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@fanf@mendeddrum.org
2026-01-22 15:42:01

from my link log —
The linguistic registers of Rust.
without.boats/blog/the-registe
saved 2023-03-08

@gwire@mastodon.social
2026-01-21 15:46:52

“Without America you’d be speaking German.”
At some point children learn that the phrase alludes to not being under the boot of fascism, not some linguistic objection.

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-14 02:41:15

Linguistic Cartographies: Narratives of Displacement and Belonging Through Language Contact in Political Literature call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/

@scott@social.linux.pizza
2026-01-16 23:24:09

rare good news bsky.app/profile/dropsitenews.

@chiraag@mastodon.online
2025-11-06 17:42:27

Random linguistic fact:
κεφτές is related to kofta - both derive from the Classican Persian کوفته

@samerfarha@mastodon.social
2025-11-11 16:11:33

Well this is very cool and very handy, especially as Google Trabslate keeps getting worse, somehow.
icelandreview.com/news/new-onl

@cjust@infosec.exchange
2025-11-30 17:25:35

Comedian Sean Collins describing some common Canadian linguistic subtleties.
@StandUpComedy #SeanCollins
biglaughboutique.com/talent/se

Do you know the difference between it's time to go and it's go time? Because to a foreigner, to a foreigner, that doesn't sound like any different, does it? It's time to go, it's go time, but you got to explain to them, no, no, if it's time to go, then you're leaving. If it's go time, shit's about to kick off, all right? And if it's fucking go time, there's a chance you're going to get hit with a chair. I'm sure it's a defense in court in this country. 

I'm pretty sure, like, there have been a…
@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-11-06 23:51:59

🎲 TextBandit: Evaluating Probabilistic Reasoning in LLMs Through Language-Only Decision Tasks
#llm

Figure 1: Comparison of cumulative regret trends for four LLMs: 
(a) Llama-3.1-8B regret trends: Exhibits high cumulative regret, suggesting poor adaptation to feedback over time. (b) Phi-2 regret trends: Maintains consistently high regret levels, indicating limited learning from outcomes (c) Qwen3-4B regret trends: Displays rapid reduction in regret, reflecting strong and consistent decision making (d) Qwen3-8B regret trends : Consistently high regret across prompts, indicating overthinking an…

#IsraelIsATerroristState

@relcfp@mastodon.social
2026-01-13 06:10:27

Linguistic Cartographies: Narratives of Displacement and Belonging Through Language Contact in Political Literature
ift.tt/KohR7N3
updated: Monday, January 12, 2026 - 3:17pmfull name / name of organization: Anna…
via Input 4 RELCFP

@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io
2025-11-13 18:17:50

It’s strange to watch the world ignore that it’s not just the medium that matters, but the message does too.
And by “the message” I mean both the ideas and the precise language or visuals used to communicate them.
Subtle differences in linguistic execution of the same idea in the same format can have radically opposite effects. The same applies to an image captured from a different angle or in a different style or in a different composition.
And yet it feels like most organizations and most people within them are determined to march on ignoring any consideration of subtlety and craft.
#writing #design #art #marketing