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Are You Using the Same Slang as Everyone Else?wordfinder.yourdictionary.com
3 min read · Sep 24th · Are you ITK on the DL, or do you require a translator for most texts and emails? How different is your slang from friends in other states? · Shared by 56
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YES! Magazine
Accent Bias and the Myth of ComprehensibilityYES! Magazine
6 min read · Sep 14th · Expecting people to speak a language in a specific way is more indicative of a colonial mindset and less of the speaker's ability to utilize and comprehend English. · Shared by 110
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Sociolinguistics: Crash Course Linguistics #7youtube.com
Sep 16th · Language is an important part of our identities, and the ways we feel about how others use language is influenced by society. The study of the social element... · Shared by 7, including Gretchen McCulloch
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If English Was Spoken Like Germanyoutube.com
Sep 19th · Watch UNICORN TOWN Here:AppleTV: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/unicorn-town/id1634662242Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Town-Siegfried-Gehrke/dp/B... · Shared by 60
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CNBC
Want to sound and feel more confident? Ditch these 11 phrases from your vocabulary, say psychologistsCNBC
2 min read · Sep 18th · The words we use can have a powerful effect on our moods and confidence. Here are some negative phrases to ditch if you want to think more positively, according to behavioral scientists, researchers… · Shared by 241
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
AI that can learn the patterns of human languageMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
5 min read · Aug 30th · Researchers from MIT and elsewhere developed a machine-learning model that can automatically learn the rules and patterns of human languages on its own, and also learn some inductive biases that are… · Shared by 35, including Marcus Borba, Brian Ahier, Iain Brown, PhD, Carla Gentry, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
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CNBC
Want to sound and feel more confident? Ditch these 11 phrases from your vocabulary, say psychologistsCNBC
2 min read · Sep 18th · The words we use can have a powerful effect on our moods and confidence. Here are some negative phrases to ditch if you want to think more positively, according to behavioral scientists, researchers… · Shared by 241
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Big Think
7 lost idioms of the English language — and what they teach us about who we wereBig Think
5 min read · Sep 6th · From listening to your mother to avoiding friends carrying bagpipes, forgotten idioms can teach us a lot about who we were. · Shared by 216
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The Conversation
Five myths about Shakespeare’s contribution to the English languageThe Conversation
4 min read · Sep 5th · He is certainly important to English but he isn’t responsible for as much of it as you might think. · Shared by 120, including Jason Zweig
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History Today
Easy as ABCHistory Today
3 min read · Sep 6th · A fragment of text inscribed on the Mesha Stele, c.840 BC. Louvre/Wiki Commons. Few technologies are as important to our daily lives as the alphabet. But, as Johanna Drucker argues, we rarely give its… · Shared by 112
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YES! Magazine
Accent Bias and the Myth of ComprehensibilityYES! Magazine
6 min read · Sep 14th · Expecting people to speak a language in a specific way is more indicative of a colonial mindset and less of the speaker's ability to utilize and comprehend English. · Shared by 110
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Aeon+Psyche
As language evolves, who wins out: speakers or listeners?Aeon+Psyche
7 min read · Sep 7th · As languages evolve, their characteristics reflect compromises between the competing interests of speakers and listeners · Shared by 96, including Anita Leirfall
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Gates Foundation
I can’t stop playing Wordle!Gates Foundation
3 min read · Aug 31st · My strategy for solving it fast. · Shared by 87, including Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, Barry Ritholtz, Thomas Knüwer, Jane
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How to Write Less but Say Moreyoutube.com
Sep 1st · As the saying goes, less is more. The same goes for words. Listen as Politico and Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei shares what he's learned leading two media co... · Shared by 84
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If English Was Spoken Like Germanyoutube.com
Sep 19th · Watch UNICORN TOWN Here:AppleTV: https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/unicorn-town/id1634662242Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Unicorn-Town-Siegfried-Gehrke/dp/B... · Shared by 60
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wordfinder.yourdictionary.com
Are You Using the Same Slang as Everyone Else?wordfinder.yourdictionary.com
3 min read · Sep 24th · Are you ITK on the DL, or do you require a translator for most texts and emails? How different is your slang from friends in other states? · Shared by 56
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How our brains cope with speaking more than one languageBBC Future
9 min read · Jul 20th · Speaking a second or even a third language can bring obvious advantages, but occasionally the words, grammar and even accents can get mixed up. · Shared by 1272, including Chris Bertram, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator, 👨‍✈️ AA-Admiral ⚓🚀🌌, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Anita Leirfall
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our languages aren't just static throughout our lives but shifting, actively competing and interfering with each other.
