SamuelJBeer
@samueljbeer.bsky.social
Assistant professor of linguistics, Metropolitan State University of Denver. Where does language data come from and where does it go?
Hey look it’s possible to tell different kinds of stories, in which indigenous people make choices and practice solidarity and resist oppression and overcome harm. Many such cases.
apnews.com/article/alas...
apnews.com/article/alas...
November 15, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Hey look it’s possible to tell different kinds of stories, in which indigenous people make choices and practice solidarity and resist oppression and overcome harm. Many such cases.
apnews.com/article/alas...
apnews.com/article/alas...
Support Indigenous data sovereignty and support independent journalism.
This is a good article about data sovereignty, AI grift, the marginalization of Indigenous languages, and how these and many other things converge to wreak superfluous harm on Indigenous communities.
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Support Indigenous data sovereignty and support independent journalism.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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Africana studies equips people how to connect and build solidarity and diffuse the politics of divide and rule, and this why the WSJ oped disdains it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Africana studies equips people how to connect and build solidarity and diffuse the politics of divide and rule, and this why the WSJ oped disdains it.
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so many classroom interactions boil down to
Q: Which knowledge is uncontested?
A: None of it.
Q: Which knowledge is uncontested?
A: None of it.
November 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM
so many classroom interactions boil down to
Q: Which knowledge is uncontested?
A: None of it.
Q: Which knowledge is uncontested?
A: None of it.
WELL-INTENTIONED HR POLICY VIOLATION WITH THE VAMPIRE
CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE
TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE
SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE
APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE
TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE
SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE
APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
WELL-INTENTIONED HR POLICY VIOLATION WITH THE VAMPIRE
Radishharmers comes for the linguists
All words are cognate. Just as with the tree of life, language arose once, with one word, which eventually diverged into multiple branches of descendants.
October 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Radishharmers comes for the linguists
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So apparently some idiot decided that what Wikipedia really needed more of was Nazi-positive LLM output.
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
October 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
So apparently some idiot decided that what Wikipedia really needed more of was Nazi-positive LLM output.
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
Had a look...
"Dholuo" - copied from WP.
"Dellys" - doesn't exist (!)
"Al-Busiri" - copied from WP, with two paragraphs added.
"Siwi language" - _not_ copied from WP, and a big mess...
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Here's a very niche question: does anyone here study ancient languages and has experience in the pronunciation of Akkadian words? And before a million randos tell me that we don't know what dead languages sound like, there are scholars who spend their whole lives on this stuff.
October 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Here's a very niche question: does anyone here study ancient languages and has experience in the pronunciation of Akkadian words? And before a million randos tell me that we don't know what dead languages sound like, there are scholars who spend their whole lives on this stuff.
I pretty much walk out of all of my classes smiling this semester and I’m so grateful to my students for that.
October 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I pretty much walk out of all of my classes smiling this semester and I’m so grateful to my students for that.
Now there are two of them. There are two wugs shack.
What would you call a house that a Wug lives in?
🎶"Well the wuuuug shack is a little old place where we can get together! Wug shack babyyyy"🎶
🎶"Well the wuuuug shack is a little old place where we can get together! Wug shack babyyyy"🎶
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Now there are two of them. There are two wugs shack.
Last Friday I ran a farther thing than I have run before and it was nice even though my tummy hurt.
October 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Last Friday I ran a farther thing than I have run before and it was nice even though my tummy hurt.
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Does anyone have a favourite short article (~15 pages max) on mixed / intertwined languages like Spanglish (or any other case) suitable for undergrads?
September 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Does anyone have a favourite short article (~15 pages max) on mixed / intertwined languages like Spanglish (or any other case) suitable for undergrads?
OSITA NWANEVU **CRUSHES** 83 YEAR OLD CHURCH LADY 👀🔥 | great debate moments compilation
September 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
OSITA NWANEVU **CRUSHES** 83 YEAR OLD CHURCH LADY 👀🔥 | great debate moments compilation
Theologians asking if he’d received the eucharist lately because maybe the substantiation was trans?
> the shooter is trans
> ok the bullets were trans
> ok the roommate is trans
> ok the bullets were trans
> ok the roommate is trans
September 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Theologians asking if he’d received the eucharist lately because maybe the substantiation was trans?
Having a normal one at one of the low profile university lockdowns today.
www.wbaltv.com/article/us-n...
www.wbaltv.com/article/us-n...
September 12, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Having a normal one at one of the low profile university lockdowns today.
www.wbaltv.com/article/us-n...
www.wbaltv.com/article/us-n...
To this point, I have been told in training modules that accessible digital copies aren’t available, then maybe I shouldn’t ask any of my students to read the text in question.
A serious pitfall of my job is that getting really clean versions of things I want my students to read often involves moderately breaking laws the breaking of which I’d rather not model for my students. But there are enough barriers to getting the kids to read and bad PDFs aren’t gonna be one.
August 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
To this point, I have been told in training modules that accessible digital copies aren’t available, then maybe I shouldn’t ask any of my students to read the text in question.
Bro’s over here talking about sanctimonious locutions and cognitive purity because he is a man of the people
I understand the words perfectly. I just smh at the sanctimonious self-congratulation that smugly embraces cognitive purity over actually improving the lives of people, a strategy that did more harm to those people than any supposedly improper locutions.
August 24, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Bro’s over here talking about sanctimonious locutions and cognitive purity because he is a man of the people
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Celebrate nonbinary people’s day by reading my paper on multiple pronouns journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
July 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Celebrate nonbinary people’s day by reading my paper on multiple pronouns journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
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While you're at it you could also celebrate by reading my paper about gendered morphology and being non-binary. Really do a read-a-thon in nonbinary linguistics. uplopen.com/chapters/e/1...
July 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
While you're at it you could also celebrate by reading my paper about gendered morphology and being non-binary. Really do a read-a-thon in nonbinary linguistics. uplopen.com/chapters/e/1...
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I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!
May 23, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I'm looking to chat with nonbinary and/or trans speakers of several languages, especially including Irish, Hindi, Arabic, Hebrew, Italian, Russian, Polish, Icelandic - but also any other languages (aside from English / Spanish / French). DM or email me!
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Attn sad boys come for a jog with me in the woods and we can talk about being dudes. No need to be so weird to everyone else.
May 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Attn sad boys come for a jog with me in the woods and we can talk about being dudes. No need to be so weird to everyone else.