#  @langofmind Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠 posts on X about science, books, philosophy, ai the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1179116993619939330/interactions)  - [--] Week [------] +9,029% - [--] Month [------] -89% - [--] Months [---------] +881% - [--] Year [---------] +16% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1179116993619939330/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +233% - [--] Month [--] -18% - [--] Months [---] +68% - [--] Year [---] -20% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1179116993619939330/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] +0.23% - [--] Month [-----] +0.11% - [--] Months [-----] +6.60% - [--] Year [-----] +12% ### CreatorRank: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1179116993619939330/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 4.76% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 2.86% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 0.95% [finance](/list/finance) 0.95% **Social topic influence** [science](/topic/science) 4.76%, [books](/topic/books) 3.81%, [philosophy](/topic/philosophy) 3.81%, [ai](/topic/ai) 2.86%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 2.86%, [all the](/topic/all-the) 2.86%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 2.86%, [word](/topic/word) 2.86%, [express](/topic/express) 1.9%, [twitter](/topic/twitter) 1.9% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@chriskeating](/creator/undefined) [@manishearth](/creator/undefined) [@magijay](/creator/undefined) [@agraybee](/creator/undefined) [@dennisbhooper](/creator/undefined) [@linguisticsshi1](/creator/undefined) [@metaauthor](/creator/undefined) [@mordroberon](/creator/undefined) [@ca2strophebufet](/creator/undefined) [@jmannhart](/creator/undefined) [@peligrietzer](/creator/undefined) [@mattolma](/creator/undefined) [@jadincmoore](/creator/undefined) [@linajan02491152](/creator/undefined) [@youtube](/creator/undefined) [@lastpositivist](/creator/undefined) [@focusfronting](/creator/undefined) [@iwsfutcmd](/creator/undefined) [@drpeppermd](/creator/undefined) [@faber_indeed](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "@magi_jay I've never understood why we don't just say "assumes the conclusion". That's what we actually mean" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2020368014709797094) 2026-02-08T05:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "@agraybee It's not semantic information it's pragmatic information and Chomsky really doesn't care about that" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2020579197811556711) 2026-02-08T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@dennisbhooper There is a wide gulf between "I can express my creative ideas without mastering an onerous craft" (which I can be sympathetic to) and letting the machine generate the creative ideas for you. It's unfortunate that AI is so good at both parts" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2020600115602600125) 2026-02-08T20:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Lonely planet sells more phrase books if everyone is monolingual which is why they've suppressed the cure for decades Monolingualism can be cured. Few know this. Monolingualism can be cured. Few know this" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2021007730643800179) 2026-02-09T23:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "See this is what I mean when I say Aristotle set back the development of science by a thousand years Aristotle said that women have fewer teeth than men which isn't true but was widely repeated and believed for almost two thousand years () until Andreas Vesalius in the 16th century decided to double check https://t.co/PKwbK5YELD Aristotle said that women have fewer teeth than men which isn't true but was widely repeated and believed for almost two thousand years () until Andreas Vesalius in the 16th century decided to double check https://t.co/PKwbK5YELD" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2022375857050861862) 2026-02-13T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The nature of the puzzle is that you must examine the entire problem space not just an isolated corner of it. Good lesson for aspiring linguists btw I HATE CONNECTIONS THIS IS NOT A RED HERRING ITS A CATEGORY RAAAAAA https://t.co/9yLO6hefld I HATE CONNECTIONS THIS IS NOT A RED HERRING ITS A CATEGORY RAAAAAA https://t.co/9yLO6hefld" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2022376541590585490) 2026-02-13T18:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "So have all the generative linguists left twitter at this point Just another stage in the journey to the abyss" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2022379102867423355) 2026-02-13T18:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "@ManishEarth @LinguisticsShi1 The colloquial use most often refers to word meanings in my experience. Not sure most nonlinguists would consider nonspeech acts to have semantic content even under colloquial definitions of semantics" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2021295812232253557) 2026-02-10T18:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "A category grouping "banner" with the other superhero names sounds reasonable until you try to find a category for "standard" "colors" and "flag". The interdependencies are what make the puzzle both challenging and ultimately solvable" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2022376944331882546) 2026-02-13T18:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "I love this question Board games are very old but the oldest games (royal game of Ur Senet) appear to be mostly-random racing/gambling games. In the 1800s we get "modern" board games but it took [---] years to get past roll-and-move mechanics inherited from the bronze age. Why All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea with very few prerequisites why did it take until the 1970s All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/2022443218529292504) 2026-02-13T22:50Z [----] followers, 50.3K engagements "Quick look on WALS shows that there are more languages without gender marking than languages with it: [---] vs 112" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1636029816066416640) 2023-03-15T15:41Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements "I've said it many times but truly phonetics is a dark art" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1636725209125330946) 2023-03-17T13:44Z [----] followers, 23.6K engagements "I can neither confirm nor deny" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1641528907009773568) 2023-03-30T19:52Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements "Now tell me ChatGPT doesn't have genuine understanding I dare you" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1643836749238370305) 2023-04-06T04:43Z [----] followers, 13.6K engagements "These adaptations are always so inaccurate compared to the source material" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1662916992301518849) 2023-05-28T20:21Z [----] followers, 28.1K engagements "If you understand this you have achieved psycholinguistics" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1672463889294938112) 2023-06-24T04:37Z [----] followers, 56.4K engagements "@metaauthor https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1682021439942144000) 2023-07-20T13:35Z [----] followers, 240.2K engagements "@mordroberon look agan" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1682058371443163136) 2023-07-20T16:02Z [----] followers, 198.3K engagements "I used to do pragmatics. I still do but I used to too" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1691823830178599107) 