30 notes August 4, 2025 The Linguistics Discipline in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University have developed a discipline-specific position statement on the role of generative AI …
We asked you if a burrito was a sandwich, and you said ‘no’. We asked you if ravioli was a sandwich and you said ‘heck no’. We asked you if …
The verb greenlight, or green-light, means to give something approval or permission to proceed: you give it the green light, metaphorically. What past-tense form of the verb would you use …
Jonathan Law writes about misprints in editions of poetry; he is either way too fond of such typos or is pretending to be for the purposes of pleasing his audience, …
Q: I once heard that “jealousy” is a feeling about someone we think we have a right to (such as an intimate partner) and “envy” is a feeling about something …
There’s an expression in French: “On revient toujours à son premier amour.” You always come back to your first love. French was one of the first languages that I learned. …
13 notes August 11, 2025 This new commentary article is a response to a target article from Laura Becker and Matías Guzmán Naranjo titled “Replication and methodological robustness in quantitative …
Language is mobile and liable to change … a very large number of words have two or more pronunciations current … giving life and variety to language … it is …
A selection of topical language-related links for your reading (or listening) pleasure. I have cameos in a couple of them: I am not a typo. Linguistic capture errors. How robins …
Some interesting words I’ve run across recently: 1) I was watching Jia Zhangke’s movie Ash Is Purest White, about a couple involved in the (pretty petty) underworld milieu of Datong, …