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Arthur Lapraye
@alapraye.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Je suis un peu fatigué du bashing de l'académie française par les linguistes.
Non qu'ils aient tort sur le fond, ils ont 100% raison mais parce que c'est une cible qui est en-dessous de nous.
L'AF est une figure de proue.
Le vrai bastion du prescriptivisme français c'est l'éducation nationale.
Non qu'ils aient tort sur le fond, ils ont 100% raison mais parce que c'est une cible qui est en-dessous de nous.
L'AF est une figure de proue.
Le vrai bastion du prescriptivisme français c'est l'éducation nationale.
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She's talking about machine translation.
October 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
She's talking about machine translation.
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Ça fait dix ans que j'ai constaté que le domaine de la traduction automatique était vérolé de la base au sommet et en dix ans l'essentiel du "progrès" de ce domaine a été l'extension de son pouvoir de nuisance.
October 16, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Ça fait dix ans que j'ai constaté que le domaine de la traduction automatique était vérolé de la base au sommet et en dix ans l'essentiel du "progrès" de ce domaine a été l'extension de son pouvoir de nuisance.
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The way we talk about the economy as positioned the losses of workers as male losses, wrong and threatening because of the way they endanger male status. But women are workers, too, and they deserve dignity and decent wages.
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N'oubliez pas: l'hexadécimal B6 se prononce «dizante-seize» sauf chez les Belges où c'est «onzante-six».
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
N'oubliez pas: l'hexadécimal B6 se prononce «dizante-seize» sauf chez les Belges où c'est «onzante-six».
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"Comment les hérétiques hérétiquent leurs hérétiques"
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"Comment les hérétiques hérétiquent leurs hérétiques"
new linguistic typology variables, languages/lects where by default, you introduce yourself by saying
- "I am ..."
- "It's..."
- "My name is..."
- "I call myself..."
- "I am called..."
- "They call me..."
- other (?)
- "I am ..."
- "It's..."
- "My name is..."
- "I call myself..."
- "I am called..."
- "They call me..."
- other (?)
every yiddish student learns to introduce themselves by saying “I am called [name]” (כ׳הײס [נאָמען]) and i am only now learning that it is common to instead just tell a stranger ״THEY CALL ME [NAME]” (מיך רופֿט מען [נאָמען]) like some jewish cowboy of some renown
November 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
new linguistic typology variables, languages/lects where by default, you introduce yourself by saying
- "I am ..."
- "It's..."
- "My name is..."
- "I call myself..."
- "I am called..."
- "They call me..."
- other (?)
- "I am ..."
- "It's..."
- "My name is..."
- "I call myself..."
- "I am called..."
- "They call me..."
- other (?)
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ha ha ça me rappelle quand j'allais au lycée en veste à col Mao
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:06 PM
ha ha ça me rappelle quand j'allais au lycée en veste à col Mao
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After publishing the 1953 paper with stolen data and winning a Nobel Prize, James Watson basically coasted on the back of Franklin's work for an astonishing 71 years with few substantive contributions to the field.
I see James Watson has died.
What did Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.
Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
What did Watson discover?
Rosalind Franklin's lab notes.
Only we spell it 'S-T-E-A-L' these days.
November 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
After publishing the 1953 paper with stolen data and winning a Nobel Prize, James Watson basically coasted on the back of Franklin's work for an astonishing 71 years with few substantive contributions to the field.
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It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
It's over: I've already depicted you as the seething broad gauge train, and myself as the smug narrow gauge!
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Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
Here's how to turn it off.
First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner
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It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column
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5.
Pour enfoncer un dernier clou : aux yeux de l’auteur, une sorte de bon sens suffisait à se convaincre que « propriétal » était « inconcevable ». Pas de chance : on le retrouve aujourd’hui dans le correcticiel « Antidote » et dans « Wikipédia ».
Pour enfoncer un dernier clou : aux yeux de l’auteur, une sorte de bon sens suffisait à se convaincre que « propriétal » était « inconcevable ». Pas de chance : on le retrouve aujourd’hui dans le correcticiel « Antidote » et dans « Wikipédia ».
November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
5.
Pour enfoncer un dernier clou : aux yeux de l’auteur, une sorte de bon sens suffisait à se convaincre que « propriétal » était « inconcevable ». Pas de chance : on le retrouve aujourd’hui dans le correcticiel « Antidote » et dans « Wikipédia ».
