sociolinguist, stage manager, musician, string wrangler, still shoots film
Toronto
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Look, those summonings are taught in a graduate seminar that is only offered once per century and the prereq is only offered every 25 years and the curriculum committee is not going to budge on this.
I asked an 18yo #swiftie to recommend her two fav TS albums. She could only narrow it down to three, but one doesn’t have a “Taylor’s Version” yet, so I bought the other two. (my #genx ass prefers to own my music, not stream). How’s that for “paying a price”? 🤷♀️ #swifties4kamala
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Sociolinguistics colleagues, I hope you’re all, always, thinking VERY CAREFULLY about what kind and how much of your data you’ve made available to large, (essentially) publicly-accessible corpora. What about your metadata? Even anonymized and aggregated, imagine [1/2]
the kind of harms our data could be used for, in the unscrupulous hands of those who might latch on to the way a community SPEAKS as being “bad” or “wrong.” Language is always political. [2/2]
Throw. It. All. Out.
Start from scratch, retrain those fucking models from the ground up. Ethically. With oversight.
If your data set is so large that you can’t realistically know what all is in it, that is REALLY BAD.
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Shoutout to that small, very old cemetery on a back road in the Hudson Valley that beckoned to me with a misty tendril finger as I rounded a bend in the rain at 2am. I had to pull over and be like, “LOOK, I’m tired and cannot deal with a haunting right now. Another time, ok?” 🖤
goat noises are fine, curses happen
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I will simply point out that nearly anything can kill you if you’re creative enough or try hard enough. 🤷♀️
‘Everyone should have a hobby that could kill them’ - @neilhimself, ep. 495.
apple.co/nosuchthingasafish…
Hi, #linguistics has entered the chat, and we could have told you for free that’s not how language works, but here we go again, I guess.
#DidYouKnow that the English language has more words than Spanish? 🗣️💬That's because Spanish also uses the context to communicate!
🔖The Oxford English Dictionary contains over 171,000 words.
🔖The Dictionary of the Spanish Royal Academy (RAE) includes 93,000 words.
We have just been gifted with The Brodyssey, and it's as amazing as I could have hoped for.
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The linguists are TIRED, y’all. We are so tired. Someone throw the physicist a good introductory linguistics textbook with solid sections on typology, historical and socio? Please? We’re so tired.
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Nothing makes me feel my age quite like the relief of cool air blowing on the burning soles of my feet. #hotflash #onmyfeet #why #burningfeet #freezingfeet #noinbetween
OR, and hear me out, we could just let a woman have hobbies. #teamotter
Authorities have issued a warning about an aggressive sea otter that has been seen going after surfers abc7news.com/sea-otter-steal…
ALT Otter biting surfboard
ALT Otter on surfboard
ALT Otter biting surfboard
ALT Bite marks
Words to live by. What would Ted Lasso say?#beagoldfish #WWTLS
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You just died. The most recent photo in your camera roll is what killed you.
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There’s probably a story in this.
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Happy Juneteenth! Nicole is handing out truth here. Remember, any judgements you make about the 'correctness' or 'goodness' of a dialect are actually social judgements about its speakers. #sociolinguistics #alwaysrelevant
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Donald. Gargamel. John. Trump.
I am DECEASED, it’s just too good.