2023-08-16T14:46Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements "This is actually a really great trolley problem" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1692403137234063444) 2023-08-18T05:08Z [----] followers, 31K engagements "This is such a thorny issue because it intersects bad ideas about language limiting thought (which have driven a lot of linguistic erasure) and valid ideas about languages encoding cultural knowledge (which motivates language preservation). But a few clarifying points 🧵" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1708611578021417363) 2023-10-01T22:35Z [----] followers, 81.4K engagements "@ca2strophebufet Don't you creolize this perfect language" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1741874879085858943) 2024-01-01T17:31Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements "@JMannhart Thanks I hate it" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1743666264915030398) 2024-01-06T16:10Z [----] followers, 54K engagements "Is it weird to anyone that in all their travels the Austronesians never established any permanent settlements on the Australian continent Were they avoiding it Was it just an effect of currents or natural barriers" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1750633150613495849) 2024-01-25T21:34Z [----] followers, 43.9K engagements "MM/DD/YYYY is the best format because it organizes the date from lowest entropy to highest entropy easing you in YYYY/MM/DD is the best date format YYYY/MM/DD is the best date format" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1813028270176411814) 2024-07-16T01:49Z [----] followers, 353.9K engagements "Month = log2(12) = [----] bits Day = log2(31) = [----] bits Year = log2(2024) = [-----] bits Checkmate Euros" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1813028271971528830) 2024-07-16T01:49Z [----] followers, 30.5K engagements "Then: so what is your research area again Me:" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1813051745695678899) 2024-07-16T03:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Context free grammars You think language just fell out of a coconut tree" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1816195458588631242) 2024-07-24T19:35Z [----] followers, 38.9K engagements "Chomsky casually dropping the "we" in a book he is the sole author of" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1821929492622827933) 2024-08-09T15:20Z [----] followers, 34.7K engagements "I'd think finite elements combined into finite-length strings would produce a large set (maybe uncountably large) but not infinite. Very happy to be wrong about this" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1823389048120959377) 2024-08-13T16:00Z [----] followers, 66.1K engagements "This is the worst injustice the English language has ever endured and I won't stand for it" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1829016423676465647) 2024-08-29T04:41Z [----] followers, 27.8K engagements "The syntactician with nonstandard grammatical intuitions. The phonologist who can't pronounce the department chair's name. The typologist who only speaks English. The phonetician who probably should have been a physicist. They are. the linguistics department" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1829315807408455779) 2024-08-30T00:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Modern computer science linguistics and psychology all emerged from philosophy VERY recently my most controversial take is that philosophy is probably one of the most successful sciences of all time. my most controversial take is that philosophy is probably one of the most successful sciences of all time" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1833516634319032792) 2024-09-10T14:43Z [----] followers, 49.6K engagements "We call this an expletive or "dummy" pronoun because it actually doesn't refer to anything It's just there because English requires an overt subject you can't just say "raining" (although you can in other languages) when we say 'it is raining' what's the it when we say 'it is raining' what's the it" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1834039228902080594) 2024-09-12T01:20Z [----] followers, 95.9K engagements "We had an interdisciplinary group discussion in our department today and what I learned is that linguists are basically in their own universe. No one knows wtf we're talking about" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1836233961770566057) 2024-09-18T02:41Z [----] followers, 20.8K engagements "Somehow I am less interested in the weight and convolutions of Noam Chompers brain than the certainty that shit posters of equal genius are toiling away in fields and factories Scientists were like Noam you are so good at thinking can we please study your brain for science and I said okay https://t.co/mGSjp0e6Jd Scientists were like Noam you are so good at thinking can we please study your brain for science and I said okay https://t.co/mGSjp0e6Jd" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1840192008918364381) 2024-09-29T00:48Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements "Did the semanticists ever figure out what was going on with this one Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway [---] mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area. https://t.co/EVMmDf0IJu Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway [---] mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area. https://t.co/EVMmDf0IJu" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1840915569257673042) 2024-10-01T00:44Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements "Kids today can't read whole books because first they'd have to read half the book then they'd have to read half the remainder then half of that remainder then" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1842591334722625735) 2024-10-05T15:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I just asked my students why they say thank you after a lecture and apparently it's to express genuine gratitude and not just an empty discourse marker that indicates the termination of a social interaction. My entire worldview is in shambles" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1844066634987864337) 2024-10-09T17:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Some linguistic hypotheses for these phenomena: [--]. Deliberate ungrammaticality (or at the very least questionable grammaticality) as a signaling mechanism. Some of these also flout Gricean maxims (Rise of Skywalker is truly one of the movies of all time)" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1850916567686516839) 2024-10-28T15:04Z [----] followers, 51.8K engagements "@peligrietzer Reminiscent of Sydney Morgenbesser: "Why is God making me suffer so much Just because I don't believe in him"" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1902762883592712624) 2025-03-20T16:43Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements "In case you ever wondered how cuneiform was written it's very satisfying. This is a recreation of the tablet of Nippur. Ea Nasir's complaint tablets would have been written the same way" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1908924465552978407) 2025-04-06T16:47Z [----] followers, 297.4K engagements "The stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs. View with caution" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1909129959215341679) 2025-04-07T06:23Z [----] followers, 321.3K engagements "@matt_olma Lowest form of forced interaction" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1950315448870023204) 2025-07-29T22:00Z [----] followers, 17.7K engagements "We're expanding the problem space to make it easier to imagine a solution. This limits our curiosity