“How can we make 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank feel that they cannot lift their head up? We will make them understand that we control their lives.”

Former Israeli soldier ‏‎Ori Givati told me what most haunts him from the time he served in Israel’s army. Breaking the Silence

surely the best kenning in the modern English canon is 'mom's spaghetti'

If you’ve ever considered using NLP for Mental Health applications, it’s vital to know what the models have inadvertently learned about people with mental health issues. In our #EMNLP2022 paper, we find that masked LMs capture societal stigma about gender in mental health.🧵1/5

By now you have probably heard that the #RingsofPower score foreshadowed the season climax, the Sauron reveal, because Sauron's theme is Halbrand's theme backwards and in minor. But this explanation doesn't really do McCreary justice, so let's take a closer look.

what's a good introductory reference grammar of Mandarin Chinese?

something for learners - something that doesn't oversimplify things for a lay audience, but also doesn't get lost in the weeds of linguistic theory

Matthew T. Boulanger Netflix Graham Hancock will say that he’s not a pseudoarchaeologist because he’s not trying to do archaeology and that he’s not a pseudoscientist because he’s not trying to do science.

He’s a former journalist spinning fantastic tales and in the process fostering delusional thinking.

A thread.

1. If you’ve been following the controversy about the new Netflix archaeology series, here’s a broader context.

In Germany a nine year old girl was speaking Turkish to her friend during recess. A teacher over heard her and demanded she speak German- they punished her by forcing her to write a paper on “why we speak German in school”. Then her parents sued the school and won. ❤️

Fun fact, this is a table of Arabic demonstrative pronouns and the one I'm looking for (هاته, apparently a variant of هذه) ISN'T EVEN IN HERE.

I literally had to look up a *pronoun* in the dictionary 🤦‍♀️

Rewatching Arrival, the most realistic aspect of this movie is how no one listens to the linguist

I was once personally contacted to apply for a job, then not even shortlisted for it. I've not forgotten either the department or the scholar involved. When I queried what had happened, the come back was 'we needed good applicants'. Plainly they didn't need that many.

In fact, in the U.S. it is illegal for donors or their families to be compensated in any way - even in the case of living donors who are taking a very real risk to give a part of their body to save another person's life.

But the 'gift' comes at a steep price to the recipient 7/

wait so does شكّاء بكّاء šakkā2 bakkā2 mean like 'a crybaby' in Arabic? 😅