Pour enfoncer un dernier clou : aux yeux de l’auteur, une sorte de bon sens suffisait à se convaincre que « propriétal » était « inconcevable ». Pas de chance : on le retrouve aujourd’hui dans le correcticiel « Antidote » et dans « Wikipédia ».
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okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
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Not to put too fine a point on it but: f*ck this AI-fueled physiognomy bullshit.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Not to put too fine a point on it but: f*ck this AI-fueled physiognomy bullshit.
Down with Peter Thiel. Down with the Silicon Valley Stasi.
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Down with Peter Thiel. Down with the Silicon Valley Stasi.
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Another reason to study Sībawayh: Not only are his linguistic descriptions completely alien to a western paradigm, but *also* what he actually describes as Arabic is extremely worth actually studying. It's much broader than the strict norms of Classical Arabic western scholars usually assume.
Why study Sībawayhi? Simple answer: he will make your head explode. All that stuff your fancy Western education has taught you about language - gone! Right down to the most basic concepts. Take “verbal mood” for example. Seems trivially obvious, yet he had no such concept.
November 4, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Another reason to study Sībawayh: Not only are his linguistic descriptions completely alien to a western paradigm, but *also* what he actually describes as Arabic is extremely worth actually studying. It's much broader than the strict norms of Classical Arabic western scholars usually assume.
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This article contains the longest consonant cluster I've ever come across in a Semitic language other than Moroccan Arabic, from a Hebrew article written in 1897:
hit-ašknz-u "they Germanised", a denominal verb from Ashkenaz (which, in this context, meant "Germany")
hit-ašknz-u "they Germanised", a denominal verb from Ashkenaz (which, in this context, meant "Germany")
In a new article (open access!) I argue that the Ottoman state played a crucial role in creating Ashkenazi identity in Jerusalem - as an overarching category for Yiddish speaking Jews from Central and East European countries.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
The familiar grouping of Yiddish speaking Jews of Central and Eastern Europe into the single overarching identity of ‘Ashkenazim’, emerged initially in multi-lingual Jewish contexts. This article e...
www.tandfonline.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
This article contains the longest consonant cluster I've ever come across in a Semitic language other than Moroccan Arabic, from a Hebrew article written in 1897:
hit-ašknz-u "they Germanised", a denominal verb from Ashkenaz (which, in this context, meant "Germany")
hit-ašknz-u "they Germanised", a denominal verb from Ashkenaz (which, in this context, meant "Germany")
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linguists yearn for the cube
October 30, 2025 at 12:19 AM
linguists yearn for the cube
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C'est avec une grande tristesse que nous avons appris le décès, hier, de Louis-Jean Calvet, à l'âge de 83 ans.
Pionnier de la sociolinguistique française, auteur de dizaines d'ouvrages qui ont marqué le champ depuis les années 1970, c'était un homme sans cesse en mouvement, érudit, généreux, libre.
Pionnier de la sociolinguistique française, auteur de dizaines d'ouvrages qui ont marqué le champ depuis les années 1970, c'était un homme sans cesse en mouvement, érudit, généreux, libre.
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
C'est avec une grande tristesse que nous avons appris le décès, hier, de Louis-Jean Calvet, à l'âge de 83 ans.
Pionnier de la sociolinguistique française, auteur de dizaines d'ouvrages qui ont marqué le champ depuis les années 1970, c'était un homme sans cesse en mouvement, érudit, généreux, libre.
Pionnier de la sociolinguistique française, auteur de dizaines d'ouvrages qui ont marqué le champ depuis les années 1970, c'était un homme sans cesse en mouvement, érudit, généreux, libre.
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I present, the lenition hypercube
October 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I present, the lenition hypercube
When did it become normal to instruct people to curl some script directly into bash to execute it ? This is absolutely insane to me.
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When did it become normal to instruct people to curl some script directly into bash to execute it ? This is absolutely insane to me.
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Tu sais que le CAPES langue des signes française va fermer ?
Il y a une pétition contre ça.
www.mesopinions.com/petition/dro...
Il y a une pétition contre ça.
www.mesopinions.com/petition/dro...
Aidez-moi à faire avancer ce combat : Pétition pour sauver DTIM
Droits de l'Homme - Signez la pétition : Pétition pour sauver DTIM
www.mesopinions.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Tu sais que le CAPES langue des signes française va fermer ?
Il y a une pétition contre ça.
www.mesopinions.com/petition/dro...
Il y a une pétition contre ça.
www.mesopinions.com/petition/dro...