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fun fact Neogrammarian in Finnish is nuorgrammaatikko

I thought papers on AI are usually engineering and not science? But I'm really just throwing around buzzwords here

why is it the neogrammarians and not the neovocabularians? serious question actually

English language intuition needed: Research into Semitic, Algonquian, and Eskimo-Aleut [has?/have?] a longstanding history.

Movie idea: set in the soaring twenties, band reunion of Karl Brugmann and Hermann Osthoff as "The gerontogrammarians"

woah

Does anyone here know what's the deal why Osthoff&Brugmann™ didn't capitalize any German nouns?

who put the OG into Neogrammarians?

tHe so-cAllEd NeOgRammaRiAns

the Neogrammarians actually got pilled by the Morpheusgrammarians, that's why they knew about PIE

my fave LLM task so far: converting text with random Greek characters to latex input 😎

that moment when you realize that you can hook up your ideas and implementations to an idea formulated in 1799

fuck yeah!!

serious business idea behind this. oh wait.

im so bad ass im using an offline opensource LaTeX editor and am pushing my progress to a private GitHub repo. And there's nothing you can do about this Overleaf, do you hear me

Today's read: Abraham Mylius: Lingua Belgica. Apparently he knew the difference between linguistic inheritance and borrowing already back in 1612 🤷🏼‍♂️

Never could I have imagined that I'll have to read old sources in Latin because there's no translation. Today's read: De origine Ungorum (1770). It's fun, like, confusing, but I probably must understand something or why else would the text keep me engaged?

writing is actually fucking fun

loving this

Latin nerds and AI nerds should get together and bang out a translation

Today I'm trying to read Johan Ihre's 1769 glossarium but it exists only in Latin. Challenge accepted.

Like, sure, LLMs as induction machines are by definition bound to hover around 90% accuracy whatever they do and I certainly wouldn't like to live in a house with a 90% chance of not collapsing, BUT if I have a 10% noisy input it's neat to work with

One cool use case for an LLM is translating old latin manuscripts to English where the OCR fuckf up moft characterf

Conclusion: "the Hindus had an immemorial affinity with the old Persians, Ethiopians and Egyptians, the Phenicians, Greeks, and Tuscans, the Scythians or Goths, and Celts, the Chinese, Japanese, and Peruvians"

Just reading Sir Jones' third speech and omg... why does he keep calling Indians primitive, degenerate and abased... wtf

worse than hallucinating, ChatGPT has a tendency to cite crack pot linguists and conspiracy theorists when asked for references in Finno-Ugric studies. Maybe worth a study.

guess the only indian food i should be making is pāṇini

long story short semantic shift is a bitch

I tried to cook Indian today for the first time in my life. I couldn't find any paneer in the supermarket though, so I picked peynir because of their clear etymological connection (like a true fucking historical linguist) and now I think I cooked something entirely wrong.

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