@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-02-04 08:32:21
Second guessing myself bc Powerpoint is red-underlining the word "Linguistics" I mean thanks for digging into our known insecurities I guess? #lingusitics #linguistics #academicChatter
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-02-04 08:32:21
@niklaskorz@rheinneckar.social2026-02-09 09:53:27
I wonder if consciously avoiding the style and patterns frequently applied by generative AI might be triggering some kind of forced language evolution. Previously considered best practices that are now shunned to not sound like a machine.
#language #linguistics
@seav@en.osm.town2026-02-07 11:39:05
I’d like to think that I have a really good grasp of English, but I still have to look up the definitions of ‘alternate’ vs. ‘alternative’ to know which one to correctly use.
#languages #linguistics #EnglishLanguage
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2026-01-30 09:55:36
"Gender-fair language in translation and post-editing: Insights and best practices"
#linguistics
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-02-04 19:05:36
I MEAN IS MY SOFTWARE TRYING TO TROLL ME? #linguistics #lingusitics
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2026-01-25 10:15:21
I built a #bot that posts 10 new German words once per day: @…
The bot uses a few RSS feeds of German news media to look for new words.
'New' means that they're not on a list of approx. 39 million old words and have not yet been discovered by the bot itself. More info in the bot's bio. ... and please feel free to ask me anything.
#linguistics
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-12-04 07:32:36
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-12-04 08:04:43
Content warning: spoiler, explaining a joke
The headline "The Bundeswehr is now investigating, with the help of local police, who could be behind the theft." can have two syntactic structures:
1. The Bundeswehr, with the help of local police, is investigating who (= interrogative pronoun) is behind the theft.
2. The Bundeswehr is investigating (the theft), with the help of local police, who (= relative pronoun) are the persons who might be behind the theft.
#linguistics #ambiguity
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-11-21 08:27:08
On my way to the U Cologne & the SFB „Prominence in Language“ - thanks to @… 😊 See you soon! #rstats #udpipe #linguistics
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-26 13:04:37
Hello Bielefeld 👋 #linguistics #crc #networking
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-21 08:54:40
CONGRATULATIONS 💪 also to the other funded clusters, in particular Konstanz with the 8th (!!!) #linguistics related CRC in Germany. I love love love to be part of such an active research community 🥰 @…
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2025-11-21 08:52:38
Super proud that our research cluster "Limits of Variability in Language" can go into the third and final round! 🥳 Excited to keep working on this with fantastic colleagues from Potsdam! @… @… #crc1287 #linguistics
https://www.dfg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2025/pressemitteilung-nr-37
@tschfflr@fediscience.org2026-01-07 11:36:04
Short-term fellowships available for international PhD candidates at the University of Potsdam around "Limits of Variability in Language"! If you're a linguist interested in this opportunity, please contact me or one of the other PIs for more information! #linguistics #fellowship #funding #phd
https://linguistlist.org/issues/36/3850/
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2025-11-28 10:11:02
Eine Frage für Euer Sprachgefühl:
"Schule" hat manchmal die Lesart als "andauerndes Geschehen", die im DWDS am ehesten unter den Bedeutungen 2b) [#linguistics #semantik
@sascha_wolfer@fediscience.org2026-01-22 08:35:08
What‘s your go-to #python or #rstats tool(chain) for splitting #German compounds? I‘ve tried a few but was not really satisfied. Maybe I missed something. #NLP #linguistics