Will Bennett
@wmgbennett.bsky.social
Linguist, professor, Africanist, aspiring mad scientist/inventor/youtuber/occasional shitposter. Interested in meaning, sounds, the navigation therebetween, and how that all plays out for humans across history and geography.
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Will Bennett
@wmgbennett.bsky.social
· Feb 5
Thinking Linguistically
A channel about linguistics, language, and what studying them can teach us about our world and the universe. Because there's lots of people analyzing Language using borrowed approaches (social, biolog...
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I have just started a YouTube channel about #linguistics!
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The invidious Nord be at it again
December 2, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The invidious Nord be at it again
Nerd tip: if you just gloss “Thule” as “North Pole”, you’ll save yourself the hassle of explaining what Thule means
December 2, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Nerd tip: if you just gloss “Thule” as “North Pole”, you’ll save yourself the hassle of explaining what Thule means
“1 - the manuscript should be edited to be much shorter
2 - the authors should state their research questions in a way that can be tested with their methods
3 - they should employ modern statistics in their analysis of their data
4 - their conclusions should be supported by their results”
Ok, thanks
2 - the authors should state their research questions in a way that can be tested with their methods
3 - they should employ modern statistics in their analysis of their data
4 - their conclusions should be supported by their results”
Ok, thanks
November 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
“1 - the manuscript should be edited to be much shorter
2 - the authors should state their research questions in a way that can be tested with their methods
3 - they should employ modern statistics in their analysis of their data
4 - their conclusions should be supported by their results”
Ok, thanks
2 - the authors should state their research questions in a way that can be tested with their methods
3 - they should employ modern statistics in their analysis of their data
4 - their conclusions should be supported by their results”
Ok, thanks
This is not what I thought the ai bubble’s end would look like
November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This is not what I thought the ai bubble’s end would look like
Google AI telling me I should just use Safari instead #aioverview
November 17, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Google AI telling me I should just use Safari instead #aioverview
Inkhorn - acorn - eggcorn
Is a strong candidate for most irritating triplet ever
Is a strong candidate for most irritating triplet ever
October 26, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Inkhorn - acorn - eggcorn
Is a strong candidate for most irritating triplet ever
Is a strong candidate for most irritating triplet ever
What’s your favorite leafy green?
Rocket.
Rock what?
No, like arugula.
Yeah but WHICH rugula?
Rocket.
Rock what?
No, like arugula.
Yeah but WHICH rugula?
October 25, 2025 at 11:16 AM
What’s your favorite leafy green?
Rocket.
Rock what?
No, like arugula.
Yeah but WHICH rugula?
Rocket.
Rock what?
No, like arugula.
Yeah but WHICH rugula?
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.
Fuck Columbus.
Fuck Columbus.
October 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket
Just saw video of ICE posted in a forum completely unrelated to their mission. I’m not sure where on the creeping fasch barometer that it, but it feels like the kinda thing that demarcates a new phase or degree of normalness
October 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Just saw video of ICE posted in a forum completely unrelated to their mission. I’m not sure where on the creeping fasch barometer that it, but it feels like the kinda thing that demarcates a new phase or degree of normalness
The media on climate change and global warming did not prepare me for so many headlines about ice
October 8, 2025 at 8:18 AM
The media on climate change and global warming did not prepare me for so many headlines about ice
Why does this have to exist?
October 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Why does this have to exist?
@edzitron.com please can you look into adoption of AI in “rest of world”? I feel like one of the main LLM use cases that is actually holding up is people pretending to know languages they don’t know
a lot of tech-press AI coverage, from both boosters and skeptics, is extremely US-centric compared to the adoption of AI elsewhere in the world - which by most measures outpaces the US, by some measures wildly. good to see some reporting that isn't www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
September 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@edzitron.com please can you look into adoption of AI in “rest of world”? I feel like one of the main LLM use cases that is actually holding up is people pretending to know languages they don’t know
Which level of prosodic domain boundary does semicolon indicate?
Because if it’s the colon I’m gonna be mad as hell.
#lingsky
Because if it’s the colon I’m gonna be mad as hell.
#lingsky
The semicolon is almost like a threshold glyph in English: not quite a stop, not quite a flow.Surveys reveal that over half of younger writers don’t know how to use it.
#ai #ia #aiart #langsky @msorrento.bsky.social
#ai #ia #aiart #langsky @msorrento.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Which level of prosodic domain boundary does semicolon indicate?
Because if it’s the colon I’m gonna be mad as hell.
#lingsky
Because if it’s the colon I’m gonna be mad as hell.
#lingsky
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Rouet pre-match "I'm not worried about New Zealand" to Pelletier post-match "It's just fun to play rugby". Canada don't give a shit about anything but balling and it's incredible.
September 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Rouet pre-match "I'm not worried about New Zealand" to Pelletier post-match "It's just fun to play rugby". Canada don't give a shit about anything but balling and it's incredible.
What a show from Canada!
September 19, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What a show from Canada!
So the US is now involved in supporting BOTH sides of the war in Ukraine? Hmm
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
US military officers observe Russia-Belarus war games as Trump gets closer to Minsk
U.S. military officers observed joint war games between Russia and Belarus on Monday for the first time since Moscow used Belarus as a launchpad to enter Ukraine, as U.S. President Donald Trump deepens ties with Moscow's closest ally.
www.reuters.com
September 18, 2025 at 10:24 AM
So the US is now involved in supporting BOTH sides of the war in Ukraine? Hmm
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.
September 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
As a society, the one thing we were totally unprepared for was annoying leftists being right.
Watching the #RWC2025 and the match commentator just said something was “like Belgian karate” and I’m so confused. What could that possibly mean?
September 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Watching the #RWC2025 and the match commentator just said something was “like Belgian karate” and I’m so confused. What could that possibly mean?
Who pooped in the Kleenex? Fess up!
September 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Who pooped in the Kleenex? Fess up!
I found a dead bat today
September 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I found a dead bat today