and our creativity And as it turns out ancient people were very creative. Our curiosity needs to rise to meet it" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1952400733992534055) 2025-08-04T16:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "language is stored in the balls In case its not clear this sample at 40.38N71.855E is the southernmost pre-1000 BCE R1a* sample. All samples south of this line are post-1000 BCE. Now tell me again how these guys wrote verses about Himalayas and Ganga in [----] BCE. https://t.co/mILiQhTJPe In case its not clear this sample at 40.38N71.855E is the southernmost pre-1000 BCE R1a* sample. All samples south of this line are post-1000 BCE. Now tell me again how these guys wrote verses about Himalayas and Ganga in [----] BCE. https://t.co/mILiQhTJPe" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1983726584248070349) 2025-10-30T02:44Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements "This is what you're missing if you're not following linguists on twitter" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1986511811072409625) 2025-11-06T19:11Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements "Little X-Bar animation I made for class" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1358918682458619908) 2021-02-08T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "my students post the best memes" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1586131297650368512) 2022-10-28T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Why this bothers me: when people say "basically every language other than English" it's likely they're thinking of a particular set of languages: the languages of Europe" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1636029821238083587) 2023-03-15T15:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "It's good to expand our linguistic scope beyond English but let's not replace it just with popular European languages we might have studied in high school There are a lot of languages and a lot of diversity" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1636029824899710977) 2023-03-15T15:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The exact situation I found myself in during the global recession. Solution: more linguistics degrees" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1678746795457871879) 2023-07-11T12:43Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements "I did my best Initial phoneme of the numerals 1-10 in a variety of languages. Some interesting patterns here Let me know if there are any errors using the first letter in the Latin transliteration of each word is so arbitrary. doing by first phoneme would probably be much more interesting using the first letter in the Latin transliteration of each word is so arbitrary. doing by first phoneme would probably be much more interesting" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1681369455438200843) 2023-07-18T18:24Z [----] followers, 46.9K engagements "Ok new version - with color I did my best Initial phoneme of the numerals 1-10 in a variety of languages. Some interesting patterns here Let me know if there are any errors https://t.co/U8EzY4oelK I did my best Initial phoneme of the numerals 1-10 in a variety of languages. Some interesting patterns here Let me know if there are any errors https://t.co/U8EzY4oelK" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1681417599991545856) 2023-07-18T21:36Z [----] followers, 69.4K engagements "I think I fixed all the errors that were mentioned and I added a few more languages that people had asked for. It's starting to get unwieldy Ok new version - with color https://t.co/rVoJxPAdiB Ok new version - with color https://t.co/rVoJxPAdiB" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1681691075868516352) 2023-07-19T15:42Z [----] followers, 60.7K engagements "you really gotta count the gorillas in this one" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1681802211163078657) 2023-07-19T23:04Z [----] followers, 2.7M engagements "This reads like a parody of how a physicist would approach language Classical Latin was complex compared to modern languages. (More noun cases more verb forms) But its predecessors were even more complex back to Proto-Indo-European. Yet there must have been a time when languages evolved to *increasing* complexity. When was the peak and why Classical Latin was complex compared to modern languages. (More noun cases more verb forms) But its predecessors were even more complex back to Proto-Indo-European. Yet there must have been a time when languages evolved to *increasing* complexity. When was" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1686254445460324352) 2023-08-01T05:56Z [----] followers, 22.6K engagements "Linguistics is a modeling science. The purpose is to create formal models that describe the behavior of a system. The models can be falsified by checking the outputs of the model against the outputs of the system. Which is exactly how theoretical physics happens to operate @jadincmoore Since most items in linguistics is non-falsifiable its definitely humanities. @jadincmoore Since most items in linguistics is non-falsifiable its definitely humanities" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1692176645892018527) 2023-08-17T14:08Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements "Is the world ready for phonologist dad jokes" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1695267942244520319) 2023-08-26T02:52Z [----] followers, 25.5K engagements "All-time etymology hall of fame" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1695591867453223346) 2023-08-27T00:19Z [----] followers, 17K engagements "This might be the most personally relatable meme I've ever seen https://t.co/QGJaefnmrB https://t.co/QGJaefnmrB" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1708320162506535213) 2023-10-01T03:17Z [----] followers, 31.6K engagements "This is the high quality linguistics research the journals don't want you to see" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1713189992820879406) 2023-10-14T13:48Z [----] followers, 531.9K engagements "@LinaJan02491152 I don't think this is true. I've cooked recreations of ancient Roman and Mesopotamian recipes and I think you can do a lot with herbs salt and fermentation. It wasn't all tasteless mush" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1713341788084195432) 2023-10-14T23:51Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements ""western civ" bros are deeply unserious. "Have you read the Iliad" Bro the Iliad is FICTION Do you know the history of the Hittite empire Of Arzawa of Wilusa Do you know the exploits of the great kings Hattusili Muwatalli Suppiluliuma" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1718659633210949983) 2023-10-29T16:02Z [----] followers, 1M engagements "Semantic drift is a hell of a thing" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1727198918285422769) 2023-11-22T05:34Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements "Evolutionary biology for linguists" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1731356978088161530) 2023-12-03T16:57Z [----] followers, 20.4K engagements "It's insane to me that /-s/ in English is plural for nouns and singular for verbs and absolutely no one questions this" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1733023786121781260) 2023-12-08T07:20Z [----] followers, 60.7K engagements "Monolingual linguists: I lead others to a treasure I cannot possess" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1735800851719950605) 2023-12-15T23:15Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements "This is the best conlang you can't change my mind" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1741539914871677430) 2023-12-31T19:20Z [----] followers, 295.1K engagements "Couldn't have said it better myself" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1743300739915469151) 2024-01-05T15:57Z [----] followers, 39.8K engagements "How often do you think about the Austronesian expansion Every day fuck the Roman Empire how often do you think about the Polynesian migrations https://t.co/SV3npH9XZx fuck the Roman Empire how often do you think about the Polynesian migrations https://t.co/SV3npH9XZx" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1743876740043178320) 2024-01-07T06:06Z [----] followers, 42.7K engagements "My mom came and sat in on my intro to cog sci class this morning--a big lecture hall class with [---] students. AND SHE RAISED HER HAND AND ASKED A QUESTION I'm dying" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1749518018999169235) 2024-01-22T19:42Z [----] followers, 46.1K engagements "The word "adobe" (sun-baked brick) comes from ancient Egyptian with almost no change in meaning" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1755108573359595774) 2024-02-07T05:57Z [----] followers, 27.1K engagements "If this is a reference you get congrats you've been exposed to too much linguistics. Please step outside and get some air" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1761789026233688160) 2024-02-25T16:23Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements "Arrival is one of my favorite movies It raises so many interested questions about language culture biology and the mind. So I made a video about it Check it out 👇 Alien Linguistics The Science of Arrival via @YouTube https://youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3Isi=A1xSW94WnLTTlKyy https://youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3Isi=A1xSW94WnLTTlKyy" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1769222084150845888) 2024-03-17T04:39Z [----] followers, 34.3K engagements "this is the ideal authorship ordering scheme absolute peak" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1771761563411648889) 2024-03-24T04:50Z [----] followers, 49.6K engagements "Male philosophy majors may have the lowest fertility rates but consider their intellectual fecundity (also low) https://t.co/JImmogsMhf Male philosophy majors may have the lowest fertility rates but consider their intellectual fecundity (also low) https://t.co/JImmogsMhf" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1782988603049533606) 2024-04-24T04:23Z [----] followers, 55.1K engagements "If imaginary numbers just give an additional axis for the vowel chart arguably languages are already using it Vowels can vary in lots of dimensions: height backness rounding tone phonation and length" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1790237310430204269) 2024-05-14T04:26Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements "Well Im not sure Ive ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard https://t.co/2daBZUZfAW Well Im not sure Ive ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard https://t.co/2daBZUZfAW" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1803225712523898880) 2024-06-19T00:38Z [----] followers, 23K engagements "@lastpositivist "I'm not thinking of any particular word"" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1807103570862284901) 2024-06-29T17:27Z [----] followers, 16K engagements "Many such (gettier) cases" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1822661908891123846) 2024-08-11T15:50Z [----] followers, 99.8K engagements "Chomsky casually predicting LLMs in 1956" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1823183265852998013) 2024-08-13T02:22Z [----] followers, 229.4K engagements "Re-reading early Chomsky he repeatedly makes the claim that a grammar with a finite alphabet that generates sentences of finite length may produce an infinite set of sentences. Is this true mathematically" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1823389046921400460) 2024-08-13T16:00Z [----] followers, 733.6K engagements "@focusfronting brb counting to infinity real quick" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1823439840249012526) 2024-08-13T19:21Z [----] followers, 38.6K engagements "For those who slept during their linguistic anatomy class" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1825561332554649914) 2024-08-19T15:51Z [----] followers, 156.1K engagements "This is probably the best example image of recursion that exists. Chomsky and Halle holding a picture of Chomsky and Halle holding a picture of Chomsky and Halle" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1828287174468382991) 2024-08-27T04:23Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements "If language was primarily for communication "can" and "can't" wouldn't sound FUCKING IDENTICAL" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1836227467641577542) 2024-09-18T02:15Z [----] followers, 32.2K engagements "2. imo punctuation in many online contexts has developed a close relationship to prosody. We've shed a lot of the formalized style rules so we're using punctuation to more closely indicate things like pauses and intonation contours associated with prosodic constituents" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1850916569376805246) 2024-10-28T15:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Something I've noticed is that linguists that agree with Chomsky theoretically tend to disagree politically and linguists that agree politically tend to disagree theoretically. There's an odd tension between Chomsky's two spheres of influence https://t.co/c7zeMCObhi https://t.co/c7zeMCObhi" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1896587991998775754) 2025-03-03T15:46Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements "Quick humanities question: how do you know if a poem is good Good poems and bad poems seem very similar" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1923732588197298641) 2025-05-17T13:29Z [----] followers, 267.8K engagements "Happy to announce the baby is saying fun for spoon as predicted by the sacred texts (introductory linguistics textbooks)" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1932863576231792842) 2025-06-11T18:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Real talk though I am on the record as having said something similar about why Europeans suddenly stopped talking about inflectional morphology as the paragon of linguistic complexity/elegance when they learned about indigenous languages in the Americas I see we are doing The Very Stupid discourse again https://t.co/orgoi8x5ao I see we are doing The Very Stupid discourse again https://t.co/orgoi8x5ao" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1945947681064472757) 2025-07-17T20:44Z [----] followers, 17.4K engagements "Hot take: the average Wikipedia article goes into way more depth and requires more background knowledge and more effort to fully synthesize than a comparable length text from a book aimed at the public which is generally full of anecdotes metaphors and other devices You cant shortcut deep learning. No amount of Wikipedia summaries TikToks or AI search results can replace getting enmeshed in a topic reading books about it and contemplating what youve read. Folks thinking its pretentious to say Read a book is part of how we got here You cant shortcut deep learning. No amount of Wikipedia" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1946783515795759418) 2025-07-20T04:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "I am begging everyone to take one linguistics class English will be the common international language for the foreseeable future. It has almost no grammar that is really important. It's just a group of words cobbled together from around the world. It's easy to learn. Its only