Linguist in industry and former Asst Professor. Tweets don't represent my employer. Tweets about linguistics, language, tennis, video games, etc. He/him 🏳️🌈
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"Estonian and Finnish show that hybrid agreement is structural" is set to appear in the WCCFL 39 proceedings (assuming all goes well).
LingBuzz: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/006033
OSF (including supplemental materials w/ data on verbs): doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/9TYG…
Comments welcome!
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1) As @WVU_Worldlangfaculty, students’ right to quality education is always our priority, so prior to our appeal on 8/25, we sent a survey to 2,640 students who are currently enrolled in our UG classes. 1,755 answered. Full report point: worldlanguages.wvu.edu/about 👇thread
I love Link's aggressive use of echo questions in TotK
NPC: We need to try to rescue Zelda from the other regions.
Link: Zelda?
NPC: Yes, somebody saw her and she flew away.
Link: Other regions?
NPC: Yes, we saw her in the other regions
Absolutely obsessed with this completely non-accessible map of parking locations in Napa, CA. Which VERY similar shade of purple are you looking for?
(also get it? purple bc grapes)
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That is, people have tried refutation in print, they've tried addressing the "merits" of arguments, they've tried pointing out the harms and the bad faith of it all and still nothing changes. So the only recourse left is literally deplatforming bigots.
I could have said this earlier, but I'm coming to the #EACL meeting in Dubrovnik! Not presenting, just attending. My first computational linguistics conference— another first for this second phase of my career as a linguist. If you're there, say hi! 😺
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It's been 20 years, time for a new DUDE survey. Please share widely!
pitt.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/f…
I have not really played around with GPT's coding abilities yet, but I tried it tonight. I asked it to write a function that cleans emails that have line breaks in the middle of sentences (but preserves other line breaks). Every time, it writes code that preserves all line breaks
Finished revisions on what is either the last or second-to-last generative linguistics paper I ever write (or in this case, co-write). Friends, it's not because I don't love it— it's because it takes too much of what is now certainly personal time.
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I don't know if I'll ever truly organize my thoughts on this, but let's also normalize and destigmatize non-industry jobs post-academia.
Like, I'm so much happier not sitting in front of a computer or at a desk.
Hi, friends! Inspired by recent discussions, I decided to tell the story of me leaving my academic position (3.5 years ago) in a little more detail. My story fits in with the "You can just choose to leave" strand of quit lit morphosyntax.org/general/how…
A quote from a UCSC faculty member that I sometimes think about: "You don't have to love it; you just have to love it more than anything else."
In grad school, this gave me comfort somehow?? Like when it was annoying or hard, I'd just go "oh, don't have to love it!"
