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I often skip the fiction in the New Yorker — so much to read, so little time — but I read the first few sentences of Hisham Matar’s “New Shoes” (
It’s time for one of those “look at all these new words making it into the dictionary” news cycles, and here’s Michael Levenson in the NYT with “Merriam-Webster Dictionary Is Wordsmaxxing With 1,400 New Definitions” (
Robert Booth, UK technology editor for the Grauniad, tells us breathlessly about AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon:
AI models have begun commu...
BBC News presents a nice confluence of language, history, and biology in Lost oyster beds rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language:
Long lost oyster beds on the West Coast of Scotland have been rediscovered thanks to Gaelic and Scots language. Scientists se...
John McIntyre reposted A newsroom taxonomy, and even though I never worked in a newsroom I definitely worked in editorial departments enough to be familiar with most of these types. He begins with THE MANAGERS:
The Fonctionnaire...