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@robtomerts

linguist doing some antics in utrecht | eesti keele suurim fänn | he/him

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genuinely felt existential horror watching ilia implode in real time. but the real winner for me is "the diva dance"

14.02.2026 18:35 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

nicheposting but love it when all the linguists are at the top of the leaderboard of a learnedleague one-day about linguistics

11.02.2026 22:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

god bless VPNs and the CBC

10.02.2026 09:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

my heart leapt out of my throat reading this for a sec

13.01.2026 18:30 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

you're doing the lord's work out here

16.12.2025 00:14 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

do they really put "declarative" in the name?!

22.10.2025 21:01 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

abstract submission via easychair

14.10.2025 11:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Large sign in front of brick buildings advertising Paleis Lofen as "Utrecht's best-kept secret"

Large sign in front of brick buildings advertising Paleis Lofen as "Utrecht's best-kept secret"

well it WAS

10.10.2025 11:07 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i promise to any philosopher that they are by no means obligated to outsource the core work of philosophy to a proprietary synthetic text generator, no matter what accountants tell them

26.09.2025 08:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

me with the persona 3/4/5 soundtracks with their non-stop bangers full of uninterpretable english lyrics

25.09.2025 11:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

this title lexically activates a stored spoonerism for me

17.09.2025 11:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

shaken to my core by learning that in the UK that dance is called the "hokey cokey"

27.08.2025 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Handen af van de eigen koopwoning’ | BBB Henk Vermeer: “Voor heel veel mensen is hun huis het resultaat van jarenlang hard werken”

"Handen af van de eigen koopwoning," stelt BBB. Wat zeggen ze vervolgens?

Een kort draadje

boerburgerbeweging.nl/fractienieuw...

17.08.2025 16:55 👍 49 🔁 23 💬 8 📌 4
Screencap of headline from linked article, reading:

He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse.
OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says.

Above the headline: Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Family & Tech: Julie Jargon
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By 
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July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET

Screencap of headline from linked article, reading: He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse. OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says. Above the headline: Technology Artificial Intelligence Family & Tech: Julie Jargon Below: By Julie Jargon Follow | Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

07.08.2025 13:46 👍 644 🔁 225 💬 19 📌 17

literally me

08.08.2025 16:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"vodka" was my horse girl moment

08.07.2025 08:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

I'm looking to recruit participants aged 18+ who are based in the United States and speak English at home. You'll need headphones for this study (it's listening to audio clips), it will last ~30 minutes, and you can receive $5 for participating!
illinoisstate.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

27.06.2025 01:17 👍 15 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1
When asked if he could forgive Musk, Trump said "I guess I could," but that "my sole function now is getting this country back to a level than it's ever been."

When asked if he could forgive Musk, Trump said "I guess I could," but that "my sole function now is getting this country back to a level than it's ever been."

if you're already violating any standard of decency and the rule of law, might as well also violate your own presuppositions

11.06.2025 16:02 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

by which you mean playing persona 5 on your switch 1?

05.06.2025 17:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

hey boss

29.05.2025 09:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

de wachtrij voor gratis Op de Ring tickets is terecht een realistische simulatie van in de file staan tijdens de spits

21.05.2025 10:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

but in any case the contrast between the original (a) and (b) being eventive/stative-related seems likely to me

22.04.2025 12:42 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a vague intuition that the first one doesn't "feel" posessive got me wondering if it's a special kind of possession or something for events. "We have ice cream and John coming to give a talk" for me forces "ice cream" to be interpreted as an event for some reason

22.04.2025 12:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Figure 11.10 from a book, below two simple black and white line drawings of a duck with soulless eyes. In picture (a) on the left, the duck is sitting in an inner tube, with the caption "A duck in a tube." In picture (b) on the right, the duck is sitting entirely surrounded by an inner tube, viewed from above, with the caption "A duck not in a tube."

Figure 11.10 from a book, below two simple black and white line drawings of a duck with soulless eyes. In picture (a) on the left, the duck is sitting in an inner tube, with the caption "A duck in a tube." In picture (b) on the right, the duck is sitting entirely surrounded by an inner tube, viewed from above, with the caption "A duck not in a tube."

exploring the fecundity of human cognition (from gärdenfors 2014, The Geometry of Meaning, p. 223)

16.04.2025 13:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

is there a compelling reason, in the year of our lord 2025 (or ever), for bibliographies to include the city in which a book is published?

16.04.2025 09:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linguists organizing major conferences in the US: please make your venue hybrid! Many non-US colleagues can't/don't want to travel to the US anymore

16.04.2025 06:35 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

share the forbidden tin foil knowledge

02.04.2025 16:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

wow, can't believe how much daylight we're saving now

30.03.2025 08:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

again, the us is no longer a safe venue: conferences, conventions, personal visits …

bsky.app/profile/lexi...

29.03.2025 10:23 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0