is that a japanese bus

linguistics, activate!

the answer is to gently soak all of these devices in salt water for 72 hours

yeah yeah it's not art these days it's LLMs. and these assistant boxes are maybe different. but they're all bullshit

It’s dog whistling. When ever Trump or Republicans and at this point Dems or Leftists

Want to flex power

They find a way of attacking Blackness

Black people, women, or perceived moral authority,

People won’t actually admit

But they mean beyond “DEI”

They are saying the Pope sounds Black

I Sound Like a Scholar YouTube video by The Language & Life Project

this is very very nice www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjfC...

Article (from AMERICAN EDUCATOR!) about how to use AU in classrooms by head of the American Federation of Teachers, the disgraceful Randi Weingarten, who says: "No matter how you feel about AI, its use is growing more widespread and it's important that educators understand how they could integrate it as a tool in their classrooms. Hear from three educators who have been experimenting with AI in this American Educator article"

Love to see the head of a major teacher's union coming out in favor of the most anti-labor, anti-educational technology to appear this century

L'analyse de la traduction comme manifestation de la domination linguistique pointe aussi vers la possibilité de voir en elle une « force de résistance ». «Il n'y a, écrit ainsi Pascale Casanova, qu'une seule façon de lutter efficacement contre une langue domi-nante, c'est d'adopter une position "athée" et, donc, de ne pas croire au prestige de cette langue, d'être persuadé de l'arbitraire total de sa domination et de son autorité.»

"There's only one way to effectively fight against a dominant language: to take an 'atheist' position and thus to not *believe* in the prestige of that language, to be convinced of the total arbitrariness of its domination and authority."

verbomancy (derogatory)

🩵♿️💙
crip coded communication

How do we break that chain? How do we bury that whole way of thinking?

"If you talk/write that way in the real world, you won't get a job. I need to correct you now for your own good."
Go back.
"I'm can't hire someone who talks/writes that way because my customers/clients will leave."
Go back.
"I'm not going to pay for services from someone who talks/writes that way."

@attie.ai, for those who wanna press the funny buttons too

Dear #NoKings and #language friends:

Do you have photos of #multilingual protest signs (at least partially in a language other than English) from any U.S.-based No Kings rally yesterday? I’m doing a small project and would be grateful for any examples 🙏🏻

#AcademicSky #LinguisticLandscape

I wrote an article called "Conquered Primitives Have No Written Language" which shows how this kind of backlash against Indigenous languages is part of genocidal ideologies and practices. The appeal to 'common sense' here is simply a fig-leaf for a pro-genocide stance.

Man idk feels like it should be bigger news that the guy running a bunch of Border Patrol operations was planning an ethnic cleansing of non-white people from the US

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

crisped rice 👉 Rice Krispies
flaked corn 👉 Corn Flakes
looped fruit 👉 Froot Loops
puffed cocoa 👉 Cocoa Puffs
nutted grapes 👉 Grape-Nuts
jacked apples 👉 Apple Jacks

I'm so close to cracking the cereal-naming schema I can taste it

Screenshot of a Facebook post from “The Language Nerds” stating that no English word ends with the letter “v” and challenging readers to prove it wrong. In the comments, one person suggests “Molotov,” another responds that it is not an English word, and a third argues that it is, comparing it to words borrowed from Norman French.

This exchange shows dominant conceptualizations of how language works. Calling Molotov not really English reflects linguistic purism tied to the family tree model linguistics helped build alongside race science. Maybe we need better metaphors that capture how messy and connected language actually is

Grammarly started telling my kids to use the contraction “amn’t” for “am not” earlier this school year.

calvin's dad record meme.

wisdom sourced from allegedly-human @ tumblr

"remove friction" is how you get slop

Com sona “t’estimo” en 23 dialectes de l’alemany suís?

Aquí ho podeu sentir:

Opinion: Closing the Alaska Native Language Center ends more than a program — it weakens language revitalization The planned closure of the language center threatens decades of work preserving one of the world’s most diverse linguistic landscapes.

Closing the Alaska Native Language Center ends more than a program — it weakens language revitalization

By Gary Holton

www.adn.com/opinions/202...

yes !! that's part of the task, look at what ppl are already doing. shoulda mentioned!

to me, its daylight savings and will not change :)

to you, daylight saving. ok :) yay :)

anyway only with the scale of the problem in clear view can we start developing effective and relevant strategies. until then every intervention is partial, temporary, or even counterproductive

to get rid of standardization we would kind of need to remake society entirely! we'd need totally new norms for interaction, and we'd need to put our whole weight behind doing proper accessibility!

our projects have failed because we have not imagined the radically different world that would be a world without language oppression. "just let them talk, stop being mean!" do we even *begin to understand* how much this world's veins and bones are built out of language standardization and stigma

it would be a joyful and kind and neighborly new world, but it would be a radically different world. it is a world we need to imagine if we want to actually win. otherwise we are taking steps without having a destination in mind!