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I'm excited to announce that I've now released LanguageLab on GitHub! If you know how to set up a Django server you can set up your own LanguageLab server. I outline the steps here:
grieve-smith.com/blog/2021/03/h…
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Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith
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Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith
@grvsmth
I study French and other languages, and develop apps for @TheNewSchool. Author Building a Representative Theater Corpus (2019). @grievesmith @[email protected]
New York Katılım Mart 2009
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@vpostrel His attitude and lack of taboos are just New York. Maybe some people mistake that for working class, but it cuts across class lines. I know you've spent time here.
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@grvsmth You’re taking her too literally. She’s not talking about accent and diction but attitude and lack of taboos.
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Also why he's repulsive to people who aren't working class or dudes, many of whom are taken by surprise that people like him.
Bill Clinton was good at sounding normal and like a wonk at the same time, probably because he spent his entire life code switching.
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo
An underrated aspect of Trump's appeal is that he talks like a working class dude, which is helpful when trying to connect working class dudes. Most of today's politicians are bad at this and just sound fake when they try.
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@vpostrel I'm prepared to believe that some people do, but like I said, these particular replies were very polite and factual, which is pretty uncommon in Musk-land these days.
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@vpostrel And yup, McArdle getting absolutely ratioed in the replies. Replies On Here have been awful lately in general, but in this case they're just lots of polite, factual rebuttals.
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@vpostrel Speaking as a linguist who's studied class and accents and lives in Queens: McArdle is wrong. Trump does not sound like a working class dude to anyone but her. This guy went to a fancy prep school in Kew Gardens. Working class New Yorkers can tell the difference.
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@AsadFromNYC Speaking as a linguist and fourth-generation New Yorker: I hear plenty of accents like this, from Gen X to Gen Z, right here in Woodside.
The New Yorkers you don't hear it from so much are upper middle class. That's because they were mocked and told that it sounds uneducated.
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@elmcaleavy @wkissel @jasoncrawford I hosted a Zoom karaoke where we sang songs about the future. I compiled a playlist with a bunch of songs that turned out to be largely cynical and/or dystopian, but I enjoy them!
open.spotify.com/playlist/79Czt…
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@elmcaleavy @wkissel @jasoncrawford From Fleetwood Mac, "Don't Stop" is much more topical. "I.G.Y." is a little tongue in cheek, but not entirely, I feel:
open.spotify.com/track/6bzwsAtj…
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What is your favorite song that celebrates progress?
I'm compiling a Progress Studies playlist. It feels like it was harder than it should have been to find songs that are both vibe-aligned and topical.
Here's what I have so far (I actually feel pretty good about this list) :
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#CategoryFight of the day, courtesy of @lynneguist and her talk about category fights yesterday!
(I'm a pedant AND an expert! Did you know that people can belong to multiple overlapping categories?)
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@JackLynch000 @lynneguist @The_CIEP As a New Yorker who lived in Chicago for a year, I'm so over the Chicago pizza discourse. Our pizza is superb and everyone knows it. We don't need to tear down anyone else's pizza.
Chicago, Detroit, New Haven, Connecticut Greek - I love 'em all. Even the Neapolitan copycats.
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@lynneguist Here are my blog posts about categorization, in reverse chronological order:
grieve-smith.com/blog/category/…
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Thanks to @lynneguist for talking about my #CategoryFight work!
Welcome, new followers! These days I'm mostly posting on Mastodon. If you have an RSS reader, you can also follow my blog!
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A professor is documenting category clashes (can't read the name from the presentation, sorry!). @lynneguist
#ciep2024
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Looks like the New York City Office of Emergency Management ran their flood warning script through a machine translation system, then piped the "Spanish" output through an English speech synthesizer and broadcast it through their drones!
#linguistics #MachineTranslation #NLProc
Josefa Velásquez@J__Velasquez
As a Spanish speaker, I can confidently say that this is incomprehensible. The city couldn’t find a single person who spoke Spanish to deliver this alert?
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Yes, neural nets are comically incompetent at generating language. How many examples do you have to see before you realize that they are just as incompetent in areas that are no laughing matter, and we probably shouldn't be using them in those areas?
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@DCInbox Yup, I'm in the same place as I was, and I felt this one too! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev…
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And now I think we just had one up in the Hudson Valley?
Lindsey Cormack@DCInbox
Did the Upper East Side just have an earthquake?
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@youngdrum @JessieSingerNYC I used to sing "Saint Judy's Comet" to my kid at bedtime, along with "Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Weight"!
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@grvsmth @JessieSingerNYC That's one i thought of first! but i think it's a bit complicated?
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what are your favorite real songs to use as lullabies? requirements: easy to sing and short enough to memorize.
been leaning heavily on the 59th street bridge song and i need some variety.
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