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Grammatical intuition of ChatGPT
Published: May 19, 2025 12:03
Grammaticality Representation in ChatGPT as Compared to Linguists and Laypeople, Zhuang Qiu, Xufeng Duan & Zhenguang G. Cai, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 12, no. 617 (May 6, 2025). Abstract Large language models (LLMs) have demonstratedā¦
Jianwei Xun: Fake philosopher
Published: May 18, 2025 01:04
Jianwei Xun, the supposed philosopher behind the hypnocracy theory, does not exist and is a product of artificial intelligenceA collaboration between an essayist and two AI platforms produced a book that reflects on new forms of manipulation RaĆŗl LimĆ³n, ELā¦
R.I.P., John R. "Haj" Ross (1938-2025)
Published: May 16, 2025 18:55
Posted by MIT Linguistics: Sad and momentous news has reached us of the passing of alum and former faculty member John R. Ross (PhD 1967) at the age of 87. Known to one and all as "Haj Ross", his dissertation and subsequent papers on syntax and relatedā¦
Learning a Korean word from scratch, with a note on AI
Published: May 16, 2025 10:56
While attending an international conference on the application of AI to the study of the Silk Road and its history, at which most of the papers were delivered in Korean, I was struck by the frequent occurrence of one distinctive word: hajiman. For someā¦
Sapir-Whorf redux
Published: May 15, 2025 11:41
In "Linguistic relativity: snow and horses" (4/15/25), I summarized and assessed the following paper: Temuulen Khishigsuren et al, "A computational analysis of lexical elaboration across languages", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025).ā¦
Hangul as alphasyllabary
Published: May 14, 2025 11:14
After visiting the massive National Museum of Korea in Seoul, I was eager to go to the National Hangeul Museum nearby. Alas, it is under renovation, so I was unable to enter it this time, but I will go back on some future occasion when I travel to Korea. ā¦
Wildly popular pastry shop in Korea
Published: May 13, 2025 22:02
Nick Tursi suggested that I visit Sungsimdang in Daejeon, so I went two hours out of my way as I was travelling to Seoul. Sungsimdang (Korean: ģ±ģ¬ė¹; Hanja: čåæå ; lit. Sacred Heart Hall) is a phenomenally popular bakery that could easily establish branchā¦
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Published: May 12, 2025 11:27
On March 27, horrificgoth posted on tumblr (crawls on all fours with blood drenched on me) I have to do arts and crafts resulting in 56,876 notes so far. One of them, posted Saturday 5/10 by Seebs, was iām more mad about this than i might otherwise beā¦
How to say "Seoul"
Published: May 12, 2025 09:46
So far as I know, most Americans pronounce the name of the capital city of the Republic of Korea as "soul". (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sÉŹl/(General American) enPR: sÅl, IPA(key): /soŹl/ Rhymes: -ÉŹlHomophones: sole, soul, sowl From Korean ģģøā¦
The origin of "thing" in Chinese
Published: May 10, 2025 21:30
I recall that when I began learning Mandarin, one of the things (!) that troubled me greatly was why the word for "thing" was written with the characters for "east" and "west": dÅngxi ę±č„æ. My classmates came up with all sorts of outlandish, speculativeā¦
Qiu Xigui (1935-2025)
Published: May 9, 2025 15:11
Prof. Qiu Xigui č£é«å has passed away today at the age of 89. His groundbreaking work on ancient Chinese scripts has significantly shaped the study of Chinese palaeography and grapholinguistics. A monumental loss for academia. https://t.co/Jn0aLn19kIā¦