problem is that it's hard to spell because of all the English will be the common international language for the foreseeable future. It has almost no grammar that is really important. It's just a group of words cobbled together from around the world. It's easy to learn. Its only problem is that it's hard to spell because" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1947858976902615512) 2025-07-23T03:19Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements "@iwsfutcmd Also they had metallurgy domesticated animals and sophisticated agricultural technology" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1952209790035480588) 2025-08-04T03:27Z [----] followers, 10K engagements "What really grinds my gears about theories like this is that they produce a kind of illusion of curiosity. It sounds like we're engaging with tough questions. We want to know how this seemingly impossible thing was done. But it betrays a fundamental lack of curiosity Notice the shocking layers right angles & precision drill hole on this ancient rose granite box (approx 7-8 on Mohs scale of hardness) lying on Elephantine Island. The Dynastic Egyptians (3000-30 BC) are usually credited with shaping this with their softer copper chisels & https://t.co/bfYZp7lV6Z Notice the shocking layers right" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1952400729001324981) 2025-08-04T16:06Z [----] followers, 112.7K engagements "Starting with the assumption that this would be impossible with a certain set of technology and then searching for more advanced tools means we're not seriously considering how it might be possible with more primitive tools" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1952400731576639581) 2025-08-04T16:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "My university offers several AI "study" tools free to students one of which summarizes papers for you. The University chose to pay for this service. This is the moment we should be wondering what the function of the university is. Visited a liberal arts college recently. Learned some stuff [--]. The "students don't read" meme appears to be real. Profs there don't assign full books anymore even to English majors because nobody will read them. Only chapters/essays and even that's pushing it. (Not a Visited a liberal arts college recently. Learned some stuff [--]. The "students don't read" meme" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1973012127242924527) 2025-09-30T13:08Z [----] followers, 19.4K engagements "I'm fascinated by this sign with two negations a missing apostrophe the wrong homophone of accept but nails the negative polarity item" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1985507215394902047) 2025-11-04T00:39Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements "The only keyboard you need" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1986940173708304850) 2025-11-07T23:33Z [----] followers, 40.5K engagements "The hedgehog might simultaneously be one of the most kiki and the most bouba animals to ever exist" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1987660706934657397) 2025-11-09T23:16Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements "Linguistics is bad but philosophy is on another plane as a crank-attractor is there a field of study that the average layperson consistently overestimates their own understanding of more than linguistics is there a field of study that the average layperson consistently overestimates their own understanding of more than linguistics" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1989378425698889783) 2025-11-14T17:02Z [----] followers, 29.3K engagements "Bad news: linguistics has already solved this My research Oh I do philosophy of law. You know how people say It is illegal to litter Im figuring out what the it refers to My research Oh I do philosophy of law. You know how people say It is illegal to litter Im figuring out what the it refers to" [X Link](https://x.com/langofmind/status/1990810895358849216) 2025-11-18T15:54Z [----] followers, 139.2K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@langofmind Ryan Rhodes ⚙️🧠
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Social category influence technology brands 4.76% social networks 2.86% travel destinations 0.95% finance 0.95%
Social topic influence science 4.76%, books 3.81%, philosophy 3.81%, ai 2.86%, in the 2.86%, all the 2.86%, the most 2.86%, word 2.86%, express 1.9%, twitter 1.9%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @chriskeating @manishearth @magijay @agraybee @dennisbhooper @linguisticsshi1 @metaauthor @mordroberon @ca2strophebufet @jmannhart @peligrietzer @mattolma @jadincmoore @linajan02491152 @youtube @lastpositivist @focusfronting @iwsfutcmd @drpeppermd @faber_indeed
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"@magi_jay I've never understood why we don't just say "assumes the conclusion". That's what we actually mean"
X Link 2026-02-08T05:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"@agraybee It's not semantic information it's pragmatic information and Chomsky really doesn't care about that"
X Link 2026-02-08T19:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@dennisbhooper There is a wide gulf between "I can express my creative ideas without mastering an onerous craft" (which I can be sympathetic to) and letting the machine generate the creative ideas for you. It's unfortunate that AI is so good at both parts"
X Link 2026-02-08T20:46Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Lonely planet sells more phrase books if everyone is monolingual which is why they've suppressed the cure for decades Monolingualism can be cured. Few know this. Monolingualism can be cured. Few know this"
X Link 2026-02-09T23:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"See this is what I mean when I say Aristotle set back the development of science by a thousand years Aristotle said that women have fewer teeth than men which isn't true but was widely repeated and believed for almost two thousand years () until Andreas Vesalius in the 16th century decided to double check https://t.co/PKwbK5YELD Aristotle said that women have fewer teeth than men which isn't true but was widely repeated and believed for almost two thousand years () until Andreas Vesalius in the 16th century decided to double check https://t.co/PKwbK5YELD"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The nature of the puzzle is that you must examine the entire problem space not just an isolated corner of it. Good lesson for aspiring linguists btw I HATE CONNECTIONS THIS IS NOT A RED HERRING ITS A CATEGORY RAAAAAA https://t.co/9yLO6hefld I HATE CONNECTIONS THIS IS NOT A RED HERRING ITS A CATEGORY RAAAAAA https://t.co/9yLO6hefld"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"So have all the generative linguists left twitter at this point Just another stage in the journey to the abyss"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:35Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"@ManishEarth @LinguisticsShi1 The colloquial use most often refers to word meanings in my experience. Not sure most nonlinguists would consider nonspeech acts to have semantic content even under colloquial definitions of semantics"
X Link 2026-02-10T18:50Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"A category grouping "banner" with the other superhero names sounds reasonable until you try to find a category for "standard" "colors" and "flag". The interdependencies are what make the puzzle both challenging and ultimately solvable"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"I love this question Board games are very old but the oldest games (royal game of Ur Senet) appear to be mostly-random racing/gambling games. In the 1800s we get "modern" board games but it took [---] years to get past roll-and-move mechanics inherited from the bronze age. Why All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea with very few prerequisites why did it take until the 1970s All you need is literacy basic mathematics and dice; the ancient greeks could have invented DnD. It seems like such an obvious idea"
