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recent bookmarks from andrewduckerNew extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.2024-03-14T10:06:34+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68556914
andrewduckeruk government languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:245165c04d67/There's a fascinating discussion in this article about who "the Celts" were2024-02-18T22:14:22+00:00
https://acoup.blog/2023/05/12/collections-who-were-the-celts-and-how-did-they-some-of-them-fight/
andrewduckerprehistory Europe language societyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3bc0b195c76f/Looking at how much male and female characters speak in the Disney Princess movies2024-01-26T09:06:49+00:00
https://dscout.com/people-nerds/field-report-the-princess-problem
andrewduckerviaElfy Disney language genderhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:7cbba008135c/How people laugh online in different languages and cultures2024-01-25T10:11:14+00:00
https://restofworld.org/2023/how-people-laugh-online/
andrewduckerlaughter languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cc3b53bf2775/If you build LLM technology into your chat bot then people will totally take advantage of it2024-01-19T21:54:19+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68025677
andrewduckertechnology ai languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d46d8c25d1a3/How is "scone" pronounced - a map2024-01-17T12:41:00+00:00
https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/111759380653933942
andrewduckerlanguage maps UKhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d24142270081/"The Fannish Accent" (It is very obvious to me at this point that there is a lot of autism going on here)2023-12-03T23:09:53+00:00
https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.sf.fandom/c/q84niLJ1Ces/m/N86jJnyVWh4J
andrewduckerlanguage autism fandomhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:823359ae8c85/Archaeologists discover previously unknown ancient language (3,000 years old, transliterated into Hittite)2023-11-17T10:37:37+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/hittite-ancient-language-discovered-turkey-b2448942.html
andrewduckerlanguage archeologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b9c7735878d6/Fascinating discussion of how "The bigger they are the harder they fall" came by its meaning. Totally worth reading the comments2023-11-14T22:42:46+00:00
https://www.reddit.com/r/etymology/s/69xribCA0Q
andrewduckerlanguage history English viaNancyLebovhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0f48942ec1b5/What are the origins of ‘from the river to the sea’?2023-11-06T15:32:11+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/river-to-sea-pro-palestine-slogan-antisemitic-2735158
andrewduckerpalestine israel language historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:be18679a85a5/This is the best write-up I've seen of how current AIs work.2023-10-06T20:40:02+00:00
https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/
andrewduckertechnology AI words language viaLProvenhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d02a3651dd44/Using a foreign language has a significant effect on decision-making2023-09-18T07:27:43+00:00
https://link.springer.com/article/10.3758/s13423-020-01871-z
andrewduckerlanguage thought viaFrancescaElstonhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:cd16a18b1d71/Almost All Research on the Mind Is in English. That’s a Problem2023-07-21T14:33:27+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/language-mind-cognition-english-bias/
andrewduckerpsychology language englishhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9851bb64ec25/"Our Dialects" - cataloguing English as she is spoke. And writ.2023-07-01T20:42:15+00:00
https://www.ourdialects.uk/
andrewduckerlanguage UK English viaSarahhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:00df2b5e3d04/57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese)2023-06-22T13:21:35+00:00
https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/
andrewduckerlanguage history evolutionhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:d54b3c258062/Number of Scottish people who can speak some Gaelic doubles from 15% to 30%2023-05-22T18:55:02+00:00
https://www.thenational.scot/news/20242163.major-success-number-scottish-gaelic-speakers-doubles/
andrewduckerScotland language Gaelichttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6bb5e0b29459/About as simple a guide as you can get to how the recent flock of AIs work. (It really is Searle's Chinese Room)2023-05-19T14:12:41+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35980418
