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Lars Hinrichs

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UT Austin sociolinguist, anglicist, creolist | German, American, son, husband, father, violinist, guitarist, swimmer, humorist

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It is absolutely a choice.

16.02.2026 18:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 8379 ๐Ÿ” 1181 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 155 ๐Ÿ“Œ 32
Matthew Lillard reacts to Quentin Tarantino diss โ€“ 'It hurts' Matthew Lillard has shared he was hurt after director Quentin Tarantino cited him as one of his least favorite actors.

3x this year, people (strangers) have come up to me and said "you know who you look like, right?" -- they mean the actor Matthew Lillard.
Well - Tarantino just gave us (me and Matthew) a bad review, and I must say, I'm not that pleased!
www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

07.12.2025 22:47 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wilson Milton on Instagram: "OG Jamaicans, Caribbeans and West indians have been working hand in hand with the working class londoners for years without realising. One man's trash is another man's tre... 108K likes, 8,780 comments - wilsonsjokes on October 28, 2025: "OG Jamaicans, Caribbeans and West indians have been working hand in hand with the working class londoners for years without realising. O...

Not the worst explanation of how [h] works in Jamaican. Except it didnโ€™t emerge in London of course. www.instagram.com/reel/DQWLDny...

06.12.2025 14:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(S+) Blackfacing: Problematische Fotos bei einer Veranstaltung am Schauspielhaus Hamburg Es sollte ein Feier-Abend werden. Am Ende waren viele verstรถrt: Anlรคsslich seines 125-jรคhrigen Jubilรคums erinnerte das Schauspielhaus Hamburg an alte Inszenierungen und zeigte dabei Aufnahmen von Blac...

"Blackfacing" is not a word... neither is "home office" or "handy". The only problem is: clearly, they are words... just not in British or American English.

28.11.2025 22:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Dieser Satz ist sehr wiederverwendbar, gerade als zweiter Satz in der Unterzeile von der online-Version einer Zeitung:

"Wer jetzt glaubt, damit sei schon alles gesagt, irrt gewaltig."

Das passt รผberall, oder? @zeit.de ๐Ÿ“ฐ

15.10.2025 03:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

the OP sounds false

11.10.2025 16:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

Matthew McConaughey says he wants a private LLM, fed only with his books, notes, journals, and aspirations, so he can ask it questions and get answers based solely on that information, without any outside influence.

this exists it is called thinking

20.09.2025 12:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 33414 ๐Ÿ” 6152 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 84 ๐Ÿ“Œ 316

igel (selbstbild) ich bin die bergziege der bรถschungen, tollkรผhn und zugleich grazil รผberwinde ich jedes hindernis

igel (fremdbild): fรคllt aus dem busch, kullert auf den weg, stรถรŸt beim weghasten noch einen rechen um

19.09.2025 21:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

English got it from French and maintained it as a noun, with the ending that it came with. German, OTOH, got it from French but *corrected the grammar*, since -um is obviously better than -a, but it was only ever used as a noun in German too. German re-invented the story of the borrowing.

12.09.2025 19:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ukrainekrieg / Nach Alaska-Gipfel kein Ende in Sicht: So schรคtzt ChatGPT die Zukunft der Ukraine ein

Ukrainekrieg / Nach Alaska-Gipfel kein Ende in Sicht: So schรคtzt ChatGPT die Zukunft der Ukraine ein

Und wie geht es nun mit Russland und der Ukraine weiter? Die โ€žBerliner Zeitungโ€œ weiรŸ, wer es wirklich weiรŸ: ChatGPT. Klar, weil die KI โ€žรผber mehr Informationen verfรผgt als alle internationalen Experten zusammen und sich somit vermutlich ein umfassenderes Bild machen kann.โ€œ ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