X Link 2026-02-13T22:50Z [----] followers, 50.3K engagements
"Quick look on WALS shows that there are more languages without gender marking than languages with it: [---] vs 112"
X Link 2023-03-15T15:41Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements
"I've said it many times but truly phonetics is a dark art"
X Link 2023-03-17T13:44Z [----] followers, 23.6K engagements
"I can neither confirm nor deny"
X Link 2023-03-30T19:52Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements
"Now tell me ChatGPT doesn't have genuine understanding I dare you"
X Link 2023-04-06T04:43Z [----] followers, 13.6K engagements
"These adaptations are always so inaccurate compared to the source material"
X Link 2023-05-28T20:21Z [----] followers, 28.1K engagements
"If you understand this you have achieved psycholinguistics"
X Link 2023-06-24T04:37Z [----] followers, 56.4K engagements
"@metaauthor https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo https://youtu.be/vJG698U2Mvo"
X Link 2023-07-20T13:35Z [----] followers, 240.2K engagements
"@mordroberon look agan"
X Link 2023-07-20T16:02Z [----] followers, 198.3K engagements
"I used to do pragmatics. I still do but I used to too"
X Link 2023-08-16T14:46Z [----] followers, 16.5K engagements
"This is actually a really great trolley problem"
X Link 2023-08-18T05:08Z [----] followers, 31K engagements
"This is such a thorny issue because it intersects bad ideas about language limiting thought (which have driven a lot of linguistic erasure) and valid ideas about languages encoding cultural knowledge (which motivates language preservation). But a few clarifying points 🧵"
X Link 2023-10-01T22:35Z [----] followers, 81.4K engagements
"@ca2strophebufet Don't you creolize this perfect language"
X Link 2024-01-01T17:31Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements
"@JMannhart Thanks I hate it"
X Link 2024-01-06T16:10Z [----] followers, 54K engagements
"Is it weird to anyone that in all their travels the Austronesians never established any permanent settlements on the Australian continent Were they avoiding it Was it just an effect of currents or natural barriers"
X Link 2024-01-25T21:34Z [----] followers, 43.9K engagements
"MM/DD/YYYY is the best format because it organizes the date from lowest entropy to highest entropy easing you in YYYY/MM/DD is the best date format YYYY/MM/DD is the best date format"
X Link 2024-07-16T01:49Z [----] followers, 353.9K engagements
"Month = log2(12) = [----] bits Day = log2(31) = [----] bits Year = log2(2024) = [-----] bits Checkmate Euros"
X Link 2024-07-16T01:49Z [----] followers, 30.5K engagements
"Then: so what is your research area again Me:"
X Link 2024-07-16T03:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Context free grammars You think language just fell out of a coconut tree"
X Link 2024-07-24T19:35Z [----] followers, 38.9K engagements
"Chomsky casually dropping the "we" in a book he is the sole author of"
X Link 2024-08-09T15:20Z [----] followers, 34.7K engagements
"I'd think finite elements combined into finite-length strings would produce a large set (maybe uncountably large) but not infinite. Very happy to be wrong about this"
X Link 2024-08-13T16:00Z [----] followers, 66.1K engagements
"This is the worst injustice the English language has ever endured and I won't stand for it"
X Link 2024-08-29T04:41Z [----] followers, 27.8K engagements
"The syntactician with nonstandard grammatical intuitions. The phonologist who can't pronounce the department chair's name. The typologist who only speaks English. The phonetician who probably should have been a physicist. They are. the linguistics department"
X Link 2024-08-30T00:30Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Modern computer science linguistics and psychology all emerged from philosophy VERY recently my most controversial take is that philosophy is probably one of the most successful sciences of all time. my most controversial take is that philosophy is probably one of the most successful sciences of all time"
X Link 2024-09-10T14:43Z [----] followers, 49.6K engagements
"We call this an expletive or "dummy" pronoun because it actually doesn't refer to anything It's just there because English requires an overt subject you can't just say "raining" (although you can in other languages) when we say 'it is raining' what's the it when we say 'it is raining' what's the it"
X Link 2024-09-12T01:20Z [----] followers, 95.9K engagements
"We had an interdisciplinary group discussion in our department today and what I learned is that linguists are basically in their own universe. No one knows wtf we're talking about"
X Link 2024-09-18T02:41Z [----] followers, 20.8K engagements
"Somehow I am less interested in the weight and convolutions of Noam Chompers brain than the certainty that shit posters of equal genius are toiling away in fields and factories Scientists were like Noam you are so good at thinking can we please study your brain for science and I said okay https://t.co/mGSjp0e6Jd Scientists were like Noam you are so good at thinking can we please study your brain for science and I said okay https://t.co/mGSjp0e6Jd"
X Link 2024-09-29T00:48Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements
"Did the semanticists ever figure out what was going on with this one Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway [---] mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area. https://t.co/EVMmDf0IJu Large boulder the size of a small boulder is completely blocking east-bound lane Highway [---] mm78 at Silverpick Rd. Please use caution and watch for emergency vehicles in the area. https://t.co/EVMmDf0IJu"
X Link 2024-10-01T00:44Z [----] followers, 11.7K engagements
"Kids today can't read whole books because first they'd have to read half the book then they'd have to read half the remainder then half of that remainder then"
X Link 2024-10-05T15:43Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I just asked my students why they say thank you after a lecture and apparently it's to express genuine gratitude and not just an empty discourse marker that indicates the termination of a social interaction. My entire worldview is in shambles"
X Link 2024-10-09T17:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some linguistic hypotheses for these phenomena: [--]. Deliberate ungrammaticality (or at the very least questionable grammaticality) as a signaling mechanism. Some of these also flout Gricean maxims (Rise of Skywalker is truly one of the movies of all time)"
X Link 2024-10-28T15:04Z [----] followers, 51.8K engagements
"@peligrietzer Reminiscent of Sydney Morgenbesser: "Why is God making me suffer so much Just because I don't believe in him""
X Link 2025-03-20T16:43Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"In case you ever wondered how cuneiform was written it's very satisfying. This is a recreation of the tablet of Nippur. Ea Nasir's complaint tablets would have been written the same way"
X Link 2025-04-06T16:47Z [----] followers, 297.4K engagements
"The stoic philosopher Chrysippus died of laughter after seeing a donkey eating figs. View with caution"
X Link 2025-04-07T06:23Z [----] followers, 321.3K engagements
"@matt_olma Lowest form of forced interaction"
X Link 2025-07-29T22:00Z [----] followers, 17.7K engagements
"We're expanding the problem space to make it easier to imagine a solution. This limits our curiosity and our creativity And as it turns out ancient people were very creative. Our curiosity needs to rise to meet it"
