Vzvzvz!
Samira Verheesif only there was a way to filter anglophone navel-gazing from the #linguistics hashtag. perhaps i need a different hashtag to follow, or to look for specific linguists to follow.
EllaneThe Aussie accent is between cringe and funny in this video, but more funny cause he's embracing those vowels so much ๐ https://youtube.com/shorts/1b0ymOrXQb4?si=WrX9MzNS62pdIDy3
#Australia #EnglishLanguage #TaylorSwift #music #linguistics
Yeah nah
HeatherAlso the code-switching between talking to Americans and talking to New Zealanders. But trying not to talk so Kiwi that I come across as putting on an act. When in fact I just pick up new words and new dialects fast and somewhat unconsciously.
(As an immigrant whose been in Aotearoa for nearly two decades)
Just a few things I think about when I try to communicate with other humans.
And while I'm at it, remembering to say "Me and Joe" not "Joe and I" so as not to betray my private school background and come off as preppy ๐
Remembering not to capitalise "internet" so as not to show my age ๐
โจ Bibliolater ๐ ๐ ๐๐ฅ๏ธ AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak โ and think
"Large language models arenโt trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own"
๐ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/14/ai-language-human-speech
#Opinion #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Language #Linguistics #Computing
