Brian Buccola 💚
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Assoc Prof of Linguistics @michiganstateu. 🌳 Semantics, pragmatics, Linux, LaTeX, open source, open access, barbells, and beer. 🍻 PhD from @mcgillu. 🍁
Lansing, MI
Joined September 2009
promoted with tenure 🥳 infinite thanks to all my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, students, friends, and family for their support and encouragement over the years — and to my letter writers, whoever you are!
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I give "all-out war IN American democracy" 5 pants-on-fire Pinnochio * judgment marks
❌ Neither the audio recording nor the context of Trump's remark supports the claim that he said "We've been waging an all-out war on American democracy." https://t.co/Cgi6A8Wf3V
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My book with Jason Stanley, the Politics of Language, is out today! It's about how people make meaning, about how meaning resonates, and how we hide meaning in plain sight. We "hustle". Our hidden meanings hustle our friends towards us, and our enemies away.
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Related question: for folks who use '0' and '1' for falsity in truth, why not use '2' for the third truth value? (In class I use 'F', 'T', and '#' because I think it's easier/clearer. But if you're a numbers person, then I'd think '2' makes more sense than '#', like exit codes.)
How do you pronounce '#' in the context of trivalent semantics? I'm specifically interested in how you say it out loud, e.g. in a classroom with zoomer students, and in sentences like the following: - We use '#' for the third truth value. - Sentence S denotes '#' iff...
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How do you pronounce '#' in the context of trivalent semantics? I'm specifically interested in how you say it out loud, e.g. in a classroom with zoomer students, and in sentences like the following: - We use '#' for the third truth value. - Sentence S denotes '#' iff...
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you know she's contrite because she "endeavored" instead of "tried"
WATCH: Jenna Ellis CRIES while reading her statement to the court following her guilty plea and throws Rudy Giuliani and others under the bus, saying she “relied on others including lawyers with many more years of experience.”
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Let me dwell on the utterly mundane. My aunt and uncle's house always smelled of coffee. Tari is a person who roasts their own coffee. Lilach bakes these amazing semolina and dates cookies. That's what I am thinking about when they are being held in Gaza. Help us get them home.
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My family has been taken to Gaza. We don't know their medical condition, we know that if my uncle isn't released soon he could die, he has a degenerative disease and needs treatment. They are European citizens. I need anyone with any contacts to get in touch with me ASAP.
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I gasped. 🦁
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i don't need blue sky. i'm perfectly fine with michigan gray sky
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today's @NYTGames connections makes me want to pull out my hair (if I had hair) "will" and "may" are not past tense verbs please hire linguists
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this is why the internet exists
Pachelbel's Canon in D, P 37 played by countless trains, the sounds of which were recorded and assembled by the Czech machinist Pavel Jirásek https://t.co/iqQd8kMDZz
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not to be a grammar stickler but this should obviously have been "see me (2014)"
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Q to Linguists (and esp semanticists): Which journal should we submit this to? We have a paper that describes a dataset of modal semantics in 24 languages. The meat of the paper is a description of the dataset (the data collection method; design/format of the dataset etc). 1/3
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lmao
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intro to semantics & pragmatics people avoiding math-y subjects semantics and formal pragmatics
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With no-parens reverse notation (NPRN), "x f", line 2 is no problem, and I *feel* like students wouldn't stumble on line 3 either: ⟦loves Leela⟧ → ⟦Leela⟧ ⟦loves⟧ in NPRN *seems* easier than ⟦Fry [loves Leela]⟧ → ⟦loves Leela⟧(⟦Fry⟧) in classic notation. But I dunno
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