Tag: Linguistics

Having fun with some common expressions Curious Curiosity killed my cat. It was my fault. I should have known better. My next dog — I won’t name it Curiosity. I’ll call it Spot, or something equally boring. Dark sky I missed the Nishimura comet. Where I live, I’m ...

Diminutives belong to the emotive dimension of language, which contrasts with its rational aspect — or what Mr. Spock would call the logical aspect of language So … because the Dad has a warm fuzzy feeling towards the Bernese mountain dog, he refers to h...

As someone who has always been fascinated by the intricacies of human language, I jumped at the opportunity to take linguistics classes in university. But let me be real with you — those classes were no walk in the park. And I can honestly say that I had vastly underestimated j...

Before you come at me with pitchforks and torches for such a controversial title, please hear me out. Over the past few years, we’ve seen headlines and examples of what Large Language Models (BERT, GPT-3, LaMDA, etc.) can do — an explosion of capabilities in tasks ranging from sentiment ...

Why are we yelling?? The wug, a cute, blue, bird-like creature with lil stick legs, is the subject of controversy (the kind with lawyers, yikes!) about who can use it. If you’re on Twitter, your first indication that something was up might have been that our favorite linguist, Steven&nbs...