X Link 2025-08-04T16:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"language is stored in the balls In case its not clear this sample at 40.38N71.855E is the southernmost pre-1000 BCE R1a* sample. All samples south of this line are post-1000 BCE. Now tell me again how these guys wrote verses about Himalayas and Ganga in [----] BCE. https://t.co/mILiQhTJPe In case its not clear this sample at 40.38N71.855E is the southernmost pre-1000 BCE R1a* sample. All samples south of this line are post-1000 BCE. Now tell me again how these guys wrote verses about Himalayas and Ganga in [----] BCE. https://t.co/mILiQhTJPe"
X Link 2025-10-30T02:44Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements
"This is what you're missing if you're not following linguists on twitter"
X Link 2025-11-06T19:11Z [----] followers, 25.2K engagements
"Little X-Bar animation I made for class"
X Link 2021-02-08T23:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"my students post the best memes"
X Link 2022-10-28T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Why this bothers me: when people say "basically every language other than English" it's likely they're thinking of a particular set of languages: the languages of Europe"
X Link 2023-03-15T15:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"It's good to expand our linguistic scope beyond English but let's not replace it just with popular European languages we might have studied in high school There are a lot of languages and a lot of diversity"
X Link 2023-03-15T15:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The exact situation I found myself in during the global recession. Solution: more linguistics degrees"
X Link 2023-07-11T12:43Z [----] followers, 13.7K engagements
"I did my best Initial phoneme of the numerals 1-10 in a variety of languages. Some interesting patterns here Let me know if there are any errors using the first letter in the Latin transliteration of each word is so arbitrary. doing by first phoneme would probably be much more interesting using the first letter in the Latin transliteration of each word is so arbitrary. doing by first phoneme would probably be much more interesting"
X Link 2023-07-18T18:24Z [----] followers, 46.9K engagements
"Ok new version - with color I did my best Initial phoneme of the numerals 1-10 in a variety of languages. Some interesting patterns here Let me know if there are any errors https://t.co/U8EzY4oelK I did my best Initial phoneme of the numerals 1-10 in a variety of languages. Some interesting patterns here Let me know if there are any errors https://t.co/U8EzY4oelK"
X Link 2023-07-18T21:36Z [----] followers, 69.4K engagements
"I think I fixed all the errors that were mentioned and I added a few more languages that people had asked for. It's starting to get unwieldy Ok new version - with color https://t.co/rVoJxPAdiB Ok new version - with color https://t.co/rVoJxPAdiB"
X Link 2023-07-19T15:42Z [----] followers, 60.7K engagements
"you really gotta count the gorillas in this one"
X Link 2023-07-19T23:04Z [----] followers, 2.7M engagements
"This reads like a parody of how a physicist would approach language Classical Latin was complex compared to modern languages. (More noun cases more verb forms) But its predecessors were even more complex back to Proto-Indo-European. Yet there must have been a time when languages evolved to increasing complexity. When was the peak and why Classical Latin was complex compared to modern languages. (More noun cases more verb forms) But its predecessors were even more complex back to Proto-Indo-European. Yet there must have been a time when languages evolved to increasing complexity. When was"
X Link 2023-08-01T05:56Z [----] followers, 22.6K engagements
"Linguistics is a modeling science. The purpose is to create formal models that describe the behavior of a system. The models can be falsified by checking the outputs of the model against the outputs of the system. Which is exactly how theoretical physics happens to operate @jadincmoore Since most items in linguistics is non-falsifiable its definitely humanities. @jadincmoore Since most items in linguistics is non-falsifiable its definitely humanities"
X Link 2023-08-17T14:08Z [----] followers, 38.8K engagements
"Is the world ready for phonologist dad jokes"
X Link 2023-08-26T02:52Z [----] followers, 25.5K engagements
"All-time etymology hall of fame"
X Link 2023-08-27T00:19Z [----] followers, 17K engagements
"This might be the most personally relatable meme I've ever seen https://t.co/QGJaefnmrB https://t.co/QGJaefnmrB"
X Link 2023-10-01T03:17Z [----] followers, 31.6K engagements
"This is the high quality linguistics research the journals don't want you to see"
X Link 2023-10-14T13:48Z [----] followers, 531.9K engagements
"@LinaJan02491152 I don't think this is true. I've cooked recreations of ancient Roman and Mesopotamian recipes and I think you can do a lot with herbs salt and fermentation. It wasn't all tasteless mush"
X Link 2023-10-14T23:51Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements
""western civ" bros are deeply unserious. "Have you read the Iliad" Bro the Iliad is FICTION Do you know the history of the Hittite empire Of Arzawa of Wilusa Do you know the exploits of the great kings Hattusili Muwatalli Suppiluliuma"
X Link 2023-10-29T16:02Z [----] followers, 1M engagements
"Semantic drift is a hell of a thing"
X Link 2023-11-22T05:34Z [----] followers, 20.5K engagements
"Evolutionary biology for linguists"
X Link 2023-12-03T16:57Z [----] followers, 20.4K engagements
"It's insane to me that /-s/ in English is plural for nouns and singular for verbs and absolutely no one questions this"
X Link 2023-12-08T07:20Z [----] followers, 60.7K engagements
"Monolingual linguists: I lead others to a treasure I cannot possess"
X Link 2023-12-15T23:15Z [----] followers, 19.1K engagements
"This is the best conlang you can't change my mind"
X Link 2023-12-31T19:20Z [----] followers, 295.1K engagements
"Couldn't have said it better myself"
X Link 2024-01-05T15:57Z [----] followers, 39.8K engagements
"How often do you think about the Austronesian expansion Every day fuck the Roman Empire how often do you think about the Polynesian migrations https://t.co/SV3npH9XZx fuck the Roman Empire how often do you think about the Polynesian migrations https://t.co/SV3npH9XZx"
X Link 2024-01-07T06:06Z [----] followers, 42.7K engagements
"My mom came and sat in on my intro to cog sci class this morning--a big lecture hall class with [---] students. AND SHE RAISED HER HAND AND ASKED A QUESTION I'm dying"
X Link 2024-01-22T19:42Z [----] followers, 46.1K engagements
"The word "adobe" (sun-baked brick) comes from ancient Egyptian with almost no change in meaning"
X Link 2024-02-07T05:57Z [----] followers, 27.1K engagements
"If this is a reference you get congrats you've been exposed to too much linguistics. Please step outside and get some air"
X Link 2024-02-25T16:23Z [----] followers, 25.8K engagements
"Arrival is one of my favorite movies It raises so many interested questions about language culture biology and the mind. So I made a video about it Check it out 👇 Alien Linguistics The Science of Arrival via @YouTube https://youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3Isi=A1xSW94WnLTTlKyy https://youtu.be/lIPi3OiaG3Isi=A1xSW94WnLTTlKyy"
X Link 2024-03-17T04:39Z [----] followers, 34.3K engagements
"this is the ideal authorship ordering scheme absolute peak"
X Link 2024-03-24T04:50Z [----] followers, 49.6K engagements
"Male philosophy majors may have the lowest fertility rates but consider their intellectual fecundity (also low) https://t.co/JImmogsMhf Male philosophy majors may have the lowest fertility rates but consider their intellectual fecundity (also low) https://t.co/JImmogsMhf"