andrewduckerlanguage mathematics aihttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:989e1a88a955/Anyone know anything about non-European musical notation?2023-04-28T19:11:15+00:00
https://twitter.com/imaginmatrix/status/1651800053256957952
andrewduckerculture music languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:661500bc63c0/Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages2023-04-24T15:26:16+00:00
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956797620903113
andrewduckerlanguage Intelligence psychologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:6d67f2c789fc/Funny rocketry terminology2023-04-23T10:15:28+00:00
https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/715385432506089472/foone-doggirlbreasts-elvensaber-sometimes?source=share
andrewduckerrockets space language explosionshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a0f643711983/The word Penguin is plausibly Welsh2023-04-01T21:24:37+00:00
https://twitter.com/garicgymro/status/1642244697656524800
andrewduckerWales penguin languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:50476d7b028a/Old* man gets grumpy about youngsters using the word "penis" wrong. *very very old. Ancient Rome.2023-03-28T08:38:03+00:00
https://www.tumblr.com/andrewducker/713023802803634176
andrewduckerhistory language penis romehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3b31519df7cd/Why I Decided to Update the Language in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Children’s Books2023-03-15T11:38:14+00:00
https://lithub.com/why-i-decided-to-update-the-language-in-ursula-k-le-guins-childrens-books/
andrewduckerlanguage UrsulaKLegGuinhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2e140193950c/Evidence of a predictive coding hierarchy in the human brain listening to speech2023-03-11T11:51:53+00:00
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01516-2
andrewduckerspeech language brain aihttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9f79d0049a23/How you phrase questions really really strongly affects the answers you get2023-03-06T11:05:10+00:00
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2023/03/05/word-up/
andrewduckerpolls language biashttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:52cb4599ff78/ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions2023-03-03T16:30:23+00:00
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html
andrewduckerphilosophy morality ai languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3533159264a0/Help, is this عربي (Arabic)?2023-02-27T12:01:19+00:00
https://isthisarabic.com/
andrewduckerarabic language computershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4a793dd17f83/If you're looking for an alternative to Wordi because you're avoiding the NYT's transphobia, try Wordi - it's fun!2023-02-23T13:31:28+00:00
https://www.wordi.app/
andrewduckergames words languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:62a64d861bfe/Multilingual transliteration corruption2023-02-15T12:54:35+00:00
https://blog.plover.com/2023/02/15/#greek-consonants
andrewduckerlanguage evolution Greece Englishhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:781d39600f63/Brainfarts, a collection2023-01-23T18:03:22+00:00
https://at.tumblr.com/andrewducker/707261217178288128/0wtm0y7xsg8u
andrewduckerbrain language oops funny mistakeshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2010ed8cde77/Toddlers inventing words is cute and funny2023-01-16T21:44:33+00:00
https://www.boredpanda.com/kids-creative-alternative-word-workarounds/
andrewduckerfunny children language viaClarehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ba669b6e558a/Suella Braverman refuses to apologise to Holocaust survivor who points out the dangers of her language2023-01-14T14:59:12+00:00
https://inews.co.uk/news/holocaust-survivor-81-confronts-suella-braverman-over-refugee-invasion-remarks-2084541
andrewduckerlanguage Holocaust migration conservatives nazishttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:254974d989c9/Suffix 'ussy' is American Dialect Society's word of the year2023-01-10T08:52:04+00:00
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/01/08/american-dialect-society-ussy-word-of-the-year/
andrewduckerLGBT words language sex vaginahttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ee4461157801/Reminder that "Eskimo" is a slur.2022-12-12T17:39:16+00:00
https://at.tumblr.com/andrewducker/703431742719148032/lvm297p3m94h
andrewduckerInuit language abusehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:89d68cfae358/In a world where everything is fluent bullshit, ChatGPT is just one more voice in the cacophony2022-12-09T21:42:27+00:00
https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-fluent-bs/
