#language

The recording on Stockholm's commuter trains says "possibility to change" instead of "opportunity". *sigh*

#language

Luxembourgish learning: Lesson 14 – how to say that you like something https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/language/a/1922758.html #Luxemburg #Lux #learn #language

BELL SWAGGER. A noisy bullying fellow.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons

#video #illegal #language #law #classwar #doublestandard #ausgov #politas

Turns out LLM work so well is because the algorithmic stochastic nature, is a sophisticated "Chinese room" model, only the phrases are not remembered but generated.

What the #AI antagonists claim as "Stochastic parrot" is precisely how language works, how your language works. The meaning is encoded in the algorithm (!)

There is more to discover in #ElanBarenholtz work.

Here is my elevator take on why it's unprofessional, anti-science and naive to take an aggressive, ideological position of emotional hate towards #LLM .

We may in fact be learning more about ourselves, the way we #communicate, and how out #language is constructed from study of LLMs

And as anyone who has engaged with a real human before, can testify, those organic skin bags of meat can be very unreliable.

#linguistics
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In the past year I've read ~50 #books, but only 7 from the 2020s.

I was discussing a point of correct English usage with someone on Mastodon recently, and the exchange foundered because we disagreed on whether it was normal to read pre-WW1 fiction.

#reading #language

#TreeTime #TreeEditor #DataManagment #Language #Europe

Testing new features of TreeTime before the next release.
Here are three graphs of all Indo-European languages that are the first languages in a country in Europe.
https://tree-time.info

HUNG BEEF. A dried bull's pizzle. How the dubber served the cull with hung beef; how the turnkey beat the fellow with a bull's pizzle.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Reading a university style guide that recommends "eleven year-old children".

This does not mean what they think it means, but on the plus side it could lead to some wildly amusing data.

#punctuation #hyphens #writing #StyleGuide #language #orthography

by hook or by crook

https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/hook-or-by-crook

#etymology #wordorigins #language

Very useful article outlining why #animal #communication is not like #language. Getting to the core of the problem of language evolution

https://theconversation.com/animals-cant-talk-like-humans-do-heres-why-the-hunt-for-their-languages-has-left-us-empty-handed-258321

Need more profanity in your Friday? @Fritinancy has compiled a bunch of swearing-related links on the Strong Language blog:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/sweary-links-27/

#swearing #profanity #language #StrongLanguage

Luxembourgish learning: Lesson 13 – holidays and travelling https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/language/a/1922738.html #Luxemburg #Lux #learn #language

ADAM'S ALE. Water.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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Susan Meiselas captured Nicaragua’s revolution in stark,… | Huck
https://www.huckmag.com/article/susan-meiselas-captured-nicaraguas-revolution-in-stark-powerful-detail

#1978 #1979 #edition #seminal #photobook #magnum #photographer #reflects #role #shaping #resistance’s #visual #language #and the #state #us #nicaraguan

Sockeye have arrived on the west coast and, being from a fishing family, I picked up a dozen from my cousin yesterday. I did the filetting today and tomorrow I’ll bag and freeze some and deliver the rest to friends. Sockeye salmon in #hul’q’umi’num is thuqi’. #salmon #VancouverIsland #pnw #indigenous #language

Keeping up with the lingo:

I recently learned that the term "human biodiversity" is code for racist eugenics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Biodiversity_Institute

and that “Remigration” is a term 'long used by far-right extremists to describe ethnic cleansing.'
https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/mainstream-media-ignore-trumps-planned-office-remigration-term-ethnic-cleansing

#language #orwellian #fascism

https://www.europesays.com/2157383/ The Fight Against Musk Doesn’t End With DOGE #ArticleType:ArticlePost #Day:Thursday #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #Language:English #Medium #Musk #PageType:Article #Partner:Factiva #Partner:SmartNews #Partner:SocialFlow #Subject:Politics #Subject:Voices #Time:13.00 #WC:10001999

KING'S BAD BARGAIN. One of the king's bad bargains; a malingeror, or soldier who shirks his duty.

A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)

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#Markdown #Language #Natural #programming

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