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Too Many Cooks in the Soup. - https://languagehat.com/too-many-cooks-in-the-soup/
“Read between the tea leaves.”
“I’m not trying to beat a dead horse to death.”
“We need to make sure dealers have some skin in the teeth"
“We need to talk about the elephant in the closet"
wonderful #linguistics #language
This week our houseguest is a Dutch friend of my wife from 20 years ago, when they gave multilingual guided tours of #Stockholm 's beautiful town hall.
I just taught her that unlike in English and Dutch, you very rarely have tea and a cookie in Swedish. Because it means to own or possess tea and a cookie. In Swedish, tea is drunk and cookies are eaten. Unless you're talking about what's in your larder.
Wie ähnlich ist die Sprachverarbeitung unseres Gehirns der von großen KI-Sprachmodellen? Und ist Lesen wirklich besser als Hören?
Darüber sprechen wir auf der #rp25 mit der Neurowissenschaftlerin & Informatikerin Fatma Deniz
#GenXYZ #berlin #festival #AI #LLM #NeuroScience #ComputerScience #HumanBrain #language
@frenaville@mastodon.socialHow the world’s largest #language family spread — and why others go extinct
Three books that take on the history of #languages have something for everyone
Three books that take on the history of languages have…
www.nature.comTO SPORT. To exhibit: as, Jack Jehu sported a new gig yesterday: I shall sport a new suit next week. To sport or flash one's ivory; to shew one's teeth. To sport timber; to keep one's outside door shut
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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As knowledge and understanding were the main subjects of last week's first #ise2025 lecture, I was also introducing the semiotic triangle as in C.K. Ogden, I.A. Richards: The Meaning of Meaning: A Study of the Influence of Language upon Thought and of the Science of Symbolism, 1923.
#language #understanding #philosophy #nlp #linguistics #ontology #semiotics @fiz_karlsruhe @fizise @tabea @enorouzi @sourisnumerique
The Bilingual Brain And What It Tells Us About the Science of Language by Albert Costa, 2019
The definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologist
Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few of us understand how this extraordinary, complex ability really works How do two languages co-exist in the same brain? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual?
@ClubTeleMatique@mstdn.socialLuxembourgish learning: Lesson 6 - chat with the cashier at the supermarket https://today.rtl.lu/luxembourg-insider/language/a/1826907.html #Luxemburg #Lux #learn #language
Grab your Ökotut and don't forget to bring a coin for…
today.rtl.luResearch shows people who speak another language are more utilitarian and flexible, less risk-averse and egotistical, and better able to cope with traumatic memories.
Research shows people who speak another language are…
The GuardianMOSES. To stand Moses: a man is said to stand Moses when he has another man's bastard child fathered upon him, and he is obliged by the parish to maintain it.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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The real #GenAI #risk isn’t that #LLMs get things wrong.
It’s that an entire ecosystem has been built to pretend #Transformer #architecture #language #translation #AttentionIsAllYouNeed is right.
“Some early examples that the team tried their #Transformer #architecture on included English-to-German translation, generating Wikipedia articles on "The Transformer", and parsing. These convinced the team that the Transformer is a general purpose #language model, and not just good for #translation.”
It's the time of year when water fowl return to Interior Alaska.
xah Canada goose
dąąxêd snow goose
deeɬ crane
dets’ên duck (general term)
t'aay chox mallard duck
tthí’k’ą̂ąy goldeneye duck
ndeɬ scoter, black duck
k’éɬttheel bufflehead duck
tuhtsêdl green-wing teal
Adamantios Korais, born OTD in 1748, championed the emergence of a purified form of the #Greek #language, known as Katharevousa, seldom used in daily language originally, and now replaced by Demotic Greek https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/greece/greek/?s=mb #travel
My suggestions for learning some Greek to make your…
Bob's Pages of Travel, Linux, Cybersecurity, and More
Be a Flight Pal, and get paid! #Help nervous fellow passengers on your flight
with their bags, paperwork for #Immigration, #language barriers, physical and visual impairments, small children, medication reminders, phone/WIFI and other light tasks.
#PalUpNow! #mentalhealth
#anxiety #Flights #...
Terrible International Flight Experience For Elderly Woman
https://palupnow.com/blogs/f/terrible-international-flight-experience-for-elderly-woman
JACKANAPES. An ape; a pert, ugly, little fellow.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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