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How to read an app crit
kiwihellenist.blogspot.com
~11 min read · May 23rd · If you're examining how reliable an ancient or mediaeval text is, the app crit is your best friend. But reading it takes practice.
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The Guardian
Why do people, like, say, like so much?
The Guardian
8 min read · May 15th · Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is an indicator of, like, intelligence
rogersbacon.substack.com
Nomen est omen
rogersbacon.substack.com
~15 min read · May 20th · On nominative determinism and the power of names
Literary Hub
The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language
Literary Hub
4 min read · May 11th · For Carolyn Forche, because she asked. “This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful.” –Oksana Zabuzhko * “We must thank fate (and the author’s thirst…
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rogersbacon.substack.com
Nomen est omen
rogersbacon.substack.com
~15 min read · May 20th · On nominative determinism and the power of names
The Guardian
Why do people, like, say, like so much?
The Guardian
8 min read · May 15th · Saying the word ‘like’ has long been seen as a sign of laziness and stupidity. But its use is actually richly nuanced, goes back to Shakespearean times, and is an indicator of, like, intelligence
The New Yorker
How to Use (or Not Use) a Hyphen
The New Yorker
1 min read · Apr 25th · Plus: a brief digression into why The New Yorker hyphenates “teen-ager.”
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are.na
Notes on “Taste” — Are.na
are.na
7 min read · May 10th · Are.na is a platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge.
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kiwihellenist.blogspot.com
How to read an app crit
kiwihellenist.blogspot.com
~11 min read · May 23rd · If you're examining how reliable an ancient or mediaeval text is, the app crit is your best friend. But reading it takes practice.
Reader View · Shared by 126
Aeon+Psyche
The journeys taken by emotion words shape our inner lives
Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · May 4th · Changes to the meanings of euphoria, enthusiasm and ecstasy over time chart the ever-shifting territory of the emotions
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toneofvoice.substack.com
The CIA
toneofvoice.substack.com
5 min read · May 14th · This is what really, really serious sounds like.
The Atlantic
Why People Can’t Stop Adding lol to Texts
The Atlantic
3 min read · May 2nd · It makes virtual communication feel more human.
The Christian Science Monitor
Language lesson: A professor learns the power of praise
The Christian Science Monitor
4 min read · May 4th · When a professor signed up to take an introductory Arabic class, he learned a bonus lesson: how to become a better teacher.
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Literary Hub
The Russian War on Ukraine Has Always Been a War on Its Language
Literary Hub
4 min read · May 11th · For Carolyn Forche, because she asked. “This is what power really is: the privilege of ignoring anything you might find distasteful.” –Oksana Zabuzhko * “We must thank fate (and the author’s thirst…
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The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?
The Guardian
5 min read · 2020-09-08 · We asked GPT-3, OpenAI’s powerful new language generator, to write an essay for us from scratch. The assignment? To convince us robots come in peace
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OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from Text
OpenAI
20+ min read · 2021-01-05 · We’ve trained a neural network called DALL·E that creates images from text captions for a wide range of concepts expressible in natural language.
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Seth Godin
Why the blockchain matters
Seth Godin
4 min read · 2021-05-10 · But first, let’s understand some words… Bitcoin is not the blockchain. If the blockchain is a printing press, Bitcoin is a kind of paper money. There are countless things that one can do with a pri…
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Vulture
Why Do Corporations Speak the Way They Do?
Vulture
~16 min read · From 2020 · Literary critic Molly Young offers a witty dissection of how today’s businesses – especially start-ups, creative firms and online companies – spawn nonsense corporate slanguage and self-deluded gibberish. Young’s keen ear and sharp tongue will provide relief and amusement to anyone who’s endured a meeting replete with nonsense terminology, such as “parallel-pathing, growth hacking, upleveling” and “blitzscaling.”
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thisworddoesnotexist.com
neuropsychologism: this word does not exist
thisworddoesnotexist.com
1 min read · From 2020 · 1. psychiatry or mental illness as distinguished from schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other forms of mental disturbance because of the impairment of the normal development of consciousness. 2. a…
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The New Yorker
The Computers Are Getting Better at Writing
The New Yorker
4 min read · 2021-04-30 · Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed.
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builtbywords.substack.com
Writing tools I learned from The Economist
builtbywords.substack.com
6 min read · 2021-04-05 · I learned writing from The Economist. Back home, it wasn’t easy to learn English. No one in my social circle was fluent in the language and I couldn’t afford a private tutor. The best I could do was…
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Aeon+Psyche
Why is the English spelling system so weird and inconsistent?
Aeon+Psyche
~13 min read · 2021-07-26 · Why is English spelling so weird and unpredictable? Don’t blame the mix of languages; look to quirks of timing and technology
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3quarksdaily.com
You Don’t Think in Any Language
3quarksdaily.com
8 min read · Jan 17th · by David J. Lobina (This is Part 2 of a brand new series of post, this time about the relationship between language and thought; Part 1 is here) A provocative title, perhaps, and perhaps also…
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