#linguisthumor

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[leeeras]

linguistics nerd that isn't cisgender. call that shit transitive

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semiotics … 💁‍♂️

streetkunst — bologna

[diverse-things]

pun pun pun puuuuun

[professionalwishfulthinker]

Why in linguistics examples everybody is called

John and Mary

Gianni e Maria

Juan y María

?

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[drlinguo]

But the you remember YOU are now the teacher and haven’t prepared the exam:

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bouba — kiki

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[drlinguo]

Chomsky on “AI”

Their deepest flaw is the absence of the most critical capacity of any intelligence: to say not only what is the case, what was the case and what will be the case — that’s description and prediction — but also what is not the case and what could and could not be the case. Those are the ingredients of explanation, the mark of true intelligence.

Here’s an example. Suppose you are holding an apple in your hand. Now you let the apple go. You observe the result and say, “The apple falls.” That is a description. A prediction might have been the statement “The apple will fall if I open my hand.” Both are valuable, and both can be correct. But an explanation is something more: It includes not only descriptions and predictions but also counterfactual conjectures like “Any such object would fall,” plus the additional clause “because of the force of gravity” or “because of the curvature of space-time” or whatever. That is a causal explanation: “The apple would not have fallen but for the force of gravity.” That is thinking.

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[notallwugs]

Why did the phonologist buy apples at the store last night?

Because there were

Minimal pears.

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Semiotics ...

hmmm

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academia 💁‍♂️

(thanks @ GV)

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semantics

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