The Guardian
A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?The Guardian
5 min read · From 2020 · 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 · Shared by 1021, including Mathieu von Rohr, Austin Kleon, Nige Willson, Gary Marcus, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, Michael Mina, Iain Brown, PhD, Oliver Reichenstein, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Rick King, Robin Wigglesworth, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #Abolishthemonarchy, Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Mathew Ingram, emily bell, Taylor Lorenz, Yves Mulkers, Guy Kawasaki, Jim Marous 💯, AI
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Well+Good
12 Thought-Terminating Clichés That Damage Mental HealthWell+Good
2 min read · Jul 13th · Thought-terminating clichés like "it is what it is' run rampant in everyday conversation—but they may be damaging to your mental health. · Shared by 1013
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the human tendency to take complex feelings, concepts, and politics, and shrink them into short, clever phrases that aren't necessarily untruthful, but don't tell the full story.
OpenAI
DALL·E: Creating Images from TextOpenAI
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. · Shared by 993, including Jane Manchun Wong, Mario Klingemann 🇺🇦, Josh Wolfe, Sam Altman, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, Leo Polovets, Chris Messina, Vicki Davis, MIT CSAIL, AGI.Eth | AIKing.Eth, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Ser Jeff Garzik, Randy Olson, Soumith Chintala, Kevin Kelly, Ilya Sutskever, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, дэн, Vinod Khosla, Carla Gentry
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Nomen est omenrogersbacon.substack.com
~15 min read · May 20th · On nominative determinism and the power of names · Shared by 589, including Ziad Shihab, Colin Wright
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hedgehogreview.com
Past Lives of the Paragraphhedgehogreview.com
~19 min read · Jul 15th · Making a new paragraph is as easy as drawing a thin line in the margin. · Shared by 535, including Emily Thomas, Jane
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eachers was so many years behind the practice of the writers.  Edwin Herbert Lewis, A History of the English Paragraph (1894)  [T]here is no such thing as a paragraph. That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation.  Steven Pinker, The Sense of Style (2015)
Seth Godin
Why the blockchain mattersSeth 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… · Shared by 463, including Christian Hartmann, Filippo Boninsegna📡, Tom Vander Ark, Joanna (J.F.) Penn, LARRY ELKAN, Adrian Swinscoe, simon-zaugg, Ramon Ray, Tarik ESSAADI, jorge-ferrer, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, yeon
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The reason the blockchain matters is that it is an agent of change. Just like the transistor and yes, the printing press, when an agent of change shows up, it often leads to shifts that we probably didn’t expect.
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Writing tools I learned from The Economistbuiltbywords.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… · Shared by 453, including Katja Evertz, David Papandrew, Dayyan Smith, Lali, Gutly Myrat, Esther Schindler, Rick Powell, Mariella Petrigni 🌍 Translator
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That’s why it helps to rewrite and proofread—with the intentional goal of cutting what doesn’t belong to what you’re trying to say.
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neuropsychologism: this word does not existthisworddoesnotexist.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… · Shared by 447, including tanh(mmalex) 🇺🇦, Amy Wells, hardmaru, Fabricio Teixeira, Tamsen Webster, Message Strategist (she/her), Alf Rehn, Chris Bailey, Madam Grammar, Ian Lurie 🇺🇦, Josh Wolfe, Erin McKean, David McCandless, Stef Walter, Mike Davidson, Joe Germuska, Jeff Atwood, Piotr Migdal, Esther Schindler, Jane, Thomas Power
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