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Kimguist (they/them)
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[ˈkimːo] or Kim, adapted to your phonotactics :>

Studying English, linguistics, Karelian, gender studies at UEF

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maijatervola.bsky.social
Perustelut: Kurssilaisten joukossa on opiskelijoita, joille suomi ei ole vahvin kieli.

Mutta vieläkin tärkeämpää on vain näyttää, että yliopistossa(kin) voi tehdä näin ja luopua erinomaisen kielitaidon vaatimuksesta. ”Hyvä” on riittävän hyvä.

4/4
January 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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bchasemadethis.bsky.social
"To invoke #language when talking about #LLMs is to misunderstand the nature of language and miss its fundamentally lived and embodied character ... Where #AI promises magic, the most pressing need is for basic research driven by communities"

A must-read:
www.thedial.world/articles/new... #langsky
AI Won’t Protect Endangered Languages — The Dial
Combinations of characters on a screen mean nothing without agency and intention.
www.thedial.world
January 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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christaelena.bsky.social
Terveiset Israelin suurlähetystöltä.
Surullista, että Suomessa moni sulkee silmänsä palestiinalaisten kansanmurhalta. Siinä vaiheessa, kun lapsia ammutaan, räjäytetään, näännytetään nälkään jne. ei asiassa pitäisi olla mitään epäselvää.

#IsraelWarCrimes #StopGazaGenocide #StopKillingChildren
December 31, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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dmalinowski.bsky.social
“Hello,” said the multinational bank with $75 billion in annual revenue. “How are you today?”

Today’s #3adayphoto: the patronizing #linguisticlandscape of #capital and #capitalism
Outdoor sign of Wells Fargo bank in San Jose, CA, with the greeting “hello” below the company name and logo A wall display inside Wells Fargo bank in downtown San Jose, reading “Hello. Whatever your goal, we can help you reach it.” A customer waiting lounge with chairs, sofas, and Christmas decorations inside the Wells Fargo bank in downtown San Jose, CA. On the wall are pictures and square colored hangings with single word messages written in white: “Dream,” “Plan,” “Build,” and “Grow”
December 31, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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tomiwalamies.bsky.social
Mua hämmentää tämä keskustelu, että miesten ja naisten arvojen eroaminen esitetään yhtäläisenä juttuna mediassa.

Konservatiivimiehet haluavat rajoittaa naisten oikeuksia tehden silti itse mitä haluavat, ja liberaalinaiset haluavat kaikille oikeuden tehdä omat valintansa omista jutuista.
December 29, 2024 at 7:18 AM
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kirbyconrod.bsky.social
i love loanwords i love accents i love pidgins and creoles and translanguaging and dialect continua and i love the squishy humanity of language varieties being pressed together and rubbing off on each other and being not-really-different-things, it makes me feel so connected to humanity
December 31, 2023 at 8:44 PM
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linasigns.bsky.social
My take, as a deaf linguist, is that signed languages are worthy of study as much as spoken languages are -- but they exist in the bodies of deaf people and shouldn't be fetishized or romanticized. it bothers me when hearies talk about signed languages as exotic objects to access and acquire. 2/n
September 3, 2024 at 7:35 PM
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timorossi.bsky.social
"On aika myöntää, että Suomi on rasistinen valtio. Ja tehdä asialle jotain" Olen samaa mieltä kirjoittajan kanssa. Totean että kukaan meistä ns. kantasuomalaisista ei voi sanoa olevansa täysin antirasisti. En edes minä joka asemoin itseni sellaiseksi. Kaikilla on kasvun paikka.
yle.fi/a/74-20132063
Analyysi: Meidän olisi aika myöntää Suomen rasismiongelma ja tehdä sille jotain
Rasismia on vähätelty jo vuosia vaikka se on hälyttävän laaja ilmiö, kirjoittaa kulttuuritoimittaja Iida Rauhalammi.
yle.fi
December 20, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...
Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
nature.com
December 2, 2024 at 2:23 PM
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betsysneller.bsky.social
Bill Labov died this morning. I'm not coherent enough to talk about how important and influential and brilliant he was. I am very sad.

I was so lucky to know him, and I am grateful every day that he (and Gillian, and Walt, etc) built an academic field where kindness is expected.
December 18, 2024 at 2:08 AM
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catespice.bsky.social
NEW ZEALAND!

It has been EIGHTEEN MONTHS since Gender Self-ID was made available, and THREE YEARS since the BDMRR Bill passed!

And NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED!

Not one case of it being misused or abused.
Every single submission against it was WRONG.

