Daniel Pitt

Linguistics

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ISAAC NEWTON gibt es doch. SIE nicht.

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@vikbutserious I can totally imagine ceremonial scribes of the late Qing, who for some reason had to refer to the Pope, using the Russian term for that obscure concept

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@skibidiblazor @wylfcen In my culture we go into the “tavern” to have an “alcoholic drink”

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@matt_mcclure I called LinkedIn customer support over this issue and they banned the fake accounts within 24 hours.

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@aur3b3sh @GarrettPetersen It references an original post that conflated LLMs with NFTs as if both were a craze.

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@Chudfish14921 @GarrettPetersen Miniature, mass-producible mechanical clocks were not at all a “niche novelty”, they caused huge social change throughout Europe and the world

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@AvesInderpal @BarneyFlames This is REAL Islam, not woke Salafi nonsense

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@Acceler8r @mattbramanti Ik ben nu dood

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@Nguyenn259373 @ChaseBrowe32432 Is Claudish the same in Vietnamese???

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@Talor_A “A better emotional read”, God, it’s infuriating - surely this isn’t anyone’s view of the future of language and thought.

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@nopranablem Claude’s weird insistence on this leads to the extension of several verbs (the worst being “earn”) way beyond their use in natural language. It feels like it starts with the personification and then picks whatever verb wouldn’t read outright idiotic with a conceptual subject.

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@edwardW2 @haravayin_hogh I always think that this is getting at something important with how Mandarin sibilants really work, and that pinyin’s hard distinction also creates some awkwardness. W-G could have been updated conservatively for the best of both worlds.

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@Anglokinist - “Hsü”, “K’ung” (aura, reverence for old masters, sound of zithers and cool spring breeze)

- “Xu”, “Kong” (no aura, fast and convenient, Shanghai KFC)

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@Flagdoku Fine either way

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@witagon He also claimed he was God, which I don't think any other tinpot dictator has ever done. Amazing open goal.

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@firstgogomi @xandra_spud47 @wardinpal Khamsa is indeed pan-Islamic in the sense that it is found everywhere in the Islamic world, as well as in other traditions.

And your graphic's argument is ridiculously strained. Khamsa motifs are much older in Semitic culture than in Persian.

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@magne_toes This is like some inscrutable Czechoslovak film from the ‘70s that was mistakenly funded by the state and then censored, only not as good.

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@SRamirez68083 @delujog @wwwojtekk This is pushing me into “stop doing maths” territory