andrewduckerlanguage aihttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4e36c6990c9f/How “Wordle editor” became a real job at The New York Times2022-11-12T23:37:39+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/11/how-wordle-editor-became-a-real-job-at-the-new-york-times/
andrewduckergames languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:90f3adcd6f09/The desolate beauty of the Yaghnob valley, and its determined inhabitants, the last speakers of the Sogdian language2022-11-08T17:51:35+00:00
https://twitter.com/AntiokhosE/status/1589911272002576385
andrewduckerbeautiful nature language viaDanielDWilliamhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:481458641d74/Why some people use "aks" instead of "ask"2022-10-29T12:39:09+00:00
https://twitter.com/abrahampiper/status/1585762984759918592
andrewduckerlanguage slavery history racismhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:c38f338b675a/Just what is it that people mean when they use "Woke" as a pejorative?2022-10-25T08:14:29+00:00
https://twitter.com/lowerformofwit/status/1584462525319778305?t=wP6vL97F4MdiS6lMPrmzrQ&s=03
andrewduckerlanguage racism uk videohttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a387ef14da44/Some examples of languages younger than Scots2022-10-01T07:24:07+00:00
https://twitter.com/bodhipaksa/status/1575904104085278720?t=8WnGqGMlridB8Ju-TfbBgA&s=09
andrewduckerlanguage historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:f30616539969/An interesting quirk of English language history2022-09-12T20:46:26+00:00
https://twitter.com/dtmooreeditor/status/1569366666844192769?t=Si_vDY_XJBrk3_gQ14M4BA&s=09
andrewduckerEnglish language historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9fc94b05da26/Depluralising films2022-09-11T13:12:32+00:00
https://twitter.com/jameshannah/status/1568869693846331393?t=icXHXY2Thm0oLiCNFaeDxg&s=09
andrewduckerlanguage mathematics movies funnyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:a32a65dccd6f/How did "Steaming" come to be Scottish slang for"drunk"?2022-09-04T10:50:59+00:00
https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Steaming-Drunk/
andrewduckerboats history language alcohol slanghttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9ef7c05bdabf/And Alexander Wept - Tracing the origin of Hans Gruber's quote in Die Hard2022-08-13T14:13:39+00:00
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/03/19/and-alexander-wept/
andrewduckerlanguage historyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:86162ec4f8a1/The language of law is inadequate to address emotive speech.2022-08-04T05:24:00+00:00
https://popehat.substack.com/p/alex-jones-at-the-tower-of-babel
andrewduckerlaw language emotion lies politicshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0b4eaac5daf0/Confusing British words: a very abbreviated list2022-07-30T15:37:37+00:00
https://twitter.com/rowsterr/status/1553287260145065984?t=S-ubLdwF_Z0YeXgXpNa4yA&s=09
andrewduckerlanguage UK Englishhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:5a06e283ae2e/I have the kind of mind that just never ever thinks of thing. I'm rubbish at puzzles too.2022-07-17T19:49:40+00:00
https://twitter.com/jmeowmeow/status/1548755814332002304?t=Sqp3hrvNXJpNrzEmGXYhrQ&s=09
andrewduckerlanguage SherlockHolmes househttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ada0ba66204a/Markov Chat Bot Disaster Story2022-07-09T11:28:59+00:00
https://gist.github.com/aconbere/1982a5eb17b77817017a3da50914732f
andrewduckerlanguage communication AI technology viaPatrickHadfieldhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:3be2bd996609/Do you know what a shitgibbon is?2022-06-30T22:12:31+00:00
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/shitgibbon
andrewduckerlanguage swearing linguisticshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:681eb57519fe/The linguistics professor who was a Swahili Room2022-06-16T10:28:29+00:00
https://conuly.dreamwidth.org/3267590.html
andrewduckerlanguage linguistics aihttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:bf075aee91ca/Why can’t we remember being born or our first words?2022-06-13T12:14:53+00:00
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/why-cant-we-remember-being-born-or-our-first-words/
andrewduckerlanguage memory babies childrenhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:0bf4799b2394/The perception of rhythm in language (read it out loud)2022-06-11T09:55:32+00:00
https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/15628/6033.pdf
andrewduckerpoetry language research awesomehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4bfe814d868d/Don't Wordle - can you avoid winning?2022-05-31T20:53:35+00:00
https://dontwordle.com/
