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University of Southern California: Can ChatGPT actually “see” red? New results of Google-funded study are nuanced. “Do embodied experiences — the capacity of the human visual system to perceive color — allow people to understand colorful language beyond the textual ways ChatGPT does? Or is language alone, for both AI and humans, sufficient to understand color metaphors?”
PsyPost: Incel forum users arrive angry—and their language gets more extreme over time. “A study of prolific users on incel forums found that these individuals express more anger in their comments than users on other comparable social media platforms. However, they did not express greater sadness. The researchers also found that many users were already using incel-specific vocabulary when […]
University of Michigan: Tweeted metaphors shape views about immigration. “People with strong political views about immigration can wield significant influence by crafting tweets laden with metaphors, shaping how others grasp this hotly contested issue.”
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A little think piece about something I encountered this week:
https://cmweller.com/saccharine-offensiveness/
#weirdwriterwednesday #languageuse #deception
https://cmweller.com/saccharine-offensiveness/
#weirdwriterwednesday #languageuse #deception
PsyPostLanguage use predicts depression and anxiety severity over time https://www.psypost.org/language-use-predicts-depression-and-anxiety-severity-over-time/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LanguageUse #Depression #Anxiety #NegativeWords #MentalHealth
xannaAnother little difference I enjoy is whether or not words like physics, politics, economics, maths are treated as singular or plural.
A poll! Plz RT!
Choose option for your choice, and for whether you consider yourself to use Hiberno-English or not.
"The physics are elegant" (I'm Irish)
"The physics are elegant" (I'm not Irish)
"The physics is elegant" (I'm Irish)
"The physics is elegant" (I'm not Irish)
Poll ended at .
Matt Hodgkinson@ColinTheMathmo "Just about" makes sense for something done by increments: "I'm just about finished"; "I'm just about there"; "I just about understand".
For a binary situation, such as catching or not catching a train, "just about" doesn't make sense.
"I only just caught the train" or "I just missed the train" would express the two options here without ambiguity. #LanguageUse
Leo McKay JrI’m not 100% comfortable with the proliferation of “gift” as a verb and I might as well just come out and say it.
Guy Emerson#Introduction with #Hashtags
#Hi, I work on #ComputationalLinguistics (#CompLing): I develop models of human #LanguageLearning and #LanguageUse, and I test them on #RealWorldData. One focus of my work has been on #Lexical #Semantics, looking at how a word's #Meaning can be learnt from #Context, and indeed what kind of #MeaningRepresentation to use in the first place. This work is #Interdisciplinary, drawing on #Linguistics #PhilosophyOfLanguage #CognitiveScience #MachineLearning