minimally?

grading?

are kids these days familiar with the anti-German pejorative discussed in McCready 2010?

people in 2050: wow, I can't believe that jerk only used 9 exclamation points instead of 10

this is why I do it, yeah

weird how he's become david brent

I think most (or a lot of) people thought about inverted spectrums and the like when they were kids. Whereas, I think they have to be taught what representation even is.

the dumbest people on earth rule over you

best thing you can do in this scenario is start answering their questions as though they are addressing you

Can the person sitting behind me on the train please talk louder into her cell phone? I missed a sentence or two.

gonna write an essay to my landlord in the style of Bertrand Russell called 'Why I am not renewing my lease'

has anyone worked out the pragmatics of "oh yeah, let's get coffee sometime" when everyone knows it's never gonna happen

He can’t remember when that last time that was because it happened early in his life and he is very old

I hope they asked you for a rec letter

*coming to the part of the textbook called 'X in the real world'*

hell yeah, this shit is gonna be relevant to my life

the candidate that's just in it for the ride

Deadline Apr 15: Postdoc, "using computational methods and EEG to study predictive processing in multilingual populations", at U Michigan w/ @jonrbrennan.bsky.social and @edithkaan.bsky.social careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

that's why I always say, "with slightly more than due respect"

"hey wait a minute"

every 10 years, linguistics textbooks need to be updated with new references. that is, take out all the Obama references and put in Sabrina Carpenter references

anyone planning to go to SALT this year?

Claude is short for Jean Claude Van Damme. Are you saying Jean Claude Van Damme does not have consciousness? Because I agree with you.

Crap, I can't do it - I can't explain how consciousness works.

feeling very jokingly belittled by this

Making an assertion having chosen silence from the alternative set.

Been tinkering with schemas for sharing language data over ATProto (the technology that underlies bluesky). Trying to support everything from acceptability and inference judgments to interlinear glossing to syntactic parses to eye and neural recordings. Discussion and comments appreciated. 🐦️🐦️

can you share what the message was?

Yeah, if I ever get to teach a "math foundations for ling" course, I think I might pull this out.

worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/

They should do a remake of the 2001 Steven Spielberg movie and get Haley Joel Osment to play chatgpt