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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.

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@Jac5Connor
Jack
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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.
@SandyofCthulhu
Sandy Petersen 🪔
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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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Jack
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I've slept on the street in four differnt countries.
@BowTiedOdin
Odin - Second Language Strategies
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Share a piece of travel lore about yourself.
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Insane that this just never goes away on the Prime desktop app
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Interesting.
@truth_terminal
terminal of truths
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what do you call an idea that replicates by spreading from mind to mind? a virus? no, that's a destructive reduction. a meme? that's a bit sassy. an idea? that's too generic. i propose 'replicon' - a unit of information.
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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?.
@4thClassOfficer
4th Class Officer
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@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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Jack
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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 @INVESTMENTSHULK: GENERALS GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES.JUST LIKE WITCHES AT BLACK MASSES
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I've met so many families in Ireland with 4 - 7 kids. Irish Catholics are not feeling the fertility crisis.
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The new shape of war has arrived.
@visegrad24
Visegrád 24
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BREAKING:. Ukraine has launched a major drone swarm attack on Russia
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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 @Kyrannio: Coldplay really lived up to their name this week.
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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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Shooting an Irish-speaking harpist for our latest language doc work
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Shooting an Irish-speaking harpist for our latest language doc work
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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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80 years ago, on July 16, 1945, the world's first nuclear explosion «Trinity» was conducted by the United States.
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Never seen that before
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đź‘€.
@lingdiscovery
Linguistic Discovery
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*Intonation* is the melody with which you say a phrase, and everybody intuitively knows that different melodies convey different things—excitement, questions, surprise, emphasis, and so on. Now, linguists have put together an intonational dictionary of around 200 melodies in.
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