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You'll never become a NATIVE English speaker
No matter how hard you try, the years in the UK or Ireland, the effort in your accent, or the AI applications you might use to fake it
There is a language wall, made of accents, cultural references and seemingly illogical phrasal verbs and idioms, that we cannot jump
But IT DOESN'T MATTER.
90% of your interactions are probably with other non-native speakers. As long as you understand each other, you're good.

Neither British nor American: how Europeans speak their own flavour of English - The European Perspective
Learning English with Elton John

Think Twice Before You Judge: Mixture of Dual Reasoning Experts for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Soumyadeep Jana, Abhrajyoti Kundu, Sanasam Ranbir Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04458

Think Twice Before You Judge: Mixture of Dual Reasoning Experts for Multimodal Sarcasm Detection
Multimodal sarcasm detection has attracted growing interest due to the rise of multimedia posts on social media. Understanding sarcastic image-text posts often requires external contextual knowledge, such as cultural references or commonsense reasoning. However, existing models struggle to capture the deeper rationale behind sarcasm, relying mainly on shallow cues like image captions or object-attribute pairs from images. To address this, we propose \textbf{MiDRE} (\textbf{Mi}xture of \textbf{D…

Weaponized Storytelling: How AI Is Helping Researchers Sniff Out Disinformation Campaigns (The Conversation, 28 May 2025)
https://theconversation.com/weaponized-storytelling-how-ai-is-helping-researchers-sniff-out-disinf…

Weaponized storytelling: How AI is helping researchers sniff out disinformation campaigns
Disinformation campaigns are using AI to tell false but compelling stories. AI tools are also helping counter the campaigns by detecting incongruities in usernames, cultural references and timelines.