my life.
Same, kid. Same.
#grammar #linguistics
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
I mean they weren't wrong. It's just too bad I had to fail them immediately 😅
Years ago I showed Kachru's (1985) three circles model to a class and asked them what they thought of it. First student to raise a hand said "Well, it's really old."
💀
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
What do you mean about the students things? Something I wrote? I've had positive experiences in discussing this policy with students. Some of them are clearly not on board with AI and it being forced on them. And students appreciate a clear policy (and the chance to talk about it).
Your job in higher ed isn't valuable anymore, why'd don't you and your students use the sycophantic suck up machine to invent some sources. Oh and they might melt the brains of their users while boiling the oceans and regurgitating white nationalists.
Yes 1000%. Higher Ed has sold a degree as a marker of competence and now we're just ceding all of that away to corporations that want to be paid to make things worse for everyone that uses them.
