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Language Jones @languagejones

Linguistics & linguistic discrimination. PhD from @penn on regional accents in AAE. Consultant, lecturer at @NPS_monterey. Views mine

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Language Jones@languagejones
14 Nov 2024
I’m on blooskie now. The language jones. If you liked my tweets and bon mots, I’ll keep tweeting there. If you’re still here, maybe don’t be?
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What sounds more interesting: a comprehensive introduction to linguistics for regular people, or a language learning accelerator using scientific best practices and cutting edge tech (AI, LLMs, etc.)?
75% Linguistics course
25% Language accelerator
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Are we WRONG about most FAMOUS LINGUISTICS experiment?? youtu.be/cK6g53lLgnw
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It is my professional opinion as a trained linguist and phonetician that Rich Lowry absolutely did say the “n-word” on the Megyn Kelly Show. I detail the phonetic, articulatory, and psycholinguistic evidence here: languagejones.com/blog-1/202…

Did Rich Lowry just say the N-word on Megyn Kelly's show? A Linguist weighs in. — Language Jones

Yesterday, discussing Haitian migrants in Springfield Ohio, and whether or to what extent they may or may not be abducting and eating (presumably white) Ohioans’ pets — because this is what the...

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Whether he intended that word, and what to do with this information is a separate question, but it is clearly the “n-word” and not an articulatory misfire, at least not below the level of a lexical item.
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Coming back from a Twitter Hiatus to share this thread and article. I’ve been waiting excitedly for this to come to print!
Jack Grieve@JWGrieve
15 Jul 2024
I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.… A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...
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Jack Grieve@JWGrieve
15 Jul 2024
I'm very excited to share the pre-print for our new position paper! The Sociolinguistics Foundations of Language Modeling doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2407.… A quick 🧵summing up our main claims...
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It’s wild to have watched “cope” become its own antonym over the course of like 3 years
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Starting to really get into the meat of it. This Sunday, 2pm EST, on YouTube
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This one was a lot of fun! youtu.be/bQaHzONra68?si=W0cd…
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I’m not a fan of X, obviously, but it seems like moving the #LSA2024 hashtag to an invite-only platform is not in-line with @LingSocAm’s stated goals on inclusion. Is there an official channel, open to everyone, not reliant on a handful of linguist’s limited number of invites?
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We don’t want scholars’ ability to access their colleagues’ and peers’ professional conversation to be reliant on a handful of gatekeepers deciding who gets to participate, do we? How does this affect scholars they don’t already know? Those who are late to ask for an invite?
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But please @LingSocAm PLEASE provide an alternative to X! Nobody needs to be subjected to wading through the rest of what is on here to access the conversation around #LSA2024
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It wasn’t a typo! Wondering if LSA is accepting nominations for destinations…
Linguistic Society of America@LingSocAm
2 Jan 2024
Replying to @languagejones
Thank you for picking this up. We are still working on our options for 2025 and 2026. #LSA2024 is the center of attention right now :)
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Did I miss a memo about the LSA skipping two years or is this just the level of attention to detail I’ve come to expect?
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Important 🧵
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I left for a while, came back, saw that it was worse and my predictions about where it would go are coming true. Many of my friends and colleagues refuse to leave, I thought coming back might help, but apparently they like it here and like the direction things are going
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This is not another “twitter is toxic” thread, though Twitter is. I used to monitor the chans and the_donald and so on to see what was festering on the Internet before it was laundered for the mainstream. X is now indistinguishable from those.
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Sunday at 2pm EDT on YT
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For all who were harmed by my careless tweet while studying during naptime, I sincerely apologize. I have taken the time to listen & reflect, & I see gender agreement on the noun now. I will be taking this time to focus on family, and strive to do better in the future. Plz no Qs
Language Jones@languagejones
26 Dec 2023
Uhhhh…..??????
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