X Link 2024-04-24T04:23Z [----] followers, 55.1K engagements
"If imaginary numbers just give an additional axis for the vowel chart arguably languages are already using it Vowels can vary in lots of dimensions: height backness rounding tone phonation and length"
X Link 2024-05-14T04:26Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
"Well Im not sure Ive ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard https://t.co/2daBZUZfAW Well Im not sure Ive ever seen a title of a journal article that goes this hard https://t.co/2daBZUZfAW"
X Link 2024-06-19T00:38Z [----] followers, 23K engagements
"@lastpositivist "I'm not thinking of any particular word""
X Link 2024-06-29T17:27Z [----] followers, 16K engagements
"Many such (gettier) cases"
X Link 2024-08-11T15:50Z [----] followers, 99.8K engagements
"Chomsky casually predicting LLMs in 1956"
X Link 2024-08-13T02:22Z [----] followers, 229.4K engagements
"Re-reading early Chomsky he repeatedly makes the claim that a grammar with a finite alphabet that generates sentences of finite length may produce an infinite set of sentences. Is this true mathematically"
X Link 2024-08-13T16:00Z [----] followers, 733.6K engagements
"@focusfronting brb counting to infinity real quick"
X Link 2024-08-13T19:21Z [----] followers, 38.6K engagements
"For those who slept during their linguistic anatomy class"
X Link 2024-08-19T15:51Z [----] followers, 156.1K engagements
"This is probably the best example image of recursion that exists. Chomsky and Halle holding a picture of Chomsky and Halle holding a picture of Chomsky and Halle"
X Link 2024-08-27T04:23Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements
"If language was primarily for communication "can" and "can't" wouldn't sound FUCKING IDENTICAL"
X Link 2024-09-18T02:15Z [----] followers, 32.2K engagements
"2. imo punctuation in many online contexts has developed a close relationship to prosody. We've shed a lot of the formalized style rules so we're using punctuation to more closely indicate things like pauses and intonation contours associated with prosodic constituents"
X Link 2024-10-28T15:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Something I've noticed is that linguists that agree with Chomsky theoretically tend to disagree politically and linguists that agree politically tend to disagree theoretically. There's an odd tension between Chomsky's two spheres of influence https://t.co/c7zeMCObhi https://t.co/c7zeMCObhi"
X Link 2025-03-03T15:46Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements
"Quick humanities question: how do you know if a poem is good Good poems and bad poems seem very similar"
X Link 2025-05-17T13:29Z [----] followers, 267.8K engagements
"Happy to announce the baby is saying fun for spoon as predicted by the sacred texts (introductory linguistics textbooks)"
X Link 2025-06-11T18:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Real talk though I am on the record as having said something similar about why Europeans suddenly stopped talking about inflectional morphology as the paragon of linguistic complexity/elegance when they learned about indigenous languages in the Americas I see we are doing The Very Stupid discourse again https://t.co/orgoi8x5ao I see we are doing The Very Stupid discourse again https://t.co/orgoi8x5ao"
X Link 2025-07-17T20:44Z [----] followers, 17.4K engagements
"Hot take: the average Wikipedia article goes into way more depth and requires more background knowledge and more effort to fully synthesize than a comparable length text from a book aimed at the public which is generally full of anecdotes metaphors and other devices You cant shortcut deep learning. No amount of Wikipedia summaries TikToks or AI search results can replace getting enmeshed in a topic reading books about it and contemplating what youve read. Folks thinking its pretentious to say Read a book is part of how we got here You cant shortcut deep learning. No amount of Wikipedia"
X Link 2025-07-20T04:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"I am begging everyone to take one linguistics class English will be the common international language for the foreseeable future. It has almost no grammar that is really important. It's just a group of words cobbled together from around the world. It's easy to learn. Its only problem is that it's hard to spell because of all the English will be the common international language for the foreseeable future. It has almost no grammar that is really important. It's just a group of words cobbled together from around the world. It's easy to learn. Its only problem is that it's hard to spell because"
X Link 2025-07-23T03:19Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements
"@iwsfutcmd Also they had metallurgy domesticated animals and sophisticated agricultural technology"
X Link 2025-08-04T03:27Z [----] followers, 10K engagements
"What really grinds my gears about theories like this is that they produce a kind of illusion of curiosity. It sounds like we're engaging with tough questions. We want to know how this seemingly impossible thing was done. But it betrays a fundamental lack of curiosity Notice the shocking layers right angles & precision drill hole on this ancient rose granite box (approx 7-8 on Mohs scale of hardness) lying on Elephantine Island. The Dynastic Egyptians (3000-30 BC) are usually credited with shaping this with their softer copper chisels & https://t.co/bfYZp7lV6Z Notice the shocking layers right"
X Link 2025-08-04T16:06Z [----] followers, 112.7K engagements
"Starting with the assumption that this would be impossible with a certain set of technology and then searching for more advanced tools means we're not seriously considering how it might be possible with more primitive tools"
X Link 2025-08-04T16:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"My university offers several AI "study" tools free to students one of which summarizes papers for you. The University chose to pay for this service. This is the moment we should be wondering what the function of the university is. Visited a liberal arts college recently. Learned some stuff [--]. The "students don't read" meme appears to be real. Profs there don't assign full books anymore even to English majors because nobody will read them. Only chapters/essays and even that's pushing it. (Not a Visited a liberal arts college recently. Learned some stuff [--]. The "students don't read" meme"
X Link 2025-09-30T13:08Z [----] followers, 19.4K engagements
"I'm fascinated by this sign with two negations a missing apostrophe the wrong homophone of accept but nails the negative polarity item"
X Link 2025-11-04T00:39Z [----] followers, 19.3K engagements
"The only keyboard you need"
X Link 2025-11-07T23:33Z [----] followers, 40.5K engagements
"The hedgehog might simultaneously be one of the most kiki and the most bouba animals to ever exist"
X Link 2025-11-09T23:16Z [----] followers, 16.2K engagements
"Linguistics is bad but philosophy is on another plane as a crank-attractor is there a field of study that the average layperson consistently overestimates their own understanding of more than linguistics is there a field of study that the average layperson consistently overestimates their own understanding of more than linguistics"
X Link 2025-11-14T17:02Z [----] followers, 29.3K engagements
"Bad news: linguistics has already solved this My research Oh I do philosophy of law. You know how people say It is illegal to litter Im figuring out what the it refers to My research Oh I do philosophy of law. You know how people say It is illegal to litter Im figuring out what the it refers to"
X Link 2025-11-18T15:54Z [----] followers, 139.2K engagements
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