Anti-trans activists NEVER tell the truth.
NZ parliament building with a Pride flag and trans pride flag flying outside.
December 14, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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spacyoddity.bsky.social
first use of "Luigi" as a verb that I have witnessed in the wild
Instagram screenshot that shows a screenshot of a tweet reading "if this guy gets Luigi'd then we're entering a new era of law and order in this country", referring to the Kids for Cash judge whose sentence was controversially pardoned by Joe Biden.
December 15, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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meganfigueroa.bsky.social
Being a linguist is inherently political. We know that all language is equal and that being treated differently because of your languaging has to do with the body you inhabit and not the language itself.

#linguistics #language
December 2, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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maijatervola.bsky.social
1930-luvun tolkun ihmisten puolustukseksi on sanottava, että he eivät välttämättä tienneet, mihin natsien sietäminen ja valtaan nostaminen johtaa.

Tämä nykyinen oikeiston luisuminen natsien syliin on paljon vakavampi asia, koska meillä on kokemusta ja vankkaa tietoa asiasta.
December 2, 2024 at 7:35 AM
linguistkim.bsky.social
anyone familiar with work on persuasion and bonding in political discourse or the like? :)

#DiscourseAnalysis
#ConversationAnalysis
#Sociolinguistics
layog.bsky.social Leo Gibbons @layog.bsky.social · Dec 1
What I’m after is some foundational texts on spoken discourse analysis - particularly focusing on bonding, rapport-building and persuasion within conversation (how do we do this/how can we analyse this etc).
December 2, 2024 at 11:07 AM
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layog.bsky.social
What I’m after is some foundational texts on spoken discourse analysis - particularly focusing on bonding, rapport-building and persuasion within conversation (how do we do this/how can we analyse this etc).
December 1, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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iljamoshnikov.bsky.social
Karjalan kielen nedäli 25.11.–1.12.2024, kačo tarkembah tiä:

blogs.uef.fi/karjalanelvy...

#karjalakse
#karjalankielieläy
Karjalan kielen viikko (25.11.–1.12.2024) - Karjalan kielen elvyttäminen
Karjalan kielen viikkoa vietetään vuonna 2024 viidettä kertaa. Kutsumme kieliyhteisön jäsenet ja kaikki karjalan kielestä kiinnostuneet yksityishenkilöt ja yhdistykset pohtimaan, miten karjala omassa ...
blogs.uef.fi
November 17, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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danielrisbell.bsky.social
Optimist: glass half full
Pessimist: glass half empty
Corpus Linguist: Which word most frequently appears in the phrase "glass half *"?
Screen shot of CoCA output showing "glass half full" (n = 123) is twice as frequent as "glass half empty" (n = 54)
November 25, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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mixedlinguist.bsky.social
Writing is the worst part of the job. I got a C in chem at Ohio State. I've been the only black faculty member in all 3 depts I've worked in. A famous prof. refused to write me a rec letter for grad school & another told me that I wasn't smart enough for computational work.

If I can, you can too!
grodriguezlemus.bsky.social Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, Jr. @grodriguezlemus.bsky.social · Nov 25
we need professors that are not naturals at academic writing
we need professors who didn’t have perfect grades
we need professors that went to community college
we need professors that went to non-selective institutions
we need professors that have always struggled to belong
November 25, 2024 at 9:15 PM
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mdemeulder.bsky.social
Someone recommended this book on inclusion in linguistics to me. It’s available Open Access so I thought I’d share. It features contributions from many, including the late Jon Henner. Worth a look! academic.oup.com/book/56194
Inclusion in Linguistics
Abstract. Inclusion in Linguistics, the companion volume to Decolonizing Linguistics, aims to reinvent linguistics as a space of belonging across race, gen
academic.oup.com
November 24, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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joshuaraclaw.com
Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Semanticists: is this a cup or a bowl or what
Illustration from a study by Bill Labov on what makes something a cable, there is a bunch of number illustrations of things that could be cups or could be bowls and also there is a triangle with a mug handle
November 23, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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lizstokoe.bsky.social
"'How are you?' These are the three most useless words in the world of communication."

This compelling (but wrong/daft) assertion is based on #communication myth rather than how we actually talk 🧐

And asking "how are you" can even save lives...

🧵 1/15

[Bringing #EMCA threads to Bluesky!]
Screenshot of the US version of The Office accompanying the headline "Stop asking 'how are you'? Harvard researchers say this is what people do when making small talk"
November 24, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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doggirldotfaggot.bsky.social
enough of "you don't have to transition to be trans :)" we need more "you don't have to be trans to transition !" i wanna see more entirely cis people biohacking their bodies
November 24, 2024 at 5:12 AM