If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.
It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
Academics, who typically teach on nonadjacent days, could help push this movement!
“Following up from what we started ereyesterday…”
“Don’t forget the quiz at the end of class overmorrow!”
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
All I want for Christmas er at studenter på profesjonsstudier har gode forelesere som snakker høyt og tydelig om hvordan disse rådene bidrar til inkludering og å skape trygge rom 💚
Jeg blir jovial hokksundværing med det samme jeg værer bare et snev av jovialitet hos den andre. Litt teit og litt flaut.
An auditorium with a copy of a PhD dissertation with the title ”Interdisciplinary English Language Teaching through Historical Literacy“, with the candidate Torunn Synnøve Skjærstad in the background
Inspired by discussions on terminology, epistemology and interdisciplinary approaches today @uniinnlandet.bsky.social ✨
alumnus
lamunus
ulmanus
snamulu
manusul
musnalu
lamusnu
salumnu
@sirifs.bsky.social 🙌
Linguists being linguists in the media 💜 (it IS funny 😄 - but seems to take a certain breed to think so)
Gratulerer!
Picture of the York city walls, with York Minster in the background
Another lovely week in York, spent on the walls and at The Norwegian Study Centre with students and squirrels 🐿️ @yorknsc.bsky.social @uniinnlandet.bsky.social
Stage at the ”Forsker Grand Prix“ finale
klar for å lære, klappe, stemme #takeitaway #forskningsdagene #forskergrandprix @susannacey.bsky.social @sirifs.bsky.social
Maybe I would be more tempted to use LLMs if I didn't really like writing and thinking, but, well,
book with pen and notebook (and a coffee mug) on a bench in the shade next to a stroller
Summer office 🌼
Utsnitt fra Forskerforum med bilde av person i hengekøye og teksten «Eksperten svarer: Må jeg ta ferie?»
Bare i akademia
(fra @forskerforum.bsky.social )
A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).
A picture of the book ”Gesture. A slim guide“ by Lauren Gawne
lovely Friday afternoon read for me in a phase where the little guy at home spends his days pointing, and personal and professional interests merge 👌 @superlinguo.bsky.social
Verre er det ikke!
A bookshelf filled with various books about gesture, with a prominent book in the center titled 'Gesture: A Slim Guide' by Lauren Gawne. The book cover features a black line illustration of a person with abstract representation of eight different hands doing gestures.
It's publication day for Gesture: A Slim Guide
If you have been wanting to think about gesture in your own research, bring it into your teaching or connect with the field of Gesture Studies, this is for you. It's under 50k words and has a nifty glossary too.
Never ask a linguist "Is that a word?" because you will always get the same response, "IT IS NOW!" 😃 delivered with some variation of jazz hands like you just won a very low stakes game show and I'm so sorry it's just part of the training it's not something we can control.
What do you find when you compare how speakers of British English and learners of British English hold conversations? This is exactly what I look at in a few million words of data, with Issy Clarke and Gavin Brookes in a new FREE book out with CUP today! Link here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
a coffee mug and an egg sandwich
back from maternity leave, sleepy but optimistic, found a new Japanese coffee shop, (very) slowly getting back into teaching and writing ✍️
Jeg tror jeg har noen klær det fortsatt sitter vaffel-lukt i fra den tida der. I alle fall kan den lett manes fram!
Zoom webinar view of the candidate and the second opponent in discussion.
Feeling grateful to be able to “attend” my colleague’s defence when I can’t be there physically 🙏 www.inn.no/english/even...
#corpuslinguistics @niallrcurry.bsky.social
Interesting! Lots of language-related early memories here, too, many to do w/learning English. I remember what the classroom looked like when I first heard ‘every cloud has a silver lining’, and the DISBELIEF when a teacher explained how to pronounce ‘vegetable’ (not like ‘table’, then? 🤷♀️)
brilliant 🤩
