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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 3d

It doesn't look up information at all, except insofar as 'what word is likely to come next' counts as information

You should not trust them for "systematic research", at all

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed not!
It meets some, but crucially not all, of what makes a slur a slur
bsky.app/profile/todd...

Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 21d

Is this right?

Contemporary analyses of slurs tell us that slurs:
1️⃣ ascribe membership (their truth-conditional content)
2️⃣ derogate (their expressive content)
3️⃣ are offensive (their social effect)
4️⃣ achieve 2️⃣&3️⃣ by means of relating to (ongoing/historical) practices of bigotry and discrimination

Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 21d

hot take i know but you can't slur a software program

that's not a thing

"clanker" — which is directed at the "bots" — is not a slur

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 7d

Truth and reconciliation, across the entire society, top to bottom

Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 7d

Unfortunately a lot of schools are going to have to get all new boards and presidents when this administration is out of power

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7d

Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 9d

Yiddish strong verbs, mostly 😜

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 9d

Someone is being sensible on this whole affair, but surprise surprise it isn't the administration

www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

GUEST ROOM | AAUP Letter to Kotlikoff on "Fighting Antisemitism"

The executive committee of the American Association of University Professors Cornell Chapter writes to President Kotlikoff in response to his office's recent statement, "Fighting Antisemitism and Prot...

www.cornellsun.com

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 9d

Not a single one of our institutions has any intention of protecting its faculty or defending the integrity of intellectual inquiry at this moment. This is of the most disturbing versions of that story I’ve read: it keeps getting worse and worse as you go

The Gurgling Cod (he/him) @thegurglingcod.bsky.social · 9d

At Cornell University, an eminent prof, whose work I was reading in graduate school got suspended b/c an IDF veteran grad student enrolled in his class for the express purpose of disrupting it. We are all cooked.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint

Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

www.thenation.com

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 11d

who wasn't already aware of Trump's absurdity, is now, and is going to actually behave differently now because of that new knowledge?
literally anybody?

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 11d

Meanwhile the Bechdel–Łoś–Vaught–Voight–Kampff test determines, for 𝜅-many women for some infinite cardinal 𝜅 ≥ |𝜎|, how many of them are human

Electric Kool-Aid Bechdel Test @i-rohl.bsky.social · 11d

There needs to be something called the Bechdel–Łoś–Vaught test which involves, among other things, there being 𝜅-many women for some infinite cardinal 𝜅 ≥ |𝜎|.

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12d

In honor of The Adventure Zone using Neal.fun's Infinite Craft to create their Evokemon, some of my own first discoveries from back in the day

A screenshot of Infinite Craft, with a graph of networked nodes above an inventory of discovered 'elements'. At the top of the screen, highlighted as a "First Discovery", is "Guilt-tripping" accompanied by a sad emoji. It is connected to the nearby nodes Ratatouille & Piece of Sushi, and only more distantly to Oreo Pizza, Dragon Schnitzel, and Count Mathzilla

A screenshot of Infinite Craft, with a graph of networked nodes above an inventory of discovered 'elements'. The entire visible part of the graph is all nodes with "Garfield" and some extremely large numbers, like "Garfield 1651012546" and "Garfield 24464046“. Every single node is flagged with the "First Discovery " tag. The entire visible inventory is also Garfields

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12d

bad news about the real world...

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12d

(where Foakley and Folex are arguably blends/portmanteaus, but this is a different mechanism entirely!)

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12d

would be so much fun if /f/ assimilation became fully morphologically productive

we had Foakleys and Folex watches, now have Lafufus

what about
a Louis Fuitton bag
a Guffi clutch
a pair of Fuck Taylors

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12d

my favorite programming language is C add add

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 12d

Can't believe that neither Google's lawyer nor the DOJ's knew about C octothorpe

Jason Kint @kint.bsky.social · 12d

Cringe moment from yesterday for me in US v Google was when Google’s attorney referenced a programming language (C#) as “C number sign” and then DOJ said “C hashtag” and the expert witness rightly jumped in respectfully and said “C sharp.”

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 14d

yeah; and English (apparently) used to have a similar form as well: ereyesterday, where "ere", like German "vor", is 'before'

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ereyest...

ereyesterday - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

en.wiktionary.org

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 15d

I think you want Lex Konnelly & coauthors' Diverse Names Database

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) On the use of names and example sentences in the linguistics classroom

PDF | In addition to representing a main source of data in linguistic research, example sentences are a core vehicle for linguists in teaching a wide... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

www.researchgate.net

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 15d

The royal "everyone"

Patrick Skeels @baslogic.bsky.social · 15d

Really pushing the limits of contextually restricted quantification.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "Everyone says I should get the Nobel Peace Prize."

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 17d

lots of thoughts about last night's charlie kirk tribute

screengrab of the movie Weapons, with five children running away from the camera, with their arms creepily out at their sides as they run down a suburban street

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 17d

They call this 'catnip for todds'
(instant purchase)

A small vinyl sticker, with a purple bear/cat/? creature, with arms in a wide shrug, underneath the words "tell me your pronouns" in a handwritten script

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 18d

(I knew you knew this one; more for the viewers following along at home)

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 18d

now try this one

A sign with green text on white background, reading:
1401
North Versailles Township
Municipal Building
Administrative Offices
Police

The surprising-to-non-locals thing would be how "North Versailles" is pronounced

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 18d

🐦🐦

Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · 19d

GOP: We are putting forward a proposal to ban the use of all pronouns.

Dems: Um…we all use pronouns.

GOP: Oh. Withdrawn.

Anagram Man @conserveletters.bsky.social · 19d

LOL Awesome.

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 21d

not at all! my whole conclusion was in agreement with you; at the bare minimum, without a history of bigotry and discrimination, a word isn't a slur (and to my knowledge, there is no such example for toaster ovens)

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Jakub Szymanik @szymanikjakub.bsky.social · 21d

Call for European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information 2026 Lectures and Workshop
More information here:
2026.esslli.eu
Submit here:
easychair.org/my/conferenc...

Welcome to ESSLLI 2026

2026.esslli.eu

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Todd Snider @toddthelinguist.bsky.social · 21d

but, assuming that inanimates can't be the target of a slur would seem to beg the question! so I wanted to take things neutrally, according to what is often discussed in the literature

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