#Linguistics

Sarah

coolcurrybooks

I've got things to do today, but I'm going to try to share some thoughts I've been having about queer identity labels, definitions, and specifically the word "lesbian." Essentially, I

Anna Rogers

annargrs

In festiveangst news: SuperGLUE is officially "solved". Twice.Not sure if 0.7% improvement over T5 means NLP got radically better. But it IS a mental goalpost: we're now back to defining

Nick Enfield

njenfield

Is handwriting on the decline? If so, does it matter? Thread: I just spoke to a television news producer about doing an interview for a story he was putting together.

Tom Pepinsky

TomPepinsky

Burma or Myanmar? What's the difference? Does it matter? A thread on political linguistics in Southeast Asia First, what's the difference between "Burma" and "Myanmar"? You might be surprised

JIm Jacques

JacquesJIm

I am going to try an explanatory linguistics thread in the spirit of the brilliant @DannyBate4. Why do we say “Julius Caesar” the way we do in English? The Romans

DeadTOm

deadtom

Noticed that the newest #Missing411 is available on Youtube. I watched the first one, twice, and was unable find anything unusual about any of the cases. I watched about a

Jan Murphy

packrat74

#genealogy Other people may say differently, but here's my two cents. Put the idea of "fixing the incorrect info" out of your mind. I'll explain below. /1https://twitter.com/PJGenealogist/status/1327750866800177153 I would

Matt Spike

matspike

AHEM. Formalists don't even formalise anymore and what the hell kind of set theory does merge come from anyway; functionalists are wildly unconstrained and throw just so stories around like

Yunus Şahin

herrbokologist

Important points and all are related to the competence/performance distinction, I think. Chomsky's view on linguistic theory and "how to study language" resembles Marr's computational level. So it's highly abstract.

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

No human currently living has any experience actually organizing a vaccine rollout for a new virus and there is no empirical test case of prior examples we can study, so

Gareth Roberts would love to be vaccinated

garicgymro

A fun bit of historical linguistics as we think of relatives who can and can’t be with us in the holiday season: The Welsh for uncle is ewythr. Do you

Jennifer Michelle Greenberg 🦌

JennMGreenberg

I hope they catch him. If he's still alive, he'd be in his 70's or 80's. He's clearly intelligent, yet he chooses to misspell words and sound crazy. I'd guess

Hamish Chalmers

hwc001

Fair question. So, let’s see if I can address it. (Big) Thread. 1/45https://twitter.com/PonderingPanda6/status/1340893864798896128 Let’s start with a reminder of the nature of the complaints that Len was getting, and my

Living in Laa-Laa land

montygomery2020

#lockdown2021 This is Biff.This is Chip.This is Biff and Chip's homework.Biff and Chip are required to write down ten examples of fronted adverbials.Biff and Chip have not a fucking clue

John Taylor

realJohn_Taylor

What George Orwell got right (and wrong) about language. A thread.If I weren't a Latter-day Saint I'd be drunk right now, maybe.1/24 2/24 It's late and I'm reminiscing about the

Peaceful Oneness

PeacefulOneness

Got interactive reality framework designed and implemented via Kundalini Calling it KundalinkIt works on the holographic principle and anyone can access it in hyperspace provided you have authorisation onto that

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