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In the #scifi novel Babel, R.F. Kuang described a world where #linguistic knowledge is industrialized and centralized just as ours began building exactly that.

Part of what makes the novel feel so relevant in the age of #LLMs is that it captures both sides of the story: the extraordinary power unlocked by turning #language and #knowledge into infrastructure, and the unease that comes with concentrating that power.

I explore those parallels here: https://benjaminhan.net/posts/20260417-babel-llm-comparison/

#AI #society

Silver Bars and Language Models: Reading Babel in the Age of LLMs – synesis

R.F. Kuang finished describing a world in which linguistic knowledge is industrialized and centralized just as our world began building exactly that.

Zuri (he/him) ❌️👑 | 🕐 CET Apr 7

Neue Form des Entgenderns just dropped:

Bei mir auf der Arbeit scheint es neuerding die Regel zu sein, dass man bei Begriffen, die entgendert werden müssten, ins Englische wechselt …

#linguistic #geschlechtergerechteSprache #entgendern

Glyn Moody Mar 14

#Drones: The #linguistic history - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73019 "There's flying, making a buzzing noise, defending the nest or attacking invaders, flying in swarms, not doing regular or creative work, …"

Martin Mar 1

Pro poner in vostre calendario! Incontro virtual de interlingua celle 7 martio https://youtube.com/shorts/KJ4e67SM57M?si=ROUSv6-U7tPlHTOY #interlingua #conlang #auxlang #langnews #Newslang #linguistic #linguistica

Salute! Iste sabbato 7 martio 2026, nos incontra nos via Zoom. Si tu vole, veni: www.interlingua.com

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Kaveinthran (no longer here)Mar 1

@Tamasg @mckensie Maybe I am too naive, but in a perfect world, we should already get going an #openSource #linguistic project to document phonemes for every language on earth in human readable and also computer readable language. That extensible library then can be adapted to any TTS we are building. Our worry will be then in tuning the voice and way of emphasizing certain words and phrases.

ThriftstoreBarbie Feb 26

Yall #plants #language and #history peoples

I need to flesh out a list of plants that have historically been called "nard" or "spikenard"

So far I have:
Spanish lavender
Valerian, various species
Aralia racemosa
Nardostachys jatamansi

#horticulture #linguistic #botany #translation #hebrew #bible #herbalism

N-gated Hacker News Feb 25

Another day, another techno-babble manifesto about #AI #sovereignty 🤖🇮🇳, because nothing says #independence like insisting on #outdated #hardware and linguistically-challenged models. Who wouldn't want a brand new, shiny black box to proudly ignore 22 languages simultaneously? 🎉
https://pop.rdi.sh/sovereignty-in-a-system-prompt/ #Techno #Babble #Linguistic #Challenges #HackerNews #ngated

Sovereignty in a System Prompt - POP RDI; RET;

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jn (big endian energy)Feb 14

Today's #linguistic excursion is brought to you by Asianometry's video on the 45nm lithography process: The chinese idiom

亂七八糟 (luànqībāzāo)

- literally: unrest, 7, 8, another kind of unrest
- translated as "everything in disorder", or with the english idiom "at sixes and sevens"

The historic speakers of chinese and english had sort of the same idea here, but ended up with slightly different numbers!

Mudrakshar Feb 10

Get Swarakshar on Apple App Store and Start Learning Alphabets with Pronunciations.

Learn: https://mudrakshar.com/learn

#Learn #Language #Devanagari #Indic #Script #Linguistic #Read #Identify #Pronounce #Alphabet #Vowels #Consonants #Barakhadi #Letters #Chart #Education #School #Kids #Apple #iPad #iPhone #Mac #AppStore #PlayStore #Android

novaTopFlex Feb 2

Hype for the Future 94B: Syllables Required to Pronounce Letters in the English Language

Disclaimer While the American English pronunciation of the letter Z is “zee” and the Commonwealth pronunciation is “zed,” either name can be pronounced in the same number of syllables. Therefore, the syllable counts should remain consistent across distinct varieties of the global language. Introduction While many letters can be pronounced in one or a few syllables, words containing such letters could also be pronounced in fewer syllables than the letters themselves in select […]

https://novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026/02/02/hype-for-the-future-94b-syllables-required-to-pronounce-letters-in-the-english-language/

Hype for the Future 94B: Syllables Required to Pronounce Letters in the English Language

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