andrewduckerlanguage gameshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:9631e615b092/Mercedes Lackey Apologizes2022-05-25T08:11:47+00:00
https://mercedeslackeyblog.tumblr.com/post/685121410657566720/i-wish-to-apologize
andrewduckerrace language scifihttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2a3397aebf7b/Cell Tower - a word puzzle game. Nicely tricky2022-05-24T18:46:53+00:00
https://www.andrewt.net/puzzles/cell-tower/?p=19#
andrewduckergames language viaSwampershttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b3d7bec9a744/Chimpanzees have their own language — and scientists just learned how they put "words" together2022-05-24T11:29:32+00:00
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/22/chimpanzees-have-their-own-language--and-scientists-just-learned-how-they-put-words-together/
andrewduckerviaNancyLebov chimpanzees languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:8fda705081cd/How words are made2022-05-22T18:56:28+00:00
https://twitter.com/garicgymro/status/1528410503399227393?t=-SOBcM71PjKHShrq2hxM4g&s=09
andrewduckerlanguagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:89fc009170d8/Transphobes are the ones making up new definitions2022-05-19T08:04:37+00:00
https://twitter.com/HickeyWriter/status/1527062418425319424?t=E_qbikisHNbuYuYIMLhkYg&s=09
andrewduckerlanguage transgender LGBT bigotryhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:1e8cb0f50c4f/How to Professionally Say2022-05-01T18:51:30+00:00
https://howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com/
andrewduckerbusiness language advicehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:b1931b59b12a/Taking TikTok by storm with the Scots language2022-04-30T15:38:20+00:00
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-61192120?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
andrewduckerlanguage Scotlandhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:4b4a61578352/A.I. Is Mastering Language. Should We Trust What It Says? Does it understand? And what does that mean?2022-04-17T22:16:58+00:00
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/magazine/ai-language.html?smid=tw-share
andrewduckerlanguage aihttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:2be67d61aee6/Waffle - Wordle meets crosswords. Kinda.2022-04-15T12:00:53+00:00
https://wafflegame.net/
andrewduckergames languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:070a9761673c/Wordle's official WordleBot analysis make me feel even more foolish2022-04-11T18:22:51+00:00
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/wordles-official-wordlebot-analysis-make-me-feel-even-more-foolish
andrewduckergames languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:50d3e6f7bb3f/Anyone I know looking for an awesome name for a child?2022-04-10T17:28:41+00:00
https://twitter.com/rachy_/status/1513058355488559105?t=_tki7bJZQWnyHz8PdSg1qQ&s=09
andrewduckernames StarWars funny Spain peru languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:ca15a5d5d765/What happens in your dog’s brain when you speak2022-04-10T06:18:46+00:00
https://www.science.org/content/article/here-s-what-happens-your-dog-s-brain-when-you-speak
andrewduckerdogs brain languagehttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:66b1a6075650/Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music naming2022-04-03T16:49:29+00:00
https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases-to-consider-when-dealing-with-music.html
andrewduckernames music language technologyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:74d47a68f428/Translating slang to business speak and vice versa2022-04-02T11:22:29+00:00
https://twitter.com/MeanestTA/status/1509936432625897474?t=Jj5Q_-s42l7T6onqupyydQ&s=09
andrewduckerslang business language funny viaPatrickHadfieldhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:88a7a4d7efb4/Different word orders for different languages, illustrated2022-03-24T06:08:36+00:00
https://andrewducker.tumblr.com/post/679583995355332608/feralgoblintea-chokopan-theanishimori
andrewduckerlanguage visualisationhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:17d2ba585ad0/British Sign Language set for legal recognition2022-03-19T07:44:56+00:00
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-sign-language-legislation-bill-b2038968.html
andrewduckerUK sign language communication deafnesshttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:592df619a5bf/I love these threads where people compare different names for the same thing in different places2022-03-11T21:34:22+00:00
https://twitter.com/CasparSalmon/status/1502261488991539201?t=1NdCfgwCuAKTL7_qxfJE8Q&s=09
andrewduckersatire language English funnyhttps://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/b:27df0f9de8ff/