Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith

I study French and other languages, and develop apps for @TheNewSchool. Author Building a Representative Theater Corpus (2019). @grievesmith @[email protected]

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

I'm excited to announce that I've now released LanguageLab on GitHub! If you know how to set up a Django server you can set up your own LanguageLab server. I outline the steps here:

https://t.co/0nyop7KGcZ

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@vpostrel His attitude and lack of taboos are just New York. Maybe some people mistake that for working class, but it cuts across class lines. I know you've spent time here.

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@vpostrel I'm prepared to believe that some people do, but like I said, these particular replies were very polite and factual, which is pretty uncommon in Musk-land these days.

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@vpostrel And yup, McArdle getting absolutely ratioed in the replies. Replies On Here have been awful lately in general, but in this case they're just lots of polite, factual rebuttals.

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@vpostrel Speaking as a linguist who's studied class and accents and lives in Queens: McArdle is wrong. Trump does not sound like a working class dude to anyone but her. This guy went to a fancy prep school in Kew Gardens. Working class New Yorkers can tell the difference.

[Ben Rosen @ben_rosen]

if you’re IN line to vote, STAY IN LINE, and if you’re ON line to vote you’re from New York City baby best city in the world

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@AsadFromNYC Speaking as a linguist and fourth-generation New Yorker: I hear plenty of accents like this, from Gen X to Gen Z, right here in Woodside.

The New Yorkers you don't hear it from so much are upper middle class. That's because they were mocked and told that it sounds uneducated.

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@elmcaleavy @wkissel @jasoncrawford I hosted a Zoom karaoke where we sang songs about the future. I compiled a playlist with a bunch of songs that turned out to be largely cynical and/or dystopian, but I enjoy them!

https://t.co/hslT7yQZT5

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@elmcaleavy @wkissel @jasoncrawford From Fleetwood Mac, "Don't Stop" is much more topical. "I.G.Y." is a little tongue in cheek, but not entirely, I feel:

https://t.co/OlkCtlamGF

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

#CategoryFight of the day, courtesy of @lynneguist and her talk about category fights yesterday!

(I'm a pedant AND an expert! Did you know that people can belong to multiple overlapping categories?)

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@JackLynch000 @lynneguist @The_CIEP As a New Yorker who lived in Chicago for a year, I'm so over the Chicago pizza discourse. Our pizza is superb and everyone knows it. We don't need to tear down anyone else's pizza.

Chicago, Detroit, New Haven, Connecticut Greek - I love 'em all. Even the Neapolitan copycats.

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@lynneguist Here are my blog posts about categorization, in reverse chronological order:

https://t.co/uzHXenXp2N

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

Thanks to @lynneguist for talking about my #CategoryFight work!

Welcome, new followers! These days I'm mostly posting on Mastodon. If you have an RSS reader, you can also follow my blog!

https://t.co/XyX4TRK4xQ

[VirtualPaper @VirtualPaperEd]

A professor is documenting category clashes (can't read the name from the presentation, sorry!). @lynneguist
#ciep2024

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

Looks like the New York City Office of Emergency Management ran their flood warning script through a machine translation system, then piped the "Spanish" output through an English speech synthesizer and broadcast it through their drones!

#linguistics #MachineTranslation #NLProc

[Josefa Velásquez @J__Velasquez]

As a Spanish speaker, I can confidently say that this is incomprehensible. The city couldn’t find a single person who spoke Spanish to deliver this alert?

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

Yes, neural nets are comically incompetent at generating language. How many examples do you have to see before you realize that they are just as incompetent in areas that are no laughing matter, and we probably shouldn't be using them in those areas?

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

Everybody in the earthquake zone filed a felt report, right?

https://t.co/L02ztU8ZIZ

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@DCInbox Yup, I'm in the same place as I was, and I felt this one too! https://t.co/gY1mOsxq2k

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@jjainschigg And while we're awake, too!

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@DCInbox I felt something here in Queens!

[Dr. Angus Grieve-Smith @grvsmth]

@youngdrum @JessieSingerNYC I used to sing "Saint Judy's Comet" to my kid at bedtime, along with "Big Yellow Taxi" and "The Weight"!