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Russell Lee-Goldman
@rleegoldman.bsky.social
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He/him. Language learning (CJK), linguist, Wheel of Time enthusiast.
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Hey cool Google’s chatbot has little context-prompted language lessons. It can tell you to tell students things like “you must cheat.”
Screenshot of Gemini’s language lessons instructing someone to say “カンニングをしなければなりません, which means “you must cheat.”
May 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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And there are little black and white portraits/artwork inside as well! This one has an illustration of a forsaken, a shadowspawn army, Lan, Moiraine, Carridin, and Leya.
Opening pages of a Japanese translation of The Dragon Reborn, featuring an illustration of a forsaken, dark army, Lan, Moiraine, Carridin, and Leya.
April 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Just personal style or saidin vs saidar methods of traveling?

#WotSkies #WoTShowSpoilers
Closeup of Lanfear’s gateway weave, with a circle/spiral motif Closeup of Sammael’s gateway weave, with a triangle motif
March 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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I very briefly glanced at this ad and thought it said “7 ways to stop working with LLM” and I thought yes, finally! A relevant ad! Oh well.
Advertisement from Fisher Investments. “7 ways to stop working with $1M”
January 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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I appreciate the idea, but…this looks kind of gross?
A box of Bluey cereal on a grocery store shelf. The cereal looks like little corn puffs with a light blue greenish powder.
January 8, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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Wait has anyone noticed this yet? The YouTube thumbnails for all the teasers/trailers have Moiraine, but for the S3 teaser, she’s upside down. Signaling something?!?!

#TheWheelOfTime #WotSkies
S1 teaser: Moiraine faces us, about to remove her hood Moiraine faces us, standing before the Amyrlin in the white tower Moiraine faces slightly to the side, looking “behind us” at something in the Cairhein foregate Moiraine, appearing upside down but possibly floating or falling, dazed or possibly not perceiving anything
December 13, 2024 at 7:30 AM
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This week in things that make me remember Mom fondly, a mortar and pestle that she used to use (tbh I’m not sure for what!). Today I used it to grind spices for chai.

(This month marks 20 years since she passed away.)
A mortar and pestle. The bowl is ceramic and brown and tan. The pestle is a simple tapered wooden dowel
November 13, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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Surprisingly easy?

Introduce yourself with:
One book 📚
One movie 🎥
One album 💿
One TV show 📺
The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan The Princess Bride Blue Blood by X (X Japan) Star Trek: The Next Generation
November 13, 2024 at 7:47 PM
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Not sure if it’s for me but I do need to listen to more Paula Abdul.
Opposites Attract by Paula Abdul
November 5, 2024 at 6:40 AM
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In case you're looking for an example of noun-noun compound ambiguity. #linguistics
A screenshot of Pinterest search results for the query "colored pencil holder". One image shows colored-pencil-shaped containers filled with miscellaneous stationery. Another image shows cubical containers holding colored pencils.
October 30, 2024 at 6:14 PM
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Okay it’s either the 70s or Generative Semantics but it produced some absolutely brazen footnotes, like this one.

(JR Ross 1975, “Where to do things with words”)

#linguistics
One argument that slifting, or some rule functionally equivalent to it, is involved in the production of sentences, such as (27) – that is, that (27) cannot be a remote structure – will be developed in footnote 16 in connection with examples like (35B).
September 20, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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I'm being trolled, I guess!
a chat with gemini. I ask about the best cutting board for cutting popcorn. It tells me I don't need to do that. I respond, "Who are you to say I don't need to? I in fact do need to." It responds with a canned message describing who it is: "I'm Gemini Advanced, giving you access to..."
September 18, 2024 at 6:01 AM
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Anyway this was hilarious. It was quizzing me on the origins of the word “chōchō”, butterfly.
A screenshot of an interaction with Gemini. Me: each part means butterfly Gemini: Actually, that's not quite right. While the word "chocho" does mean "butterfly," each part of the word has its own meaning: Cho: This part means "butterfly." Cho: This part also means "butterfly"! So, "chōchō" is a compound word that repeats the same meaning for emphasis. This is a common feature in Japanese.
September 6, 2024 at 6:32 AM
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"one of the most horrible for it plants" is an amazing structure. #linguistics
tweet reading: "a little handiwork" being the complex grafting technique on one of the most horrible for it plants (in the actual tweet, it says "planrs", not "plants")
May 14, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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And in contrast, this! #linguistics
A tweet from kelseyhuse30: “Dating has been pretty difficult since I realized I want to find someone who if I were in a relationship with, I could pray with.”
March 4, 2024 at 2:10 PM
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It’s a miracle!!!

(I.e., baby slept through the night!)
Screenshot of an app showing 6 hours between baby feedings.
December 4, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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New -ee noun just dropped - I think it’ll be hard to top this one!
Screenshot of a tweet with the phrase “I’ll embrace this trend fully when Magic is the crossover and not the crossovee.”
October 27, 2023 at 6:43 AM