Jack Grieve
jwgrieve.bsky.social
Jack Grieve
@jwgrieve.bsky.social
Professor of Corpus Linguistics, University of Birmingham, Studying Language Variation and Change
Reposted by Jack Grieve
I have made a screenshot of the image in my book (ebook format), I have also included a map of "meow"
February 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
I assume I’ve shown you this back on Twitter at some point…
February 5, 2025 at 2:49 PM
February 4, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Thanks!
January 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Thanks, Tim!
January 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
You could never intrude, Tony!
January 14, 2025 at 8:50 PM
But don’t get me wrong, I’m glad you picked that up, Tony. Generally I spell in BrE these days but I still like to mix it up depending on topic and audience. I feel as a Canadian it’s my prerogative.
January 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Thanks!
January 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
I am very aware. It should all be in AmE
January 14, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Thanks!
January 13, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Maybe you’ll like this paper of ours. This is the preprint. Now in review.

arxiv.org/abs/2407.09241
The Sociolinguistic Foundations of Language Modeling
In this paper, we introduce a sociolinguistic perspective on language modeling. We claim that large language models are inherently models of varieties of language, and we consider how this insight can...
arxiv.org
November 21, 2024 at 8:36 PM
Sure!
November 20, 2024 at 2:51 PM