Julia Child and Walter Cronkite for sure. That episode premise for Tarzan is interesting (and a young Brock Peters performance that I can’t image felt good at the time and aged even worse). Intrigue could be good? Maybe? Carson sounds like a win.

Captain Styles of the Excelsior in bed doing his nails

Ugh, this guy

Guessing Wheel of Fortune was at 7, so probably an all ABC rerun lineup until flipping over to Mission Impossible. The Nova episode looks meh.

Pardon me while I admire those lock boxes 😍

Screenshot of CPS Data showing that the crime rate in Meadowlark Park is down 9.23% from the five year average

Yeah I was not impressed when CBC Eyeopener let someone from the community say that crime was rising without a fact-check, even though CPS data shows the opposite. Perhaps listeners deserve a clarification or correction? @kathleenpetty.bsky.social

All three of these streams of research have their own unique contributions to make in the study of this uniquely human phenomenon, the internal and external forces upon which we will hear about today.

And to pretend that these models mimic the human ability to construct novel utterances and process language in the same way as humans do ignores the decades of inquiry into language studied as a natural science.

But to believe that this machine can compare with the human capacity to make art with language devalues humans and the study of the humanities.

Applied Linguistics not only gives us an insight on the teaching of language, but can also make an important contribution to defining the areas in which tools like ChatGPT are useful.

In this time of large language models masquerading as “producers” of language, it is ever more important to keep an eye on these distinct but complementary lines of research.

Here in SLLLC, and as represented by the range of talks here today, we can see those three pillars. Language as biological function, language as tool, and language as vehicle for expression.

However, once language leaves the lips (or the hands), it is subject to cultural forces, and can become a tool of cultural expression. We thus find a delicious paradox where human creativity gives us infinite possibilities within a space delimited by our innate cognitive capacities.

Barring extreme circumstances or pathologies, all children have the innate ability to master this cognitively and computationally quantifiably complex system.

Echoing and expanding on the words of Descartes, in the last century, Charles Hockett enumerated a set of features of language that make it a unique determinant of being human.

Language is a biological function of the human organism. The concept of language as a tool goes back at least to the Classics.

Dr. Daystrom did program his ultimate computer to reference “the laws of man and God”. Given what happened to him, it still boggles my mind that they named an institute after him

At the time, it was definitely In Living Color and Roc. But Jessica Walter on Murder She Wrote is a winner

Two Night Courts, Soap, KiTH, Lost in Space. Might be folding laundry or something during Night Court.

We never find out what his part of the plan to steal the Enterprise is. Maybe it involved some undercover work as a waiter.

So bad the collar is gone by the time they get to Genesis

I know the tweet is Al generated when they use " ," before and.

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

I’d be trying to make it to Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, for sure

I’m so old I remember transit service right up to the front of the market, when traffic was somewhat more sane

It is a handsome timepiece

If you do put it up, post a link

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It’s 47988

I know they’re trying to create this image of people behind him, but just as would happen with Singh, letting them shout from behind and derail the speech weakens the leader’s stage presence. It creates the perception the leader doesn’t have full control.