17.08.2025 09:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 395 ๐Ÿ” 57 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 41 ๐Ÿ“Œ 30
The Integrated Path: A Guide to Living a Yogic Life

yogi-and-bodhisattva.netlify.app

18.07.2025 23:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
a colorful visual alphabet labeled AI Ethica Alphabet, with letters, icons, and brief explanations. Examples include:  B is for Bias with "Consent: AI can reflect and amplify unfair prejudices"; G is for Governancs with "Governance: Rules and oversight for safe i deployment"; G is for Governance with "Justice: injured indegeend If train ing snhzenic data repeordity"; P is for Regulation with "Oversight: Humans must se-powy important AI tasks"; R is for Regulation with "Guality Data: Good data prevents poor or biased outputs"

a colorful visual alphabet labeled AI Ethica Alphabet, with letters, icons, and brief explanations. Examples include: B is for Bias with "Consent: AI can reflect and amplify unfair prejudices"; G is for Governancs with "Governance: Rules and oversight for safe i deployment"; G is for Governance with "Justice: injured indegeend If train ing snhzenic data repeordity"; P is for Regulation with "Oversight: Humans must se-powy important AI tasks"; R is for Regulation with "Guality Data: Good data prevents poor or biased outputs"

There's a trend going around TikTok to have ChatGPT create visual alphabets (because the output is always full of ridiculous mistakes). I generated this one to use an example to help explain WHY AI image generators make these kinds of mistakes. It turned out even better/worse than expected.

14.07.2025 15:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 147 ๐Ÿ” 52 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15 ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
Entrance iwh with cringe poster

Entrance iwh with cringe poster

Second conference day about to begin, we are looking forward to talks by @larshinrichs.site, @heidevolkening.bsky.social, @ldpres.bsky.social, @theresaheyd.bsky.social, @ryfountain.bsky.social and Chloรฉ Thomas.
Cringe in dialectological fieldwork, Bad Poetry, neopronoun affect, and more!

08.07.2025 07:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@theresaheyd.bsky.social

09.07.2025 08:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I say between 10 and 20 because it depends on things like the variety of English in question and whether we're counting only monophthongs.

17.06.2025 23:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 30 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Einladung: Talkrunde mit Matthias Kreienbrink (24.6.) Scham โ€“ wenige Gefรผhle sind menschlicher. Matthias Kreienbrink hat ein sehr lesenswertes Buch geschrieben รผber dieses machtvolle Gefรผhl, das wir alle gut kennen.

Lasst uns รผber Scham reden! รœber Fremdscham und Unverschรคmtheiten, รผber peinliche Versehen und den Wunsch, im Boden zu versinken. @kreienbrink.bsky.social hat ein sehr gutes Buch zum Thema geschrieben - und er wird mit mir darรผber sprechen, nรคchsten Dienstag! Online! Ihr seid schamlos eingeladen.

17.06.2025 08:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 62 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4

DM if you are still looking for it โ˜บ๏ธ

17.06.2025 07:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You do realize you're quoting a quote of me back to me, right?

07.06.2025 18:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Oh yes it struck me when I first started teaching in the US. 15 yrs ago. And I still notice it. Somebody once said that โ€œthey get it from high schoolโ€ which is no explanation. I can only say that it is certainly a thing!!

13.05.2025 19:41 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Hail Mary/merry/marry

08.05.2025 18:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
New York Times news photo caption wrongly quotes the phrase by which a new pope is announced.

New York Times news photo caption wrongly quotes the phrase by which a new pope is announced.

Yโ€™all letโ€™s not forget about the accusative ending, mmkay? โ€œHabemus papaโ€ is D- material, @nytimes.com

08.05.2025 18:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of โ€œGood Luck, Babe!โ€ by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992

01.05.2025 02:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 5422 ๐Ÿ” 1345 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 105 ๐Ÿ“Œ 85

Why?

01.05.2025 06:54 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This Tender Geography by Cindy Williams Gutiรฉrrez โ€” FlowerSong Press & Juventud Press In This Tender Geography the poet Cindy Williams Gutiรฉrrez offers a series of carefully crafted meditations on love and loss. The poet remembers loved ones in a series of elegiac poems and offer...

New volume of poetry by Cindy Williams Gutierrez www.flowersongpress.com/books/p/this...

23.04.2025 17:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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SORRY. Sorry.
Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

21.04.2025 14:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 17590 ๐Ÿ” 4872 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 780 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2018
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Uhm what

16.04.2025 07:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 23 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The showdown was set up by wait what

14.04.2025 23:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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rockig?

08.04.2025 10:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I guess the four of us are packed up for the day #larslarsandlars

04.04.2025 19:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0