
Jack
@Jac5Connor
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I Document / Preserve Endangered Languages. OSV Fellow. CEO https://t.co/GAWkYFF9iC. Author, Siri in the Uncanny Valley. First human to predict an Earthquake.
Southern California
Joined May 2013
The switch one took two seshes to hit, but I was finally able to run the circuit on tre flips. Felt good. #quarantine
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Here's an old Soviet joke. In Soviet Russia, a guy is talking with his neighbor, who's going on about how the USSR is great and all Soviet comrades are like brothers and would share anything and everything. So the guy says, "So if you had two cars and I had none, you'd give.
For a change of pace, here's a joke from Communist Poland. Wlodek wants to deposit his money, saved carefully in a mattress, to the bank. He walks in. Wlodek: "I want to make sure my 50 zlotys are safe. What happens if someone robs the bank?". Banker: "No worries. The main
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I have noticed this too with mine. Is there something inherent to the shape of a phone that makes kids want to hold it up to their ear?.
@eigenrobot Holding things to their ears like a phone is weird to me because I don't think they see me talking on the phone that much so where are they getting this?.
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RIP Ozzy, shoutout to 2022 when I got obsessed with Sabbath and Tomorrow's Dream was my #1 most-listened song of the year
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RT @wylfcen: The weirdest rule in Old English phonology is that two G’s were allowed in the middle of a word, but only in animal names. A “….
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RT @lingdiscovery: Adding information about linguistics (the scientific study of how language works) into language learning curricula could….
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A languages curriculum enriched with linguistics is appealing to students and teachers.
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RT @PandemicRiskMan: Jack is working on storing the world’s languages in the Svalbard seed vault in the Norwegian Arctic circle. That way t….
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RT @wylfcen: A door blows open in your mind when you learn about the suffix -le, it explains so much. People used to add it to verbs to mea….
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